The service was designed to access a network drive once a day and verify that a certain backup file exists and that the size is greater than 500MB. If the file is there and meets the size requirement it sends an email to several people letting them know the backup was successful, else it sends an email indicating backup failure. I wrote it as a service to ensure it would run without user intervention and whether or not a individual was logged into the server it is running on. This has been my first project and a good learning experience. I appreciate any advice you have to offer. Thanks! :) Stacy

Can I create a scheduled task programatically? This was written as a service. Thanks! Stacy Springer

Any suggestions on using a timer to check for a backup log's existence at a certain time every day? Is there some other function I should be using instead of Timer? Newbie needs help. Thanks! :confused: Stacy

Thanks for all the help. I figured it out.:) Stacy Springer

The server is a Novell Netware Server(We are a Novell Network with various Windows servers, i.e. No active directory). I am on a workstation that is logged into the network with admin rights and I have a mapped drive to that directory. As far as the ServiceAccount member for the service I am currently using LocalSystem. Thanks! Stacy Springer

I am new to VB.Net so forgive me if this is a stupid question! I am trying to write a service that periodically goes out to another server drive and checks to see what files are in a directory and the file size. If the file size of any given file is zero, it sends an email alerting IT that the backup file size is null. I have set a server timer and have the email portion working, but it will not read the directory. Can anyone give me a direction to pursue? Thanks!:confused: Stacy Springer