re: Scheduled Tasks will not run as Administrator except when logged on
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 6:00 am
Posted by Special-K
(553 messages posted)
Dont know much about 2003 but this reminds me of Windows 2000/XP needing an Admin
password in the schedule to run properly.
Assuming you have already supplied the password to the task you could try deleting
the scheduled task and recreating it see if it runs automatically? Alternatively
you could create a new schedule task and see if thats runs as expected before deleting
the existing ones.
Hope this helps.
I rarely return to a problem once I've answered it so make sure you clearly define
what the trouble is.
On Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 7:24 am, Tom Southall wrote:
>Up until recently, creating a scheduled task (run as Administrator) worked fine
and
>all existing scheduled tasks created before then still run fine.
>
>I have only recently begun to experience problems with Scheduled Tasks on Windows
>Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition, Service Pack 2.
>
>When creating a scheduled task, I receive the following error when saving:
>
>An Error has occurred while attempting to set task account information.
>The specific error is: Access is denied.
>You do not have permission to perform the requested operation.
>
>The task then refuses to run either at the scheduled time or when run manually.
>
>I am setting "Run As" to Administrator, with correct password.
>
>BUT
>
>If I switch on the "Run only if logged on" option, the task saves fine and runs
fine.
>
>This error never used to occur and indeed I have several tasks set up prior to the
>first occurence of this problem that continue to run fine (although I don't dare
>to delete or edit them).
>
>I am not sure whether this coincides with a Windows update as I can't pinpoint when
>exactly it stopped working.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated as hours of Googling has revealed nothing
>of use.
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