There is a scheduled task that executes a script. It was running fine until one day it started to fail with 'Task Scheduler failed to start "Task" task for user "domain account". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147944309.' It failed on a Friday, ran on a Saturday, then began failing daily after that. My research on this found that 2147944309 means the account is either disabled or locked out. I double checked the account and it was neither. Server is Windows 2012. It's an RDS server so it reboots every morning. After it reboots a warning message shows in history for the task "Task Scheduler did not launch task "Task" as it missed its schedule. Consider using the configuration option to start the task when available, if schedule is missed."
What I was able to determine:
account is not locked or disabled
account is in the administrator group on the server
permissions are correct on the script
set it to run with highest privileges
able to manually kick off the task
the task is in a folder under Task Scheduler Library
created a test task to run notepad under the same account in the folder. It did not run
created a test task in a test folder under Task Scheduler Library to run notepad under the same account. It did not run
created a test task directly Task Scheduler Library to run notepad under the same account. It ran
moved the task under directly under Task Scheduler Library.
The scheduled task kicked off for four days in a row and then began failing with the same error. Yesterday, I set the option to restart every minute three times if it fails. It didn't execute a second or third time after failing. Any ideas what the heck is going with this?
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I am trying to run the Test Compelete Scripts on a virtual machine through Azure DevOps pipeline.
When I run the Azure Devops pipeline release. Execution starts in VM. But when I check the logs I see that the user action in the Test scripts are not performed.
Eg: My application is launched, and next steps when I have to select a radio button execution fails and also in
TE log I can see "User session is disconnected and also I can see that it is not able to identify the object)
You typically get this error when the test is run from a scheduled task with the Run whether user is logged on or not option. The error occurs because in this case the test is run in a non-interactive session and cannot interact with the GUI.
To resolve the problem, do the following:
Modify properties of the scheduled task to use the Run only when the
user is logged on option and specify the user account under which
the task will be run.
Make sure that the specified user is logged into the system when the
task is triggered.
Here is the document you can refer to.
I have been monitoring the Complete learning plans which are due task, which is set to run every minute. I have set the cron.php script with a password to force the cron job to run. When I reload the page I notice that the cron job runs, sets the next run date time, but doesn't run again and changes to ASAP.
I am using Moodle 3.6.3 on Windows IIS.
Create a task in task scheduler to execute the script after every minute (or any time you want). Use "Start a program" action. Replace "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.2\php-win.exe" with your php version and also change the moodle path to yours.
I created a scheduled task in the task scheduler and created a shortcut to trigger it. However, when I log in as a standard user and I run the shortcut, nothing happens. But when I open the task scheduler (As Administrator) the task is there and when I run it through the task scheduler, it works.
However, if I run task scheduler as a regular user, the task is not there.
I can't create the task as a standard user. I can only create the task by starting task scheduler as admin.
I believe the issue when running the shortcut as a standard user is that it cant find the task name specified. If i right click the shortcut and run as admin, and enter admin credentials, it works.
How do I get this working for standard users??
I am not sure if this can help, while creating the task have you ticked the "Allow task to be run on demand" under Settings ?
I've been working for hours on this one.
I have a scheduled task that is set up to be run by a non-admin account.
What is does:
Start a service at a specific time everyday.
Command:
NET START <service>
Configuration:
Runs everyday at 6 PM
Run with highest privileges
Non-administrative account has the following access levels
Remote Desktop User
Log on as Batch Job
Log on as Service
Access to start/stop the service in ACL
Read/execute access to CMD.exe and NET.exe
Access to start/stop the task scheduler service
Access to the tasks directory in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks
The Problem:
Scheduled task runs but does not start service as intended. When temporarily granted admin access to account, scheduled task executes as intended.
Investigation Notes:
Interestingly, if the account itself remotes into the box it CAN start/stop the service manually.
The scheduled task completes with no errors whatsoever (even in eventvwr) but the service itself does not start.
When the account is given admin access, the scheduled task runs as expected.
I'm looking into the possibility that there might be additional permissions involved to be able to execute 'NET START' but I've had little luck finding any information on that.
Any help would be really appreciated.
you must check : "execute with highest privileges" in the Generel Tab
I've been working on a system in which task scheduler is used to run few applications every night. Recently i've noticed that the tasks which i scheduled are not running and it is giving the following error message
the scheduled task did not run because an incorrect password or user name was entered
Recently i've changed the system password. Is that the reason for the task scheduler failure?
Should i change the password in the task scheduler too?
Yes you should change the password in Task Scheduler to match the password of the account it's executing code under.
If it can run with a less privileged account, I would take the opportunity to create an account with least privileges needed to complete it's work and setup Task Scheduler to use that restricted account.