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 ?
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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?
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 am looking for a way to run a job on a schedule and also alert the user to that running job. Specifically, I am using PowerShell to manage a computer lab scenario, and between sessions I want to refresh the environment, clean off the desktop, reset shortcuts pinned to the task bar for the next session, etc. But I want to warn anyone sitting at the machine that this is about to happen. However, my scripts that use Balloontips very successfully as regular scripts don't work as scheduled jobs. They run, and I have verified they run as the user in question, by creating a Scheduled Job that rights a text file to the user desktop. But Balloon Tips don't actually appear. Is there some secret to getting this to work, or is this a form of "interaction" that a scheduled job just can't do?
I also tried an alternative approach, launching the browser with a web page warning of the impending cleanup. That also didn't work. Suggesting some limits to what can be done as a Scheduled Job.
I would much rather go the very "integrated with the OS" route of the balloon tips, but for the life of me it seems like that just isn't an option. So, any other suggestions for providing user info by way of a scheduled job?
Since this runs in Session 0 where GUI interaction doesn't exist you must resort to some other mechanism.
You say this happens between sessions. You could show your ballon via another "notification script" that is executed from within your ScheduledJob. You have options here. For example:
Add entry to registry Run key that will self delete on run. Shows popup when user logs in (session change ? ). Entry executes posh script which parameters you could craft, i.e. (powershell -File notify.ps1 -ArgumentList "Operation bla bla..")
Add ScheduledTask that doesn't run in Session 0 (regular task). You need to do that only once. Every next time you run this job to show notification to the user from within main script via schtasks run or ScheduledTasks module depending on your system.
Add a ScheduledTask that check periodically EventLog for the input of your main script. The task would start on logon and subscribe to event log notifications. I don't like this as the script must run non-stop.
Is it possible to run a task scheduler from another task scheduler in another server !?
All my tasks are for running PowerShell
Best regards,
Yes.
Open Task Scheduler, click Action -> Connect to another computer..., then enter the name of the remote computer and click OK.
Sean.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/10/15/introducing-the-windows-7-resource-kit-powershell-pack.aspx
Check the Task Scheduler Module.
Import-Module TaskScheduler
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.