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by wbruchha

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When I'm running a command on a remote system with NT Task Scheduler the command is not executed. It seems to be an permission problem. Opening the services 'Task Scheduler' doesn't give me the chance to change the service account (greyed out). How can I enbling different accounts for running Task Scheduler? Adding a reg.key ? If yes, which one ?

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by ewing bettles

If you have installed Internet Explorer 5 or later, the Schedule Service is replaced by the Task Scheduler service. This service MUST use the Local System account to logon with. Using the Task Scheduler service is quite different that using the Schedule Service. You still have the option to create and view jobs using the comand-line AT command, but it is not recommended. The recommended way is to use the new Scheduled Tasks GUI applet that can be found either in the Control Panel or Windows Explorer. Each job created and managed using this GUI can be set to logon with its own specific user account - one job might use the local system account while another might use a local user account, and yet another might use an account that is a memberof the Domain Admins group.

You can get more info by searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp
(make sure there's no spaces in link)

for the following articles:
Q235536
Q236773
Q196731
Hope this helps, -Ewing

by mark

I actually have a question for the answer given. What is this GUI you are refering to? I have NT 4 server with IE5 and SP6 and I can't find it where you mention. I've always used "AT" and I am interested in an easier method. Can you be more specificon it's location?

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