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Scheduled Tasks not working

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by robinarm

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Trouble setting up Scheduled Tasks on NT4 with SP6a 128bit, IE6 (no active desktop). At the end of the task setup wizard I get "The Task could not be created because the account information could net be set. The Schedule service has not started". Ican start and stop the schedule service from the control panel, pause & resume the service from the advanced drop down tool bar, and see the exe running in the processes section of Task Manager.

The Scheduler did work fine until I viewed the properties of a task that was falling over. After I sorted the script I added in an additional start time to do the final test on the task and it did not run after that. I can't create new tasks (see error message above) nor get existing Tasks to run (which were running fine). Any ideas?

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by koke

The only thing I can say is that when I try to schedule tasks - permissions are always an issue. Are you logging out when not using the machine? Perhaps once logged out, tasks that have your permissions cannot run.

by robinarm

Logging onto the server as Administrator and used both administrator to run the program and as a custom user setup to run that program. Ensured both can log on a service and as batch job as well as a few extra admin rights just in case. Anyway the jobs don't run without looging out.
Should also add that I've rebooted the machine a couple of times as well.

by green lantern

Not sure what is going on here but I would kill the account, synch the domain then recreate the account. Make sure the account has the right to "log on as a service" set.

by robd.

2 problems I have had with tasks. First, you cannot set the logon credentials of a task unless the scheduler service is running/enabled, and you check the box to let it run as a service and interact with the desktop. 2nd, AFTER you enable the scheduler service, you can then set the credentials for the task, right-click on it choose props and set the run as information. Hoep this helps.

by robinarm

The logon credentials are greyed out which would suggest the service is not running but everything else says the service is running. I don't think the problem is that the logon credentials are bad but more that NT is confused about wherether or not the scheduler service is going. I can stop and start the service from the control panel but NT always thinks the problem is it is not running.

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