May 16, 2001 08:16 PM
Making a Script Work as a Scheduled Task
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I've built a script that works great until I run it as a scheduled taskthen it fails. What's wrong?
You can use Windows 2000's or Windows NT 4.0's Task Scheduler to run commands and scripts at a scheduled time. Scripts that work fine when you run them interactively but fail when you schedule them typically do so for one of three reasons. First, the script might be running in a user context that doesn't have permissions to the resources the script is accessing. The Task Scheduler lets you specify a user account for each script. The old At or WinAt scheduler doesn't provide an easy way to specify a user account.
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