Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

ondrej sevecek — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:14:16 GMT

two simple questions:

a) how the scheduler determines unsuccesfull task completion? when the errorlevel returned is not 0?

b) is it possible to configure some more complex mechanism for error completion? such as custom script parser or something?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Keith Hill — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:06:35 GMT

Better perf - OK that's good but how about addressing some obvious usability issues like making it easy to copy a scheduled task. Having to export and import to copy a task is not obvious to some folks.

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

someone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:35:08 GMT

Task Scheduler 2.0 is a killer feature of Vista. I would love to something like Automator (OS X) which builds upon Task Scheduler in Windows 7.

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

A Person — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:32:03 GMT

Maybe someone can address in part 3 that now when a task runs it loads a special profile located in %systemroot%\system32\ something and that the profile is different than the user account on which the scheduled tasks runs.

Except when that user is currently logged on, than the profile of that user is used. This resulted for me in some weird situations where as a command line schedule to do something with excel worked perfectly as the user was logged on and failed on weird errors when it runned as a taks. But started as a task while the user was logged on runned ok aswell.

Is there some reason to why this has been done? In windows 2003 it does not work that way.

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Sue Flynn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:54:39 GMT

McAfee won't run the virus scan when my computer is in the sleep mode. It comes up with "task image is corrupt or has been tampered with. How can I correct this?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Dan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:32 GMT

2 A. Person: confermed. CMD batches not start as task, it works only if user logged in.

Two week of googling for that problem brings nothing... Guys (from MS) what you have made with simple but working Task Scheduler from Windows 2003? Get it back!!!

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Bailey Geek — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:31:00 GMT

Having the same issue. Task is setup to run a batch file but will only do so if logged in. Can't seem to find anyone who resolved. Ideas anyone?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Fabio Jr - Brazil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:48:23 GMT

In properties on section General is "Run wheter user is logged on or not" marked?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:57:01 GMT

hello,

I read in internet that Task Scheduler version in Windows vista /W2k8 is Task Scheduler 2.0. I have a machine with W2k8 installed. There i checked the Task Scheduler version in about dialog . It says 1.0. Can anybody tell me why is this so?

Where can i see the 2.0 version of task scheduler ?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

chuck — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:19:18 GMT

I've googled for hours.

How do you send an email if a task fails or is overdue?

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

chuck — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:32:05 GMT

Could explain how actions work. If one fails does the next one still run. How do set a sequentail task to run or not run.

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

TYOsborn — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:27:51 GMT

Task scheduler will send the email I told it to, but does not attach the file I specified. I clicked browse on the file attachment option and chose the file so it's not like I pointed it to a location where the file was not at. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

re: Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Two

Ed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:15:06 GMT

You can run a batch job if you configure for W2003 in the general tab. The problem I am having is that at some point in time it changes back to W2008 and will not run. How do you keep the setting for W2003?