Debug Process Scheduled task under different user

[Pascal Yokogawa]

Hi,

We currently face the following problem:

We run an Excel application with a custom made addin. This
application is run by a scheduled task (windows XP) under
a different username (same machine). Both useraccounts are
Administrators, no events in the Event Viewer show up.

Our application works correctly under both usernames (the
username we logged in with, and the username the task runs
on), but after some research we found out that with a
scheduled task under a different username Excel asks for
userinteraction. As the task runs invisible, we cannot see
what exactly is asked.

Microsoft Spy++ does not reveal any windows, so debugging
is not possible at the moment.

Our question:
Is there a possible way to find out what the messagebox
should show? All help is welcome.

PS Userinteraction is required BEFORE running our custom
addin, so debug logging from within the addin is not
helpful.

Regards,

Pascal Yokogawa

 

[Drew Cooper [MSFT]]

Not sure how you can do this with the Task Scheduler UI, but the cmdline
tool "at" will let you run an app as the local machine that can interact
with the desktop - see "at /interactive".

 

[Pascal Yokogawa]

We have to run the application under an other user than
the user logged in, which is not possible (at least in our
eyes) with the "at" command...

-----Original Message-----
Not sure how you can do this with the Task Scheduler UI, but the cmdline
tool "at" will let you run an app as the local machine that can interact
with the desktop - see "at /interactive".
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi,

We currently face the following problem:

We run an Excel application with a custom made addin. This
application is run by a scheduled task (windows XP) under
a different username (same machine). Both useraccounts are
Administrators, no events in the Event Viewer show up.

Our application works correctly under both usernames (the
username we logged in with, and the username the task runs
on), but after some research we found out that with a
scheduled task under a different username Excel asks for
userinteraction. As the task runs invisible, we cannot see
what exactly is asked.

Microsoft Spy++ does not reveal any windows, so debugging
is not possible at the moment.

Our question:
Is there a possible way to find out what the messagebox
should show? All help is welcome.

PS Userinteraction is required BEFORE running our custom
addin, so debug logging from within the addin is not
helpful.

Regards,

Pascal Yokogawa

.

 

[Drew Cooper [MSFT]]

Anything spawned by "at" runs as the system account. It's sorta like
"runas" but you run as the system instead of a regular user account. I'd be
willing to bet that that's not the same as the account you logged on as.
There are only 2 caveats: 1) you'll probably have to be a local admin to use
"at" and 2) anything that Explorer (and several other less-common apps) does
on the desktop will happen in the context of the logged-on user unless you
kill Explorer (or whatever other single-instance app) first.

Try it out. You can even start a cmd console with at, then launch your app
from there.
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

We have to run the application under an other user than
the user logged in, which is not possible (at least in our
eyes) with the "at" command...

-----Original Message-----
Not sure how you can do this with the Task Scheduler UI, but the cmdline
tool "at" will let you run an app as the local machine that can interact
with the desktop - see "at /interactive".
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi,

We currently face the following problem:

We run an Excel application with a custom made addin. This
application is run by a scheduled task (windows XP) under
a different username (same machine). Both useraccounts are
Administrators, no events in the Event Viewer show up.

Our application works correctly under both usernames (the
username we logged in with, and the username the task runs
on), but after some research we found out that with a
scheduled task under a different username Excel asks for
userinteraction. As the task runs invisible, we cannot see
what exactly is asked.

Microsoft Spy++ does not reveal any windows, so debugging
is not possible at the moment.

Our question:
Is there a possible way to find out what the messagebox
should show? All help is welcome.

PS Userinteraction is required BEFORE running our custom
addin, so debug logging from within the addin is not
helpful.

Regards,

Pascal Yokogawa

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