Schedule task runs only when the creator logs on

[Hii Sing Chung]

Hi,

I have a team of 5 members who take turn to cover duties round the clock, so
they take turn to login to 2 PCs. All the member have no administrative
right over the PCs as that is a security requirement. I have scheduled 3
scripts to run at various times of the day but I found that the scripts can
only run when the creator of the scheduled task logged on, when other user
logged on, it said 'running' but failed and occasionally I managed to see
the screen saying "access denied". If I create similar scheduled tasks for
every member, that is, member 1 logged on, create the 3 scheduled tasks,
member 2 logged on, created another 3 scheduled tasks, and so on, I then
will create 15 scheduled tasks on both machines. This will allow 3 of the
scripts to run successfully each time, the rest failed. I think that is not
a neat solution. Is there a better way to accomplish this, without involving
administrative privileges?

Thanks in advance

Sing Chung

 

[John John - MVP]

Try scheduling the jobs to run under the System account with the AT
command. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223375

John

 

[SingChung]

John,
Thanks. I've tried to run it under system account but that requires
administrative priviledge, normal user cannot set the schedule task to
run under system account.