Scheduled tasks in interactive mode?

[Guest]

Is there a way to have a scheduled task logon in interactive mode as opposed
to batch mode?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there a way to have a scheduled task logon in interactive mode as opposed
to batch mode?

Run the task under the same account as your foreground logon
account.

 

[Guest]

heh, thanks but unfortunately that's exactly my problem, no account is logged
in on the machine. I'm looking for a way to either force interactive mode or
if I could figure a way to logon, run what I need to and logoff that would be
ok too. I am limited though as I can not use an automatic logon tied to
booting.

 

[Dave Patrick]

This is somewhat confusing. How do you propose an interactive mode with no
one logged on? What exactly is it you want to happen?

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:
| heh, thanks but unfortunately that's exactly my problem, no account is
logged
| in on the machine. I'm looking for a way to either force interactive mode
or
| if I could figure a way to logon, run what I need to and logoff that would
be
| ok too. I am limited though as I can not use an automatic logon tied to
| booting.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

This is getting a little confusing. Perhaps you could state what exactly
you wish to achieve, rather than trying to bend a certain solution to
meet your specific requirements.

 

[Guest]

I need to access windows messaging which does not appear to be available in
batch mode. The interaction is through program automation (send keys). The
program being manipulated has no command line version, no parameters, no
config options, it can only be run one way, through the gui. Now if I could
login the account in the foreground as suggested, the process in question
works fine but I don't know how to schedule or automate a logon other than
doing an auto logon on boot which isn't an option due to client policy. If I
was able to figure out how to logon, run process, logoff I could do that.
I've started looking into the possibility of doing it as part of a service as
it seems they don't login in batch mode but I haven't gotten too far with
that approach due to a large pile of work on other projects. Open to any
ideas.

Thanks.