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#103585 - 2003-08-10 09:54 AM System account
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Is there any scheduling tool using system account to schedule a task\job? Thank you.
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#103586 - 2003-08-10 02:17 PM Re: System account
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Have you tried the "search" function of the web site?

I found: http://www.kixtart.org/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000356#000001
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#103587 - 2003-08-10 07:58 PM Re: System account
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Or SCHEDULETASK() - Schedules a task on any computer using the Task Scheduler
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#103588 - 2003-08-11 08:54 AM Re: System account
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As my understanding to the Scheduletask function, the task will be scheduled with the current existing login id & password if I did not provide the function with them.
This is fine but according to our company rules user will not be allowed to login to the domain until he change his password every 45 days. So when the user does and change his password the scheduled task will still try to be executed with the “old” password which will lead to locked out the account because of the conflict between the 2 passwords.

I know that I can use the group policy to schedule the task under admin account over all workstations but I do not want to go with this option before I try using system account.

Any additional help will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

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#103589 - 2003-08-11 01:18 PM Re: System account
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as my understanding, yes...
if you schedule something or even start word or execel, it's done under your account.

but once the scheluded task executes, why it shouldn't be system account?
the only reason is that someone has changed the scheluder's settings.
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#103590 - 2003-08-11 01:34 PM Re: System account
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Sorry lonker Maybe I was not success in explaining the case. I will try again.
Nobody changed the schedule setting and let’s say the password was 123 during scheduling the task.
After 45 days user hade to change the password to 456.
The scheduled task will still try to be executed (as it used to do) with the old password 123.
According to the domain rules, if the password entered 3 times wrong, account will be locked out.
Thank you.

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#103591 - 2003-08-11 01:58 PM Re: System account
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but I understood that you don't do a scheduler that will schelude something else that will be executed, right?

you schelude now.
as you schelude it now, it will be scheluded and executed as many times as you want as long as the power of the wksta is turned on under system account.

or are we still discussing different thing?
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#103592 - 2003-08-11 02:56 PM Re: System account
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The SYSTEM account has severe shortcomings, e.g. no network access. Secondly, why even schedule a task under the current user's account?

You could always trigger the scheduled job through the login script, thus taking care of changing passwords automatically. Or alternatively, use a dedicated scheduling account.
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