Guest mj.redfox.mj@gmail.com Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Hello, I have a Scheduled Task that is set to run at Startup on a Windows Server 2003. I have allowed 'interact with desktop' in the Task Scheduler service. However, when I Remote Desktop to the server and log on as the same domain user that the Scheduled Task runs under, I still can't interact with the GUI of the application that the scheduled task launches. (The process is definitely running in Task Manager). I suspect the problem is somehow caused by the Scheduled Task kicking off at System Startup (i.e. following the nightly server restart, which is when I need it to start) before anyone is actually logged in - is there any way of accessing the application under these circumstances, without launching a separate instance of it? Thanks for any advice.
Guest mj.redfox.mj@gmail.com Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Re: Can't interact with Scheduled Task P.S. Just to clarify, under normal circumstances, the application sits minimized in the bottom taskbar. This is how I would hope it would appear when I RDC to the server. On 20 Sep, 12:45, mj.redfox...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Scheduled Task that is set to run at Startup on a Windows > Server 2003. > > I have allowed 'interact with desktop' in the Task Scheduler service. > > However, when I Remote Desktop to the server and log on as the same > domain user that the Scheduled Task runs under, I still can't interact > with the GUI of the application that the scheduled task launches. (The > process is definitely running in Task Manager). > > I suspect the problem is somehow caused by the Scheduled Task kicking > off at System Startup (i.e. following the nightly server restart, > which is when I need it to start) before anyone is actually logged in > - is there any way of accessing the application under these > circumstances, without launching a separate instance of it? > > Thanks for any advice.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Re: Can't interact with Scheduled Task <mj.redfox.mj@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1190288757.907300.196400@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I have a Scheduled Task that is set to run at Startup on a Windows > Server 2003. > > I have allowed 'interact with desktop' in the Task Scheduler service. > > However, when I Remote Desktop to the server and log on as the same > domain user that the Scheduled Task runs under, I still can't interact > with the GUI of the application that the scheduled task launches. (The > process is definitely running in Task Manager). > > I suspect the problem is somehow caused by the Scheduled Task kicking > off at System Startup (i.e. following the nightly server restart, > which is when I need it to start) before anyone is actually logged in > - is there any way of accessing the application under these > circumstances, without launching a separate instance of it? > > Thanks for any advice. > AFAIK you cannot interact with a scheduled task while running an RDP session. Why would you want to?
Guest mj.redfox.mj@gmail.com Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Re: Can't interact with Scheduled Task The app is a secure FTP client - I just need to be able to access the GUI occasionally to check progress, preferences etc from time to time. We get problems if we open a duplicate instance though. On 20 Sep, 14:59, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > <mj.redfox...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1190288757.907300.196400@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a Scheduled Task that is set to run at Startup on a Windows > > Server 2003. > > > I have allowed 'interact with desktop' in the Task Scheduler service. > > > However, when I Remote Desktop to the server and log on as the same > > domain user that the Scheduled Task runs under, I still can't interact > > with the GUI of the application that the scheduled task launches. (The > > process is definitely running in Task Manager). > > > I suspect the problem is somehow caused by the Scheduled Task kicking > > off at System Startup (i.e. following the nightly server restart, > > which is when I need it to start) before anyone is actually logged in > > - is there any way of accessing the application under these > > circumstances, without launching a separate instance of it? > > > Thanks for any advice. > > AFAIK you cannot interact with a scheduled task while running > an RDP session. Why would you want to?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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