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Martin Hope
Dan C
Asked: 2013-11-12 17:15:37 +0800 CST
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I have an application on Windows Server 2008 that takes different command-line parameters. For example:

myapp.exe /A

myapp.exe /B

I have created a task scheduler task for each of those.

While "myapp.exe /A" is running, I want to prevent another instance of it from starting. However, I still want "myapp.exe /B" to be able to run (again, though only one instance of it at a time).

How can I set this up?

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Martin Hope
Dan C
Asked: 2012-06-19 19:10:41 +0800 CST
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I have a Windows Server 2008 SP 2 Task Scheduler task that should run every 10 minutes.

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The trigger says "At 6:50 PM every day - After triggered, repeat every 10 minutes indefinitively."

Looking at the Next Run Time, it says 6/18/2012 8:00 PM. However, when I let that time pass, the Next Run Time just changes to 8:10 PM but the task has not started and the Last Run Time is unchanged from yesterday. Last Run Result is "The operation completed successfully. (0x0)".

It worked when I first created it a few days ago, but today I disabled then re-enabled it and now it just won't start automatically. I can still manually trigger it and that works.

How can I get this task to automatically run every 10 minutes when enabled no matter what?

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Martin Hope
Dan C
Asked: 2012-06-19 18:09:09 +0800 CST
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I am having a strange problem with the Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler. I have to run a small command-line application every few minutes. This application just executes a quick web service call on the localhost and adds an entry to a log file; so it should not need anything special in terms of permissions.

First, I created a new user account "my_scheduler" just for the task.

  • This account is a member of the Users group (not sure what other settings I should turn on/off) and set it's password to not expire.
  • I then create a task to run the application every few minutes.
  • I set it to "Run whether user is logged on or not"
  • Turned on "Do not store password. The task will only have access to local resources" (I did this since it's not hitting anything on the network).
    • I did not turn on "Run with highest privileges" since it does not seem to need them.
  • I set the schedule to "After triggered, repeat every 30 minutes for a duration of 1 day"
  • "Allow task to be run on demand" (no other settings enabled).

However, I notice that in the Event Log, I see a bunch of these warnings whenever the task is run:

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

Even though I get the warning, the task is executing (I see the log entries appearing).

Another (possibly related) issue is that I also see that it's starting multiple copies of the task (within a few seconds of each other) even though it should only start one. This is also a big problem.

Any idea how I can fix this?

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