Windows 2008 RC2 doesn't start scheduled tasks

Question

We have problem with scheduled tasks on Windows Server 2008 RC2.

Lets say that I want to open Firefox browser, everyday at same time, using batch file(we actually want to run Selenium tests, but I simplified problem).

I set it, and it run fine, when I select 'Run this task when user is logged in'.

The problem is that we want to run this task, no matter if user is logged in or not, so we selected this option('Run tasks no matter if user is logged in or not'), selected 'Highest Priority' for this task, but it doesn't work. It showing that task is started, but browser is not opened. Even when I manually run this task, when I am logged in, it still doesn't open browser(It works perfect when I select to run task only when user is logged in).

Administrators from our web hosting company told us that this is not possible, due some security issues, but I am sure there must be way to archive this.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem that you describe, it was resolved by specifying the 'Start in' directory for the action. I simply entered the name of the folder where the command file was.

It now runs with 'Run whether user is logged in or not' selected and without checking 'Run with highest privileges.