Windows Task Scheduler doesn t start batch file task

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I have a batch file with the code below to stop and start the SQL Report service   net stop  SQL Server Reporting Services  MSSQLSERVER     timeout  t 10  net start  SQL Server Reporting Services  MSSQLSERVER     I have set up the scheduled task to run daily  it currently runs as SYSTEM with the highest privileges set  I have set up the start in folder option on the action  and everything generally seems to be set up correctly  But when I run the task nothing seems to happen  it says the task has run but I cant see that the service has been restarted as it is meant to   Can someone direct me to what I am missing  Thanks

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My application failed to start via  Task Scheduler    The error in  Event Viewer  is  System IO DirectoryNotFoundException  The  Task Scheduler  tries to run this application with the  SYSTEM  user  The problem was that a  network drive  was not mapped for the  SYSTEM  user  So what I did was  I created a   bat  file and mapped the  network drive  before starting the application   net use T    172 20 2 215 images cd C  MyApplication start MyApplication exe   So check your logs first   Event Viewer  -  Windows Logs -  Application

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Had the same issue  make sure you check  Run only when user is logged on  at least that is what made my bat file alive again

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Try the code below   Batchfile bat   cd c  batchfilepath net stop  SQL Server Reporting Services  MSSQLSERVER    timeout  t 10 net start  SQL Server Reporting Services  MSSQLSERVER

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Configuration that worked for me   In General tab  mark radio button -  quot Run only when user is logged on quot    lt   important   Program script   just the path to script without quotes or nothing  C  tools script bat Add arguments   kept it empty Start in   kept it empty  In settings  only 2 checkboxes marked   Allow task to be run on demand if the running task does not end when requested  force it to stop

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I had the same problem  I believe it s a privilege problem  If you have  Run only when user is logged on  selected  then it won t happen   You ve hopefully figured it out by now  but I wanted to register it here for the next person who has wasted hours on this

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On a Windows system which supports runas  First  independently run your program by launching it from a command line which was run as that user  like following    runas  user  lt domain username gt  cmd  Then  in that new command line  cd to the path from where you expect the task launcher to launch your program and type the full arguments  for example     cd D  Scripts   then execute    C  python27 pthon exe script py    Any errors that are being suppressed by task scheduler should come out to command line output and will make things easier to debug

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This is a pretty old thread but the problem is still the same -  I tried multiple things  none of them worked -    Added a Start In Path  without quotes  Removed the complete path of the batch file in the Program Script field  etc Added C  Windows system32 cmd exe to the Program and added  c myscript bat to the arguments field    This is what worked for me -  Program Script Field -  cmd  Add Arguments -  c myscript bat  Start In   Path to myscript bat

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The solution is that you should uncheck  deactivate  option  Run only if user is logged on    After that change  it starts to work on my machine

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For me it was trigger issue  By default it should On a Schedule in trigger tab  I had selected At log on and then I was waiting to run task  As it s name says at log on  means you have to logout and log on    Try putting it on a Schedule and fire it every minute

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My problem was caused by OneDrive  OneDrive was syncing the folder my batch file lived in  and that seems to prevent Task Scheduler from executing it   Doesn t anyone at MS test this kind of thing    Anyway by moving my batch file to a folder that wasn t in OneDrive the batch file could be started by Task Scheduler

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For me  the problem was caused by the  bat included a cd to a network drive  This failed  and then the later call to the program in that network drive did nothing   I figured this out by adding  gt  log txt in the Add arguments field of the Edit action window for the task

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I was running this on a Windows Server OS   I worked for hours  only to find that the problem was that I had checked the  Run with highest privileges  checkbox  When checked on  it removes all drive mappings  And my  bat file was on the network

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Wasted a lot of time on this silly issue   add a cd command to where your batch file resides at the first line of your batch file and see if it resolves the issue   cd D  wherever yourBatch fileIs   TIP  please use absolute paths  relative paths ideally should not be an issue  but scheduler has an difficult time understanding them

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One solution is you can run your   bat  file with   vbs  file and you can run this vbs file in windows scheduler    Set objShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell   objShell Run  cron jobs bat    0  True   You can do like this and i hope it will fix your issue

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I had the same problem and none of the solutions worked  When I checked the history I figured out the issue  I had this warning  Task Scheduler did not launch task   TASK NAME   because instance   34a206d4-7fce-3895-bfcd-2456f6ed6533    of the same task is already running    In the settings tab there is a drop down option for  If the task is already running  then the following rule applies   and the default is  Do not start a new instance   Change that to  Run a new instance in parallel  or  Stop the existing instance  based on what you actually need to be done    I know it s an old thread and multiple solutions are good here  this is just what worked for me  Hope it helps

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Set  Program script  --   file bat set  Start in  the rest of path  file bat

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Make sure you set the  Start in  and  Program script  options correctly  If your file address is  C  Temp foo bat  set the  start in  option to  C  Temp  and the  Program script  option to  foo bat    To set the  Start in  option  Right click task in the task scheduler  gt  Properties  gt   Actions  gt  Edit   If this alone doesn t work then try moving the  bat file to a directory with basic permissions  maybe a shared directory for example    I had a problem where my  bat file was located in a folder with some restrictive permissions on it  so that only my user account could access it  Even though I had set up the task scheduler to use my credentials it still failed  Moving the  bat file to another directory sorted the issue

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