Windows 2008 server task scheduler does not run .bat batch job [closed]

Answer 1

Windows Server 2008 will not run any batch file with quotation marks " inside the batch file. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd851678.aspx

Answer 2

Make sure the task is running under an account with the necessary privileges. When you run a batch script from the command-line directly, it is running under your user account, which may have different permissions than the default account used for scheduled tasks.

Answer 3

In my case, I had 'Run whether user is logged on or not'. When I changed to 'Run only when user is logged on' it worked OK.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem, my .bat file wouldn't correctly execute when I had the full file path in the "Program/script" field.

"D:\path\to\file\somebat.bat" didn't execute. (with quotes)

When I put D:\path\to\file\ (without quotes) in the Start in (optional): field and somebat.bat in Program/script: field somebat.bat executed correctly.

Go figure... not exactly sure why having "D:\path\to\file\somebat.bat" in the Program/script: won't work.

Maybe someone could shed some light on that?