From: "Robert Comer" 

> So as long as it says "Run as" me, all they would have to do
in case of a
power
> failure would be reboot?

As long as your password doesn't change.  (you have to reset it in the task
manager as well...)

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:b09e76.79a599{at}harborwebs.com...
> So as long as it says "Run as" me, all they would have to do
in case of a
power
> failure would be reboot?   Would they even have to log on as themselves?
>
> > From: Chris Robinson 
> > You can set user credentials in the scheduled task so that if (for
example)
> > someone logs on who's permissions restrict them
> > runnning the task for some reason (e.g. if the task copies files to/from
a
> > secured directory), the task will still run OK.
> > Chris :o)
> > "Ellen K." wrote:
> >> This is actually very interesting.   I really never log off my boxes at
> >> work, I just lock the workstation, but it's a good thing to know.
> >>
> >> The reason for the question is my current project which is about ready
> >> to go into production needs to run in the night from Sunday to Monday
> >> every week no matter what, so I told ServerGuy to put my box on the
list
> >> of boxes that must be rebooted in the event of any weekend power outage
> >> etc.... so that made me wonder whether him just rebooting it would be
> >> sufficient to ensure that my process would run.
> >>
> >> Thinking out loud here now that I wrote the above I'm wondering what
> >> happens to network permissions etc... that process talks to the legacy
> >> flat-file database and to a SQL Server database, and also has to get
and
> >> put files on a third server and post a bunch of reports to our
> >> intranet... so now I'm thinking that just rebooting might not be
> >> sufficient after all.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>
> >> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:47:13 -0500, Mike N.

> >> wrote in message :
> >>
> >> >On 25 Nov 2003 01:50:56 GMT, Ellen K
 wrote:
> >> >
> >>>>If a task is scheduled to run under my ID, do I have
to be logged on
to the
> > box
> >> >>when it's time for it to run, or could anyone be logged on?
> >> >
> >>>   In fact, if it's run under your ID and you happen to be logged in
when it
> > fires off, it *may* run in the foreground
> >> >and will be terminated if you log out before it completes.   I say
*may*
> > because there may be an "interactive" task
> >> >setting that will correct this problem.

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