Task scheduled at a later date runs on Download
I've created a package that I want to run at a particular time, let's say 9pm next Friday, but I want all of my clients to start downloading now. (sounds easy) It's a vbscript that needs to run when a new or existing user logs onto. It changes a CurrentUser registry key so it has to run as the logged on user. I've created the package and scheduled it to run on a test collection and it works great. The only problem I have is that the package runs as soon as the computer is notified of the task for the user that is logged on at that time instead of waiting for the scheduled time. The task status shows as "Run completed" and the "Next Run" is the time I have scheduled. I have unchecked the box that says "Run as soon as computer is notified".
I'm running NS 6 and thought this was going to be an easy task. Any suggestions?
Eric Michael
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How it should work is...
This should work:
Create a brand new task through the task wizard. Point it to your script, uncheck run immediatly, and instead check Run on schedule. Set the schedule to some time in the future. Apply it to some collection of machines. Name the task and package and you are done.
If you want it to immediately begin staging on machines, enable the task. It still will not run until the scheduled time.
If you are still having issues, let me know and maybe you can send me some screenshots of your task through email so I can see if anything stands out as being a problem.
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