Strange issue with scheduled jobs

From: David (david@iname.com)
Date: 04/16/03 

From: "David" <david@iname.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:53:25 +0200

I have 2 computers running WinXP Pro, both NTFS, both SP1, both part of the
same workgroup (not domain) and up-to-date in everything. In one of them (A)
I can schedule jobs to be run when nobody is logged on. I try with this
little batch file:

[runme.bat]
echo it works > c:\works.txt

As I said, I can schedule it and it runs perfectly when nobody is logged on
in A, but in the other computer B there must be someone logged on in order
to for the tasks to be executed. Computer A was installed dec/2001 and how
to say it... it is not a fresh install... However computer B was installed
last month and I installed IIS as an option. I would understand that this
issue arose in A but this is not the case, the problem happens in B, the
recently installed computer.

I completely reinstalled WinXP Pro from scratch in B using a spare hd and
tried again to schedule the job. It worked!!! (without IIS and any SP
applied). Then I simply applied SP1a and installed XP's IIS 5.1 and the same
issue arose again: None of the scheduled jobs run if nobody is logged in. In
all cases, the error the jobs return is 0x80.

I have checked the account under with scheduler service runs is LocalSystem
and is allowed to interact with desktop. I have checked also that the
account under with the job runs is granted to 'logon as a batch job' (see
Local Security Policy), in fact, it belongs to administrators group, not to
power users. I don't know what else it could be.

Is this a known issue? Is it related to IIS? Is there any workaround?

Thanks for all in advance.

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