Re: Can't Run Defrag - Even with 'Perform Volume Maintenance' Set


Hi Ben,

Just wondering how is everything going.

Regarding SP3, so far I have no idea. Microsoft will publish the news if
SP2 will be released.

Have a good day.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the information. I will give it a try and let you know.

Bit of a pain that this doesn't work as expected, I wonder if MS will fix
it
in SP3!?

Interestingly, another user, who is not local admin, WAS able to run a
defrag over the weekend, so it seems this policy setting works sometimes,
but not all the time!

Ben

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Apparently that user right does not work as expected as I have seen the
same. What you could try is to use the command line tool defrag to run
in
schedule using the AT command of Scheduled Task. For instance try the
command [ AT 22:00 /interactive defrag c: -v ] on a users computer
while
logged on as an administrator and use a time that is in the future
while
the user is logged on to see if it works or not. You can also use
schtasks
to do Scheduled Tasks on a computer and make it part of a Group Policy
"startup" script if you have a large number of computers you want to
deploy it on. For defrag you might want to try that and use the system
account to run the task. --- Steve


http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-
us/schtasks.mspx?mfr=true
--- schtasks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313565 --- AT
command use

<benblackmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

A while ago we removed our users from the local admins group, leaving
them just as normal users, as they were installing non-corporate
software. We found out after that some of the users like to run Defrag
on
a monthly basis, which became restricted when they were removed from
the
admins group.

As we have no problem with this we edited the group policy under
"Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local
Policies\User Rights Assignments" to give 'Domain Users' the 'Perform
volume maintenance tasks' right, which according to
http://tinyurl.com/ks6s8 "Determines which users and groups have the
authority to run volume maintenance tasks, such as Disk Cleanup and
Disk
Defragmenter".

However, after a number of reboots, and forced GP refreshes, the users
still can't perform a defrag. I have run RSoP and it shows that the
policy is applied, and the users should be able to perform volume
maintenance.
Is there a bug in Defrag or the Policy, that is stopping it being
applied? Or am I adding the wrong user group? I've tried
'Authenticated
Users', specific security groups, such as Sales, Accounts etc and even
individual users, nothing works.

We're running Windows XP Pro SP2, in a Windows 2003 native domain
environment.

Any advice, greatly received

Ben







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