Have you tried running the task with the SYSTEM account and then giving the computer rights to wherever it needs to copy the file to? That is easier anyway because you don't have to go around updating every scheduled task each time you change your password. //signed// Jamie R Nelson Systems Engineer Ingenium Corporation ________________________________ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Randy Benson Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:33 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] disable Integrated Windows Authentication in IE6 w/ GP On a W2k3 domain controller I have a scheduled task that invokes a batch file to zip an existing .bkf file and move it to off-server storage. The task is set to run under my domain admin credentials, but fails to start with no errors in the event log and "Could not start" in the Scheduled Task's status line. While googling on "integrated windows authentication" + scheduled, I hit on a thread in microsoft.public.windows.server.security titled "Scheduled Tasks - Strange Permissions Issue" that seems to have cured the problem by disabling IWA in Internet Explorer(!) Options ->Advanced -> Enable IWA on the DC. However, I'm worried that this is not a good solution as Roger Abell pointed out - that is, "the issue is still sitting there waiting to foul up an NTLM based Windows integrated (re)login attempt"; My question is: Is there something I can tweak in my DC GP to allow scheduled tasks to run with IWA enabled? TIA, Randy Benson W. R. BENSON & ASSOCIATES Los Angeles, CA USA