After daylight savings time change, scheduled tasks on all computers in a AD domain are in error. It happened already twice. We run W2K SP4. The error in the log is "The At1.job command failed to start due to the following error: General access denied error". The problem is solved by deleting and reschedule the task. There is no info available from microsoft. Does anyone know this problem? And maybe a solution? Pieltje

I found these: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;267031&Product=Win2000Dev http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329962&Product=Win2000Dev

thanks, but I already found the last link. But it says that SP4 solves the problem. We use SP4. The cause described is also different, we have 1 task running every day around 18.00. The task works well for half a year, until the daylight saving time change. Pieltje

I'm assuming you have the computer configured to automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time. How about: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234735&Product=Win2000Dev http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;158588&Product=Win2000Dev

One question, what is "Daylight Saving Time"?? I saw it in Windows 98 once...what is it?? El-Trucha

Do a google on this: daylight savings time and scheduled task You will find the following: 7642 » Windows 2000 and Windows NT Scheduled Tasks do NOT run after a daylight-saving time change? http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBP/tip7600/rh7642.htm 5724 » Task Scheduler behavior at Daylight Savings Time transitions and other events. http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5700/rh5724.htm Definitions of daylight saving time on the Web: A time used during the summer months, in some localities, in which clocks are advanced I hour from the usual standard time. www.baysail.com/tide_terms/gloss_d.html A variation of zone time, usually one hour ahead of that time, used during summer months in some localities. Also known as summer time. www.hydro.gov.au/prodserv/tides/tidal_glossary/tidal_glossary.htm Introduced in 1914 under the Defence of the Realm Act to gain an added hour of daylight. db.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/glossary/index.shtml

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBP/tip7600/rh7642.htm 7642 » Windows 2000 and Windows NT Scheduled Tasks do NOT run after a daylight-saving time change? After the daylight-saving time change, scheduled tasks whose Run As was the administrator's user name, now show the current user, or a blank. NOTE: If you reset the Run As to the administrator's user name, and set the password, the tasks will run. NOTE: The Schedlgu.txt file has entries similar to: The attempt to retrieve account information for the specified task failed; therefore, the task did not run. Either an error occurred, or no account information existed for the task. The specific error is: 0x8004130f: No account information could be found in the Task Scheduler security database for the task indicated. This problem only occurs if your computer's System partition use the FAT files system. On NTFS file systems, the files maintain their original time stamp during a daylight-saving change, but FAT based files actually change. To prevent this problem, I strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest service pack available, AND convert to NTFS. NOTE: Open a CMD prompt and type CONVERT /?.