How to schedule a task for non admin users?

Question

We are currently using TaskService to schedule a task. We use the default folder:

TaskScheduler scheduler = new TaskScheduler();
scheduler.Connect();
ITaskFolder rootFolder = scheduler.GetFolder("");

which turns out to be:

C:\Windows\System32\Tasks

This works great for admin users, but now I'm trying to schedule a task for non-admin users. Now the above code throws a UnauthorizedAccessException.

I've tried specifying a user specific file paths:

"\\Users\\some_user"  // FileNotFoundException:  The system cannot find the file specified
"C:\\Users\\some_user"  // FileNotFoundException:  The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

Any ideas?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '19 at 15:50

I'm not sure how scheduler.GetFolder("") was throwing an UnauthorizedAccessException, it seems to work fine now.

What I ended up doing was something like:

    TaskScheduler scheduler = new TaskScheduler();
    scheduler.Connect();
    ITaskFolder rootFolder = scheduler.GetFolder(string.Empty);
    ITaskFolder userSpecificFolder = rootFolder.CreateFolder(scheduler.ConnectedUser);  // Will throw if folder already exists
    // Now can add tasks to userSpecificFolder

How to schedule a task for non admin users?

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