Wednesday, January 23, 2013

GPO Preferences: Scheduled Tasks not appearing

Recently, I was required to create scheduled tasks for Windows 7 computers through GPO.

I did it through GPO:


But, the task was not appearing on the target workstation, no matter what.

After checking everything, I changed the logon credentials.By default tasks configured via the Computer section of Group Policy will run as %LogonDomain\%LogonUser%. But I changed it to BUILTIN\SYSTEM.

It's wrong. It should be NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, which works perfectly. The task appears on the target computers.