Can anybody help with this.

Hi,

Could you please tell me how did you create the task schedule?

Try to create a bat file or script to restart Software protection service:

Net stop sppsvc

Net start sppsvc

Then recreate task schedule to see if it works.

The error you can refer:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383604(v=vs.85).aspx

0x80041316

The task XML contains an unexpected node.

Dose the schedule task contain any xml file

I Did not create the task schedule it from software only.

I run start & stop with no change.

I can't recreate the schedule cause I don't know what created it

License Validation Is one of the xml files that don't work.

Also SvcRestartTask Is the Other one They error the task scheduler.

If I remove them then the error changes To

Failed to schedule Software Protection service for re-start at 2113-01-15T15:08:18Z. Error Code: 0x80070002.

I Hope this helps I am still trying locate the problem. 

Thomas

0x80041316 = SCHED_E_UNEXPECTEDNODE

The File for the scheduled task is damaged.

Delete the file for the Software Protection task from

C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

and extract the file from your Windows DVD:

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/09/17/how-to-extract-missing-system-files-from-the-dvd-of-windows-7vista/

Hi Andre

That Fixed my problem But I need to Change the Two File extracted ( xml ) file and import then with the task scheduler.

I Now Know what happened I refreshed my system and when I did it brought the files in with out the extensions.

Check original files they work fine with the extensions changed.

Thanks Thomas

• Marked as answer by Tom Mac Friday, February 08, 2013 8:53 PM

nice to hear that my trick worked for you :)

I am having the same problem, but unfortunately, since I upgraded online to Windows 8 Pro from Windows 7 Home Premium, I do not have an installation DVD nor can I find install.wim anywhere on my system. Any ideas? Thanks.

 Any ideas? Thanks.

Download the 90 day Enterprise Trial ISO, this ISO include a install.wim where you can get the correct files.

Delete the 3 files from C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform.

From the Windows DVD or ISO file go to Sources and use 7-ZIP to extract the install.wim file.

Copy the 3 original files from extracted install.wim (Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform) to a suitable location and add to each of them the .xml extension.

Import the 3 .xml files in Task Scheduler - Microsoft - Windows - SoftwareProtectionPlatform and restart the system.

Hope it helps!

you posted what we already know and what we already wrote. So this is nothing new (entropy is zero ;)

many thanks,

this info solved my problem!

Cesare

This is also one of several errors I get. I seem to remember I got part way though this fix before (got 7-zip and extracted, I think), but the got diverted. But now when I go to install.wim, I can't extrat it - I get Can't open as Archive. Under Properties, it is marked as Read and the attributes can't be changed - Access Denied.

I got as far as this a few minutes ago an everythign froze, so hope it works this time!!

• Proposed as answer by akermitb Friday, July 17, 2015 5:19 PM
• Unproposed as answer by akermitb Friday, July 17, 2015 5:19 PM

OK - I do this, then the bloody thing comes back a few days later (win 8.1). WHY????!!!

for anyone looking for the xml files, and don't feel like downloading the 1.7gb AIK, then extracting the 3.3gb install.wim file to a folder by mounting with ImageX, then extracting the 3 files and adding the .xml extension, here you go:

SvcRestartTask:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.4" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <Source>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Source>
    <Author>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Author>
    <Version>1.0</Version>
    <Description>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-201)</Description>
    <URI>\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\SvcRestartTask</URI>
    <SecurityDescriptor>D:P(A;;FA;;;SY)(A;;FA;;;BA)(A;;FA;;;S-1-5-80-123231216-2592883651-3715271367-3753151631-4175906628)(A;;FR;;;S-1-5-87-2912274048-3994893941-1669128114-1310430903-1263774323)</SecurityDescriptor>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <CalendarTrigger>
      <StartBoundary>2013-08-23T14:50:01Z</StartBoundary>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
      <ScheduleByDay>
        <DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval>
      </ScheduleByDay>
    </CalendarTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="NetworkService">
      <UserId>S-1-5-20</UserId>
      <RunLevel>LeastPrivilege</RunLevel>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>false</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>false</AllowHardTerminate>
    <StartWhenAvailable>true</StartWhenAvailable>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <IdleSettings>
      <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
      <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
    </IdleSettings>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>true</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>false</DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>
    <UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>true</UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT0S</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
    <RestartOnFailure>
      <Interval>PT1M</Interval>
      <Count>3</Count>
    </RestartOnFailure>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="NetworkService">
    <ComHandler>
      <ClassId>{B1AEBB5D-EAD9-4476-B375-9C3ED9F32AFC}</ClassId>
      <Data><![CDATA[timer]]></Data>
    </ComHandler>
  </Actions>
</Task>

SvcRestartTaskLogon:

<Task xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <URI>\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\SvcRestartTaskLogon</URI>
    <SecurityDescriptor>D:P(A;;FA;;;SY)(A;;FA;;;BA)(A;;FRFW;;;S-1-5-80-123231216-2592883651-3715271367-3753151631-4175906628)(A;;FR;;;S-1-5-4)</SecurityDescriptor>
    <Version>1.0</Version>
    <Source>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Source>
    <Author>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Author>
    <Description>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-202)</Description>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <LogonTrigger>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    </LogonTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="InteractiveUser">
      <GroupId>S-1-5-4</GroupId>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>false</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>false</AllowHardTerminate>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>true</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>false</DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>
    <UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>true</UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT0S</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
    <RestartOnFailure>
      <Interval>PT1M</Interval>
      <Count>3</Count>
    </RestartOnFailure>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="InteractiveUser">
    <ComHandler>
      <ClassId>{b1aebb5d-ead9-4476-b375-9c3ed9f32afc}</ClassId>
      <Data>logon</Data>
    </ComHandler>
  </Actions>
</Task>

SvcRestartTaskNetwork:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.4" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <URI>\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\SvcRestartTaskNetwork</URI>
    <SecurityDescriptor>D:P(A;;FA;;;SY)(A;;FA;;;BA)(A;;FRFW;;;S-1-5-80-123231216-2592883651-3715271367-3753151631-4175906628)(A;;FR;;;S-1-5-87-431836887-2321537645-4075769387-3393595759-2187231311)</SecurityDescriptor>
    <Version>1.0</Version>
    <Source>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Source>
    <Author>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-200)</Author>
    <Description>$(@%systemroot%\system32\sppc.dll,-203)</Description>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <EventTrigger>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
      <Subscription>&lt;QueryList&gt;&lt;Query Id="0" Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational"&gt;&lt;Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational"&gt;*[System[EventID=10000]]&lt;/Select&gt;&lt;/Query&gt;&lt;/QueryList&gt;</Subscription>
    </EventTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="NetworkService">
      <UserId>S-1-5-20</UserId>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>false</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>false</AllowHardTerminate>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>false</Enabled>
    <Hidden>true</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>false</DisallowStartOnRemoteAppSession>
    <UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>true</UseUnifiedSchedulingEngine>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT0S</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
    <RestartOnFailure>
      <Interval>PT1M</Interval>
      <Count>3</Count>
    </RestartOnFailure>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="NetworkService">
    <ComHandler>
      <ClassId>{b1aebb5d-ead9-4476-b375-9c3ed9f32afc}</ClassId>
      <Data><![CDATA[network]]></Data>
    </ComHandler>
  </Actions>
</Task>

I have had this problem a couple of times. Windows 8.1 not modified in any way and updated regularly.  But bot times the culprit was a driver of an oldish HP inkjet printer. Remove printer and the problem went away immediately and back to a clean EventLog.

Adding this comment as I like others tried all these marvellous suggestions only for the issue to come back.

I suggest you search deeper into the services which should start Automatically and fail to do.

I hope this helps