Hi, I create a scheduled task using schtasks.exe to run under SYSTEM account. I then copy it to a remote machine using xcopy command. On copying the run as user for the task at remote machine changes to my userid instead of the SYSTEM. How can I make the task copied to remote machine run as SYSTEM.Chaitanya

Under which account do you run the task? Post us a picture from the task inside your task scheduler."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

It is impossible. Because on computer A you configure the task to run with the account “computerA\SYSTEM”. After you copy it to another computer you need to run it with “computerB\SYSTEM”. The User IDs are different.Arthur Xie - MSFT

Hi, I dint find a way to change the userId after copying. But I found an alternative to create the scheduled task at remote machine itself using the tool "psexec.exe". This tool executes the cmd command at the remote machine directly. This tool solved my issue, now that I am executing the schtasks command at the remote machine itself it created the task with remote machine's SYSTEM id. Thanks for the replies.Chaitanya