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?

Answer 1

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