Hi,

We have created a domain account specifically for running automated jobs. By default, Visual Cron sets the credentials to 'No credential', we would like to be able to set the default to another credential.

Thanks,

Alex

Hi,

We have created a domain account specifically for running automated jobs. By default, Visual Cron sets the credentials to 'No credential', we would like to be able to set the default to another credential.

Thanks,

Alex

This is very easily overcome, assuming you want to by default, run every job/task as a particular user. This is the way my company runs our VC Installs. All you do is after installing VisualCron, go into your Services MMC and change the service to run as "Domain\User' instead of 'Local System'. Restart the service and now everything will run as that ID unless you specify a different credential on the jobs/tasks/etc..

Brian

Thanks Brian, will give this a try

Thanks Brian, will give this a try

No problem at all 🙂 The one caveat to this is, if you have a task that needs to run WITH PROFILE, you'll still need to create a credential for the same User you're already running the service as so you can set the 'Load Profile' option on it, and apply the credential to that task.

The only time in our environment i've needed to do this is when i was calling a 3rd party application that had settings stored in the user profile so i'd log into the server as that user... configure the app the way I wanted, and log out. this would be true for Office settings, if an app calls Internet Explorer and needs to rely on 'trusted sites', etc... all things unique to the user.

Brian