First, just wanted to thank everyone in advance for helping with this, let me take you on my journey...
Task: Run a Java application that is located in a folder on a file server using Windows Task Scheduler, simple enough.
The caveat, is that I would like to utilize the task scheduler option of "Run whether user is logged on or not." and this seems to be a tricky function...
I have set my account as the account that the task is to run under.
What have I tried?
Creating a task based on these actions:
Java.exe -jar "path to share jar"
Java.exe -jar "path to local jar"
Javaw.exe -jar "path to share jar"
Javaw.exe -jar "path to local jar"
All have had the same result with the "Run whether use is logged on or not." option : 0x1
Next, I tried creating a batch file to run this on my behalf and changed the task to run that batch file and I got all the same results. I have read that utilizing the "Start in (optional)" field of an action may solve the problem, but it did not.
After that, I created a .vbs file with code similar to the following:
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Batch Files\syncfiles.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing
This achieved a 'silent run', but task scheduler still did not run with the "Run whether use is logged on or not.", and ended in 0x1.
All of these work fine with the "Run only when user is logged on." option.
The reason I want to do it whether I am logged on or not, is because I want to run my application before I come in to work.
Update: I've disocvered a few things. In power options for Windows, I had to enable the ability for scheduled tasks to wake the computer, felt kind of dumb about that one.
Using a simpler task - one that just creates a blank text file - this option works fine. I belive the problem lies with executing Java.