Windows Scheduled Tasks losing password configuration

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Published on 2009-05-29T19:47:02Z Indexed on 2012/12/16 5:07 UTC
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I have a couple of jobs scheduled to run daily on a customer server running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, SP1 using Windows Scheduled Tasks. The tasks are set to run as a user that is in the Administrators group, and were scheduled as that same user. The password of that user is set to never expire. These tasks fail to run pretty much every day. Going into Scheduled Tasks and attempting to run the tasks manually indicates that the password is incorrect. I go into the task properties, retype the password into the appropriate fields, click OK, and attempt to run the task manually again. Now it works fine. What might be the cause of the password being lost like this?

These same tasks are running on other customers servers with no problems.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

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