Scheduled Task Launch Failure - 2147944309

Question

Hi,
There is a scheduled task that executes a script. It was running fine until one day it started to fail with 'Task Scheduler failed to start "Task" task for user "domain account". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147944309.' It failed on a Friday, ran on a Saturday, then began failing daily after that. My research on this found that 2147944309 means the account is either disabled or locked out. I double checked the account and it was neither. Server is Windows 2012. It's an RDS server so it reboots every morning. After it reboots a warning message shows in history for the task "Task Scheduler did not launch task "Task" as it missed its schedule. Consider using the configuration option to start the task when available, if schedule is missed."

What I was able to determine:

account is not locked or disabled

account is in the administrator group on the server

permissions are correct on the script

set it to run with highest privileges

able to manually kick off the task

the task is in a folder under Task Scheduler Library

created a test task to run notepad under the same account in the folder. It did not run

created a test task in a test folder under Task Scheduler Library to run notepad under the same account. It did not run

created a test task directly Task Scheduler Library to run notepad under the same account. It ran

moved the task under directly under Task Scheduler Library.

The scheduled task kicked off for four days in a row and then began failing with the same error. Yesterday, I set the option to restart every minute three times if it fails. It didn't execute a second or third time after failing. Any ideas what the heck is going with this?

Answer 1

Check Active Directory to see if an account lockout event was generated.

https://theposhwolf.com/howtos/Get-ADUserLockouts/