Access Denied error when running job in SQL Server Agent

Question

I am trying to get SQL Server Agent to run a program with arguments (as a Operating system CmdExec job step), but everytime it runs the job I receive the following error: The process could not be created for Step 1 of job, reason: Access is denied).

The research I did online indicated that this could be a permissions issue. I set up a new user account in Windows and gave it full permissions on the program I wanted to run, then mapped this user profile to the SQLSERVERAGENT profile within MS SQL but I still get this error.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

above steps worked for me

Enable XP_cmdshell
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

Create credential

CREATE CREDENTIAL cmdshell_agent WITH IDENTITY = 'account_name', SECRET = 'password';
GO

Create proxy

USE [msdb]
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_proxy @proxy_name=N'tst_Proxy',@credential_name=N'cmdshell_agent', @enabled=1
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_grant_proxy_to_subsystem @proxy_name=N'tst_Proxy', @subsystem_id=3
GO

After this use tst_proxy in the sql agent job to run the job. Job ran successfull