The operator or administrator has refused the request task scheduler

Sushmit Patil picture Sushmit Patil · Mar 29, 2016 · Viewed 59.3k times · Source

I have scheduled a C# console application in Task Scheduler of Windows 2012 R2. Application will run when executed it manually or Right click on scheduled task and click on Run, but it is failed when triggered by Task Scheduler with below error.

The operator or administrator has refused the request(0x800710E0)

I have followed below steps also after Google search

  1. Selected "Run whether user logged in or not"
  2. Unchecked "Start the task only if the computer is on AC power"

Answer

wruckie picture wruckie · Apr 8, 2017

In my case, I had to redo the permissions on the task. Somehow it had lost the domain portion of the username. Instead of `DOMAIN\joeuser' it was just 'joeuser'. After a reset, it worked correctly as it had for the previous year.

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