Cannot schedule task to run under domain user account other than current user

Question

On our Win 2008 machines I can't schedule tasks for domain users because the domain name does not resolve to network name but the AD dc name.

The "network name" looks like ABCDEFGE-HIJKLM and the "dc" / "name" would look like ABCDEFGE-HIJKLMN.

When selecting the domain user account the account qualifier will look like ABCDEFGE-HIJKLMN\task.user. This results in an "invalid account" error.

Entering the account name as [email protected] yields the same result.

When however keeping the currently logged in user it will display ABCDEFGE-HIJKLM\current.user.

Does this behaviour result from the presumable "illegal" domain name?

Is there a workaround for this?

update

I could of course log in as the desired domain account and create the task but since this account is a account used for running services I want to avoid creating a user profile on the machine.

Solution 1

This just worked for me:

Select a local account

When clicking "ok" you get a prompt for the password There you can change the user to the correct user eg. COMPANYNAME\username

source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverManagement/thread/3d9e45be-0225-46f3-b1b6-504915896605

Solution 2

Can you use the [email protected] format? (I am assuming that your domain is setup as ABCDEFGE-HIJKLMN.local in DNS.)

Comments

[Filburt]

I tried that and it also resolves the account to ABCDEFGE-HIJKLMN\task.user resulting in the same error. Thanks for your suggestion nonetheless.

[Filburt]

Exporting, editing and importing worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for the hint to this workaround.

[Filburt]

I'll upvote as soon as my rep here allows.