Scheduled tasks could not start

I was having a problem running some scheduled tasks that I was using with SyncBack starting when scheduled. They would all run fine manually but when left to start at a scheduled time they were refusing to start. The error message I received was simple "could not start".

Turns out that there were 2 issues here. First was that I needed to put a path in the "start in" section of the properties of a scheduled task. Never had to do that before but it was definitely causing the first part of the problem.

Second issue was that I needed to alter my group policy settings so that the "log on as a batch job" permission was granted to the backup account that I was using to run the backup job (found under computer configuration\windows settings\security settings\local policies\user rights assignments\log on as a batch job. I added this in the default domain policy so that I could use the account anywhere in the domain but it wouldnt really matter where you made the change as long as the policy was applied to the OU the computer was in.

Simple really but took a fair bit of figuring out.

Roll on the weekend...

Word 2003 and Symantec Antivirus

Ive just been troubleshooting the strangest problem with Word 2003. The user was able to save files over the network to her homedrive but the process was very slow. However using Excel, powerpoint e.t.c save times were fine. Word also seemed to be crashing a lot however nothing I did seemed to fix the problem. Turned out that Symantec Antivirus 11.0.2 was causing the problem. I uninstalled it, restarted and then installed version 11.0.4 and the problem went away. You would have thought that by version 11 Symantec would have sorted these kinds of problems out. McAfee anyone?

Hypver V and APC Powerchute Business Edition 8.0.1

So Ive just discovered that Powerchute Business Edition v 8.0.1 has changed from 8.0 to not supporting Hyper V roles. That is, if you have any Server 2008 OS with Hyper V installed then this will not work. WHY APC??? Now I have to dig around and try and find an old version from somewhere.

Bah, humbug.