Scheduling and Permissions

Sometimes you may find that a script runs successfully without issues when tested under your local user account, but runs into errors when scheduled to run under a service account. The most common cause in this scenario is a permissions problem where your user account has appropriate permissions for a given resource but the service account does not.

To address this, it is important to first detect the error at its source. The articles on Error Handling and Fault Tolerant Scripts contains information on how to detect general errors as they occur in your scripts. Permissions for network drives can be especially troublesome. Refer to the article on Working with Network Drives for tips on addressing issues on that topic.