SCHTASKS can't administer remote tasks

Question

I am trying to stop and then disable a remote task from a build script. The remote server is Server 2k8. The client running the script is Windows 7. Both machines are joined to the domain.

When I run schtasks /Change /S remoteServer /TN "theTask", I get an error ERROR: The specified task name "theTask" does not exist in the system. If I run this command locally, everything works. I've verified that the domain user account I am logged into on my computer has administrator privileges to the remote computer.

If I run schtasks /Query on the remote computer, I get a listing of all scheduled tasks. If I run the same command remotely with the /S switch, only two legacy tasks (Google update tasks) return.

My initial thought was that this could be a permissions error, but when I try to run schtasks using the /u switch, I get ERROR: The request is not supported, which makes no sense because both the client and server are running the modern version of windows scheduler. I'm very confused.

What do I need to do to allow schtasks remote access to ALL the tasks on a server?

Edit: schtasks seems to only be returning the list of "v1" style tasks.

Answer 1

Found it! Turn off windows firewall or enable the Remote Scheduled Tasks Management firewall exception.

That note is buried way down in here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736357(v=vs.85).aspx

Answer 2

This might also happen if the user specified in the Principals-->Principal-->UsedId is different from the one who is trying to execute the task.