Scheduled tasks not executing

Ian,

Thanks, this answers my problem conclusively.

However I've been informed by my Sys Admin that they can't use Basic Authentication because in Basic authentication the password is sent in clear text.

In the schedule task, set a file to store the response, then look at the response.

I suspect you are going to see that the response is a access denied message from IIS.

The MOST common issue for the described problem is Windows Integrated Security in IIS.  When you access the page in your windows browser your windows domain username and password are passed to the windows web server and it can validate your credentials and let you access the resource.

CF does not use a windows browser to make scheduled task requests and it can not handle the IIS Windows Integrated Security response headers asking for windows domain creditionals.  The user name and password fields in the scheduled task form will only work with basic web site security NOT Windows Integrated Security.

You only options are to use basic web site security OR not use security for the specific code files that you plan to run as a scheduled task.  IIS does allow one to set different security options on a file by file as well as directory by directory basis.  So it is usually fairily simple to set up a set of files or a directory that uses different security settings then the rest of the site; so that files in that location can be used for scheduled tasks.

I fogot to mention that the scheduler log reads: