Eric, is there any chance that the page you're running successfully in IE works because you were prompted at some point for a web server username/password? The browser will cache that for subsequent requests. If the page requires such security, you must specify it in the scheduled task definition.
There is also available logging of scheduled tasks (on the Logging Settings page in the CF Admin), which creates a new log in the \logs directory (also accessible from the CF Admin Log Files page), which may give you more insight into what's not working.
Finally, yes, you could always an alternative to CF's scheduled tasks, in the Windows scheduled task feature (available in all versions of Windows). The problem is how to execute a CFML page. There used to be a cfml.exe program in the \bin (prior to CF 6) that allowed you to execute CFML pages from the command line. That's no longer offered.
But you could call the pages using a command-line equivalent of a browser. One such solution is wget. I did a blog entry on this several years ago when I worked with BlueDragon, but the concept applies just as well to CF:
http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/executing_cfml_from_the_command_line_or_where_did_cfmlexe_go.htm
Others may have still other suggestions.
But really, see first if you can in fact get it to work as a CF scheduled task. There's usually an explanation and a solution. Hope that helps.
/charlie
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