Vista - Vista Task Scheduler - Email fails - Event ID 202

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone will have some ideas for me because myself and some colleagues of mine are stumped.

We are attempting to set up Task Scheduler event to e-mail notifications of an Event via SMTP. We get the following error:

Operational Code "Run Failure", Last Run Result "Cannot modify or delete an object that was not added using COM+ Admin SDK (0x8004020D)"

The History shows in Event ID 202:
"Task Scheduler failed to complete task "\Test email" , instance "{2be9e68d-5bbb-4a73-b5f0-b765b9cd68cb}" , action "Testing email notification" . Additional Data: Error Value: 2147746323."

Our internal SMTP server is working fine - I can use an anonymous, real, or even an incorrect email address / username / password to successfully get an email sent out with a third party SMTP command line utility from the SAME system I'm trying to set up the alert on.

I also get the exact same errors for the task if I try setting up the Task on another system (Windows Server 2008).

I've tried multiple configurations of the Task and cannot find much information about the errors we're seeing. Solutions out there appear to say that email information supplied is wrong

From what I can tell our SMTP is working fine, but it seems like the syntax the Task Scheduler is trying to use with the SMTP server is wrong or something? (Shrug)

Thank you for any help!

Marc

Is the task scheduler sending the username and password to your email program ?

Look here maybe help:Server 2008 - Task Scheduler - Send an E-mail fails

I'm not sure if it is sending anything properly at all - here's what I discovered after I posted:

I changed the SMTP server in the Task Scheduler's Task to a garbage name (does not exist), and I get the SAME error.

So it appears that it isn't even getting as far as trying to reach the SMTP server.

In case you are wondering it happens on my Vista Enterprise x64 w SP2 box as well as our Windows Server 2008 Enterprise w SP1.

I can make the task complete successfully if I choose either Start a program or Display a Message - so I know it has something to do with this email option not wanting to work properly for me.