Service Edition ONLY
Creating tasks in the NT Service Edition is a little different than what you may be used to in other versions of AutoMate™. The primary difference is the requirement of a LOGIN step, either implicitly or explicitly entered into the task.
If you have setup a "Default User Account", then any task that does not have a LOGIN step as its first step will login in the default user, and start task execution from there. The steps will be performed as if the account represented by the default user was doing them. For example, guests normally do not have access to any administrator tools, such as Disk Administrator. If you setup the Default User Account as the guest account, and did not LOGIN in the administrator account as the first line of your task, then a step of that task set to launch Disk Administrator would fail, because guests cannot start that application.
If you have not set up a Default User Account, and do not have a LOGIN step as the first step of a task, the task will fail. This is because AutoMate™ will not start a task unless it has been told whom the task is running on behalf of. This prevents security breaches.
You can also use AutoMate™ to start tasks when the workstation is logged out.
Everything else is the same between the NT Service Edition and the other fine editions of AutoMate™.
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