Issue with scheduled task

[Federico]

Hello,

We have a script which basically performs the steps below. There is a scheduled task which executes the script.

– Create a zip file.

– Encrypt the zip file. It uses AxCrypt to perform this step.

– Copy the encrypted file to Amazon S3.

It is a Windows 2012 R2 environment. If there is a session logged in the server, the process works perfectly. If there is no session logged, the task fails on the encryption step. We changed many settings on the scheduled task and tried with a batch CMD and with PowerShell. However, it is still not working.

Is there any suggested workaround?

Thanks in advance.

[SvanteSpectator]

Hello Federico,

You don’t say, but I’m guessing you’re using AxCrypt 1.x for this. Version 1.x is unsupported and unmaintained unfortunately. Even more unfortunately – AxCrypt 2.x does not yet support a command line client… You can integrate via source code inclusion, but it requires C#/.NET programming skills.

Allt his being said – there’s no fundamental reason why you could not use AxCrypt 1.x as you intend. You do have to handle the password in one way or another, typically passing it from an environment variable to the command line.

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