Article ID: 816731 - Last Review: July 15, 2009 - Revision: 4.0

Error message: "0x80070005 Access is denied. You do not have permission to perform the requested operation"

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to complete a task under another user account, you may receive an error message similar to the following:

An error occurred while attempting to set task account information.

When you click the Details button, you receive the following error message details:

0x80070005 Access is denied. You do not have permission to perform the requested operation.

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs because only members of the administrator group or users who have administrative rights can schedule a task to run under another user's account.

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WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, contact your network administrator to schedule a task for you, or log on as a user who has administrative credentials to schedule a task.

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