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I been trying to run some automated task through task scheduler, but I been running into a issue.

Whenever I try to run PAD through task scheduler and I have the option "Run whether user is logged on or not" the task will simply not run, the status of the task in task scheduler will stay on running forever till I manually end it.

The task does run if if I choose "Run only when user is logged on"

I also tried running it on highest privileges.

This is what I have for actions:

And for what PAD is suppose to do is simply open a FTP connection, upload a file then close ftp connection

Now I am not sure if this is an Task scheduler issue or task scheduler combined with PAD issue.

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How exactly are you authenticating against the FTP - are you using Windows auth? Where is the file stored? Is it in some network directory or the user documents? It might be that the flow itself requires the user to be logged in to either create the FTP connection or access the file, if it is only available from the context of the user.
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We do not use windows auth to authenticate with the FTP, we use the credentials that were given us, those are also provided in the action "Open FTP Connection".
The file is stored on a network location, I checked if the service account that is running the task has access to this location and it should have access to it.
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Which service account do you mean? NT Service\UIFlowService?
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its a service account we use to run task like this, Its a service account that is on our AD and has the The Log on as a service user rights
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Power Automate runs under NT Service\UIFlowService. If the user is not logged on, this is the service that runs the flow. If this service account does not have access to the file, the flow will not have access to it either.
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Alright I think I understand what you are saying, now I am not sure if this is a smart thing to do, but what if I change the Log On As account to the service account we use?
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I'm not sure if it would be allowed to run without logging in, as I've never tried this myself, but that's an option you could definitely test.
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So I been testing, changing the service account does nothing, I did test with a different account that has admin rights, this one does start the flow and it works but the task will stay on running forever.

Running out of ideas to test