ColdFusion 11 Scheduled Task & IIS 7.5

I have a scheduled task registered in ColdFusion 11 Admin console. ColdFusion 11 is hosted over IIS 7.5. The schedule task is to run 1 perticular file from sub application of the main app. After upgrading application from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11, scheduled task stopped working.
Note that, on IIS, main App has "Anonymous Authentication - Disabled" and "Windows Authentication - Enabled" ...
While for sub app (which is being called by scheduled task) has "Anonymous Authentication - Enabled" and "Windows Authentication - Disabled".
Moreover, when I try to run the scheduled task manually, it shows "Authentication falure" error in log file as
HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized You are not authorized to view this page due to invalid authentication headers.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Thank you.

I've been fighting the identical problem since upgrading from CF8 on Windows Server 2008R2 with SSL enabled. The main CF application's folder is set for Windows Authentication This is happening on two different test servers- one running CF10 and the other running CF11, both of which had been running CF8 tasks with no problems. IIS settings for the subfolder with the scheduled task have only Anonymous authentication enabled (which is set to use the Application Pool identity that the Application Pool's identity is set to). I've set the file system permissions to allow Everybody, as well as IUSR, on the .CFM in question, and have tried using both HTTP and HTTPS forms of the URL in the scheduled task settings.
I can use the same HTTP/HTTPS URL in a browser directly (without authenticating to the server's application first) and the .CFM runs flawlessly. The CF http.log file shows Status Code=401, and saving the scheduled task output shows "IIS 7.0 Detailed Error - 401.2 - Unauthorized". What has changed in CF10 and CF11 if the underlying IIS server settings that worked before haven't changed?
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