Window Defender scheduled task failed

The Windows Defender scheduled task is terminated each time and the error code is Ox41306. Anyone know what needs to be done to resolve issue.

Hi,
0x00041306
The last run of the task was terminated by the user.
Did you create the task schedulder via GUI or you create and run the scheduler via some script? Please make sure that you have right permission to run the task or script. chekc the security option, check the user acocunt to run the task.
Or check this option, under "power" tab, task might be terminated when power environment has changed
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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#1 - Ask in Excel 2013 forum.
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#3 - What errors are you getting?
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2012 R2 that's now giving me a problem.   If I run this batch from a command line, no problem but from task scheduler it gives me error "2147942667", which is "The directory name is invalid".
Task runs as Administrator and the actions are Program/Script: build.bat   Start in: M:\Work\Source\   I've also set the Program/Script to the whole path M:\Work\Source\build.bat and the Start in to M:\Work\Source\ but it's the same error.
There are NO quotes, which I know was a problem for many in Windows 2008. This "M" drive is a mapped network drive to an NFS share and all permissions are correct.   Like I previously stated, other Windows Servers (2003 and 2008)
have no problems executing this batch, it's just Windows 2012 (Std) R2.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated, otherwise I have an expensive piece of metal here doing nothing. ;)
Thanks!
Drew

Have you tried a shortcut to the batch file? Or iexpress packaging into an executable? I would expect these (especially the latter) to work in a scheduled task. (Although iexpress isn't always feasible.)
Or you could try:
cmd -c <FullPathToFile>
This might work as well, as you are asking cmd, not schtsks (or whatever program does) to process it and locate both the file and file association.
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