In an environment with more than one Task Execution Servers, when right-clicking on the Task Execution Server name in the MessageStats Console and selecting Properties, the 'Is Default Task Execution Server' check box is greyed out and cannot be checked or unchecked
This is expected behaviour.
This check box is for information purposes only.
To change the default Task execution Server, right-click on the Task execution Server and select the first option 'Set as Default'