I have seen various articles on how to schedule a Powershell script, but I have not see much of the reverse. I need to call a manual task in Task Scheduler from my PowerShell script. I am using Powershell 2.0. Can anyone show me how to do this? Thanks.
The simplest way may be to use schtasks.exe
& schtasks.exe /Run /TN <Name of Scheduled Task>
NOTE -- on my Windows 8.1 preview with PowerShell 4.0 there is a Start-ScheduledTask cmdlet.
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I developed a console app and scheduled it to run on Mon-Friday at 9:AM using windows task scheduler, it works fine.
But I was asked to write Powershell scripts or command-line scripts for deployment, like the script should copy the "Release" folder to the server1(deployment env like dev, test or staging or prod) and schedule it in server1's schedule task. Also I have to set "Start in(optional)".
I don't know anything about command-line and PS scripts. All it should do is create the windows schedule task just like the way I did using UI.
If I understand the question correctly you're just trying to create a scheduled task using powershell?
If so try starting here:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/01/13/use-powershell-to-create-scheduled-tasks/
I had a requirement to schedule an exe, this scheduled task should run every day Mon to Fri at desired time. I never wrote any batch files in last 15 years of my career :), took it up as it came in my way from my manager. Thanks to him or else I would have not known in this new world.
echo off
title My 1st batch file for Task scheduler
SchTasks /Create /RU "system" /Sc WEEKLY /D MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI /TN "Leads" /TR "C:/Some.exe" /ST 09:00
I have one selenium webdriver script and another powershell script.
I want to configure both scripts to run on each thursday at 6 pm. How to achieve that.
Create a Windows Scheduled task to run a PowerShell script.
Here is the step by step guide on how to do that.
Use-the-windows-task-scheduler-to-run-a-windows-powershell-script
Then just schedule the script according to your timelines.
If you want to configure the scheduled task also using PS, then here is my blog to help you out on that.
PS Scheduled Task Script
Alternative,
Creation of Task Scheduler Script using cmdlets:
powershell create scheduled-tasks
Hope it helps.
Not sure about Selenium (don't know what that is), but PowerShell scripts can be scheduled using the regular Windows Task Scheduler.
Scheduled tasks can be manually created using the Windows Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc), or via the command-line using schtasks.exe, e.g.:
schtasks.exe /Create /sc weekly /d THU /st 18:00 /tn MyPowerShellJob /tr "%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -file d:\MyScript.ps1 \"hello world\" foo" /ru JohnDoe /rp
I am trying to create a scheduled task from Powershell.
I was readin the document for cmdlet: New-ScheduledJobOption.
And I am a bit confused...
Question:
Are 'Scheduled Job" and "Scheduled Task" the same thing in Powershell context? Or there is a difference?
So just to put an actual answer out there, in addition to the article Valamus put out:
In a PowerShell context Scheduled Jobs and Scheduled Tasks are not the same thing. From a task scheduler perspective they are exactly the same thing.
The PowerShell team provided a toolset for creating a special type of job that would be stored in the Task scheduler library. The Scheduled Jobs cmdlets will not allow you to interact with regular scheduled tasks. The Task Scheduler will let you interact with regular tasks and scheduled jobs interchangeably.
Scheduled Task is just a Windows thing and PowerShell can control it in the same way it (PowerShell) can control many other Windows things.
Scheduled Job is, in the other hand, mostly PowerShell thing. Namely, scheduled job is some PowerShell code scheduled for execution in a "Windows Task Scheduler" manner and executed within PowerShell environment (naturally).
So, an activity run as a Scheduled Task is anything you can run from command prompt (eg. .EXE, .BAT, .COM, .CMD etc. - nothing PowerShell-ish, unless you decide to start powershell.exe and give it some script name to execute. Yet, you can control all of that from PowerShell.
On the other hand, Scheduled Job is exclusively PowerShell code (be it script block or script file) that PowerShell registers with Windows Task Scheduler, and Windows Task Scheduler knows how to activate it. Method of repetitive activation is in both cases the same ("triggers").
So, Powershell Scheduled Task is a Windows thing (controllable also from PowerShell), while PowerShell Scheduled Job is a exclusively PowerShell thing.
Hopefully a nice simple question but I haven't been able to find the solution online. How do I enable the option Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed via a command line schtasks /create.
The documentation does not seem to show this option as a command line option and neither does the documentation when using schtasts /create /?.
Over in the technet forums, this recommendation was posted:
As a suggestion, when I've come across missing parameters for this
I've made a task manually with the properties I want, exported to XML
and then I create the task with something like this: schtasks /create
/TN "My New Task Name" /xml "C:\TEMP\My Saved Task.xml" /RU
DOMAIN\username /RP password
According to documentation, get-scheduledjob only returns scheduled jobs where owner is the current user. Other scheduled job commandlets like set-scheduledjob also only work for scheduled jobs where owner is current user. This makes it impossible for non owners to get job status, modify the job (such as setting other credentials), etc.
In a proper IT organization, I'm going to say its crucial for these jobs to allow adminstration from various administrators.
Am I missing some way to administer, review results, etc (other than looking directly at the powershell output files in the owner's appdata)?
To clarify - I'm looking for a method to work with Powershell created and administered ScheduledJobs. If you modify the scheduled task that executes the scheduled job through the UI, schtask or other scheduled task specific tool, you'll get unexpected results. If you change owner/credentials, the scheduled task will fail. You can use UI/schtasks to change schedule without causing any problems. In addition to changing owner, I want to get at the results of get-job in order to monitor the jobs progress.
The only way I have ever been able to get this to work using Powershell was by invoking the schtask.exe utility:
Note: "/U" is for local administration and "/RU" is for remote administration, also "/S" is not needed with working locally.
Create by importing an XML previously exported from Task Scheduler
[string]$string = 'schtasks.exe /create /RU yourdomain\username /RP $password /TN Task-Name /XML "D:\Path\To\ExportedXML.xml" /S ServerName'
Delete:
[string]$string = 'schtasks.exe /delete /RU yourdomain\username /P $password /TN Task-Name /S ServerName /F'
Query:
[string]$string = 'schtasks.exe /query /RU yourdomain\username /P $password'
Run Locally:
Invoke-Expression -Command $string
Run Remotely:
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {$string}
I've written a few PowerShell scripts for managing scheduled tasks (they use the TaskService COM object):
Rename Scheduled Tasks in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista
How-To: Use PowerShell to Report on Scheduled Tasks
Updating a Scheduled Task's Credentials
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