I am trying to send an email from windows task scheduler with Action tab. But How can I include the Last run result in this mail. I am not getting any option along with it. There is an option of attaching the files to the mail. So if an one could help me is there any logs files generated by the task scheduler when a task is being run? if so where can I find the log ?
You might have to redirect the result into a log file.And then send that log as an attachment.
For send as email , there is definitely an attach button.
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Recently we updated our systems to Office 2016. I have a scheduled task that reads information in an MS Access DB and then sends this information to a mail recipient via Outlook. All was fine until the upgrade.
The Scheduled task launches a .bat file which opens MS Access, calls a function, performs a task and then send the the information via email using outlook.
When I run the batch file manually by double clicking on it, it works as intended and sends the email. However, when I run through Task Scheduler it does not work. I know for certain that it opens the MS Access file and can read, but for some reason it fails to send the email. I have lowered all security setting to no avail.
The scheduled task runs with the highest privileges and all was fine before the upgrade.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
Outlook has security settings that will prevent an application from sending e-mail through it programmatically. It will use a popup dialog to ask for permission to send the e-mail. While I have successfully gotten rid of the popup and made Access send through Outlook while Outlook is open (both manually and as a scheduled task), it still fails when Outlook is not already open.
Your best bet, if you have the capability, is to leave Outlook open on the machine that runs the scheduled task. Otherwise you have to try to figure out what combination of policies and registry/outlook settings will make Outlook work the way you want it to.
Edit: My experience is with a windows domain/local exchange server environment.
We upgraded to Office 2016 a few weeks ago, and had been facing the same problem as you. Our batch file runs Access and triggers a macro that exports some data to a text file, and works fine when run manually. However, when run through Task Scheduler, everything seemed to run fine, but the text file was never updated. After trying for weeks with no success, I finally found the reason for the problem, and a solution.
In our case, the problem was that Access 2016 wants to be run as a foreground app. But when running as a Task Scheduler app (with the "run whether user is logged on or not" option checked), it views itself as a background app and therefore won't run. See Jim Dettman's answers here for a bit more on that: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28988837/
Next, I found this post by Microsoft employee Blake Morrison where he discusses the changes in the latest version of Task Scheduler. One of his troubleshooting suggestions worked for us:
Try creating a new task, but select the Configure for: option to be
“Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000” – this will create
an XP/2003 fashioned task
Unfortunately you probably have to do this as a new task - existing tasks don't seem to allow you to choose this option (it didn't show up in the dropdown menu for my existing task). So my settings for the new task are:
Running as an administrator account
"Run whether user is logged on or not" - checked
"Run with highest privileges" - checked
Configure For: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
If I manually trigger the task, I see a command prompt open, then Access briefly opens and disappears (our macro has a Quit Access command at the end), and then the command prompt disappears. Output to our text file is written as expected. If I schedule it to run while I'm logged out of the machine, obviously I see nothing, but the text file is again written as expected, so I know it worked.
Is it possible to send an email through a batch command line? I have a password batch file for a folder and when you fail three attempts i want it to send me an email. I know its possible to download ans install a program off the internet but when I would open the program it would close. So is there a command or program that sends and email through batch?
TakeCommand will enable all kinds of commandline-magic, including sending of mail. Alkternatively, if you have a local install of PHP (and properly set it up), you could write a PHP-Script to send mail and launch the PHP-Interpreter (in your batch) to execute that file.
I'm not even sure if what I want is possible, but I'd like to run a Cron job where an email is only sent in certain conditions. I know that you can prevent mail from being sent at all by setting MAILTO to an empty string in the crontab file, but I've searched in several different ways, and can't find anything about sending email conditionally. My end goal is to run a Cron job that periodically checks whether the webserver is running, and if not, restart it. I only want an email if the webserver has to be restarted. I'm writing my Cron jobs in Perl. Is there a Perl command I can use within the job script that will disable the email in certain cases? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Cronjobs will send emails if the command you are running generate output. If you write your script to only send output to STDERR/STDOUT when you want an email, that should accomplish your goal.
There are 2 possibilities to send mails from cron jobs:
From program, that has been started by cron daemon,
From UNIX/Linux mechanism, that can send mail, if a program, that has been started as a cron job, has written something to STDOUT or STDERR.
I don't recommend to use the 2nd possibility. It is inflexible. You can't send mails to different recipients, depending on what alert has happened.
Usage of the 2nd way is rather a bad design. Cron jobs should redirect all their stdout and stderr to an idividual for every cron job log file for possible troubleshooting.
Perl possesses perfect possibilities to send mails, e.g. using MIME::Lite module.
This module is not a core one, so that you might should request sysadmin to install this module, if it's not available.
If you will use the 1st way, then your issue is easy to solve using Perl logic: just send the required mail from your Perl program after this program restarted the web server.
I have a job in Hudson which monitors the environment.
The requirement is the job should get built periodically and send a mail when the env is down.
But it should stop sending mails if the status of the job in last run is fail and an email has already been sent. How to setup this trigger in Hudson?
First, if you aren't already doing so, you should be using email-ext plugin for sending emails.
Once that is installed, in your post-build actions, use "Editable Email Notification".
In there, click "Advanced..." button to setup triggers that control when (and to whom) and email is sent.
You need at least 2 triggers: Failure and Still Failing.
"Failure" will be triggered when the job fails for the first time. Send the email to everyone whom you want to include.
"Still Failing" will be triggered if there are subsequent failures. In this case, leave the recipient list unchecked (or send only to admin).
You can also use the Fixed trigger. This will send the email after the build recovers from failure (but not on subsequent successes)
I wrote a console to check a list of websites are available or not. I run it ok and after check all website, It will send to me an result email. But when I put it on Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler and run each after 10 minutes, nothing happended. It runs but no email was sent to me? Any comment?
It sounds like the user under which the task is running does not have network access. Try changing it to NETWORK_SERVICE