Powershell v3 New-JobTrigger daily with repetition - powershell

Question

Powershell v3 comes with all these new job-scheduling cmdlets. They look great, but I'm having trouble creating a specific trigger. I need to run a job daily, repeating itself every hour, for a specific interval.
Using the Task-Scheduler UI is straightforward, but I can't find my way around the New-JobTrigger cmdlet.
If I use the Daily parameter-set, I don't have the Repetition option:
New-JobTrigger [-Daily] -At <DateTime> [-DaysInterval <Int32> ] [-RandomDelay <TimeSpan> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
If I use the Once parameter-set, I can't have the Daily option
New-JobTrigger [-Once] -At <DateTime> [-RandomDelay <TimeSpan> ] [-RepetitionDuration <TimeSpan> ] [-RepetitionInterval <TimeSpan> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
What I need, but obviously doesn't work, is a mix between the two. For example:
New-JobTrigger -Daily -At xxxx -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Hours 5) -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Hours 1)
Is it possible? Maybe mixing several triggers for the same job?

Answer 1

This works for me:
Note - I know that the original question was related to New-JobTrigger
The intent was to provide a possible solution that may be translatable
to New-JobTrigger as well given the issue applies to both.
$A = New-ScheduledTaskAction -execute "powershell" -argument "-nologo -noprofile -noninteractive C:\MyScript.ps1"
$T = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Once -At 03:00AM
Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName StartBasicServices_Local -Trigger $T -Action $A -description "MyScript" -User "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" -RunLevel 1
$T.RepetitionInterval = (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 5)
$T.RepetitionDuration = (New-TimeSpan -Days 1)
Set-ScheduledTask StartBasicServices_Local -Trigger $T

Answer 2

I have been working on this issue all day and i finally have the answer. You cant. Not using those cmdlets anyway. At first i thought this might work as a workaround:
$Job = Register-ScheduledJob -Name "YourJobName" {Gci};
$RepeatTrigger = New-JobTrigger -Once -At (Get-Date 10:00).ToShortTimeString() - RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Hours 1) -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Hours 7);
$RepeatTrigger.Frequency = [Microsoft.PowerShell.ScheduledJob.TriggerFrequency]::Daily;
Add-JobTrigger -InputObject $Job -Trigger $RepeatTrigger
However, it doesnt. Using trace-command it looks like it validates the attributes depending on the parameter set. The same is true when using schtasks:
schtasks /create /tn YourTask /tr notepad.exe /sc Hourly
It will create it hourly but again it will have to be a once off task. By the looks of things there is a .Net wrapper for the for the COM API which is probably going to be your best bet if your new to PoSH. You can find it on CodePlex.

Answer 3

I know about Add-JobTrigger, but I don't understand how to achieve my
specific requirement: run a job daily, repeating itself every hour,
for a specific duration. For example: every day, at 10 AM, repeating
every 1 hour until 5 PM. – scarmuega Oct 7 '12 at 18:14
Create the job with Register-ScheduledJob.
Then add the daily triggers.
It would be great if we could do this, but the -Daily doesn't work in PowerShell 4.0.
Read on, I have an alternative for you.
# Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849759.aspx
# To create a repeating schedule, use the Once parameter with the RepetitionDuration and RepetitionInterval parameters.
# -RepetitionInterval Repeats the job at the specified time interval. For example, if the value of this parameter is 2 hours, the job is triggered every two hours.
# The default value, 0, does not repeat the job.
# -RepetitionDuration Repeats the job until the specified time expires. The repetition frequency is determined by the value of the RepetitionInterval parameter.
# For example, if the value of RepetitionInterval is 5 minutes and the value of RepetitionDuration is 2 hours, the job is triggered every five minutes for two hours.
#
$trigger = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 10:00 -RepetitionDuration 7:00:00 -RepetitionInterval 1:00:00 -DaysofWeek
Register-ScheduledJob -Name Test -Trigger $trigger -ScriptBlock {}
You can just organize your job so that it has a trigger for each hour that you want.
$trigger4am = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 04:10
Register-ScheduledJob -Name ArchiveProd -Trigger $trigger4am -ScriptBlock {E:\ArchiveProd.ps1}
$trigger8am = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 08:10
$trigger12pm = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 12:10
$trigger6pm = New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 18:10
Add-JobTrigger -Trigger $trigger8am -Name ArchiveProd
Add-JobTrigger -Trigger $trigger12pm -Name ArchiveProd
Add-JobTrigger -Trigger $trigger6pm -Name ArchiveProd
Hope that is what you needed. It works nice for my situation, although I would prefer to just add the Daily parameter. Maybe someobody can improve on this for me?

Answer 4

A late answer, but I started with this question then searched more and found a solution at this link, Petri.com
$principal = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -UserID MyDomain\MyGMSA$ -LogonType Password -RunLevel Highest
$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction "E:\DoSomething"
$when = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At "00:02" -DaysInterval 1
Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName MyNewTask–Action $action –Principal $principal -Trigger $when
$t = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName MyNewTask
$t.Triggers.repetition.Interval = "PT15M" #every 15 mins
$t.Triggers.repetition.Duration = "PT7H30M" #for 7 hours 30
$t | Set-ScheduledTask

Answer 5

Try using Add-JobTrigger to add multiple job triggers to a scheduled job.

Answer 6

clear
Import-Module TaskScheduler
# Create a new task
$task = New-Task
Add-TaskAction -Task $task -Path "C:\Windows\notepad.exe"
Add-TaskTrigger -Task $task -Daily -At "06:00" -Repeat "05:00" -For "12:00"
# Register the task
Register-ScheduledTask -Name "PowerShell - MyScript.ps1" -Task $task
Get-ScheduledTask PowerShell* | select -Property Name
# Remove-Task -n Power*

Answer 7

You can create multiple triggers, see below:
$job = Register-ScheduledJob -Name "Test1" -FilePath "C:\temp\script.ps1"
$triggers = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[Microsoft.PowerShell.ScheduledJob.ScheduledJobTrigger]
$times = ("08:00", "09:00", "10:00", "11:00", "12:00", "14:00", "15:00", "16:00", "17:00", "19:00", "22:00")
foreach($t in $times){
$triggers.Add((New-JobTrigger -Daily -At $t))
}
$job.AddTriggers($triggers, $true)
Or easier (but slower)
$MyJob = Register-ScheduledJob -Name "MyJob" -FilePath "C:\temp\test.ps1"
$times = ("08:00", "09:00", "10:00", "11:00", "12:00", "14:00", "15:00", "16:00", "17:00", "19:00", "22:00")
foreach($t in $times){$MyJob | Add-JobTrigger -trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At $t)}

Answer 8

When you are creating a Scheduled-Job with "Register-ScheduledJob", you can't configure a daily execution in combination with a repetition interval. Even if you modify the properties "RepetitionInterval" and "RepetitionDuration" of the ScheduledJobTrigger object manually, the trigger will be configured to execute daily OR once with the repetition.
I managed to configure it by obtaining the corresponding task for the job through the Get-ScheduledTask method and modifying the trigger there:
$trigger = New-JobTrigger -Weekly -WeeksInterval 1 -At "06:00" -DaysOfWeek Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday
Register-ScheduledJob -Name $cronjobName -Trigger $trigger -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
$task = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName $cronjobName
$trigger = $task.Triggers
$trigger.Repetition.Interval = "PT10M"
$trigger.Repetition.Duration = "PT12H"
Set-ScheduledTask -TaskPath $task.TaskPath -TaskName $cronjobName -Trigger $trigger