Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

vdinenna — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:14:10 GMT

Thanks! Of all the explainations, this one worked for me and it was the simplest as well.

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

laderio — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:33:17 GMT

I have got a powershell script which runs just finde when "Run only when user is loggen on" is selected. But when selecting "Run whether user is loggen on or not" the script does not run properly anymore.

The script makes some AD queries and gets me the clusters in our AD. Then it queries the clusters for nodes and some status infos and also queries the nodes for events from failover clustering. Then it puts all in excel and saves the excel to local disk. Then it sends the excel file via smtp with the health of the clusters.

The email is sent, when "Run whether user is loggen on or not" is selected, but no excel file is generated.

Do you have any hints on that? If helpful, I could post the code of the script.

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

kiquenet — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:56:12 GMT

I need create schedule task programatically using Powershell (PS remoting).

My task execute a powershell script (and other cases a script cmd) inmediately.

$powershellcmd = (get-command powershell.exe).Definition

$upgradeWSPps1 = (Join-Path $ScriptDirectory Tests.LifeCycle.Deploy.MOSS.UpgradeWSP.ps1)

$cmdToRun = "$powershellcmd -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -WindowStyle Hidden -NoLogo -File ""$upgradeWSPps1"" "

Maybe problems with single-quotes, double-quotes..

Any suggestions about it for create task ?

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

Knuckle-Dragger — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:28:25 GMT

Hi Ed, thanks for another great article.

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

IamMred — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 04:21:30 GMT

@K_Schulte in Windows PowerShell 3 there are job scheduler cmdlets and it will allow you to create a scheduled task via cmdlets. They work great.

re: Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script

K_Schulte — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:13:56 GMT

Hi Ed,

it's a great idea that we can use the task scheduler to integrate our powershell jobs!

An easy way to get things done without pressing the button :-)

It might be even more comfortable if we can build schedule directly via PS cmdlets ...

Klaus.