https://www.verboon.info/tags/scheduled-tasks/Recent content in Scheduled-Tasks on Anything About ITHugoen-usSun, 29 Dec 2013 17:45:30 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2013/12/powershell-creating-scheduled-tasks-with-powershell-version-3/Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:45:30 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2013/12/powershell-creating-scheduled-tasks-with-powershell-version-3/<p>I am currently working on a script where I need to create a scheduled task that runs a powershell script at a given time. With PowerShell 4.0 a scheduled task can be easily created with the new cmdlets <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649817.aspx">New-ScheduledTaskAction</a>, <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649821.aspx">New-ScheduledTaskTrigger</a> and <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649811.aspx">Register-ScheduledTask</a>, but unfortunately i have to create a solution that works on clients running PowerSshell version 3.0.</p> <p>When searching the web for examples how others have solved this I found many examples where people invoke the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb736357(v=vs.85).aspx">schtasks.exe</a> command but in order to further improve my PowerShell skills I wanted to avoid calling external executables and do as much in PowerShell as possible. So after a bit of further searching I found an interesting <a href="http://letitknow.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/create-scheduled-task-by-using-powershell/">post</a> from @letitknowblog who uses the Task Scheduler’s com object for creating a scheduled task.</p>