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Questions tagged [scheduled-task]

A scheduled-task means the launch of a program or script at predefined times or after specified time intervals.

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AWS serverless setup for recurring tasks?

I have a database consisting of many items. At least one time per day I want to loop through all items in this database and for each item, call an external API to fetch current data about this item and store it in my database. With this scenario in…
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Copy folder from network drive via GPO/scheduled task permissions

To install a portable software package, I'm using a scheduled task that runs on user logon to copy a folder from a network share to the local computer using robocopy. If I'm not mistaken, in order to access the network share, this needs to run under…
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How to tell when a Scheduled Task was CREATED, in Windows Server 2003

(Oops I asked this on SuperUser first on accident...) I am trying to find out if someone added a new Scheduled Task to a Windows 2003 Server. How can I find the date a scheduled task was actually created? Exploring Scheduled Tasks in Explorer…
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I need to configure a domain user to run a scheduled task

Here is my configuration (on DC): Note: user is just regular on the domain. What I am missing? When I run: gpresult /user asap\deltacopy /V I get this: INFO: The user "asap\deltacopy" does not have RSoP data. Which leads to another…
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Run two cron jobs in sync

I would like to run cron job A every 3 minutes, and cron job B every 5 minutes. But I would like job A to always run 3 minutes before job B. How would I accomplish this?
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PowerShell script does not run program using UNC paths or mapped drive when running from windows 2016 task scheduler

I am running powershell scripts from the Windows 2016 task scheduler that execute a program using either UNC paths or a drive mapped in the script. Both variants run fine in powershell but do not work when run from the task. I know the scripts are…
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Does "Stop the task" kill an EXE that launched successfully?

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 6.1 (build 7601 SP1), in Scheduled Tasks, I have a "Start a program" task that launches a normal EXE (visible desktop application) at login. This app is intended to run for the entire session. On the Settings tab…
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Why does the Scheduled Task “Regular Maintenance” change to enabled after being disabled

Why does the "Regular Maintenance" scheduled task change from "Disabled" to "Enabled"? The task was initially disabled when baking an AWS AMI. When the instance starts the task is disabled but 15 minutes after launch time the task changes to…
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Stopping crond for Application Outages

We are using cron to trigger web services. When we have a planned outage and the source of the data is going to be unavailable (not the services platform) we determine it was easier to stop crond instead of commenting out 100+ scheduled jobs. Is…
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Scheduled task not showing dialog box

We have a utility scheduled in Task Scheduler on Server 2008 R2 that just ran into an issue I haven't dealt with before. The utility hung up (no activity for a day), and selecting end did nothing to end it, so I had to manually kill the task…
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Windows Scheduled Tasks via GPO on different versions of Windows

I am working on a project involving multiple isolated Windows domains. Each domain is unique with differing version of Windows clients and differing versions of Windows Server running as Domain Controllers. Some of these Windows versions may be out…
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How to make Scheduled Job Run Twice on daylight saving time

I have windows 2008 server R2. I am using Task scheduler to run a job on a daylight saving time when the clock moves backward. The task runs a PHP script that updates the a database field (If field is equal to 1 then change it to 0 if the field is…
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Scheduling a task or job with credentials to run after AD promotion start up

I am installing a new VM lab, few windows 2016 servers and AD forest. Part of the lab is installing a DC in the new forest. I have no issue with the feature installation and promotion. My problem - I want to create directory users immediately after…
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Schedule hard logoff of idle users

I'd like to schedule the forcible logoff of idle XP Home users, who have been "logged off" in the sense that they've been "switched" out of their console sessions, but still have processes running. How can I do this? I'm aware of qwinsta.exe and…
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PowerShell Script Errors in Scheduled Task

I'm running two PowerShell scripts as scheduled tasks on multiple servers. One script (#1) moves folders from one application to another folder (trash), the other script (#2) restarts services. Script #1 moves folders by copying them to a…
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