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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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How to switch to gui-less vmware session in XP?

I have a scheduled task that runs a vmware session in the middle of the night (this in turn does a task from our legacy server). Last night, it did not complete. Is there a way to attach to the running vmware session? This occurs intermittently,…
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How to automate turning on/off Windows VPN connection

I want to automate VPN connection to come ON nightly so that a database can replicate, then I would like to have it turned off. I know how to schedule Tasks, but is there a command line interface for the VPN connections? or how to turn this on/off?
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Trying to use schtasks to run bubbaA.bat at 10:00 a.m each day using the following

schtasks /c1reate /tn "bubbaA.bat" /tr "\"\d:\1\sapd\tastks\" arguments" /sc daily /sd 07/22/2010 /st 10:00:00 /Ru system /RP * INFO: The Schedule Task "bubbaA.bat" will be created under user name ("NT AUTHOR ITY\SYSTEM"). WARNING: Password will be…
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Detecting and flagging Scheduled Tasks that have run incorrectly

I have a number of scheduled tasks that run on various Windows servers. They are mostly custom console applications which we have written. Currently, when the app has finished running, we send out an email to our operators to confirm that it is…
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Looking for something to execute a webpage every day using windows server!

I have windows server 2008 and ASP.NET application running on it. There is a page that renews all subscribers and should be run every 1 hour or so. I want to have this done automatically every hour. Problem is if i assign Windows Schedule Task to it…
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How to find which services/tasks in a domain are using domain credentials?

I've got an old service account that is attached to an undetermined amount of scheduled tasks and services across 7 or 8 servers. Unfortunately, this account was created by a previous employee who failed to document the password, so now I need to…
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How do you monitor and react when some scheduled job fails? - general question

In many projects my team faced problems with 'silent fails' of some important components. There are lot of tasks executed behind the scenes and if somethings fails (either by errors in logic or hardware problems) in most cases responsible person is…
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How to schedule opening of command line or application in another PC

I am trying to schedule the opening of a command line to run task in another pc. But I am not able to open them. AT \\OTHERPC 15:00 "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" BATCHJOB.bat Any ideas?
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Schedule a batch file with parameters containing spaces

I need to schedule a task in Windows Server 2003 that executes this script that deletes files older that n days in the specified folder. The script needs 3 parameters: %1 path to folder where files need to be deleted %2 file names (es. *.log) %3…
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Cannot schedule task to run under domain user account other than current user

On our Win 2008 machines I can't schedule tasks for domain users because the domain name does not resolve to network name but the AD dc name. The "network name" looks like ABCDEFGE-HIJKLM and the "dc" / "name" would look like ABCDEFGE-HIJKLMN. When…
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cron job executing every minute but should be setup to execute every 4 hours

Note: I've viewed cron: can’t lock /var/run/crond.pid, otherpid may be 3759 but I believe my question is different (but with the same resulting problem.) I'm very new to cron. I setup a script to run a python script every minute to test that…
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Problem with creation of scheduled task from IIS6 on SR2003

I have also posted this question on stackoverflow, but will also try here, since it might be more system-related I am writing a webapplication using .NET. The webapp creates scheduled tasks using the System.Diagnostics.Process class, calling…
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Open Web Page in Windows 2008 R2 Task Scheduler runs forever

I have a number of scheduled tasks which simply open a web page in Windows Server 2008 R2. They used to run and end without abending, but now they open and stay open and I have to setup the task to quit them by force before their next scheduled…
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can a scheduled task run a c# console app or a java command?

I have 2 tasks that need to be run, 1 of them is a c# console application and another is a java application (main/console app also). Can a scheduled task make a call to the cmd prompt like: java -jar blah.jar
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A tool to acquire tasks

I have several machines that I want to use them in the following way: There is a central queue of tasks/jobs(that i can define) on some machine, there are other machines that when are free of tasks they should go to that machine and acquire a task…
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