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

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My scheduled task to run MpCmdRun.exe works with one set of flags but not another (fails with 0x2 "File not found")

I have a GPO that gives my Win10 workstations two scheduled tasks. Task one runs C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures Task two runs C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe…
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Windows Defender Anti-Malware / Anti-Virus Does Not Reliably Update

Problem: Windows Domain environment with Windows 10 workstations that will not reliably update Windows Defender. I use ACAS to scan my environment weekly, and every week at least a few of these workstations will report that they have not updated…
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Output file is empty when running powershell script from Task Scheduler

I have a powershell script, that write http response body to output. When I run it from command line like this, it writes the response to Emails.log file powershell "./InvokeMyApi.ps1 /api/emails/SendEmails" > Emails.log However, when I invoke it…
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Scheduled task with powershell won't restart when the script fails

Scenario I want to invoke a rest api on daily basis with some retry mechanism in case the rest api is not available Problem Even when the action exits with a non zero exit code, it is not restarted. Task Scheduler successfully completed task…
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Scheduled Task not being deployed via GPO

I have created a FailedLogon task in GPO similar to this https://woshub.com/scheduled-task-gpo/ The task gets deployed if I run it as SYSTEM. But when trying to run it under a service account srv_tasks it doesn't schedule the task. And in the event…
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"Schedule Query Error" appeared while creating Schedule query in Big Query

I have been facing problem while Scheduling my query to get daily update. Every time after scheduling my query when I click on saving that query "schedule query error" appears, after searching for all the possibilities for this, I found below…
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GPO Create Scheduled task to run only on specific network

I created a scheduled task over GPO and this one is available on a test machine. On my computer i am able to specify a specific network connection to execute the task. On our server, I can only select Any connection. Is there another possibility to…
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Windows scheduler : will same process instances concurrently run across different Tasks?

I have configured Windows Scheduler to not run many instances of my application : But i am not sure about how windows will detect many instance. I mean i have an executable that deeply change its bheaviour accordingly to command line. For that…
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Google cloud VM instance schedules do nothing

I have an issue with my google cloud VMs: when I try to set a scheduled startup or stop for them via google cloud's "instance schedules" nothing happens at the specified time. I will walk you through what I have done to try to make this work. I have…
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how to stop scheduled auto reboots on Ubuntu

i installed a encrypted script on my server. all works as expected but there is a scheduled reboot after installing that script. server auto reboots at a specific time everyday. how can i stop this ? i can't read the scripty since it is…
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Windows Server 2012 scheduled task errors running program that runs fine when run at command line

I have a command line program (that I wrote) that I can run on Windows Server 2012. It connects to the MS SQL Database server on a different server which has a linked server to a Access database. It works fine when I just run this program from the…
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run task in the background

i have powershell script that check if the service is up and of not it starts it up, $ServiceName = 'mapguideserver3.1' $arrService = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName while ($arrService.Status -ne 'Running') { Start-Service $ServiceName …
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Group Policy scheduled task for running .bat file applies, but task does not create

I am trying to add a scheduled task to run a batch file that updates / installs software. I created a GPO to create the task, using these settings: Task Settings Task settings 2 Task settings 3 For one of them, I am using item level targeting to…
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Service Account Permissions for Task Scheduler READ

I have a PowerShell script I've written to do a comparison of Scheduled Tasks between two nodes of our application server cluster. It uses this code to query the tasks from a given server... function getTasks($server) { return Get-ScheduledTask…
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How to catch item that triggers a trigger in Task Scheduler?

I want to write a powershell script that get executed whenever a new item/eventlog entry in the eventlog 'Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Gateway/Operational' gets written. It is easy to create a scheduler task that triggers whenever a new…
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