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Gentle reboot of batch server (Task Schedular)

We have 3 Batch servers running hundreds of scheduled task using the built-in task schedular in Windows (2003R2 and 2012R2) How do i prepare our servers for a reboot, so i wont interrupting a running tasks? What im hope exist, is in some way to stop…
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Task Scheduler - Run a process every hour except at designated time

I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 I'd like to schedule to run a particular process at 40 minutes on hourly basis, except on Sunday at 2:40AM. How would one set up the trigger for this in Task Scheduler?
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Trigger a scheduled task if specific event is logged in AD FS 2.0 event log

I am trying to use Task Scheduler to monitor an AD FS 2.0 event log on an AD FS 2.0 proxy which is located in a DMZ on a Windows 2008 R2 server. I am trying to monitor the log for a specific Event ID and data. I know the format works because I am…
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About Completely Fair Scheduler in Linux kernel

Could please somebody help me with my question about The Completely Fair Scheduler in Linux kernel? I wonder what does it mean - "CFS uses nanosecond granularity accounting and does not rely on any jiffies or other HZ detail. Thus the CFS scheduler…
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Task to delete a directory runs with success but the directory is still there

I have a task in the task scheduler on a Windows 2012 file server. The task has to delete the contents of a temporary general access directory every Sunday night. It runs at the scheduled times and reports success each time but the directory…
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Domain account credentials fails to start scheduled tasks

I have 2 Windows 2000 servers in a domain 'DC', which run numerous windows scheduled tasks under the 'DC\Task-User' account. These tasks are and have been running successfully in the past couple of years without any account/password modifications.…
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I cannot get the repetition option in task scheduler to work

The task is supposed to run a .js file every minute. To make this happen, I made the task run every day at 00:00 and repeat every 1 minutes. However, the task now allways has Status of Running without actually doing anything and the Last Run…
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Cannot get Exchange PowerShell script to run under Scheduled Tasks

I have a PowerShell script that works when entered directly into the PowerShell. The PowerShell program is run with the shorcut: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange…
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Will a Scheduled Task On Windows Server 2008 R2 work correctly if windows are opened and closed?

I have a batch script that I am currently running on my own Windows 7 computer as a scheduled task. The task runs nightly when my computer is locked. The task launches an Progress OpenEdge session which exports data to a file. Once that is done,…
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Scheduler spikes single core on SMP Ubuntu vm under ESXi

The setup is as follows. Ubuntu-11.10 VM running on an ESXi host. The VM has 3 vCPU assigned. When running dump (to backup the harddisk) it seems all the processes are assigned to the first vCPU. As we are using compression this loads the vCPU at…
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Why do multiple time-based triggers on scheduled task not work as expected?

I have a problem with a task in Windows Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2008 R2 (German): A task has multiple (here: two) time based triggers. The first trigger is of the weekly type (a fixed time every friday), the second trigger is a once-only…
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.cmd in Windows Server 2008 task scheduler w/o highest privileges

Is it possible to run CMD script in task scheduler as a particular user without checkin option "Run with highest privileges"? Simple test: Create D:\Admin\Scripts\TestScripts\testscript.cmd Script is very simple: echo success >…
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Get username logging on from task scheduler

I'm using Windows Server 2008 task scheduler to run a task when a user logs on, but I would like some way of the task being able to access the name of the user who is logging on. I don't know if there is an environment variable I can access in the…
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Accessing the disk under Task Scheduler

I'm running a couple of console applications using task scheduler. These are applications that perform little backoffice tasks and run as C# console applications. The applications themselves run perfectly well (i.e. one of them outputs emails at the…
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Toggling enabled/disabled on specific triggers in a task in the task scheduler using powershell (or something else)

Related to this question: Windows Server in UTC, need Task Scheduler to shift tasks with summer time and this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11458029/enabling-disabling-tasks-in-task-scheduler-using-a-powershell-script Is there a way…
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