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How can I access the scheduled tasks of a windows 2003 server from a windows 7 machine on a different domain?

I have looked everywhere for information but have not managed to find a solution. What I need to do is be able to access the Scheduled Tasks of a Windows 2003 Server that is in domain X from a Windows 7 machine in domain Y. If I run \\win2003server…
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2008 R2 Task Scheduler won't run task, but says completed successfully w/o errors

OLD DESCRIPTION: I have a .NET app I wrote myself that I'm trying to get set up to run as a scheduled task on Windows Server 2008 R2. When I run the app myself from the command line, it works just fine. However, when I set up the task, it completes…
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Server 2008 R2 Task Scheduler permissionf for a vbs script

I have a vbs script to make backups of MySQL database files using the MySQLDump command. This is working perfectly and creates a new folder for each day's backups (e.g. 20130110). However, the script is also meant to tidy up by deleting folder older…
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System Restore Points

Currently I am investigating how to schedule an automatic initiation of a system restore point for all of the workstations in my office. It seems that Task Scheduler already has some nice defaults (screenshots below). Even the history for this task…
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Unable to connect to another computer from the Task Scheduler on Windows 7

I am getting the following error when trying to connect to another computer from the Task Scheduler on Windows 7: "The remote computer was not found." The computer that I am trying to connect to is definitely on the network as I can ping it and…
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Verifying that a Server 2008 VMWare Workstation VM is running every 15 minutes

Possible Duplicate: Inexpensive Network Monitoring tools for Windows I am running a Windows 2008 server and it has a VMWare Workstation VM on it for another Windows 2008 server. I need to make sure that it stays up in case the server goes down or…
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Is it possible for a Powershell script to return the Last Run Result from Windows 2008 task scheduler?

I've setup a scheduled task on a Windows 2008 Server with two actions. The first action is to run an application which connects to a SQL database and generates XML files. The second action is to run a Powershell script. Provided the task starts…
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legitimacy of the tasks in the task scheduler

Is there a way to know the source and legitimacy of the tasks in the task scheduler in windows server 2008 and 2003? Can I check if the task was added by Microsoft (ie: from sccm) or by a 3rd party application? For each task in the task scheduler,…
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How do I get a Task Scheduler startup trigger to delay

System is Windows 2008 R2 I have a task scheduler task with a trigger to run at system startup, and have set the Delay to 20 minutes, however the task runs immediatley on system startup and ignores the 20 minute delay. There are other triggers, but…
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Do Scheduled Tasks run automatically if they are missed?

I'm running Windows Server 2003, and a scheduled task that was set to run was missed because an ms-access database window was left open over night. When we closed the window, the task scheduler started running the task. I found out the database…
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open source job/process management/monitoring/control system

I'm looking for an open source solution for the following: I have jobs that need to run continuously. The jobs are applications or scripts. If they fail, they need to be restarted. If they fail, say 10 times consecutively or within a certain time…
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HTTP-Invoke URL by Windows Task Scheduler (schtasks.exe)

I'd like to send HTTP requests using the Windows Task Scheduler. In UNIX cron jobs, I can do that using wget http://www.google.com -O /dev/null How to do the same on a Windows Server?
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Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler: Task Started (Task=100) but did task did not complete (Task=102) when the result code is 2

Can someone give me a use case for setting up a Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler task (we'll call this "test") that completes (action completed is task=201) with an error (result code=2)? This is event trigger code for another task (called…
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All tasks in the Task Scheduler stop triggering until I restart the server (W.Server 2008 Datacenter)

First of all, some info: Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, 100% updated with Service Pack 2 and all the patches. I connect to it using "Remote Desktop Connection" (I don't now if this is relevant) I login using a user that is an administrator The…
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Allow user to create and mange scheduled task on windows 2008

I have recently create a new user on a windows 2008 server and I want to allow it to open the task scheduler and manage the shceduled tasks. What right does this user need in order to achieve this?
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