Trying to find ways to update the "Description" parameter of an existing task in Taskscheduler from powershell

Question

I am trying to disable a Task from task scheduler on multiple remote servers and while I do that I want to update the description of these tasks as well.

Though the command sets to work on schedule tasks are pretty straight forward like: Get-Scheduledtask Disable-ScheduledTask Set-ScheduledTask Etc.

I am unable to find parameters or command line that helps modify the Description of an existing task.

Would appreciate if anyone has any insights on this or was able to find a workaround.

Thank you!

`$task = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName $name; $task.Description = "new description"; $task |Set-ScheduledTask` — Mathias R. Jessen, Sep 20 '21 at 17:52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '21 at 08:59

As I alluded to in the comments, this can be solved by:

Fetching the existing task instance
Modifying the description on the existing instance
Updating the task

# fetch existing task object
$task = Get-ScheduledTask "Pooja's Task"

# update the description
$task.Description = "New and improved description!"

# persist the change
$task |Set-ScheduledTask

Trying to find ways to update the "Description" parameter of an existing task in Taskscheduler from powershell

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