Scheduled Scripts

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Running script as a scheduled task

Important note from this article 

"If you have User Account Control (UAC) enabled, you may need to enable the option to Run with highest privileges "

http://www.mikepfeiffer.net/2010/02/creating-scheduled-tasks-for-exchange-2010-powershell-scripts/

Setting Task Priority

By default scheduled tasks have a priority of 7 "Low" you can not change this in the GUI 

• 1. Export the Task to XML file

  2. Delete the Task

  3. Edit the XML file change priority from 7 to 6 "Normal"

  4. Import the XML file again to Task Scheduler

http://bdbits.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/setting-a-scheduled-task-process-priority/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383512(v=vs.85).aspx

Script to migrate scheduled tasks from Windows XP/Server 2003 to 7/Server 2008

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Script-to-migrate-e4e5ea20

<#  Usage:  1. Run the script from the XP machine (in order to export the .job files, the schtasks commandline and the script itself)  2. Run the script from the Windows 7 machine in order to copy the .job files, and run the XP schtasks command in order to "register" the files on the 7 machine  #>    #helper function  function Browse-ForFolder($message){      $shApp = New-Object -comObject Shell.Application      $folder = $shApp.BrowseForFolder(0,$message,0,0)      if ($folder -ne $null){ return $folder.self.path }  }    $isXP=(gwmi Win32_OperatingSystem).Version.StartsWith("5")    if ($isXP){        $folder=Browse-ForFolder "Select the destination folder for the backup"      if ($folder -ne $null){          #copy all the .jobs files,the xp schtasks commandline and the script itself          copy "$env:SystemRoot\Tasks\*" -filter "*.job" -recurse -dest $folder          copy "$env:SystemRoot\system32\schtasks.exe" -Destination $folder          copy "$env:SystemRoot\system32\schedsvc.dll" -Destination $folder          copy $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path.ToString() -Destination $folder      }      exit  }  #on windows 7 machine  else{      $folder=Browse-ForFolder "Select the source folder of the backup"      if ($folder -ne $null){          #copy all the .jobs files to the c:\windows\task folder on the destination machine          copy "$folder\*" -filter "*.job" -recurse -dest "$env:SystemRoot\Tasks"          $credential = Get-Credential          $pw=[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto(`              [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($credential.Password))          $user=$credential.Username          # if non-domain credentials skip the backslash          if ($user.StartsWith("\")){              $user=$credential.Username.Substring(1)          }          $tasks=gci $folder -Filter "*.job"          foreach ($task in $tasks){              #run the xp schtasks command in order to register the tasks on the windows 7 machine              #skip .job postfix and add quotation-marks              $taskName="'" + $task.Name.substring(0,$task.Name.Length-4) + "'"               $allArgs = @("/change", "/TN", "$taskName","/RU" , "$user" , "/RP" ,"$pw" )              & "$folder\schtasks.exe" $allArgs           }      }  }