Vista - schedule a task with WMI?

i just wrote a script to do backups (with an imaging product) and now i want
to make a script to deploy this and there are two things i need to do that
im not really sure how to do.

1) create a schedule task with WMI (i want wmi so i can do it remotely)
2) create an account and add it to the admin group
3) modify the remote systems path enviornment var. (not a must, but would be
nice)

Justin,

One simple way is to use Control Panel > Scheduled Task to call a batch file
(*.bat or *.cmd) that will launch the actual *.ps1 script. Make sure that the
account has the right credentials to connect and function remotely on the
target machine.

Hope this helps. Do let us know. Thanks!

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"Justin Rich" wrote:

To create the tasks remotely use the following WMI class:

Win32_ScheduledJob

It has a method create, by using this method you can create a
schedule.

Details:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa394399.aspx


regards

On 24 Nov., 13:02, Desmond Lee <m...@xxxxxx> wrote:

You can also schedule the task with schtasks.exe:

schtasks /s <computerName> /create /sc minute /mo 10 /tn "PowerShell Script"
/tr "C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINDOW~1\v1.0\powershell.exe c:\scripts\yourScript.ps1"
/ru <username> /rp <password>

More examples can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true



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For your second request see Brandon's function ("Re: Windows XP, Users and
Groups" thread)

function Add-UsertoLocalGroup{
Param([string]$user,[string]$group,[string]$server)
If(!($server)){$server = get-content env:COMPUTERNAME}
Write-Host "Adding User [$user] to group [$group]"
Write-Host "----------------------------------------------" -ForegroundColor
gray
$srv = [ADSI]("WinNT://$server,computer")
$u = [ADSI]("WinNT://$server/$User,User")
# Getting Group and Adding User
$g = [ADSI]("WinNT://$server/$group,group")
$g.psbase.invoke("add",$u.psbase.path)
}


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I wrote a blog post on "Creating Environment variables", its for local use,
I'll try to find a way to do it remotely:

http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/...variables.html


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