Vista Tutorial - FWIW - Scheduleded Tasks

Here's a script to gather the scheduled task information from a collection of
computers:

remove-item sch_tasks.csv

$headings = '"HostName","TaskName","Next Run Time","Status","Last Run
Time","Last Result","Creator","Schedule","Task To Run","Start
In","Comment","Scheduled Task State","Scheduled Type","Start Time","Start
Date","End Date","Days","Months","Run As User","Delete Task If Not
Rescheduled","Stop Task If Runs X Hours and X Mins","Repeat: Every","Repeat:
Until: Time","Repeat: Until: Duration","Repeat: Stop If Still Running","Idle
Time","Power Management"'

ac sch_tasks.csv $headings

foreach ($computer in $computers){
$task_query = schtasks /query /fo csv /v /s $computer

if ($task_query.count -ge 2){
for ($i=1;$i -le $task_query.count;$i++){
if ($task_query[$i] -notmatch "$headings"){
ac sch_tasks.csv $task_query[$i]
}
}

$tasks_found = import-csv sch_tasks.csv

$tasks_found |% {
$out_file = $_.hostname + "+" + $_.taskname + ".clixml"
export-clixml -path $out_file -inputobject $_}
}
}

It uses the schtasks command to get the task information, and creates PS
objects for each task, with the properties named as returned by the command.

Some of them have embedded spaces, so they need to be enclosed in quotes

eg $task."next run time"

Gathering all the task information can be an expensive proposition, so the
collected information is saved both as a .csv file and clixml files for each
task. The clixml files are name as hostname + taskname.clixml. The can be
retrieved individually as objects by doing an import-clixml on the file.

Right now, it basically just good for reporting.

It wouldn't be too hard to be able to have Run, End, and Delete functions
since these only require the host name and task name as parameters. Not sure
right now if I want to implement those as script functions or object methods.

Changing the properties of the objects and sending that back through
schtasks to update the scheduled tasks is going to be more complicated.

I'm thinking I may want to alias some of those properties to something a
little "friendlier", too.

Thoughts/comments welcome.

On Aug 31, 12:10 pm, Rob Campbell
<RobCampb...@xxxxxx> wrote:Good post Rob, thanks!