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Windows 2008 R2 Task Scheduler Failure
I have an application (.exe) which I am running via a scheduled task on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The task runs fine but when the .exe returns a non-zero exit code the task is still successful when it ...
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event triggered action on sftp server [closed]
I am using an opensource sftp server that does not support event triggered actions. I want to build a component for handling the rules, based on the file creation event in a folder that will be ...
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Clone Windows Scheduled Tasks
I would like to copy all scheduled tasks on a computer with Windows Server 2003 to another Server 2003 computer. I can guarantee that all executables will be available on the new computer. Can I do ...
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Task Scheduler Cannot Apply My Changes - Adding a User with Permissions
When I login to the server using a domain account with administrator privileges and create a task in the Task Scheduler, I am unable to successfully save the Task once I select the following options: ...
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Why would Windows Task Scheduler spawn multiple instances of the same task that run into each other?
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I use Windows Task Scheduler to run automated tasks. Occasionally I will see that randomly a task has failed to perform its duties. When I check Task Scheduler to see what has occurred in ...
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How to schedule a job to run every 10 minutes in TWS
TWS is Tivoli Workload Scheduler.
I have scheduled a job, and made it repeatable every 10 minutes. I put it in a job stream with a run cycle of daily.
Now, the job runs once every ten minutes on the ...
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How to tell the Task Scheduler MMC to remember the column widths of the History?
Using the Task Scheduler MMC on a Windows Server 2008 R2, I'm facing something that is very annoying to me:
The History window of a task does not remember the column widths, thus making it rather ...
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Task Scheduler just decides it doesn't want to run a task anymore
I set up a task in Server 2012 to run a script every weekday. It will work for anywhere from a few weeks to a few days, then just not even try to run it anymore.
Status: Ready
Triggers: At 7:30 AM ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Task Scheduler and Running Scripts every minute
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I need to schedule a task (batch script) to run once per minute, every day.
Looking at the Task Scheduler, I see the minimum repeat interval for a task is 5 minute, which is located in the ...
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Get username logging on from task scheduler
I'm using Windows Server 2008 task scheduler to run a task when a user logs on, but I would like some way of the task being able to access the name of the user who is logging on. I don't know if ...
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Accessing the disk under Task Scheduler
I'm running a couple of console applications using task scheduler. These are applications that perform little backoffice tasks and run as C# console applications.
The applications themselves run ...
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taskeng.exe keeps launching often
A taskeng.exe windows pops up quite often while working on a Windows 2008 Server
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/taskeng.exe.html
What is the issue? Is it a virus?
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2008 R2 Task Scheduler won't run task, but says completed successfully w/o errors
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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 ...
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Why does Windows 2008 Task Scheduler not run my batch file?
I was an ace with Windows 2003 Scheduled Tasks. Everything just worked. This does not seem to be the case with the 2008 Task Scheduler. I need it to run a batch file that calls osql.exe and then ...
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How to automatically log in into 2 accounts on Windows 7 on startup
I have a task scheduler job that fires Selenium unit testing server and runs some tests. It takes some resources because it opens a lots of websites. Moreover the Selenium with Firefox Driver has a ...
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Task Scheduler Crashing MMC
I've been getting errors whenever I try to run the task scheduler for Windows 2008 R2. Each time that I've tried running it, the task scheduler will crash and report the following:
Problem signature:
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Toggling enabled/disabled on specific triggers in a task in the task scheduler using powershell (or something else)
Related to this question:
Windows Server in UTC, need Task Scheduler to shift tasks with summer time
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Windows Server in UTC, need Task Scheduler to shift tasks with summer time
I'm perfectly happy to have my server in UTC, but when a user needs something scheduled to happen in a particular time in a particular time zone, they are expecting that to obey their time zone rules ...
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Scheduling a Task for every minute in Windows 2012
I need to schedule a Task inside of my Windows 2012 to run every minute, how would one accomplish that? This is my Task:
C:\>C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\wget\bin\wget.exe --spider --quiet ...
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How do I use Windows Task Scheduler to run an executable on a remote server? [closed]
I am looking at consolidating all of our scheduled tasks that run on various servers (Win 2008 R2) within our domain on to one "Task Scheduling Server". I am a developer so I'm not even sure if this ...
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taskeng keeps launching quite often
A taskeng.exe windows pops up quite often while working on a AWS Windows 2008 Server AMI
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/taskeng.exe.html
How do i rectify this issue? Is it a virus
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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 ...
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Server 2008 issue running batch file
For the life of me, I can't seem to get a batch file running in Server 2008 Task Scheduler, despite it not having the common problems I've seen before.
Problem so far:
I have a batch file that ...
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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 ...
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Error 70 Permission Denied in Scheduled Task But Not Interactively
I have a script that creates a text file on a network drive using VBScript, run as a scheduled task. It is failing now with a "permission denied" error (error 70) but only when run as a scheduled ...
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What is the WPD folder within Window Task Scheduler library
I just added my first scheduled task to the Task Scheduler in Windows Server 2008 R2 via Action / Create Basic Task... wizard. I noticed that by default it gets stored within a "folder" named WPD.
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Changing priorities of background vs foreground processes?
The commends nice/renice have no effect between processes started as foreground process and processes started as background processes. Even with maximum niceness on the foreground processes they get ...
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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 ...
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Windows Task Scheduler does not start task at next run time
I have a Windows Server 2008 SP 2 Task Scheduler task that should run every 10 minutes.
The trigger says "At 6:50 PM every day - After triggered, repeat every 10 minutes indefinitively."
Looking ...
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Windows Server R2 Task Scheduler - Open Programs On Startup
I want Fiddler and some other programs to run on startup, so it's there and running every time I bring up an instance of my test server on EC2. There's a few questions about running scripts on Startup ...
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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 ...
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Server 2008 Task Scheduler and a CMD file
Task Scheduler - I have a .cmd file I'm trying to execute on a regular basis through Task Scheduler. I've set the task so that it points to the cmd file. I want the task to execute even when no one ...
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Is It Possible to Change Default Windows Idle Time for Task Scheduler?
From the official Microsoft docs:
Detecting the Idle State
The Task Scheduler service will verify that the computer is in an idle
state every 15 minutes.
The computer is considered ...
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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 ...
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Setting a scheduled task running a Powershell script
Does anyone know the correct way to assign a Powershell script as a scheduled task?
I have the below syntax (where X:/ is another drive mapped as a share).
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Verifying that a Server 2008 VMWare Workstation VM is running every 15 minutes [duplicate]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Scheduled job not running to completion; event logged with return code 3762504530
I'm just a lowly developer, but a scheduled (2:00 am) VB.Net console app job I inherited is intermittently not running to completion. About half the time, it just doesn't run to completion, logging ...
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Task Scheduler on EC2 Windows Server 2008 R2
I have an EBS image that has a task that runs upon startup from the task Scheduler. It runs a Python script that then executes the required tasks using the subprocess module. Now the script kicks off ...
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Windows Server Task Scheduler: Running scheduled executable fail-safe?
I have an executable which I've scheduled to run once in every five minutes (using Window's built-in Task Scheduler). It's crucial that this executable is run because it updates few time critical ...
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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 ...
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Defragment / Performance Monitor without Task Scheduler
My organisation has a policy of disabling Task Scheduler on all servers and workstations (don't ask, I tried once to wrestle the pig).
I need to collect performance stats using Data Collector Sets in ...
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How to get eventlog information in a scheduled task email?
I have a scheduled task that sends a email when something happens on a application.
Now I want to send the message details of the event also in the email. How to do that?
In Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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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 ...
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Disable history for only one task in the Task Scheduler Library?
I have selected the Enable All Tasks History option in the Task Scheduler Library of Windows Server 2008 R2.
For most tasks, I’d like to have the history kept but I’m wondering if it’s possible to ...
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Task Scheduler and Virtual Machine Monitoring
I'm looking for the poor man's monitoring solution. I have a Hyper-V 2008 R2 environment where power fluctuations at off-peak hours are pretty common. The battery keeps the box up for a fair amount ...
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Why does Task Scheduler NOT re-run successfully completed tasks
I am using Task Scheduler on Windows 2008 x64. I have 3 tasks, running every night on different times without overlapping. It works for some days - usually 2-3 up to 10 (it's really random), then it ...
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open source job/process management/monitoring/control system [closed]
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, ...
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Windows Task Scheduler Security Issue [closed]
Using the Windows Task Scheduler allows non-administrator users to gain access to administrative rights. Normally, Windows prevents execute applications which need to have more rights. A message ...
