Windows 7 scheduled tasks powershell script

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ansgar Wiechers Ansgar Wiechers k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I made the 2. I'll remove the -NoExit when I'm sure everything runs. I am a little sad to hear I can't log in with a scheduled task I'm on a computer that is in part of a domain where I can't just change the log off or the Lock computer behavior so it's imperative for the scheduled task to run correctly to be able to log in or unlock the computer.

I'm not sure if the group policy for the domain resets it but everytime I reboot the computer I have to set-executionpolicy again — Helbo. I'm going to mark yours as the correct answer. I hope to find a solution still but maybe this is not the place for this type of question — Helbo. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. With more and more scripts written in PowerShell, a lot more tasks are scheduled to be run in PowerShell, instead of batch files.

If the path includes any space, wrap the whole string up with a full quotation mark. The task will have no problem to run, as long as the local PowerShell execution policy is set as unrestricted.

Or it will fail. You can specify which policy to use with the switch -ExecutionPolicy , like below:. By default, when the script runs it opens a PowerShell console window and closes it when the job is finished.

Active Oldest Votes. Yes you right, some PowerShell cmdlet it depend on the windows kernel. I hope it will help you. Improve this answer. David, Based on my own experience I have the Server R2 and Powershell 4 is installed , the newer cmdlets for scheduled tasks such as New-ScheduledTaskAction are not recognizable by Server R2.

Other post I read said these Cmdlets are coming with server or Windows 8 or later. Liang Cui Liang Cui 1 1 silver badge 12 12 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.