Manipulating/creating tasks in Task Scheduler 1

[mousseman]

Hi!

Been programming VBScript, and I need something with which I can create an entry or maybe even manipulate it. MicroSoft has a taskscheduler.exe archive, but I have not been able to make it schedule tasks when I want it to (it always schedules tasks at 12:00 AM, with a start date of 31/12/1899). Maybe the stuff from Microsoft is just way broken, or at least badly documented and the default entry in the tasks.xml has the wrong parameters.

Does anybody have a decent documentation of the MS SchedulingAgent.DLL that one can download at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...echnol/windows2000serv/downloads/taskschd.asp

or a COM+ object that allows me to access the scheduler from vbscript?

CU

mousseman

 

[JPBERGEZ]

Hi !
I had the same problem and followed your link, download the exe from Microsoft and work on it.
Just switch the date and time parameters to make it run :
Here is an example of what it could be :

Dim vSched
Dim vdate, vtime
vdate = "MM/DD/YYYY"
vtime = "HH:MN xM" 'ie AM or PM
Set vSched = WScript.CreateObject("SchedulingAgent.NTScheduler&quot
vSched.ISchedulingAgent_ScheduleTask "TaskName", "command", "parameters","USERNAME","PASSWORD",vdate,vtime

Notes :
1) This piece of code is supposed to run in an environment where the SchedulingAgent.dll is registered
2) Date and Time format must be English format
3) I didn't yet found how to run my command repeateadly !!

The only interest I found in the SchedulingAgent.NTScheduler object provided by the dll is the ability to make a scheduled task run in a specific user security environment. Be aware of the fact that the TaskScheduler only runs as LocalSystem account, avoiding access to other computers.

 

[Antony13]

Hi,

Wish I'd seen this a week ago, would have saved me the hassle of finding this out for myself!!

Anyway, have you yet found a way to run a command repeatedly? I need to schedule a task and run it every 15 minutes but I can't use the AT command as it needs to run with a domain admin account. The above is the closest I've found to achieving my needs!

Cheers, Antony

 

[sujathamanohar]

hi

I am trying to schedule the task to repeat every minute and it is very much needed. Can you help me out if you have found the way to do it.

I have followed the same steps as given in this.

Thanks
sujatha

 

[mattboston]

if you use Task Scheduler manually you can add other information like the Start In directory, and to have the script repeat every 5 minutes, etc. Can these options be set through this script?

 

[FengShui1998]

mousseman,

A call to this sub will resubmit the script.

Call ReSubmit(15,n) ' Resubmits this script in 15t minutes.

' ****************
Sub ReSubmit(intrvl_tmp_val, intrvl_tmp_type)
' ****************
' Now resubmit the job one hour from now
' Set the next execution time. h = hour, n = minutes, s = seconds, d = day
strdate = date
strtime = time

nextexec = DateAdd(intrvl_tmp_type, intrvl_tmp_val, strDate & " " & strtime)
darray = split(nextExec, " &quot
nexttime = trim( darray(1) ) & trim( darray(2) ) ' Morning or afternoon
'
' If today's execution time is different than next execution time, change the command string
' This allows an execution time to switch to another day and time
If Weekday(strDate) = Weekday(nextExec) then
strTmp = ""
Else
strTmp = " /next:" & WeekDayName( Weekday(nextExec) )
End If

x = WshShell.run("cmd /c at " & nexttime & strTmp & " " & Wscript.ScriptFullName)

End Sub


fengshui_1998