How to create a Scheduled task with a task scheduler using PowerShell?

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To create a task using GUI (As shown below image) we need a few settings like the Name of the task, trigger, and Action.

Similarly, to create a new task in task scheduler using PowerShell comprises of several settings.

  • Name of the task
  • The time when the task to trigger
  • Action − Do we need to schedule a program for execution or send an email on some event trigger.
  • Description − This is optional. You can add a description of the task.
  • Registering task − Final step is to register the created task.

Above all actions use different cmdlets but they are part of a ScheduledTasks module. To schedule task on local or remote servers, you need to ensure the module should be present on the server.

Get-Module ScheduledTasks | Select -ExpandProperty ExportedCommands

Let's begin creating a task.

  • Creating a new Task Action.
$tsaction = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'PowerShell.exe' -Argument 'C:\Temp\TestTask.ps1'
  • Mention the user account to run the script (optional).
$User= "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"
  • Creating a time to trigger a task.
$tstrigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -At 4:00PM -Once

You can provide the various timing for a routine task like Daily, monthly, or other as shown in the below example. In this example, we need to run a task once at 4:00 PM.

  • Register Schedule task.

Once the required settings are configured for a task, we need to register the task at the final step to appear in the task scheduler using the below command line.

               

Register-ScheduledTask `
  -TaskName 'Test Task' `
  -User $User `
  -Action $tsaction `
  -Trigger $tstrigger `
  -RunLevel Highest -Force

Final Script:

$tsaction = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'PowerShell.exe' -Argument 'C:\Temp\TestTask.ps1'$User= "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"

$tstrigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -At 4:00PM -Once

Output

Register-ScheduledTask `
 -TaskName 'Test Task' `

  -User $User `
   -Action $tsaction `
  -Trigger $tstrigger `
   -RunLevel Highest -Force

Once you run the above command, task will be created. Output will be as shown in the console.

You can check the same in the task scheduler.

raja
Chirag Nagrekar
Published on 28-Dec-2020 06:59:47
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