Everyday Powershell - Part 9 - Scheduling Powershell in Powershell

This is the next part in an ongoing series about Powershell. You may have heard about how awesome Powershell is but have struggled to find ways to make it useful in your day to day work. That's what this series is going to address. It'll provide scripts and knowledge to address practical everyday problems

Todd Klindt brings us this awesome bit of trickery. You may remember from Part 1 of this series we went over how to schedule a script using the GUI... But what kind of scripter uses the GUI for anything!? Well Todd's post over on the weekend scripter gives us everything we need to ditch the GUI for scheduling tasks.

So this script can be used to schedule any other scripts. We've used the one from Part 2 saved it in C:\powershell with the filename say-bofhexcuse.ps1

#http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/11/09/weekend-scripter-use-powershell-to-back-up-sharepoint-installation.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter $password = ConvertTo-SecureString 'Wouldn'tyouliketoknow?' -AsPlainText -Force $account = New-Object system.management.automation.pscredential 'SomeUser', $password $opt = New-ScheduledJobOption -RunElevated Register-ScheduledJob -Name BOFH-SPEAKS -FilePath C:\Powershell\say-BOFHexcuse.ps1 -Credential $account -ScheduledJobOption $opt $t = New-JobTrigger -atlogon Get-ScheduledJob -Name BOFH-SPEAKS | Set-ScheduledJob -Trigger $t

Once we've got the job setup we can test it with;

Start-Job -DefinitionName BOFH-SPEAKS

The New-JobTrigger bit will accept all kinds of triggers, you'll need to check the doco for all the tricky parts. We're just running this one at logon. So when you login of a morning you'll get a new excuse!