Everyday Powershell - Part 39 - Scheduling a Powershell Script in powershell

We've covered this ground before back in the early parts of everyday powershell. But now if you've got at least windows 8 or server 2012 there's actually really good support in the shell for scheduled tasks now.

We powershell enthusiasts spend a lot of time scheduling jobs to run scripts of various sorts. That's a lot of repetitive work. You know what? If you are doing a job manually a lot, might be a good idea to script it.

Here's a quick function that wraps up the new-scheduled task commands and makes it quick and easy to schedule a powershell script.

function new-scheduledscript{     param(         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]         $scriptpath,         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]         $user,         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]         $password,         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]         $time,         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]         $taskname     )     $A = New-ScheduledTaskAction –Execute C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Argument "-file `"$scriptpath`""     $T = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At $time     $S = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet     $D = New-ScheduledTask -Action $A -Trigger $T -Settings $S     Register-ScheduledTask $taskname -InputObject $D -User $user -Password $password }

Pulled  the syntax for this from the documentation over here; https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649810(v=wps.630).aspx