Powershell - Monthly Scheduled Task Trigger

Question

I\'m currently automating the creation of scheduled tasks via Powershell, and I\'m using the New-ScheduledTaskAction, New-ScheduledTaskTrigger, and

Answer 1

As I said in the original post, the SuperUser question above looked promising, but ultimately did not work with PSV4, and the example given in the post was basically a copy\paste job with almost no context.

I realized I could leverage Schtasks.exe from my Powershell script to handle the monthly aggregations, and it's fairly easy to set up, albeit somewhat tedious :

# set the trigger depending on time, span, and day
$runSpan = $task.SpanToRun;

if ($runSpan.Equals("Daily"))
{            
    $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At $task.TimeToRun
    Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName $task.TaskName -User $Username -Password $Password -Description $task.Description       
}

if ($runSpan.Equals("Weekly"))
{            
    $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Weekly -At $task.TimeToRun -DaysOfWeek $task.DayToRun
    Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName $task.TaskName -User $Username -Password $Password -Description $task.Description
}        

#  script out SchTasks magic to create the monthly tasks
if ($runSpan.Equals("Monthly"))
{
    $taskParams = @("/Create",
                "/TN", $task.TaskName, 
                "/SC", "monthly", 
                "/D", $task.DayToRun, 
                "/ST", $task.TimeToRun, 
                "/TR", $filePath, 
                "/F", #force
                "/RU", $Username,
                "/RP", $Password);

    # supply the command arguments and execute  
    #schtasks.exe $taskParams
     schtasks.exe @taskParams
}

I'm using an in-script class to keep track of all the task properties ($task.TimeToRun, $task.DayToRun, etc.), iterating over a list of those, applying the Powershell implementation for daily and weekly tasks, then switching to SchTasks.exe for the monthly spans.

One thing I want to note, is that at first glance, I thought setting the user context under which the task runs could be achieved with the U and P arguments, but that is not the case. That specifies the creds that Schtasks.exe runs under - in order to set the user context for the task, you must use RU and RP.

In addition to the link above, these two were also very helpful :

http://coding.pstodulka.com/2015/08/02/programmatically-scheduling-powershell-scripts-in-task-scheduler/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb736357(v=vs.85).aspx