Scheduled PowerShell Task

ronniesimmons5365 · 2014-10-03T12:10:25.000Z

I am having a problem running a scheduled powershell script from a windows 8 desktop that’s moving files from one folder to another. I can run it if I right click on the file and select “run with powershell” but when I set it as a scheduled task I get nothing with either the trigger or forcing it to run? The arguments are:

Action:

Start a program

Program/Script:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

Add arguments:

-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command { & ‘C:\BemisScripts\bemisreports.ps1’}

ealy · 2014-10-03T12:13:33.000Z

with out seeing the script my guess is you need to add.

cd /

to the script so it doesn’t run the script in your folder.

martin9700 · 2014-10-03T12:23:12.000Z

This might help:

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17736-run-powershell-scripts-from-task-scheduler

Little-Green-Man · 2014-10-03T12:29:28.000Z

I believe this will work if you just use Powershell.exe and not the full path. That’s how I have mine configured and they all work.

The path will auto-complete, but for your additional args, you need to ensure that whatever account you are using for the scheduled task has access to the script you are trying to run AND has the proper access to change the execution policy.

ronniesimmons5365 · 2014-10-03T13:06:52.000Z

Not getting anything with these settings also, if it will help to add the script code which is very basic let me know. Again if I run right click it and run it from the directory it works fine.

Thanks

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Little-Green-Man · 2014-10-03T13:15:33.000Z

Does the account running the scheduled task have access? You aren’t showing those settings.

ronniesimmons5365 · 2014-10-03T13:29:04.000Z

Yes, I’m logged in as the user the scheduled task is set to run under and it runs the script when just browsing and running it from the folder.

ronniesimmons5365 · 2014-10-03T13:39:34.000Z

I’ve just tried to simplify things and just create a task to get the powershell and the powershell ISE to start and nothing when I try to run it. So it seems that my problem is that powershell is not starting at all? All I did was set the start program as:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell_ise.exe

or

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

It says the status is running but the ISE does not pop up.

buckykoehler6644 · 2014-10-03T13:45:20.000Z

NinjaMonk2034:

It says the status is running but the ISE does not pop up.

Do you have the task set as Interactive?

I prefer scheduling tasks via PowerShell

$user = "domain\user"
$pass = "password"
$task = "Example Scheduled Script"
$time = "04:04:00"
$path = "c:\cron\script.ps1"
schtasks /create /tn $task /st $time /sc daily /ru $user /rp $pass /TR "C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe $path"

ronniesimmons5365 · 2014-11-05T17:50:59.000Z

Wouldn’t run directly as a powershell script in the task manager so I set it to run as a batch file with the powershell commands inside and it worked go figure?

Little-Green-Man · 2014-11-05T18:01:12.000Z

Did you try instead putting the execution policy bypass into the script? The start program “PowerShell.exe” should have no switches after it, maybe that’s the hangup?