What’s New in Task Scheduler for Windows 8 & Server 2012

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First published on TECHNET on Jul 05, 2013

Hello AskPerf! This is going to be a quick blog post to alert you to some of the changes in Windows 8 and Server 2012 as it relates to Task Scheduler. Most of these changes are a welcome addition like using PowerShell to manage Task Scheduler . There were however, some features removed that could affect you in your environment. Those include the following:


Features Deprecated



  • Action: sendEmail

  • Action: showMessage

  • AT.exe cmdline utility





Workarounds


For the “ Send an e-mail ” action, you can use the PowerShell “ Send-MailMessage ” cmdlet in its place.


For the “ Display a message ” action, you can use the built-in msg.exe command line tool. Help file output below:



Since the “ AT ” command has been deprecated, you can use schtasks.exe instead. If you need a command prompt launched as the Local System account, you can use “PSEXEC.EXE -s“. Psexec.exe is part of the PsTools, and can be downloaded here .


For more information on what else has been changed since Windows Vista, check out the following MSDN article:


What’s New in Task Scheduler


For more information on the schtasks.exe command, check out the following AskPerf Blog:


Two Minute Drill: The Schtasks command


-AskPerf Blog team

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