Nov 2, 2020 Posted by newlife007 on Nov 2, 2020 in Powershell, Windows | 0 comments

How To Use PowerShell to Export Scheduled Tasks

Introduction

We all know what a pain it is to have to recreate scheduled tasks on Windows when moving to new systems or restoring crash or corrupted systems. Making a backup of these tasks is always good to do, so why not do this with PowerShell and make things much simpler.

The Code

The script is fairly simple

Define a new-object
Connect to the object on the server
Get the contents of the tasks folder (C:\Windows\System32\Tasks)
Define outfile and outfile_temp
Cycle through and save as xml

Below is the output of the getmytasks.ps1 script.

Code: getmytasks.ps1

$sch = New-Object -ComObject("Schedule.Service")
$sch.Connect("<SERVERNAME>")
$tasks = $sch.GetFolder("\").GetTasks(0)

$outfile_temp = "C:\tasks\{0}.xml"

$tasks | %{
$xml = $_.Xml
$task_name = $_.Name
$outfile = $outfile_temp -f $task_name
$xml | Out-File $outfile
}

Basically the script goes to the C:\Windows\System32\Tasks directory and cycles through each task and creates an xml file for each one.