Scheduled Tasks - Tag - pr0mpthttps://www.pr0mpt.com/tags/scheduled-tasks/Scheduled Tasks - Tag - pr0mptHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 20 Nov 2015 14:30:46 +0200The case of the disappearing e-mail…https://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-20-the-case-of-the-disappearing-e-mail/Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:30:46 +0200Robert Prüsthttps://pr0mpt.comhttps://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-20-the-case-of-the-disappearing-e-mail/One of my customers was running into an odd case of disappearing e-mails. They have an on-premise Exchange 2010 mail server on which they have a Shared mailbox to which all employees have access.

Now all of a sudden mails that are moved/copied TO this shared mailbox mysteriously disappear…

First thing that came to mind: Rules!

Bring in the Shell

First of all I needed to check if there weren’t any Server side rules which were configured, which you can easily do with the following command:

]]>Scheduled Tasks - PowerShell Scripts with Parametershttps://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-20-scheduled-tasks-powershell-scripts-with-parameters/Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:52:02 +0200Robert Prüsthttps://pr0mpt.comhttps://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-20-scheduled-tasks-powershell-scripts-with-parameters/Perhaps a very “simple” issue, but I noticed that when looking for this it took me longer than expected to find the result I had in mind.

The issue at hand

I  have a script which requires various parameters to be provided so that I can run it. When running the command through an active console session it would look like this:

.\Get-MailboxAuditLoggingReport.ps1 -Mailbox ProblemMailbox -Hours 24 -SendEmail -MailFrom administrator@contoso.com -MailTo administrator@contoso.com -MailServer mail.contoso.com

As you can see, this can be quite the pain,  but if I get this configured properly can re-use this at various customers.

]]>Migrating scheduled tasks from 2008 to 2012+https://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-12-migrating-scheduled-tasks-from-2008-to-2012/Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:26:07 +0200Robert Prüsthttps://pr0mpt.comhttps://www.pr0mpt.com/2015-11-12-migrating-scheduled-tasks-from-2008-to-2012/Today I was busy with a customer who needed to migrate some Scheduled Tasks from his Windows Server 2008 to his new Windows Server 2012 R2 machine.

Slight issue, there were 139!! Scheduled Tasks [generating reports and sending them to various sources]. There’s no way I was going to do this manually, so let’s start up my favourite tool for the job: PowerShell!

I immediately ran into the first issue: There are no PowerShell cmdlets for Windows 2008 concerning Scheduled Tasks, so you’re limited to the built in command SchTasks, however this can be a troublesome parsing etc. .

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