Example on how you can use Powershell to create Schedule Task

November 1, 2018

It handle the password in a secure way.

Look at this as a template and do the necessary changes.

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$username = Read-host "Enter username"
$securePwd = Read-host "Enter password" -AsSecureString
$securePwd = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($securePwd))

$taskSplat = @{
taskName = 'TaskName'
action = New-ScheduledTaskAction –Execute 'runScheduledTask.cmd'
trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At 05:00
user = $UserName
password = $securePwd
settings = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet
taskPath = '\Folder\'
}

Register-ScheduledTask @taskSplat [-force]

Example on how you can use Powershell to create Schedule Task

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