A Quick Tip To Check Schedule Tasks On Remote Computers

By Nirmal Sharma / October 31, 2009

You have created a schedule task using the Group Policy on all the domain client computers or servers. You need to verify to make sure this Task has been created on all the computers. Let's say the Task name is BatchJob. Group Policy does not provide reporting. You need to use the below mentioned script to accomplish this:

Steps:

Create a text file and name it as CompList.TXT
Put all the computer or Server names in it.
Next, put the following lines in a file as it as CheckTasks.CMD
REM ***START HERE***
@ Echo Off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
Echo Computer Name, Task Created or Not? >> Result.CSV
FOR /F "Tokens=*" %%L IN (CompList.TXT) DO (
SET CompName=
SET CompName=%%L
Psexec.exe \\!CompName! C:\Windows\System32\Schtasks.exe /query > OutPut.txt
Find /i "BatchJob" < OutPut.txt
IF !ErrorLevel! == 0 (
Echo !CompName!, Yes >> Result.CSV
) ELSE (
Echo !CompName!, No >> Result.CSV
)
)
REM ***END HERE***

The script runs against each server or computer mentioned in the CompList.TXT. It runs Schtasks.exe command with the help of Psexec.exe to execute it remotely and output is gathered in the OutPut.txt. Next command searches for BatchJob in the output.Txt. The end result is stored in a CSV file called Result.CSV.

Download Psexec.exe from here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

About The Author

Nirmal Sharma

Nirmal Sharma is a MCSEx3, MCITP and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services and Windows Networking. He specializes in Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Directory Services, Failover Clusters, Hyper-V, PowerShell Scripting and System Center products. Nirmal has been involved with Microsoft Technologies since 1994. In his spare time, he likes to help others and share some of his knowledge by writing tips and articles on various sites.