Task scheduler - Windows 2019 - Indefinitly task not running

Question

Hi,

This is not a qestion, this is an answer ! I hope it could help because I spent hours.

On Windows server 2019, if you have a task to repeat let say every 5 minutes indefinitly, You have to trigger it this way :

• On a schedule
• One time
• Advanced settings / repeat tasks every xxx minutes for a duration Indefinitly.

or

• On a schedule
• Daily
• Advanced settings / repeat tasks every xxx minutes for a duration 1 Day.

On Windows server 2012, 2008, I used to select "Daily" instead of "One time" for an indefintly period, but if you do so in Windows 2019 Task scheduler, the task will never run, when the time is come it just schedule the next time without running any program.

It sounds finally logic but you have no information about why the task is not running (and there is not entry log in the task scheduler history), and the next run time is however exact, but nothing happens

Regards,

Eric

Answer 1

I got mine fixed by changing from indefinitely to 1 day

Answer 2

Unfortunatly no other windows server 2019.

Best regards,

Eric

Answer 3

I have the same problem with the Task Scheduler on a Windows 2019 Server. I found if I selected Indefinitely the task will not run. Once I selected Weekly and everyday of Day of the week and set the duration to 365 days the task Started to function Correctly. I am going to experiment with going back to Daily and set the time to every 5 min and try different of day's by year ie.. 365, 730,....

Answer 4

For me it doesn't work on Windows 2019.
The user has run batch file privilege and all, but it won't work as above. If I add this in the beginning of the batch file, it works flawlessly:
Source

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:: Automatically check & get admin rights V2
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@echo off
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO =============================
ECHO Running Admin shell
ECHO =============================

:init
setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
set "batchPath=%~0"
for %%k in (%0) do set batchName=%%~nk
set "vbsGetPrivileges=%temp%\OEgetPriv_%batchName%.vbs"
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

:checkPrivileges
NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL
if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto gotPrivileges ) else ( goto getPrivileges )

:getPrivileges
if '%1'=='ELEV' (echo ELEV & shift /1 & goto gotPrivileges)
ECHO.
ECHO **************************************
ECHO Invoking UAC for Privilege Escalation
ECHO **************************************

ECHO Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = "ELEV " >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO For Each strArg in WScript.Arguments >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO args = args ^& strArg ^& " "  >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO Next >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
ECHO UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", args, "", "runas", 1 >> "%vbsGetPrivileges%"
"%SystemRoot%\System32\WScript.exe" "%vbsGetPrivileges%" %*
exit /B

:gotPrivileges
setlocal & pushd .
cd /d %~dp0
if '%1'=='ELEV' (del "%vbsGetPrivileges%" 1>nul 2>nul  &  shift /1)

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::START



YOUR COMMANDS START HERE

Answer 5

You are a life saver. This just saved me hours of troubleshooting.