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m.edmondson
m.edmondson

Reputation: 30892

Powershell - Manually trigger a scheduled job

I have created a powershell job that I can see when I use the following command:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ScheduledJob -Name KillTicker | Get-JobTrigger

Id         Frequency       Time                   DaysOfWeek              Enabled
--         ---------       ----                   ----------              -------
1          AtStartup                                                      True

As this is a startup job I really don't fancy restarting to test it out - how to do I manually start this job?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7302

Answers (3)

Carl Chang
Carl Chang

Reputation: 129

I think it is worth it to mention that Start-Job or StartJob() both run the defined job from the current security context. If the job runs as different user or accesses network resources, you might get unexpected results.

To get the same behavior use either (Get-ScheduledJob -Name xxx).RunAsTask() or Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName xxx -TaskPath xxx. The latter provides a -CimSession option and could be better for remote operations.

Upvotes: 1

Greyula Reyula
Greyula Reyula

Reputation: 35

You can use the Start-Job cmdlet and supply the name of the Scheduled Job as the -DefinitionName parameter.

Start-Job -DefinitionName *MyJobName*

Upvotes: 0

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58951

If you run Get-ScheduledJob -id 1 | Get-Member to retrieve all Members of a Microsoft.PowerShell.ScheduledJob.ScheduledJobDefinition you will see that the object expose a method called StartJob:

(Get-ScheduledJob -id 1).StartJob()

To retrieve the result, use the Receive-Job cmdlet:

Receive-Job -id 1

Upvotes: 9

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