How can I create a daily task that repeats every 15 mins EXCEPT between the hours of 12AM - 2AM?

Question

Is it possible to create a scheduled task that runs every 15 min except for a few hours of the day.

E.g. A task that runs every 15 minutes except between the hours of 2PM & 4PM.

The reason I need to do this is because I have another task that writes to the same file once a day and takes 1 hour to parse/upload and I cannot have the 15 min task attempting to parse/upload while the larger one is working...

Solution

You would want to set the trigger to On a schedule to look like this below. The task will start at 4PM and continue until 2PM where it will stop for 2 hours, and continue again.

Comments

[Giordano Ferrari]

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[Johnny Gamez]

@Cole - you are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Marc]

Unfortunately it seems Windows Server 2012 does not allow an option of 22h so you have 12h or 1 day and a few others.