how to schedule a task on all weekdays and then disable only on holidays

Question

We would like to scheduled a task on Windows Server on all weekdays. At the same time, the task should be disabled on the holidays. Please advise.

Solution 1

If this is a Windows Server 2008 - you can try the below from the Task Scheduler -

You can then uncheck the days you dont want the task to run as I have highlighted in blue.

I believe this is what you are looking for...

Solution 2

Well, One way I see to do this is to the task to end on a holiday, then have a second task starting on the next working day, and ending that task the next holiday. Rinse and repeat per holiday.

The newer versions of task scheduler does seem to let you string events together, but I don't see any option not to run a task on a specific day.

Comments

[hey]

The tricky thing might be how task scheduler knows its a holiday. I can't think of any cron-like system that is aware of this.

[user47289]

May be, can we have a annual maintenance activity to disable the activity for those holidays?

[hey]

Might want to add the version of windows to your question. Task scheduler on newer and older version of windows are VERY different.

[user47289]

OS Version : Win 2003 Server Enterprise edition

[user47289]

What is the need for this? On Business holidays and weekends, we do not want to run a process.

[user47289]

This looks cool. Say we have 10 business holidays, then will have 10 scheduled tasks. Thanks a lot.

[user47289]

Could please give more info on string events together on the new task scheduler.