Scheduled Tasks Properties in PowerShell?

Question

I am not sure how to do this in PowerShell, but I dont think it is supported.

For example:

$tasks = schtasks /query 

Will store all the tasks into the variable $tasks

Example output:

Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsBackup
TaskName                                 Next Run Time          Status
======================================== ====================== ===============
ConfigNotification                       Disabled

The property "TaskName" cannot be referred to that easily (ie $tasks.TaskName)

Is there some other way to refer to the TaskName property within the $tasks variable, sort of like how you can reference properties in the get-service cmdlet?

$services = gsv
$services | Where-Object { Write-Output $_.Name }

Solution

Use the /fo parameter in schtasks to print the output as CSV and then convert the output to a Powershell object with the ConvertFrom-CSV command.

$tasks = schtasks /query /fo CSV | ConvertFrom-CSV

You can then use search for a particular task name as follows

$myTask = $tasks | Where-Object {$_.TaskName -eq "My_Scheduled_Task"}

Comments

[nulz]

Has something to do with Select-String, but I do not know how to configure it

[user3113103]

added the script to my answer; hope it helps you out