Powershell – Get Domain Controllers Scheduled Task

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Real quick post for the day. This script is designed to enumerate every Domain Controller in a forest and retrieve all the scheduled task.  Note this script will not work if you run it from Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7.  You would need to change the script to use get-wmiobject instead. 

 

 $default_log = $env:userprofile + '\Documents\dc_scheduletask_report.csv'
  
 Import-Module activedirectory
  
 ((get-adforest).domains | get-addomain).ReplicaDirectoryServers | foreach {Get-Scheduledtask -CimSession $_ | foreach{$_taskpath = $_.taskpath;$_taskname =$_.taskname; $_taskstate=$_.state;$_.actions | select `
 @{name='DC';expression={$_.PSComputerName}}, `
 @{name='TaskName';expression={$_taskname}}, `  
 @{name='TaskPath';expression={$_taskPath}}, `
 @{name='State';expression={$_taskstate}}, `
 execute, arguments, workingdirectory | export-csv $default_log -append -NoTypeInformation
 }}

 

Link to Script Gallery

 

open the results in excel.

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Select all the columns

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Select Insert and Pivot Table

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Select OK

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In the pivot Fields drag the field down into the areas like this:

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There is now a nice little report.

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Look for instances where the grand total does not contain the number of all the DC’s in the forest.

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Go and investigate the differences.  I hope you find this useful.  Have a good day.

-Chad