How to Run PowerShell Script as a Windows Scheduler Task

If you want to schedule a PowerShell script and run it as a scheduled task, you can do that very easily by following the below steps with screenshots.

• Step 1: Press the Windows button on your Windows 10/11/Server and open Windows Administrative Tools (you can also get it there by going to Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools)
• Step 2: Now open Task Scheduler

  

• Step 3: Under Actions select Create Basic Task...

  

• Step 4: Now in the Wizard provide details.

  Name: My Daily PowerShell Script
  
  Description: A task scheduler to run PowerShell script to run every day at midnight.

• Step 5: Say we want to trigger the Script Daily.

  

• Step 6: Next, let's add the Start date and time details, have selected to recur every 1 day.

  

• Step 7: For the Action - we want to start a Program which is PowerShell.

  

• Step 8: Now, fill in the details,

  Program/Script:	It should be the path to PowerShell.exe	Example: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
  Add Arguments:	We add the Path to our PowerShell .ps1 script	C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\powershell-script.ps1
  Start In:	Where the Script is located again.	C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\

  

• Step 9: Verify all the details, and check "Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click Finish" and hit Finish.

  

• Step 10: You will next see the Properties of the task you just created, note a few things that you can change here is,
  • Can change the script to run whenever user is logged in or not
  • Enable: Run with highest privileges.
  • Configure the Server for.
  • Can even make the script hidden.

  

  Note: Once you make changes you will be asked for the Admin password.

  

  • Step 11: That it! We have configured a PowerShell script to run from Task Scheduler!

  

  Under the "Task Scheduler, you can Run the PowerShell Script on demand, and even disable, export, or even delete it.

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  This example and the screenshots are based on Windows Server 2022