Shadow session in RDP

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Sometimes I need to shadow a user’s session and the tool we usually use sometimes doesn’t work. In those cases, we can try connecting to the user’s session using Microsoft Remote Desktop. Here are the steps: Run the following command to get the users session which will give an output of all active sessions: Find […]

Clustered Scheduled Tasks tied to a Resource

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In a previous post, we saw how you can create a task to run on any available node in a Windows Cluster. That’s great when all of the nodes in the cluster can do the job, but what if you need the task to run on a particular node? Or more importantly, what happens if […]

Change the Schedule of a Clustered Scheduled Task

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In a previous post, I showed how you can create a clustered scheduled task. Now we could use that trick to change the schedule of a scheduled task by deleting and then importing a new one, but wouldn’t it be better to just change the schedule? Using PowerShell, this is quite simple. First, connect to […]

Redundancy for Scheduled Tasks

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Do you use Scheduled Tasks as part of your production environment? Maybe to run those end of month reports for finance, or to run a nightly batch process, to import data from some uploaded flat files, or to download data from an external source on a regular interval. Scheduled Tasks are a really simple way […]