How do I remotely access Scheduled Tasks from Windows XP to Windows Server 2003?

[kj7ny]

On Jun 30, 10:55 am, "Roger Upole" <rup... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "kj7ny" wrote:
> > How can I access and manipulateScheduledTasksin Windows using
> > Python?
>
> > I have a Windows XP workstation running Python 2.4.4 using the
> > win32all modules to control the windows services on multiple Windows
> > 2003 servers.  It works great.
>
> > However, I also need to remotely collect the settings for the
> >scheduledtasks(on those same Windows 2003 servers) and then
> > manipulate those task settings.
>
> > At the very least, I need to find out which ones are enabled and then
> > be able to disable and re-enable thosetasksat will.  It would be
> > better to be able to also detect the account each task runs as so that
> > I could only disable selectedtasks, but I'll any help I can get.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> Pywin32 comes with a module that lets you do this, win32com.taskscheduler.
> You can use PyITaskScheduler.SetTargetComputer to accesstaskson remote
> machines.
>
>            Roger
>
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I FINALLY found taskscheduler (with the help of your post).  I found
it under

    ...\Python243\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\taskscheduler

... and, there seems to be a /test/ directory with some examples.
Haven't tried them yet, but they should get me started.

Thanks,