Let’s say you have a whole lot of scheduled tasks you want moved into a subfolder in the Task Scheduler. Since you can’t just drag and drop the tasks, and must export the jobs into XML files to be imported, we will use similar commands as yesterday’s post. For this, you will need an empty … Read more
On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Scheduled Tasks are stored as binary files with the “.job” extension. They are also stored in this manner on Windows Server 2008. Also, the jobs are stored in the same location in both operating systems, namely, “C:WindowsTasks”. So if you want to copy jobs from one to the … Read more
When upgrading an Active Directory Domain Controller from Windows Server 2008 (or 2008 R2) to Windows Server 2012, the AD Forest must be upgraded first. This has to be manually done, as it is not part of the setup process. To upgrade the AD Forest, right-click on the Command Prompt icon and select “Run as … Read more