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Windows Endpoint Security: Scheduled Tasks

In this lab, you'll become familiar with Windows scheduled tasks. By the end of this lab, you'll be able to investigate and manage scheduled tasks in the GUI, command line and PowerShell.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
55m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Introducing Scheduled Task Viewer

    You will discover the Scheduled Task Viewer, and create a basic task.

  3. Challenge

    Managing Task Scheduler via Command Line

    You will discover how to create and manage scheduled tasks using the schtasks command.

  4. Challenge

    Investigating Scheduled Tasks using PowerShell

    You will investigate scheduled tasks using PowerShell.

  5. Challenge

    Creating a Task using PowerShell

    Leveraging the resources from previous challenges, the learner will create a task using PowerShell and then remove that scheduled task.

  6. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Michael Teske is an Author Evangelist with Pluralsight helping people elevate their skills. He has 20+ years of experience in IT Ops, including 17 as an IT instructor at a community college.

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