Chapter 9. Scheduling Tasks to Run Automatically
As an administrator, you probably find yourself repeatedly performing the same or similar tasks every day. You may also find that you have to come in to work early or stay late to perform tasks during nonbusiness hours. These tasks might be routine maintenance activities, such as deleting temporary files so that disks don't run out of space, or backing up important data. These tasks might also be more involved processes, such as searching the event logs on all business servers for problems that need to be resolved. The good news is that if you can break down these tasks into a series of steps, chances are that you can also automate these tasks, and Windows provides a couple of ways to do this:
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