Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing Scheduled Tasks and Immediate Tasks with Domain Policies

There are many times when Group Policy administrators would have liked to run an application or a command on a remote machine without having to reboot or log on to that particular system. For example, there may be a critical security or application update that needs to be rolled out and executed immediately. Historically, this would require a new group policy with a script or software package assigned, and the machine would need to be rebooted to run the script or install the application. With Windows Server 2012, this can be accomplished with the Scheduled Task and Immediate Task preference settings for both Windows XP and Windows 7 and later operating systems. As an example of ...