Freeware or Cost: Win32 Job Scheduler

[demonic]

I have a requirement for a scheduler to run jobs based on administrator or user priviledges and also be able to have a series of tasks dependant on each other in that job.

For example.

Have several jobs to run, say 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and then a job at 8pm that has 6 tasks in it and each task has to run sequentially in order for that job to complete.

Oh and if it can have an option to alert the admin on completed and uncompleted jobs.

Ideas on software welcome

Cheers

 

[[maven]]

What's wrong with the built-in scheduler?

 

[Albuquerque]

I'd agree, and your job with six individual tasks can be chained with some pretty simple batch scripting.

As for notifying someone of success/failure, that too could be done with a really simple batch script and a freeware SMTP mailer, or net send commands.

 

[Saem]

Powershell if you don't want to use DOS scripting.

 

[Zaphod]

Or AutoIt. Very flexible and easy to use.

 

[Albuquerque]

Powershell if you don't want to use DOS scripting.

Powershell is good stuff; I've been playing with it now for a few months and I keep finding more and more cool crap you can do with it.