Buck Nuggets wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what kind of functionality are you using task
center
> for?

Mainly we just need a method of scheduling routine maintenance,
backups, runstats, etc.

> This isn't the answer you were looking for, but...it might be less
> time-consuming to just rewrite the tasks as simple scheduled software
> using bash, ksh, python, perl, ruby, or whatever.

We have Windows 2003 servers, so I think the only default scheduler is
the "AT" scheduler or "Scheduled Tasks" in Control Panel. We could use
these for some functions, but the Task Center has a lot nicer features.
For one thing we can trigger follow up jobs and can run multiple
schedules for the same job. We could probably simulate the same thing
in those schedulers, but it might be just as much effort going that
route. It's kind of brutal setting things up in Task Center, but once
you get things set up it's pretty solid. If they only had the bulk
import and export functions it would be a fantastic product (in my
opinion).