PSTip: Retrieve scheduled tasks using Schedule.Service COMObject

In PowerShell 4.0, the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet was introduced, but unfortunately this cmdlet is not available in older versions of PowerShell. This is where the Schedule.Service COMObject can be useful to enumerate scheduled tasks on a local or remote system. Unfortunately, unlike the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet using this COMObject requires an elevated PowerShell console with administrative credentials. The following example will list the all tasks in the \ folder of the Task Scheduler and display the Name, Path and State of the tasks:

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