Issue #16804 has been updated by Josh Cooper.
I meant to say "we don't currently support" as opposed to "can't support". We could create a new scheduled_task provider to support these capabilities and confine it to Vista or later. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this (schtasks.exe, API, XML) <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa382153(v=vs.85).aspx> ---------------------------------------- Feature #16804: scheduled_task : add support for "every X minutes or hours" mode https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16804#change-78361 Author: Pascal Sartoretti Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: windows Branch: As stated in the Puppet documentation (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/writing.html#scheduledtaskscheduledtask), the "scheduled_task" resource type does not support repetition modes such as "every X minutes". It is a pity, because such tasks are very commonly used in Windows servers (and maybe less on Windows clients), making "scheduled_task" not so useful. It is true that the configuration of Windows scheduled task is complicated (as opposed to crontab...); we may not need all the features available in the Windows GUI (like "Until", "Duration" or "If the task is still running, stop it at this time"), I guess it would be enough to support "every X minutes" and "every Y hours". -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.