schedule tasks during office hours

Question

I have a scheduled task that needs to run every 2 hours, but it must not run outside of office hours. Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no possibility to configure the schedule of a task in such a way. Howevr, thank you for the suggestion, we forwarded It to the corresponding department for consideration.

As of now, you can achieve the desired using the below script in a condition of your task. The script returns true only if the current hour does not match any of those specified in the $excludeHours variable.

$excludeHours = @(3, 10, 15) # TODO: modify me

# Get current date
$currentDate = [System.DateTime]::UtcNow

foreach ($excludeHour in $excludeHours)
{
    if ($excludeHour -eq $currentDate.Hour)
    {
        $Context.ConditionIsMet = $False
        return
    }
}

$Context.ConditionIsMet = $True