Scheduled task for computers with no AD description

Question

Hi All,

I'm trying to have a scheduled task email the helpdesk a list of machines from AD that have no description. I created a script and it runs the way I want it to however I stupidly ran it in the Adaxes scheduled task without realising that the task runs on each object. I only need to script to run once each day and I dont need it ot run on an object. I'll paste in the script below so you can see what I've done. I converted this script from powershell ISE to work with adaxes so I changed the module and command, my original command was just Get-Adcomputer.

Import-Module Adaxes
$nodesc = Get-AdmComputer -Filter * -Properties description,name| Where-Object {$_.description -Like ""} | Select -Property Name,description | out-string
Send-mailmessage -From someemail@somedomain.co.uk -To helpdesk@somedomain.co.uk -SmtpServer "exchangeserver.somedomain.co.uk" -Subject "No AD Description Machines" -body $nodesc

Obviously the helpdesk recieved alot fo emails when I ran the task haha! :O

Is there a way to have Adaxes retrieve the list of all no description machines and put that list into just one email. Id like to run that in scheduled task if possible.

Many thanks,

Will

Answer 1

Hello Will,

Yes, it is possible. You need to create a Scheduled Task configured for Domain-DNS Object type. To do so:

1. Launch Adaxes Administration Console.
2. Right-click your Adaxes service node, navigate to New and click Scheduled Task.
   
3. On step 3 of Create Scheduled Task wizard select Show all object types and then select Domain-DNS Object type.
   
4. Click Next.
5. Click Add Action and select Run a program or Powershell script.
6. Enter a short description and paste your script into the Script field.
   
7. Click OK.
8. Click Next and finish creating the Scheduled Task.

Comments

This worked perfectly cheers!