Create a Scheduled Task Script

This reply assumes a domain environment, workgroups could use something similar if their set up right.

Have you looked at using SCHTASKS to schedule the tasks from a central location? From your workstation (logged in with appropriate Domain Admin access), you can schedule tasks to run on other workstations. You will have to put in your credentials in order to schedule the tasks, but those would only be visible on your workstation, not the end-user stations.

A simple example:

SCHTASKS /create /S remoteworkstationname /sc once /tn alert /tr alertscript.vbs /RU domain\profile /RP password

There's a couple of parameters missing from the command line, but they will depend on your environment so I excluded them for clarity.

Hopefully this helps you out.

Jim

I'm a bit confused.. Do you want to schedule a VB Script on a PC remotely? Or perhaps do you want to schedule a VB script remotely for all the PC's in your network.

This script will schedule a task on the PC but if its a network wide VB script, why not put it in the GP or as a log in script. So everytime the user logs in it checks and runs the script?

Anyway here is the VB code that schedules a task locally.

strComputer = "."
Set objService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & strComputer)
Set objNewJob = Service.Get("Win32_ScheduledJob")
errJobCreated = objNewJob.Create("Monitor.exe", "********123000.000000-420",
True , 1 OR 4 OR 16, , , JobID)
If Err.Number = 0 Then
Wscript.Echo "New Job ID: " & JobID
Else
Wscript.Echo "An error occurred: " & errJobCreated
End If