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Jack
Asked: 2017-01-30 16:17:29 +0800 CST

How to schedule a task to call a URL

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I have an MVC app. I have a controller that when called runs a background process to query Active Directory and updates the database.

http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run

I want to run this on a schedule (daily) without opening a browser. I see that there's a lot of third party solutions, is there something built in?

windows scheduled-task background-process windows-server-2012-r2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet from Powershell.

    In your task:

    • Action: Start a program
    • Program/script: powershell.exe
    • Arguments: -Command "Invoke-WebRequest http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run"
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  2. Alternatively, you can use cmd.exe as follows:

    • Action: Start a program
    • Program/script: cmd.exe
    • Arguments: /c start "" http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run &
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