It's not possible to create the equivalent of "schtasks /create /SC minute"

[dhs-rec]

Describe the Bug

When I want to create a scheduled task that runs every minute, indefinitely, I need to use an exec resource that runs

schtasks /create /SC minute ...

instead of scheduled_task, because the latter is not capable of creating an equivalent task (trigger).

Expected Behavior

Being able to define a scheduled task with a One time trigger that runs every minute, indefinitely (this is what above schtasks command does).

Steps to Reproduce

Try to define a scheduled_task with a once trigger that repeats every minute, indefinitely. Due to the restrictions on start_date, start_time and minutes_duration it is not possible to get the exact same result as with schtasks.

Environment

• 6.27.1
• Windows

Additional Context

Task trigger created by above command looks like (in Task Scheduler)

• Trigger: "One time"
• Details: "At on - After triggered, repeat every 00:01:00 indefinitely."

Bonus: With schtasks, I can provide the command to execute simply as "powershell", whereas with scheduled_task I need to specify the full path...

[dhs-rec]

Addendum: I tried to replace the exec with the following:

  scheduled_task { 'schedule_foo':
    name      => 'Foo',
    ensure    => present,
    command   => 'C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe',
    arguments => "-ExecutionPolicy Bypass C:/some/script.ps1",
    enabled   => true,
    password  => $password,
    trigger   => {
      schedule         => once,
      minutes_interval => 1,
      start_date => Timestamp.new().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
      start_time => '00:01',
    },
    require   => File['some_script'],
    user      => $user,
  }

Which resulted in the following change:

trigger changed [
  {
    'start_date' => '2022-5-30',
    'start_time' => '09:37',
    'enabled' => true,
    'minutes_interval' => 1,
    'minutes_duration' => 0,
    'schedule' => 'once',
    'index' => 0
  }] to [
  {
    'schedule' => 'once',
    'minutes_interval' => '1',
    'start_date' => '2022-05-31',
    'start_time' => '00:01'
  }]

As can be seen here minutes_duration IS allowed to be smaller than minutes_interval. Setting it to 0 is what makes it run indefinitely.

[Nwolford51]

Having this same issue that you can not schedule a task indefinitely.