Working smarter means being more productive with less effort and nothing achieves that more quickly than automating as many of your daily tasks as possible instead of performing them manually.

If you want to automate a task, just create a PowerShell script and schedule it. To know more, check out the instructions mentioned here.

You’ll figure out ways to automate your daily work through scripting, understand database interaction and use Windows Task Scheduler to schedule PowerShell scripts to run, and more.

You can use Windows PowerShell to find Scheduled tasks Queued status of the scheduled tasks in Windows 10/8/Server, using Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet.

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