Troubleshooting Scheduled Task with PS1 on Intune Laptop

A user encountered an issue pushing a PS1 to a remote Intune laptop to create a scheduled task. Suggestions to include code to set the output encoding to ensure non-ASCII characters are captured, and to set the principal for the task to run as system were offered. The user ultimately found success in adding code to set the principal for the task.

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Running into an issue trying to push a PS1 to a remote Intune laptop to create a scheduled task with the following error. I am able to run the script locally as long as i set the execution policy to bypass first….i tried throwing that in the script but no luck

Not sure if it will fix it but almost all PS1 scripts in Edge start with the following code.

Set output encoding to ensure non-ASCII characters are captured

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

i’ll give it a shot! i’m having a similar issue trying to run a start-process script to call an existing exe and its saying the file doesnt exist

damn no luck….i already had that at the beginning

I got nothing… lol. Maybe one of the Powershell wizards can chime in.

no problem! thanks anyways! ya if i run the same command locally it works fine but through Edge DX as a script no luck

Running it in the user context?

custom – system

Can it run as custom – user?

And if you run powershell as system using psexec does it work?

unfortunately not……users of these laptops are not admins (intune autopilot devices) so has to be system

I’d manually test powershell.exe as system by using psexec and see if your code works.

yup that seems to work fine

looks like i just needed to add this to the script so it knew which context to run as $TaskPrincipal = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal “System”

and then call that of course in the register command

@member From your script it seems it could not reed the account info when trying to schedule the task?

yup thats what it ended up being…..i had to set the principal for the task so it knew to run as system! after that it works great

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