NickKroppe I stumbled across your post here as once again we find ourselves in this predicament - always fun. Of course I will test this first but I am curious about one item. Example: my tasks that are scheduled for 8:30 am and are showing on the task scheduler calendar as 8:30am are kicking off at 9:30 am due to the time change over the weekend. Therefore, how they look on the calendar is correct but they are just kicking off at a time inconsistent with how they show on the calendar. Will running the DM jobs you have attached, change how they look on the task scheduler calendar? I do not want to change the time they are showing as on the calendar. I just want to sync they time they are kicking off with how they are showing on the calendar. Does that make sense?
Thank you
Denise
Hi Denise, I'm not 100% sure to be honest. I would suggest to test the solution in a DEV application first to confirm. Are you able to try running the solution to alter task scheduler times in DEV?
I will have to check. Usually when we refresh Dev with a copy of Production I will delete all the scheduled tasks in Dev as I do not want then running there. I will have to see if Dev has an old task or two on the calendar that was put there before the time change this past weekend. Thank you for your help.
I tested in our Dev environment. I had some old recurring tasks in there. It moved them on the calendar. So, if it was a 6am job, it is now showing at 5am on the calendar. So, I am not sure I want to do this in Production as my jobs are showing the correct time on the calendar. I saw Jack's response where I think he is suggesting an IIS reset. I would probably have to wait until this evening to do that but need to fix the jobs before then. I think what I did last year was opened each one, changed the time from example: 8am to 9am, saved, and then changed back to 8am.
Hi Denise, thank you for testing. I would not execute this in PROD then. We will look into this and see if there is a better solution to retain the correct calendar view and have the task execute at the desired time.
I don't believe IIS is the answer. That resets daily anyway. I think what is needed is to change the "Start Date" (not the time) in the task scheduler item so that it retains the correct time in the calendar view, and also executes at the desired time based on the time change for the date. I think the best solution for this would be to have the data management solution change the start date for all tasks to the date of when the next time the job will run. This will result in the start date changing to a date that is after the daylight savings change which I expect will resolve the issue. You would ideally want to run this the day before daylight savings or the business day after daylight savings to ensure the start date is changed to a date that is post daylight savings. Try reloading the zip file in my original post to upload the latest version and see if that provides the desired results.
