How to search based on Activity Scope

Question

This search script works well. Thank you.

I would like to search for all scheduled tasks based on Activity Scope. I would like to delete all scheduled tasks that are configured to be assigned over a specific user.

What would be the best approach under this circumstance?

Comments

We have resolved the issue by cycling through each task in a container and checking the Activity Scope Items for the users DN. Thank you Serge for your assistance.

The following script has worked for us:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi")

$childContainer = "Scheduled Custom Commands" # the name of the container your scheduled tasks are stored in.
$userDN = "CN=Firstname  Lastname,OU=Some Org,OU=Some Company,DC=yourdomain,DC=com"

# Get the scheduled task container path
$ns = New-Object "Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi.AdmNamespace"
$service = $ns.GetServiceDirectly("localhost")

# Build ADS path to the scheduled tasks
$scheduledTasksPath = $service.Backend.GetConfigurationContainerPath("ScheduledTasks")
$scheduledTasksPathObj = New-Object "Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi.AdsPath" $scheduledTasksPath
$scheduledTaskPath = $scheduledTasksPathObj.CreateChildPath("CN=$childContainer")

# Bind to the scheduled tasks
$tasks = $service.OpenObject($scheduledTaskPath, $null, $null, 0)

foreach ($task in $tasks) {
    # Get task name
    $taskName = $task.Get("name")

    # Check each activity scope item
    foreach ($item in $task.ActivityScopeItems)
    {
        $baseObject = $item.BaseObject
        if ($NULL -eq $baseObject)
        {
            continue
        }

        # Obtain the activity scope item DN and Full Name
        $baseObjectDN = $baseObject.Get("distinguishedName")
        $userFullName = $baseObject.Get("cn")

        # If the items DN is eq to our user, then delete the scheduled task,..
        if ($baseObjectDN -eq $userDN)
        {
            write-host("$userFullName is assigned over $taskName. Deleting the scheduled task")
            $task.DeleteObject("ADM_DELETEOBJECTFLAGS_AUTO")
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Hello,

Sorry for the confusion, but we are not quite sure what exactly you need to achieve and how it is related to question How can I use PowerShell code to get a list of scheduled task whose name match a partial search?. If custom command Dayforce terminate user now executes a PowerShell script and you need it to use properties of the target user, you can use value references. If that is not what you need, please, describe the desired workflow in all the possible details with live examples.