How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording

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I have a Windows Server 2008 with scheduled tasks running  mainly  bat files calling PHP files  I have 2 users on the server  one Admin and the other is a Standard user    I used the Standard User to clear the history log in the Task Scheduler History tab using the Event Viewer  Now it won t record any history anymore  All of the scheduled tasks no longer have history in the History tab  However  the Last Run Result returns 0x0 and the schedulers are working fine  Please advise

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This may help others where there is no option to Enable/Disable the history anywhere in Task Scheduler.

Open Event Viewer (either in Computer Management or Admin Tools > Event Viewer).

In Event Viewer make sure the Preview Pane is showing (View > Preview Pane should be ticked)

In the left hand pane expand Application and Service Logs then Microsoft, Windows, TaskScheduler and then select Operational.

You should have Actions showing in the preview pane with two sections - Operational and below that Event nnn, TaskScheduler. One of the items listed in the Operational section should be Properties. Click this item and the Enable Logging option is on the General tab.

My problem was that the maximum log size had been reached and even though the overwrite old events option was selected it wasn't logging new events. I suspect that might have been a permissions issue but I changed it to Archive when full and all is now working again.

Hope this helps someone else out there. If you don't have the options I've mentioned above I'm sorry, but I don't know where you should look.

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I think the confusion is that on my server I had to right click the Task Scheduler Library on left hand side and right click to get the option to enable or disable all tasks history   Hope this helps

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As noted earlier  there is an option to turn on or off History provided you open up task manager under the elevated  Administrator  mode  right click on the Task Scheduler program shortcut and choose  Run As Administrator    Then under  Tasks  is your spot to stop or start History

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The adjustment in the Task Scheduler app actually just controls the enabled state of a certain event log  so you can equivalently adjust the Task Scheduler  history  mode via the Windows command line   wevtutil set-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational  enabled true   To check the current state   wevtutil get-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational   For the keystroke-averse  here are the slightly abbreviated versions of the above   wevtutil sl Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational  e true wevtutil gl Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational

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Step 1   Open an elevated Task Scheduler  ie  right-click on the Task Scheduler icon and choose Run as administrator   Step 2   In the Actions pane  right pane  not the actions tab   click Enable All Tasks History  That s it  Not sure why this isn t on by default  but it isn t

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Here is where I found it on a Windows 2008R2 server  Elevated Task Scheduler Click on  Task Scheduler Library  It appears as an option on the right hand  Actions  panel

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Win 8 1 Pro  Brian Clark s answer above worked for me  but I m posting here for those who may have to follow a slightly different sequence as I did   When I ran Control Panel   Administrative Tools   Right Click Task Scheduler -  Run as Administrator   I found the Actions pane to already contain the following action   Disable All Tasks History   So my machine already had History enabled   But my machine needed to disable history first  then go back and  Enable All Tasks History    After that  my History showed up and I received no more errors   I m assuming that action performed some type of initialization or setup that was never done properly from all the way back to OS installation   I will also add that I had to exit Task Scheduler and reenter it before I could toggle the History Enable Disable setting back and forth

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I have another possible answer for those wondering why event log entries are not showing up in the History tab of Task Scheduler for certain tasks  even though All Task History is enabled  the events for those tasks are viewable in the Event Log  and all other tasks show history just fine   In my case  I had created 13 new tasks   For 5 of them  events showed fine under History  but for the other 8  the History tab was completely blank   I even verified these tasks were enabled for history individually  and logging events  using Mick Wood s post about using the Event Viewer   Then it hit me   I suddenly realized what all 8 had in common that the other 5 did not   They all had an ampersand   amp   character in the event name   I created them by exporting the first task I created   Sync E to N   renaming the exported file name  editing the XML contents  and then importing the new task   Windows Explorer happily let me rename the task  for example  to  Sync C to N  amp  T   and Task Scheduler happily let me import it   However  with that pesky   amp   in the name  it could not retrieve its history from the event log   When I deleted the original event  renamed the xml file to  Sync C to N and T   and imported it  voila  there were all of the log entries in the History tab in Task Scheduler

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