I am trying to use Win32::OLE to create a task on a Windows 10 system, something similar to SetDefaultPrinterFromSSD.ps1. I tried to manually validate the query by creating the same task by hand in the task scheduler GUI, and that seemed to work.
Here's my test code:
use File::Basename;
use Win32;
use Win32::OLE;
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;
use Data::Dumper;
my ($me, $dirpath, $suffix) = fileparse($0, qr/\.[^.]*/);
my ($system, $login, $domain, $sidbin, $sidtype, $sidtxt) = "";
$login = Win32::LoginName();
Win32::LookupAccountName($system, $login, $domain, $sidbin, $sidtype);
my($Revision, $SubAuthorityCount,@IdentifierAuthorities) = unpack("CCnnn", $sidbin);
unless (($IdentifierAuthorities[0] || $IdentifierAuthorities[1])) {
my($temp, $temp2, @SubAuthorities) = unpack("VVV$SubAuthorityCount",$sidbin);
$sidtxt = "S-$Revision-$IdentifierAuthorities[2]-".join("-",@SubAuthorities);
}
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (my $service = Win32::OLE->CreateObject('Schedule.Service'));
$service->Connect;
my $RootFolder = $service->GetFolder('\\');
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (my $TaskDefinition = $service->NewTask(0));
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (my $regInfo = $TaskDefinition->RegistrationInfo);
$regInfo->{Description} = "Register a perl task as an event $me";
$regInfo->{Author} = "$domain\\$login";
$regInfo->{URI} = "$sidtxt\\$me";
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (my $settings = $TaskDefinition->Settings);
$settings->{Enabled} = 1;
$settings->{AllowDemandStart} = 1;
$settings->{DisallowStartIfOnBatteries} = 0;
$settings->{StopIfGoingOnBatteries} = 0;
$settings->{Hidden} = 0;
my @Triggers;
my $TriggerSet;
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless ($TriggerSet = $TaskDefinition->Triggers);
for (10000..10001) {
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (push @Triggers, $TriggerSet->Create(0));
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Id} = $_;
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Subscription} =
"<QueryList>
<Query Id=\"event$_\" Path=\"Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational\">
<Select Path=\"Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational\">*[System[(EventID=\"$_\")]]</Select>
</Query>
</QueryList>";
die Win32::OLE->LastError()
unless (my $values = $Triggers[$#Triggers]->ValueQueries->Create("eventId", "Event/System/EventID"));
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Enabled} = 1;
}
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (my $Action = $TaskDefinition->Actions()->Create(0));
$Action->{Path} = 'C:\Perl64\Bin\Perl.exe';
$Action->{Arguments} = "$0 -f event\${eventID}";
$RootFolder->RegisterTaskDefinition("OLE-Test",$TaskDefinition,6,undef,undef,3);
print Dumper $TaskDefinition->{XmlText};
If I run the code with RegisterTaskDefinition with TASK_VALIDATE_ONLY flag set (third parameter = 1), I get a nice XML dump. So far so good. When I run the code with RegisterTaskDefinition with TASK_CREATE_OR_UPDATE (third parameter = 6), I get this error:
OLE exception from "<Unknown Source>":
(11,263):Subscription:<QueryList><Query Id="event10000"
Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational"><Select
Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational">*
[System[(EventID="10000")]]</Select></Query></QueryList>
Win32::OLE(0.1712) error 0x80073a99: "The specified query is invalid"
in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "RegisterTaskDefinition" at OLE-test.pl line 63.
Anyone familiar enough with Win32::OLE, and the Windows task scheduler XML to explain what I'm doing wrong?
The Query Id attribute must be numeric. I got the following to work:
for (10000..10001) {
die Win32::OLE->LastError() unless (push @Triggers, $TriggerSet->Create(0));
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Id} = $_;
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Subscription} =
qq{<QueryList>
<Query Id="$_" Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational">
<Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational">*[System[(EventID="$_")]]</Select>
</Query>
</QueryList>};
die Win32::OLE->LastError()
unless (my $values = $Triggers[$#Triggers]->ValueQueries->Create("eventId", "Event/System/EventID"));
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Enabled} = 1;
}
The relevant, magic change is matching
$Triggers[$#Triggers]->{Id} = $_;
and
<Query Id="$_" Path="Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational">
Maybe you can change both to be non-numeric, but with that change, I created tasks that I was able to view afterwards.
Consider using $^X
in your code to make the path to Perl more dynamic instead of hardcoding it to C:\Perl64
.