Register Scheduled Task to use PowerShell 7 to run ps1

snippets_createAndRegisterScheduledTask.ps1

## some things for making and registering a scheduled task via PowerShell, with the task Action running via PowerShell 7 at run time

## creds for the new scheduled task
$credForSchedTask = Get-Credential coolguy@domain.com

## params for making a new scheduled task object in the PowerShell session
$hshParamForNewScheduledTask = @{
    Action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -Argument "-File E:\scripts\scheduled\Invoke-MyCoolThing.ps1" -WorkingDirectory "C:\temp"
    Description = "My important task to do all the things"
    ## additional settings
    Settings = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Hours 12) -MultipleInstances IgnoreNew
    ## start at given time, on given days of the week every week, with a random delay
    # Trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -At 5am -Weekly -DaysOfWeek ([DayOfWeek[]]("Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday".Split(","))) -RandomDelay (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 2)
    ## Or, every day
    Trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At 3am -RandomDelay (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1)
    Verbose = $true
    OutVariable = "oNewScheduledTask"
} ## end hsh

## params for registering the new scheduled task object from the PowerShell session into the Task Scheduler "system"
$hshParamForRegisterSchedTask = @{
    InputObject = New-ScheduledTask @hshParamForNewScheduledTask
    Password = $credForSchedTask.GetNetworkCredential().Password
    TaskName = "My_test_task"
    ## per help:  "Specifies the path for a scheduled task in Task Scheduler namespace. You can use \ for the root folder"
    TaskPath = "\"
    User = $credForSchedTask.UserName
    Verbose = $true
} ## end hsh

## actually register the scheduled task in Windows
Register-ScheduledTask @hshParamForRegisterSchedTask