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cURL to the Rescue

For reasons mostly lost in the mists of time, we have had a scheduled job on an old Windows 2000 server that launches Internet Explorer with an ASP page. The ASP page does its thing and then closes the browser with a bit of JavaScript. Since the browser is IE 6 this all worked fine.

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Windows Scheduled Tasks Tricks

If you manage Windows servers you are probably familiar with the Scheduled Tasks service. While not the fanciest job scheduler in the world, it is loaded with a decent set of features and, since it ships with the OS, arguably a lot cheaper than some of the third party options.

I use scheduled tasks a lot.

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