Change the setting 'StartWhenAvailable' via Powershell

Question

I have some scheduled tasks where I'm wanting to set the following setting to true

StartWhenAvailable which correlates to this setting

What is the best way in Powershell to achieve this? I wrote the following, but I feel like there is a much better way to do it.

$update = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -StartWhenAvailable 
Set-ScheduledTask -TaskName 'Adobe Acrobat Update Task' -Settings $update

Also, how do you change these values to true/false?

Answer 1

For your first question, that's a perfectly valid way to set the Settings object. Another way would be to operate on the objects themselves, which might make sense if you're looping over a series of objects, or similar.

$Task = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName 'Adobe Acrobat Update Task'
$Settings = $Task.Settings
$Settings.StartWhenAvailable = $true
Set-ScheduledTask -TaskName 'Adobe Acrobat Update Task' -Settings $Settings

For your second question, the -StartWhenAvailable is a [switch] in PowerShell - see docs. You can toggle the settings to $false by specifying -StartWhenAvailable:$false. See switch parameters for more details.