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Is there something like cron jobs in IIS?

I'm developing an ASP.NET web application. There is some functionality I need to trigger every 10 minutes. So currently I'm considering a 'scheduled task' or to create a Windows service to call the URL.

But I remember once I did the same thing in a PHP web hosting space, using a cron job.

So is there anything like cron jobs in IIS?

Note: I'm not expecting to use 3rd-party online scheduler services.

Solution

  • Apples and oranges. cron is a Unix service. IIS is a web server. Just as cron is not included in Apache or nginx, there is no sense in which IIS contains a scheduler. However, you can use schtasks.exe in a similar way you can use cron on Unix.

    You might find more ideas in this question.