How to schedule a task to call a URL

Question

I have an MVC app. I have a controller that when called runs a background process to query Active Directory and updates the database.

http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run

I want to run this on a schedule (daily) without opening a browser. I see that there's a lot of third party solutions, is there something built in?

Answer 1

Use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet from Powershell.

In your task:

• Action: Start a program
• Program/script: powershell.exe
• Arguments: -Command "Invoke-WebRequest http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run"