anyone know of a way to disable a scheduled task through group policy or the registry? i figure if i can do it through registry i can just push out the change through GP preferences... i don't think there is b/c i 've researched it in the past and didn't find a way. not sure if something has changed..

You can use Powershell?

you could write a powershell to do it, then push that out through GPO

Too slow @Ryan Gallier 😛

5ms too slow. lol

yeah, i was trying to avoid that. i'll probably just do it on the master images

If PoSH is undesirable for you, you can use the schtasks command. If you want to avoid a programmatic approach entirely, you could manipulate

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule

and

%SystemRoot%\System32\Tasks

via Group Policy Preferences, but that feels gross and clunky. Maybe only use it as a stop gap until you can crack the image open, like you said.

ControlUp in the mix? There you can use the Controllers feature and manipulate the registry Kalon mentioned on multiple machines and fix it in the GoldenMaster without hassle…

@Kalon Dillon - thanks i'll check that out.