Windows – What version of PowerShell comes with Windows 7

I suspect that you really have 2.0. The 2.0 version installs in a directory named 1.0 which often causes this confusion. In a PS session type:

$host.version

And I suspect that you will see:

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
2      0      -1     -1

I finally wrote a script that suits my needs. This script will 'scan' all the servers listed in AD, searching in the c:\Windows\System32\tasks folder for xml files. Then it will write the value of the UserID xml node of each file, in the final CSV file.

Not yet perfect but totally working to list all tasks of all servers, and log which user account is used to run them.

<#
.Synopsis
   PowerShell script to list all Scheduled Tasks and the User ID
.DESCRIPTION
   This script scan the content of the c:\Windows\System32\tasks and search the UserID XML value. 
   The output of the script is a comma-separated log file containing the Computername, Task name, UserID.
#>

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$VerbosePreference = "continue"
$list = (Get-ADComputer -LDAPFilter "(&(objectcategory=computer)(OperatingSystem=*server*))").Name
Write-Verbose  -Message "Trying to query $($list.count) servers found in AD"
$logfilepath = "$home\Desktop\TasksLog.csv"
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"

foreach ($computername in $list)
{
    $path = "\\" + $computername + "\c$\Windows\System32\Tasks"
    $tasks = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -File

    if ($tasks)
    {
        Write-Verbose -Message "I found $($tasks.count) tasks for $computername"
    }

    foreach ($item in $tasks)
    {
        $AbsolutePath = $path + "\" + $item.Name
        $task = [xml] (Get-Content $AbsolutePath)
        [STRING]$check = $task.Task.Principals.Principal.UserId

        if ($task.Task.Principals.Principal.UserId)
        {
          Write-Verbose -Message "Writing the log file with values for $computername"           
          Add-content -path $logfilepath -Value "$computername,$item,$check"
        }

    }
}

The output is a comma-separated file generated on your desktop, like this one :

> SRV028,CCleanerSkipUAC,administrator
> SRV029,GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore,System
> SRV030,GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA,System
> SRV021,BackupMailboxes,DOMAIN\administrator
> SRV021,Compress&Archive,DOMAIN\sysScheduler