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	"plain_text": "Scheduled Tasks History Retention settings\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 12:54:28 UTC\r\nQuestion\r\nMonday, November 2, 2015 3:03 PM\r\nHello,\r\nI am currently only able to view the History for my Scheduled Tasks going back only 1 day on Windows Server\r\n2012 R2.\r\nIs there a way to increase this to at least 7 days?\r\nI have noticed that on Windows Server 2008 R2 the History seems to at least go back 3 days.\r\nAny help here would be greatly appreciated!\r\nKind regards,\r\nDaniel\r\nTuesday, November 3, 2015 8:05 AM ✅Answered | 3 votes\r\nHi Daniel,\r\nI believe you need to increase the below eventlog's Properties to retain more logs.\r\nHistory pulls eventID 140 from here. A task's history is tracked by events in the Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler event log.\r\nMicrosoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational\r\nSet Log Retention Policy - TechNet - Microsoft - Default is 10MB of data, if you run lots of schtsk then it needs to\r\nbe increased.\r\nRegards,\r\nSatyajit\r\nPlease“Vote As Helpful” if you find my contribution useful or “MarkAs Answer” if it does answer your question.\r\nThat will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.\r\nTuesday, November 3, 2015 3:05 PM\r\nhttps://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e5bca729-52e7-4fcb-ba12-3225c564674c/scheduled-tasks-history-retention-settings?forum=winserver8gen\r\nPage 1 of 3\n\nGreat thank you Satyajit!\r\nThe current value was 1MB for my system so I have increased this to 1GB to see how many days of History this\r\nwill give me. \r\nI take it there is no way to set the logs to clear after 7 days instead of having them clear based on the log file size?\r\nKind regards,\r\nDaniel\r\nWednesday, November 4, 2015 10:37 AM\r\nHi Daniel,\r\nThe options vary log to log basis, for this one, you need to do it using size. Keep track for few weeks and you\r\nwould know the exact size required to keep 7days data.\r\nYour 1MB setting would mean, someone is worried on the disk space, so be careful, you should start small, make\r\nit 100MB and see how much it retains. \r\nRegards,\r\nSatyajit\r\nPlease “Vote As Helpful” if you find my contribution useful or “Mark As Answer” if it does answer your question.\r\nThat will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.\r\nMonday, September 23, 2019 12:58 PM\r\nHi Daniel,\r\nI believe you need to increase the below eventlog's Properties to retain more logs.\r\nHistory pulls eventID 140 from here. A task's history is tracked by events in the Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler event log.\r\nMicrosoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational\r\nSet Log Retention Policy - TechNet - Microsoft - Default is 10MB of data, if you run lots of schtsk then\r\nit needs to be increased.\r\nRegards,\r\nSatyajit\r\nPlease“Vote As Helpful” if you find my contribution useful or “MarkAs Answer” if it does answer your\r\nquestion. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.\r\nhttps://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e5bca729-52e7-4fcb-ba12-3225c564674c/scheduled-tasks-history-retention-settings?forum=winserver8gen\r\nPage 2 of 3\n\nSo can you or anyone here actually provide the steps to view/change the log file size?\r\nThe link you provided is broken.\r\nWednesday, April 29, 2020 2:58 PM\r\nIn WIN10 (and Server2012) this is a property of the event log. \r\nFirst open the event viewer..\r\nApplications and Services Logs/ Microsoft/ Windows / TaskScheduler\r\nThere you can pick Maintenance or Operational - Properties.. Extend the size of the log file. (operational is 10MB\r\nby default)\r\nSource: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e5bca729-52e7-4fcb-ba12-3225c564674c/scheduled-tasks-history-retention-setting\r\ns?forum=winserver8gen\r\nhttps://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e5bca729-52e7-4fcb-ba12-3225c564674c/scheduled-tasks-history-retention-settings?forum=winserver8gen\r\nPage 3 of 3",
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