How can I set up a CRON job using Windows Azure?

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OpTech Marketing picture OpTech Marketing · Dec 25, 2011 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

Is there a way to use the windows scheduled task to kick off a url or a exe on a schedule?

Can I write a program as an exe then create a Azure VM then RDP into the Azure VM and hook it up to windows task scheduler?

Answer

Patrick Desjardins picture Patrick Desjardins · Dec 17, 2013

Azure does have a scheduler now.

It allows invoking a Web Service over HTTP/s and post a message to a Windows Azure Storage Queue. It's very new but it can be free if you do not need the scheduler to be executed often. Otherwise it's a small monthly fee which come with scheduled task that can be up to every minute.

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