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How to start executable (or batch) on server by workflow (or any other idea)

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Posted on by Jeroen J

Dear reader,
we have a CRM 2016 on premise installation, long time ago choosen because of the interfacing ease.

One of the interface streams runs every 5 minutes by Windows Task Scheduler on the server, looks if there's anything to process, logs about this and processes if necessary. I really don't like this 5 minute interval and would like a system that actually reacts on events in CRM.
A scenario could be a workflow plugin that fires the executable (formerly started by scheduler) as soon as a record meets the desired state.

Anyone have any ideas on this? Maybe experience? Pings to already existing plugin activities? Risks?

Thanks for thinking along.
Best regards,

Jeroen

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RE: How to start executable (or batch) on server by workflow (or any other idea)

Hi Jeroen,

Majorly for tasks like these window schedular is a good approach and i have personally used it.

However if you have trigger in CRM already - I would suggest you register a plugin on that event and do everything there rather then calling the exe if feasible?

otherwise , simply call the exe from plugin.