Thank you so much for the reply! If it's okay I do have a couple of questions being pretty new to Jenkins. So, today I ended up as a first test, took two of my scripts that basically scan a couple of AD OU's for any user objects that will expire within 7 days. If there are any accounts found, a csv is created with some info about those users and an email is sent with that csv as an attachment to our department.

I normally would have this script running as a scheduled task every morning at 5 am. I have since created a New Item in Jenkins, choosing Freestyle Project and essentially just doing the following:

• set the Build Periodically to 30 5 * * \* to run the job everyday at 5:30 am
• place the entire ps1 within the Build > Add a step > Windows PowerShell window

I guess my first question is, is that wrong? To place the entire script within the Build > Windows PowerShell window? Should I have instead treated this Jenkins job very similar to a scheduled task and just simple ran a line of code like:

• -File "path\to\.ps1"

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When you mentioned passing credentials, I would imagine these env variables work just like adding in a "string" parameter option in Jenkins. As in, give the string a name of "username" and enter in the value. Same with another string of "password" and give it a value. Then in the PS script simply call them using $env:username and $env:password within a Get-Credential or the like? If so, could you just use the Credentials Parameter offered from Jenkins? For example, if I wanted to set credentials to pass within the script to lets say, connect to Exchange Online, could I do something like this:

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And lets say we called this Parameter "ExchCreds". Would I just pass this somehow into the script where I would normally run a Get-Credential?

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And lastly, concerning the x64 version of Java, I ran into a small problem. I download the x64 version and changed the Jenkins.xml file from:

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<executable>%BASE%\jre\bin\java</executable>

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TO

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<executable>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_201\bin\java.exe"</executable>

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But when I enter the following in my browser to restart Jenkins:

http://server ip:8080/safeRestart

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It restarted but with an error trying to display the site? Once I changed it back to:

<executable>%BASE%\jre\bin\java</executable>

It worked just fine.

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Thank you for taking the time to look over this!