The history of a task is tracked by events. These events can be viewed in Task Scheduler for each task to track when the task was registered, run, and when it completed or failed. The progress of a task can be monitored through its history. A task can be controlled by running or stopping the task manually (on-demand). event id 111 from the source Microsoft Windows TaskScheduler with error message “Task Scheduler terminated the “%2” instance of the “%1″ task due to exceeding the time allocated for execution, as configured in the task definition. Increase the configured task timeout or investigate external reasons for the delay” is describes below.