Change default scheduled defrag start times on Server 2012

I think it's great that by default Server 2012 is going to defrag all my drives on a weekly basis. But how can I access the scheduling portion? Is it possible to change start times, or give a window that it can start in? I have some drives
where the data on them is only not used during certain hours, so it would make the most sense to have it start the defrag during that window.

Hi,
The ScheduledDefrag Properties as below:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/02/17/what-39-s-new-in-defrag-for-windows-server-2012-2012r2.aspx
Regards.
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Rob Woollen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
sangita wrote:
Thanks Rob for been so quick in responding.
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#3 - What errors are you getting?
#4 - What have you done to debug this:
#5 - No one can be of much help unless you post a very simple example of how this fails.
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