VSE supports Jobs to be run in background on the server.
Any long running task can be run as a background job or can even be scheduled to run on a recurring basis. For e.g. you can choose to run, Import AD Users everyday at 09:00 hours.
Run Now - this option will execute the task immediately in foreground thread.
Recurrence - lets you define how often and at what times you would like the task to be executed.
Tasks can be Scheduled for recurrence for following functions,