Afternoon all

I'm building a Powershell script that will enable me to deploy VM's from my vCenter content library after filling in a brief form. This form pulls through some information from the vCenter to aid in completing it.

I've 2 current issues:

1. If a Combobox only receives only a single result to populate with, I get the below error:

exception settings "datasource": "Complex DataBinding accepts as a data source either an IList or an IListSource

2. When pulling back all the VM folder names, it doesn't list them in a nice tree view like vCenter does (for example, we have several folders identically named "compute") so in order to make these readable, I put in a command that gives the parent folder, followed by the 2nd level folder and finally the ID of that folder. Is there any way to get just the "ID" bit out of the Combobox to pass through to a variable for the rest of my script to use?

# Drawing the box


Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()

$CDWVMDeploy                     = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form
$CDWVMDeploy.ClientSize          = '500,689'
$CDWVMDeploy.text                = "CDWVMDeploy"
$CDWVMDeploy.TopMost             = $false

$Title                           = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$Title.text                      = "CDW ServiceWorks VM Deployment Tool"
$Title.AutoSize                  = $true
$Title.width                     = 25
$Title.height                    = 10
$Title.location                  = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(23,25)
$Title.Font                      = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10,style=Bold'
$Title.ForeColor                 = "#ff0000"

$vCenterLabel                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$vCenterLabel.text               = "Which vCenter?"
$vCenterLabel.AutoSize           = $true
$vCenterLabel.width              = 25
$vCenterLabel.height             = 10
$vCenterLabel.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,57)
$vCenterLabel.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$vCenterChoice                   = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$vCenterChoice.DropDownStyle = [System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle]::DropDownList
$vCenterChoice.width             = 141
$vCenterChoice.height            = 20
@('1','2') | ForEach-Object {[void] $vCenterChoice.Items.Add($_)}
$vCenterChoice.location          = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(19,84)
$vCenterChoice.Font              = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$OSChoice                        = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$OSChoice.DropDownStyle = [System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle]::DropDownList
$OSChoice.width                  = 200
$OSChoice.height                 = 20
@('cl_template-CentOS7','cl_template-RHL6.4','cl_template-fgvm-FGVM-5.6.4','cl_template-w2008R2-std','cl_template-w2012-std','cl_template-w2012R2-std','cl_template-w2016-std','cl_template-w2019-std') | ForEach-Object {[void] $OSChoice.Items.Add($_)}
$OSChoice.location               = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(19,148)
$OSChoice.Font                   = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$OSLabel                         = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$OSLabel.text                    = "OS Choice?"
$OSLabel.AutoSize                = $true
$OSLabel.width                   = 25
$OSLabel.height                  = 10
$OSLabel.location                = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,118)
$OSLabel.Font                    = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$VMNameChoice                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$VMNameChoice.multiline          = $false
$VMNameChoice.width              = 244
$VMNameChoice.height             = 40
$VMNameChoice.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(20,347)
$VMNameChoice.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$CPUChoice                       = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$CPUChoice.DropDownStyle = [System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle]::DropDownList
$CPUChoice.width                 = 100
$CPUChoice.height                = 20
@('1','2') | ForEach-Object {[void] $CPUChoice.Items.Add($_)}
$CPUChoice.location              = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(19,214)
$CPUChoice.Font                  = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$CPUSocketLabel                  = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$CPUSocketLabel.text             = "vSocket"
$CPUSocketLabel.AutoSize         = $true
$CPUSocketLabel.width            = 25
$CPUSocketLabel.height           = 10
$CPUSocketLabel.location         = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,185)
$CPUSocketLabel.Font             = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$RAMLabel                        = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$RAMLabel.text                   = "RAM (GB)"
$RAMLabel.AutoSize               = $true
$RAMLabel.width                  = 25
$RAMLabel.height                 = 10
$RAMLabel.location               = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(140,185)
$RAMLabel.Font                   = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$RAMChoice                       = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$RAMChoice.width                 = 100
$RAMChoice.height                = 20
@('2','4','6','8','10','12','16','20','24','32','48','64','128') | ForEach-Object {[void] $RAMChoice.Items.Add($_)}
$RAMChoice.location              = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(140,213)
$RAMChoice.Font                  = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$VMNameLabel                     = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$VMNameLabel.text                = "VM Name?"
$VMNameLabel.AutoSize            = $true
$VMNameLabel.width               = 25
$VMNameLabel.height              = 10
$VMNameLabel.location            = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,319)
$VMNameLabel.Font                = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$DeployButton                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Button
$DeployButton.text               = "DEPLOY"
$DeployButton.width              = 174
$DeployButton.height             = 49
$DeployButton.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(75,617)
$DeployButton.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,25,style=Bold'
$DeployButton.ForeColor          = "#7ed321"

$vCoreLabel                      = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$vCoreLabel.text                 = "vCore (Socket x Core = Total vCPU)"
$vCoreLabel.AutoSize             = $true
$vCoreLabel.width                = 25
$vCoreLabel.height               = 10
$vCoreLabel.location             = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,253)
$vCoreLabel.Font                 = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$CoreBox                         = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$CoreBox.width                   = 100
$CoreBox.height                  = 20
@('1','2','3','4','6','8','10','12','16') | ForEach-Object {[void] $CoreBox.Items.Add($_)}
$CoreBox.location                = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(19,282)
$CoreBox.Font                    = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$ConnectButton                   = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Button
$ConnectButton.text              = "Connect"
$ConnectButton.width             = 99
$ConnectButton.height            = 26
$ConnectButton.location          = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(185,81)
$ConnectButton.Font              = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10,style=Bold'
$ConnectButton.ForeColor         = "#7ed321"

$DatastoreChoice                 = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$DatastoreChoice.width           = 244
$DatastoreChoice.height          = 20
$DatastoreChoice.location        = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(20,411)
$DatastoreChoice.Font            = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$DatastoreLabel                  = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$DatastoreLabel.text             = "Datastore?"
$DatastoreLabel.AutoSize         = $true
$DatastoreLabel.width            = 25
$DatastoreLabel.height           = 10
$DatastoreLabel.location         = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,381)
$DatastoreLabel.Font             = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$NetworkLabel                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$NetworkLabel.text               = "Network?"
$NetworkLabel.AutoSize           = $true
$NetworkLabel.width              = 25
$NetworkLabel.height             = 10
$NetworkLabel.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,439)
$NetworkLabel.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$NetworkChoice                   = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$NetworkChoice.width             = 245
$NetworkChoice.height            = 20
$NetworkChoice.location          = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(19,460)
$NetworkChoice.Font              = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$ClusterLabel                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$ClusterLabel.text               = "Cluster?"
$ClusterLabel.AutoSize           = $true
$ClusterLabel.width              = 25
$ClusterLabel.height             = 10
$ClusterLabel.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(23,490)
$ClusterLabel.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$ClusterChoice                   = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$ClusterChoice.width             = 245
$ClusterChoice.height            = 20
$ClusterChoice.location          = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,511)
$ClusterChoice.Font              = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$FolderLabel                     = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Label
$FolderLabel.text                = "VM Folder?"
$FolderLabel.AutoSize            = $true
$FolderLabel.width               = 25
$FolderLabel.height              = 10
$FolderLabel.location            = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(25,548)
$FolderLabel.Font                = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$FolderChoice                    = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$FolderChoice.width              = 450
$FolderChoice.height             = 20
$FolderChoice.location           = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(21,575)
$FolderChoice.Font               = 'Microsoft Sans Serif,10'

$CDWVMDeploy.controls.AddRange(@($Title,$vCenterLabel,$vCenterChoice,$OSChoice,$OSLabel,$VMNameChoice,$CPUChoice,$CPUSocketLabel,$RAMLabel,$RAMChoice,$VMNameLabel,$DeployButton,$vCoreLabel,$CoreBox,$ConnectButton,$DatastoreChoice,$DatastoreLabel,$NetworkLabel,$NetworkChoice,$ClusterLabel,$ClusterChoice,$FolderLabel,$FolderChoice))




#End GUI Region



#Disable certificate checking
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false

#What happens when clicking "connect" button
$ConnectButton.Add_Click({ConnecttoVC})
function ConnecttoVC
{
#Disconnect any existing sessions
disconnect-viserver -Confirm:$false

#connect to vCenter
connect-viserver $vCenterChoice.selecteditem


#Get Folder into FolderChoice box
$Folders = get-folder | where{$_.Type -eq "vm"} | select parent,name,id |Sort-Object parent
$FolderChoice.DataSource = $Folders
$FolderChoice.SelectedItem

#Get Cluster choice 
$Clusters = Get-Cluster
$ClusterChoice.Datasource = $Clusters
$ClusterChoice.SelectedItem

#Get Datastore choice

$Datastores = Get-Datastore | Sort-Object
$DatastoreChoice.DataSource = $Datastores
$DatastoreChoice.SelectedItem

#Get networks choice

$Network = Get-VDPortGroup | Sort-Object
$NetworkChoice.DataSource = $Network
$NetworkChoice.SelectedItem
}

#What happens when clicking "deploy" button
$DeployButton.Add_Click({DeployVM})
function DeployVM 
{ 

#Need to get these variables from the combo/free text boxes from form into the below

#region Starter Vars ()
$cluster = Get-Cluster $ClusterChoice.Text
$datacenter = $cluster | Get-Datacenter
$datastore = Get-Datastore $DatastoreChoice.Text
$folder = Get-Folder $FolderChoice.Text
$vmSubnet = Get-VDPortgroup -Name $NetworkChoice.Text
$NewVM = $VMNameChoice.Text
#endregion


#Spin up the vm from a content library template.
Get-ContentLibraryItem -Name $OSChoice.Text | New-VM -Name $NewVM -resourcePool $cluster -location $folder -datastore $datastore -DiskStorageFormat "Thin" -confirm:$false

#assumes a single nic, which as a template should be your standard
$NewVM | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName $vmSubnet -StartConnected $true -confirm:$false

#Set CPU's
get-VM -name $NewVM | set-VM -NumCpu $CPUChoice.text
$TotalvCPU=$CPUChoice.text*$CoreBox.text
$spec=New-Object –Type VMware.Vim.VirtualMAchineConfigSpec –Property @{“NumCoresPerSocket” = $CoreBox.text}
($NewVM).ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
$NewVM | set-vm -numcpu $TotalvCPU -confirm:$false

#Set Memory

set-vm $vm -MemoryGB $RAMChoice.text -confirm:$false

#Need to complete the below only if Windows OS selected (need to put an if statement in?)
set-vm $vm -OSCustomizationSpec "+ServiceWorks Windows Templates" -confirm:$false
Get-VM $NewVM
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$spec.Firmware = [VMware.Vim.GuestOsDescriptorFirmwareType]::efi
$vm.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM($spec)

} 


[void]$CDWVMDeploy.ShowDialog()

Thanks!

I'm still learning Powershell so please take it easy on me. Here is what I am trying to do, find a process called wview.exe on multiple remote computers, if wview.exe exist stop it + log it + increase counter, if it doesn't but computer is up, log it + increase counter, if we can't connect log it + increase counter. I would like to avoid having to test the connection first.

Here is a sample of what I have:

Foreach ($Computer in $Computers){    #Try to connect to the computer    Try{        $ProcessCount = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ScriptBlock {@(Stop-Process -force -passthru -processname wview).count} -SessionOption (New-PSSessionOption -NoMachineProfile)        #If we find 1 or more wview.exe let's log it and + counters        If($ProcessCount -eq 1){            Write-Host $Computer " Processes killed: $ProcessCount"            #$Result is an array to store the result to log to a file in the full script            $Results += $Computer + " Processes killed: $ProcessCount"            #Counters to store in summary for log file            $SuccessConnectCount++            $SuccessKillCount++        }            #Else ... no wview processes found, let's log it and + counter            Else{                Write-Host $Computer ": 0 WView processes to kill"                $Results += $Computer + ": 0 WView processes to kill"                #Counter to store in summary for log file                $SuccessConnectCount++            }    }       #If we get a system error, let's catch it and log it as failed count.    Catch{        Write-Host $Computer ": Connection error"        $Results += $Computer + ": Connection error"        #Counter to store in summary for log file        $FailConnectCount++    }
}

I've tried multiple things like erroractions, catching system errors etc, however the script seems to either hit the try statement (if or else, never both) or catch statement and never all 3 (try, if, else and catch) when all 3 scenarios are present.

Hi,

Is it possible to replace all first character of every word in a string with UpperCase?

$="autocad lite"

Should look "Autocad Lite" .

Thanks,

François

i have a user  Crystal Morin in Active directory who recently had a name change

since the name change user no longer has access to skye

iN the extended attribute of the user there is no msRTCSIP  nor is ther  the attibute msRTCPSIP-UsesrEnabled

What is the powershell command to add  msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress to crystal morin

I concatenated 3 columns of CSV file, and need to filter based on those values in those 3 columns.

I managed to concatenate these 3 columns but no idea how to filter results based on it, below returns nothing:

Import-Csv "C:\1.csv" | Select-Object  @{n=’ResourceName’;e={$_.FIRST_NAME + "," + $_.LAST_NAME + "," + $_.ADDRESS} `
| Where-Object {$_.FIRST_NAME -like "Petar" -and $_.LAST_NAME -like "Petrovic" -and $_.ADDRESS -like "Prvomajska 1"}

Hi All,

I have a .csv file called input.csv with the following columns.

Columns:

#TYPE Selected.Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MatchInfo"Path","Filename","Pattern","LineNumber","Line","APPID","LastWriteTime"

with the sample values below separated by comma and with in double quotes

Sample Values:

"\\XXXXXX\d$\Apps\Archive\XXX-2015-08-14_16-08-34\Service\log4net.xml","log4net.xml","password=|pass=|passwd=|passphrase=|pwd=|psw=|\<password\>","60","              <connectionString value=""data source=SQLSVR;initial catalog=test_log4net;integrated security=false;persist security info=True;User ID=sa;Password=sa""/>","765","7/8/2015 6:03:44 PM""\\XXXXXX\d$\Support\__PACKAGE\Support\Software\PowerShell\Carbon\Service\Install-Service.ps1","Install-Service.ps1","password=|pass=|passwd=|passphrase=|pwd=|psw=|\<password\>","187","            $passwordArgName = 'password='","1310","1/28/2014 4:59:06 PM"

I have a file called exclude.txt  with the value like below which matches the column Line in input.csv

Sample Value in the exclude.txt

"            $passwordArgName = 'password='"

I have written the code below to exclude the line which contains the value in the exclude.txt and put the remaining in an output file.  But it is not working and simple returning all the values in input.csv.  Please review and me know what I a doing wrong here.

$import = @{}


$import = Get-Content C:\PC\Libaudit\input.csv
 select -Skip 1

$database = Get-Content C:\PC\Libaudit\exclude.txt
 
$import |
 where {$_ -notcontains $database} |
 Add-Content C:\PC\LibAudit\ToUpload.csv

Thanks for your help

SS

Anyone can give me idea, please... I would like to bring files to GroupBox GUI as a CheckBox format. Because the files inside of some folder, I create ComboBox to make user easy to choose which folder they need to see the files. I do some stuff here, but I still struggle to show the file. Once I execute my script, all the files appear in the GroupBox without select the folder first. My expectation, the files will show only user select the folder.

Please give me some idea, I am newbie with PowerShell,really appreciated with the help. Thank you.

Hi I try to display my groupmember's expiry date 

when i try this i've got no result 

Get-ADuser -filter {Enabled -eq $True -and PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False -and PasswordLastSet -gt 0 } –Properties "Name", "msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed" | where {$_.memberof -eq 'Grp_Users_SSL'} | 
Select-Object -Property "Name",@{Name="ExpiryDate";Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_."msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed")}}

and when i try this it tells me it can't use get-adgroupmember | get aduser ...

how to find the .msi file executed last and it's exit code using powershell

Hi ,

I searched the forum and couldn't find what I was looking for. Please assist.

Good evening Powershell Experts, 

I'm migrating users from outlook 2010 to Office 365 and I've been tasked to ensure their Autocomplete file will be copied across while migrating

The issue I have is with a script I'm building to copy the content of the "AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache" to a shared drive so I can then copy it back after the migration has been succesfull.

As each PC has more than one user account logged into, I'm unsure how to create the variable to point to Roamcache folder for each of them.

This is what I have managed to create so far:

I would really appreciate your help!

Thank you in advance

Hello!

I am in the process of learning PowerShell.  I am not a professional programmer, and I've had no real training in PowerShell.  I will finally be receiving training after the new year, but in the meantime I am trying to get a script working, and have hit a snag.

In our environment, we use BitLocker to encrypt the local drives on all our computers.  The drive encryption is one of the last steps of our imaging process, and the recovery key normally gets backed up into AD.  I have recently discovered that some computers have been deployed without the BitLocker recovery key getting backed up into AD.  I am trying to write a script that will build a list of all computer objects in AD, use that list to build another list of machines missing recovery the key, and output list.

First, I needed to figure out how to identify machines missing the recovery key.  Some Googling turned up that the recovery key is stored as a child object of the computer object, and is called msFVE-RecoveryInformation.  I put together a small list of machines as my test group.  PC2, PC3, PC5, and PC6 are missing the recovery key, and the remaining machines in the test group are not.  Remember, I am not a professional programmer, so this probably does not follow all the best practices that a pro would employ.  Here is what I came up with, and it works:

$Computers = @("PC1","PC2","PC3","PC4","PC5","PC6","PC7")

# Create the list.
$NullBitLocker = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Object]

foreach ($Computer in $Computers) {
    $BitLockerKey = Get-AdObject -Filter "objectclass -eq 'msFVE-RecoveryInformation'" -SearchBase (Get-ADComputer $Computer).DistinguishedName -Properties msFVE-RecoveryPassword | Select-Object msFVE-RecoveryPassword
    If ($null -eq $BitLockerKey) { $NullBitLocker.Add($Computer) }
}

$NullBitLocker

The second task was to figure out how to get a list of machines from AD, which was fairly straight-forward.  Our printers are setup as computer objects, and the "-like '*$'" part filters out the printers.  This also works, but it would be nice to filter out some OUs, like for handheld scanners that run Windows but are not encrypted with BitLocker.

   try{
   $ou = "OU=MyOffice,DC=MyCompany,DC=com"
   $Computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter 'SamAccountName -like "*$"' -SearchBase $ou | Select Name
   }

   catch {
   $error[0].exception.message
   }

   $Computers

At this point, I figured that since both pieces of code work in isolation, all I had to do was combine the two.  So I produced this script.  Note that in the ForEach loop I changed "(Get-ADComputer $Computer)" to "(Get-ADComputer $Computers[$Computer])".

try{
  $ou = "OU=MyOffice,DC=MyCompany,DC=com"
  $Computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter 'SamAccountName -like "*$"' -SearchBase $ou | Select Name
 }

catch {
  $error[0].exception.message
 }

# Create the list.
  $NullBitLocker = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Object]
    
 ForEach ($Computer in $Computers) {
            $BitLockerKey = Get-AdObject -Filter "objectclass -eq 'msFVE-RecoveryInformation'" -SearchBase (Get-
     ADComputer $Computers[$Computer]).DistinguishedName -Properties msFVE-RecoveryPassword | Select-Object 
    msFVE-RecoveryPassword
        If ($null -eq $BitLockerKey) { $NullBitLocker.Add($Computer) }
 }

$NullBitLocker

I figured that would work.  Instead, what I get is this:

 Cannot convert the "System.Object[]" value of type "System.Object[]" to type "System.Int32".
 At G:\Scripts\PowerShell\BitLocker\BitLocker.ps1:22 char:9+         $BitLockerKey = Get-AdObject -Filter "objectclass -eq 'msFVE- ...+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [], RuntimeException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConvertToFinalInvalidCastException

I am stumped as to what I did wrong.  Any guidance you can offer in getting these two pieces of code combined and working will be greatly appreciated!

Also, while it is a secondary concern at this point, any tips on how to filter out certain OUs would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer!

--Tom

I have a folder "Zipped" which contains 100s of .zip files

I want to unzip all zip-files in this folder to "\\zipped\Unzipped" folder.

It seems expand-archive cmdlet only support one file at a time.
So do you need to create an array with all filenames and then create a loop to unzip all files?

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Hi, 

I am attempting to connect to the Security & Compliance centre remotely. Last week this was working a lot of the time (optimistically >50% of the time), however, as of Monday (24th September) I am only getting errors - see below.

I have checked and eliminated the following as reason this isn't working: 

• The username and password are 100% correct
• The account does not have MFA
• The account has the correct authorisation roles

I cannot use the Exchange Online PowerShell Module provided by Microsoft as this has to be done remotely.

A potential I may have identified is that the redirect isn't working or is being blocked, whether this is a Microsoft thing or an internal network thing I cannot be sure as I do not know what the ps.compliance.protection.outlook <g class="gr_ gr_46 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="46" id="46">url</g> redirects to or how to connects to my domains centre. 

So my Two Questions are:

• Has anyone ever come across this issue before and has a potential solution?
• What are the next steps in the connection process that occur in order to connect directly to my domain? i.e. URLs (generic) and/or ports?

Code used to connect

$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Error messge received:

New-PSSession : [ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com] Connecting to remote server ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com 
failed with the following error message : Access is denied. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting 
Help topic.
At line:31 char:16+ ...  $session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -Conn ...+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], 
PSRemotingTransportException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AccessDenied,PSSessionOpenFailed

I'm in a complete brain fart and I feel as though my eyes are going to pop out of my head troubleshooting ADFS. I am trying to set ADFS Identifier so that it matches the token issuer. If I do Get-AdfsProperties in PowerShell it works very well. The problem comes when I want to set the -Identifier to match the token issuer. Its giving a weird error. Below is my PowerShell script and results.

PS C:\Windows\system32>$adfsProperties = Get-AdfsProperties PS C:\Windows\system32>Set-AdfsProperties -Identifier $adfsProperties.IdTokenIssuer Set-AdfsProperties : Cannot validate the argument on parameter 'Identifier'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the argument, then try running the command again. At line: 1 cahr: 32 +Set-AdfsProperties -Identifier $adfsProperties.IdTokenIssuer + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo :InvalidData: (:) [Set-AdfsProperties], ParameterBindingException +FullyQualifiedErrorId :PositionalParameterNotFound, Microsoft.IdentityServer.Management.COmmands.SetServicePropertiesCommand

Any help please!!

I am currently using the following command to hide calendar item subject for all meetings in MeetingRoom1. However, I would like to set this to false for 2 administrators so they can still see meeting title

Set-CalendarProcessing-IdentityMeetingRoom1-DeleteSubject  $true

Hi there,

I have a powershell which will list all the SQL clusters in a domain with their corresponding nodes etc but it doesn’t output that info in the structured way I was expecting of cluster name followed by that clusters’ nodes sequentially. Any ideas how to straighten that out?

$cluster = Get-Cluster -domain xxxx.com 

$cluster | foreach-object {
        write-host "$_"
        Get-ClusterNode -Cluster $_.Name
        } 

This gives me the correct information but sequenced like:-

Cluster1
Cluster2

cluster1 node1
cluster1 node2
cluster 2 node1
cluster2 node2

Instead of the below:-

Cluster1
cluster1node1 cluster1node2

Cluster2
Cluster2node1
Cluster2node2

Many thanks for looking.

Cheers,

rob

Let's say I want to get/set permissions of a folder called "Done?" under Inbox.

Get-MailboxFolderPermission "user:\Inbox\Done?"

returns:

The operation couldn't be performed because 'user:\Inbox\Done?' couldn't be found.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-MailboxFolderPermission], ManagementObjectNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 5E04CCC9,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.StoreTasks.GetMailboxFolderPermission

tried ` as an escape character but didn't work either. This is on PS v2, Exchange 2010

Any help will be appriciated!