Hi,

I have a powershell script which i run against my SCCM 2012 console server to extract information.

The script, imports the required SCCM 2012 module and then does its task. It works fine if i run it normally in a window. But when i try and run it using task scheduler, it completes in about 2 or 3 seconds without actually doing anything.

Is there anyway, i can get task scheduler to open the powershell window to see why and when the task fails?

Or has anyone seen a similar issue when attempting to import a module during a scheduled task?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

I am basically trying to update AD users from xml file.

I compare user names with email initials and if it contains that users some fields i am updating else i create new user.

But If condition is not working and directly trying to create new user.

If you can help me i will be so glad.

thanks, 

$path_to_users_xml = "C:\veracross\facstaff.xml"
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml                          #importing xml
$text  -replace (' type="integer"'), ''| Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' type="date"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' display="false"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' display="True"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' type="boolean"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' type="datetime"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml
$text  -replace (' type="array"'), '' | Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml                          #importing xml
$text  -replace ('<biography/>'), '<biography>X</biography>'| Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file
#$text = Get-Content   $path_to_users_xml                          #importing xml
#$text  -replace ('<biography>X</biography>'), '<biography>XX</biography>'| Out-File $path_to_users_xml #removeing ' type="integer and rewriting file


$Dataxml = [Xml] (Get-Content $path_to_users_xml)
 $Datas =  $Dataxml.facstaff.facstaff

 $members = Get-ADUser -filter *  -SearchBase "OU=Staff,OU=Psi,DC=Psi,DC=kiev,DC=ua" | FT name #| Select-Object -ExpandProperty name
 #Get-ADUser -filter *  -SearchBase "OU=Other Staff,OU=Psi,DC=Psi,DC=kiev,DC=ua" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name | ForEach-Object{ $members += $_ }
 $members




 foreach ($facstaff in $Datas )
  {
    $OU = "ou=Staff,ou=psi,dc=psi,dc=kiev,dc=ua"  <#Если каталог с таким именем не найден отправляем в OU other#>
    $login = [string] $facstaff.email_1
    $login =  $login.replace("@psi.kiev.ua", "")
    $loginx = ('CN='+$login+',ou=Staff,ou=psi,dc=psi,dc=kiev,dc=ua')
    $UserLastName = $facstaff.last_name
    $UserFirstName = $facstaff.first_name
    $Detailedname = ($UserFirstName+' '+$UserLastName)

    $hash= @{

  Company = $facstaff.faculty_type
  Title = $facstaff.job_title
  vdepartment = $facstaff.department
  vbiography = $facstaff.biography
  vrole = $facstaff.roles
  vSchoolLevel = $facstaff.School_Level
  vupdatedate = $facstaff.update_date

 }



 If ($members.name -Contains $login)

 {
  Get-ADUser  -filter { SAMAccountName -like $login } -SearchScope Subtree -SearchBase "OU=Psi,DC=Psi,DC=kiev,DC=ua" |  move-adobject -TargetPath $OU
  Get-ADUser  -filter { SAMAccountName -like $login } -SearchBase "OU=Staff,ou=psi,DC=psi,DC=kiev,DC=ua" -properties Company,Title,vdepartment,vbiography,vrole,vschoollevel,vupdatedate
  Set-ADUser $login -Replace $hash
  Write-Host "Active Directory user named $login updated."

 }

 Else

 {

   Write-Host "Active Directory doesn't contain user named $login . User created."
   New-ADUser -Name $login -SamAccountName $Login -UserPrincipalName $login  -AccountPassword  (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "Psi12345" -Force) -Company $facstaff.faculty_type -Title $facstaff.job_title  -DisplayName $Detailedname -Department $facstaff.department -EmailAddress $facstaff.email_1  -GivenName $facstaff.first_name  -Enabled $true -Path $OU  -Surname $facstaff.last_name -OtherAttributes @{"vgender"=$facstaff.gender; "vbiography"=$facstaff.biography; "vrole"=$facstaff.roles; "vpersonid"=$facstaff.person_pk; "vSchoolLevel"=$facstaff.School_Level; "vupdatedate"=$facstaff.update_date; }

}


}

Hi

Mount-VHD does not affect a drive letter to the mounted partition :

PS C:\Windows\system32> Mount-VHD -Path "d:\vhdx\winnie.vhdx" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -PassThru | Get-Disk | Get-Partition   Disk Number : 2

PartitionNumber  DriveLetter Offset                                        Size Type
---------------  ----------- ------                                        ---- ----
1                                                  1048576                                      20 GB IFS

Windows HyperV 2012 R2

This worked previously....

Any suggestion ?

Thanks.

David.

My business requirement is to create a formatted file that will be used to import user id's.

I am using a slightly modified script provided by johan13, and I am stripping the headers.

I need to add a blank column between CN and DisplayName so that my input scripts will read the file contents correctly.
I've been searching and have found some hints on how to do this but nothing that does not include headers and so far my tests have not worked.   

import-module ActiveDirectory

$ADUserParams=@{
'Server' = 'oooo.xxx'
'Searchbase' = 'ou=x00x,ou=accounts,dc=oooo,dc=xxx'
'Searchscope'= 'Subtree'
'Filter' = '*'
'Properties' = '*'
}

#This is where to change if different properties are required.
$SelectParams=@{
'Property' = 'CN' , 'DisplayName', 'EmailAddress'
}

get-aduser @ADUserParams | select-object @SelectParams |

ConvertTo-CSV -notype | Select-Object -skip 1 |
ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '"',""} |
out-file "C:\temp\users2.csv" -force -Encoding Ascii

Hi, in Windows DHCP i need to add a DNS suffix (option 119), but it seems that it only accepts values in Decimal or Hexadecimal

If i want to add the suffixes

 'mycomp.com','comp.mycomp.com'

I will need to convert this to decimal or Hex first..

function Create-ValidDNSSearchListHex ($Strings){
  foreach ($String in $Strings){
    foreach ($Part in $String.split('.')){
        $R += "0x{0:X2}," -f ($Part.Length)
$ans = ''
[System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($Part) | % { $ans += "0x{0:X2}," -f $_ }
$R += $ans
    }
    $R += "0x00,"
  }
  $R.Trim(' ',',')
}

Then i use the fubction to convert my strings

$sfx =Create-ValidDNSSearchListHex  'mycomp.com','comp.mycomp.com'

And when i try to add the option it fails

Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -scopeid 10.25.55.0 -OptionId 119 -Value $sfx

error:

Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue : Parameters for option value to be set for option ID 119 do not match with option definition on DHCP server DHCPserver-01.
At line:1 char:1

Any ideas how can i fix this?

Thanks

I need help on Powershell GUI interface. On long last processes/loops GUI is freezing and I want to avoid that. I want to refresh GUI (richtextbox value) on backgroud or from different runspace.

I do not think that background job is a solution. Maybe a hastable and different runspace.

He is my code about this issue. Can anyone give me a better example or edit my code?

Copy code and save as .ps1

********** CODE ***************

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Source File Information (DO NOT MODIFY)
# Source ID: 2a715e2e-26db-488f-ab65-742aaad00d98
# Source File: GUIrefresh.psf
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
#region File Recovery Data (DO NOT MODIFY)
<#RecoveryData: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#>
#endregion

<#
    .NOTES
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Code generated by:  SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2015 v4.2.82
     Generated on:       23.3.2015 14:19
     Generated by:       Administrator
     Organization:       W12
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    .DESCRIPTION
        GUI script generated by PowerShell Studio 2015
#>
#----------------------------------------------
#region Application Functions
#----------------------------------------------

#endregion Application Functions

#----------------------------------------------
# Generated Form Function
#----------------------------------------------
function Call-GUIrefresh_psf {

 #----------------------------------------------
 #region Import the Assemblies
 #----------------------------------------------
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Xml, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
 [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a')
 #endregion Import Assemblies

 #----------------------------------------------
 #region Generated Form Objects
 #----------------------------------------------
 [System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()
 $form1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'
 $button1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
 $richtextbox1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox'
 $InitialFormWindowState = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState'
 #endregion Generated Form Objects

 #----------------------------------------------
 # User Generated Script
 #----------------------------------------------
 
 $form1_Load={
 }
 
 $richtextbox1_TextChanged = {
  $richtextbox1.Update()
 }
 
 $button1_Click = {
  
  # Variables
  $richtextbox1.Text = @()
  
  # Map an existing hash table to a syncronized variable for use between threads
  $ADHashTable = [HashTable]::Synchronized(@{ })
  $ADHashTable.tmptxt = "Alfa"
  
  # First value
  $tmp = "First line" + "`n"
  $richtextbox1.AppendText($tmp)
  
  # Create a new RunSpace
  $ADRunSpace = [RunSpaceFactory]::CreateRunSpace()
  $ADRunSpace.ApartmentState = "STA"
  $ADRunSpace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"
  $ADRunSpace.Open()
  
  # Set Synchronized hash table variable
  $ADRunSpace.SessionStateProxy.setVariable("ADHashTable", $ADHashTable)
  
  # Custom code
  $ADPowerShell = [PowerShell]::Create()
  $ADPowerShell.Runspace = $ADRunSpace
  $handle = $ADPowerShell.AddScript({
   
   # Set simple value
   $ADHashTable.tmptxt = "Beta" + "`n"
   
   # Core code is here, this may take > 10 minutes.
   # Update GUI (richtextbox) without freezing it.
   # Import new values to GUI richtextbox.
   
   <#
   # This is simple example
   $ADUsers = Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties *
   $ADUsers | % {
    # Append user displayName to richtextbox
    # Is is possible to user $ADHashTable.tmptxt variable
   }
   #>
   
  }).BeginInvoke()
  
  # Wait for the handle job to finish
  while (-Not $handle.IsCompleted) {
   Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
  }
  
  # Update simple value
  $richtextbox1.AppendText($ADHashTable.tmptxt)
  
  # Update last value
  $richtextbox1.AppendText("All done")
  
  # Close the session and dispose of PowerShell object
  $ADPowerShell.EndInvoke($handle)
  $ADRunSpace.Dispose()
  
 }
 
 # --End User Generated Script--
 #----------------------------------------------
 #region Generated Events
 #----------------------------------------------
 
 $Form_StateCorrection_Load=
 {
  #Correct the initial state of the form to prevent the .Net maximized form issue
  $form1.WindowState = $InitialFormWindowState
 }
 
 $Form_Cleanup_FormClosed=
 {
  #Remove all event handlers from the controls
  try
  {
   $button1.remove_Click($button1_Click)
   $richtextbox1.remove_TextChanged($richtextbox1_TextChanged)
   $form1.remove_Load($form1_Load)
   $form1.remove_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)
   $form1.remove_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)
  }
  catch [Exception]
  { }
 }
 #endregion Generated Events

 #----------------------------------------------
 #region Generated Form Code
 #----------------------------------------------
 $form1.SuspendLayout()
 #
 # form1
 #
 $form1.Controls.Add($button1)
 $form1.Controls.Add($richtextbox1)
 $form1.ClientSize = '466, 465'
 $form1.Name = "form1"
 $form1.Text = "Form"
 $form1.add_Load($form1_Load)
 #
 # button1
 #
 $button1.Location = '12, 317'
 $button1.Name = "button1"
 $button1.Size = '75, 23'
 $button1.TabIndex = 1
 $button1.Text = "button1"
 $button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True
 $button1.add_Click($button1_Click)
 #
 # richtextbox1
 #
 $richtextbox1.Location = '12, 12'
 $richtextbox1.Name = "richtextbox1"
 $richtextbox1.Size = '442, 290'
 $richtextbox1.TabIndex = 0
 $richtextbox1.Text = ""
 $richtextbox1.add_TextChanged($richtextbox1_TextChanged)
 $form1.ResumeLayout()
 #endregion Generated Form Code

 #----------------------------------------------

 #Save the initial state of the form
 $InitialFormWindowState = $form1.WindowState
 #Init the OnLoad event to correct the initial state of the form
 $form1.add_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)
 #Clean up the control events
 $form1.add_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)
 #Show the Form
 return $form1.ShowDialog()

} #End Function

#Call the form
Call-GUIrefresh_psf | Out-Null

Hi All,

Below is the powershell script to connect a SQL DB using windows authentication by impersonating a user. The user should have login access to the server. Script can be highly useful when service id is used to access DB using powershell.

[reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo") | Out-Null
$ds=$null
$conn = New-Object -typeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server -argumentList "Servername"
$db = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database

$conn.ConnectionContext.ConnectAsUser = $true 
$conn.ConnectionContext.LoginSecure=$true
$conn.ConnectionContext.ConnectAsUserName = "username"
$conn.ConnectionContext.ConnectAsUserPassword ="password
$conn.Loginmode
$db = $conn.Databases.Item("dbname")
$ds = $db.ExecuteWithResults("select top 10 Name from Tablename")

Foreach ($t in $ds.Tables)
{
   Foreach ($r in $t.Rows)
   {
      Foreach ($c in $t.Columns)
      {
          Write-Host $c.ColumnName "=" $r.Item($c)
      }
   }
}

Hello!

I'm running the following script in PS 3.0:

Workflow Test-My-WF {  
  $servers=Get-Content -Path "ser.txt"
  foreach -parallel ($server in $servers) {
    $proci = (Get-WmiObject win32_Processor -ComputerName $server | select name)
    if($proci)
        {
        $proci
        }
       }
}
Test-My-WF

I get some results but I endupt with the following error after 30sec.

The operation did not complete within the allotted timeout of 00:00:30. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a
longer timeout.
At Test-My-WF:8 char:8
+
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (:) [], TimeoutException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : JobStateFailed

Is it possible to change the timeout ? (running the same workflow against anothet WMI class for example W32_Process runs faster and I do not experience the same problem).

Many thanks in advance for your answers!

How do I access this forum using an RSS feed?

I used to be able to do that.

I'm trying to get a list of template user account and what their membership are exported to a csv file. I'm trying to combine the tables on them but having a hard time figuring it out. I spent the day racking my brain on this and figured I would reach out for help. This gets all my template users.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$User = "*Template*"

$usernames = (Get-ADUser -Filter "DisplayName -like '*$User*'" -Properties * | format-table Displayname, SamAccountName)

$usernames

I can use this to get all the members of the groups, but since the groups repeat it doesnt break down where one user stops and the others begin. 

$groups = Get-ADUser -Filter "SamAccountName -like '*$Usr*'" -Properties DisplayName | foreach-object{Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $_.SamAccountName} | format-table name

I was thinking of joining the tables but that wasnt much help to me since I cant figure out what to join on. I also thought about looping through the first table with a foreach loop but it was assigning the whole table in the first pass and displaying nothing. If anyone could help or suggest something, I would greatly appreciate.

Matt

It's been a busy week that also saw the TECHNET WIKI SUMMIT 2015

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Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.

Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki in the link above.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 

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Hi All,

I'm currently working on a runbook in Orchestrator for onboarding users. I need to mail enable these users in exchange and place them into a database based on the first initial of their first name.

I have adapted this script to do the enabling - http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2014/09/29/create-exchange-2013-mailboxes-in-bulk-using-powershell/

And i found this that will do the database part - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akashb/archive/2008/08/07/8841495.aspx

Now i just need some help with combining the two! If anyone can help me i would be most grateful. 

HughMc

Hi, I have a csv file with a email address and the employ ID. I which to update the emply id according to the email address

csv:

Email;employerID;FirstName;LastName;

a.a@test.com;123456789;a;a;

b.b@test.com;789456123;b;b;

I tried querying the user according to email but the user is not found:

$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {Get-aduser -Filter { emailaddress -Like $u.email} -Properties emailaddress}

Which i find strange, because when i run following commandlet the correct address are displayed.

$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {write-host $u.email}

I even tried, but same result:

$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {Get-aduser -Filter { emailaddress -Like $($u.email)} -Properties emailaddress}

What am i doing wrong?

Answers provided are coming from personal experience, and come with no warranty of success. I as everybody else do make mistakes.

Hi all,

I'm trying to format output of repadmin /replsummary command within powershell.

In my script, very first thing, i execute repadmin /replsummary within powershell and format output a little bit as follow:

$myRepInfo = @(repadmin /replsum * /bysrc /bydest /sort:delta)
$msg = $myRepInfo | Where-Object { $_ } | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace $_,"$_`n" }
$last = $msg -replace "Beginning data collection for replication summary, this may take awhile:",""
$last >> C:\scripts\repsummary.log

But when i try to get-content of replsummary.txt, i can not sort output using columns since within repsummary.txt there is no chance to use delimeter or columns, it's really a bad designed output.

Here is the actual repadmin /replsummary output file:

What i want to achieve is to use repsummary txt output to create a table in powershell that includes Source,Destination and Error fields only. So that i will be able to create a html table and assign red color for each failed row.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there,

I'm new to PowerShell and would like to get assistance on the following requirements: Get the list of all Active Directory groups, their associated members along with information such as windows login, name, and manager name.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thank you

The script breaks if one of the cells in spreadsheet is empty. I use if statement to check for null but the problem is with "$user = Get-ADUser $item.UserLogonName -Properties department,mail". This line does not allow to pass null value. How do I fix this?

for example, The script breaks if Mail cell is empty

$path     = Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$newpath  = $path + "\edituser.csv"
$item = Import-Csv $newpath
$dnsroot  = (Get-ADDomain).DNSRoot

Function edit-user {
 If ($item.UserLogonName -eq "") {
        Write-Host "[ERROR]`t Please provide valid user logon name in spreadsheet."  -ForegroundColor Red
      } Else {
        $user = Get-ADUser $item.UserLogonName -Properties department,mail
     
       
        if ($item.department -eq "") {
            break
        } else {
            $user.department = $item.Department
        }
        if ($item.mail -eq "") {
            break
        } else {
            $user.mail = $item.Mail
        }

        Set-ADUser -instance $user


        }

    }


Write-Host "STARTED SCRIPT`r`n"  -ForegroundColor Cyan
edit-user
Write-Host "STOPPED SCRIPT" -ForegroundColor Cyan

Hi,

 I am writing a script which waits for user input initially, actually i want user to enter multiple emailids through read-host and i want to save that in a file in specific location. Below is the code

What i am doing here is , i am getting the emailds and trimming it and storing in a file.

When i execute the above script in ISE , i can use Shift enter to enter multiple email ids, however when i run the script in powershell console it doesnt work, any ideas?

Hello,

I have asked this on the email and calendar forum but it's been suggested that I post here.

We would like all users to have access to the calendars of all other users but seeing full details rather than the default free/busy.

I've been given the command below which is for one user and wonder if it is possible to tweak to apply to all users?

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity SharedMailboxName:\calendar -User UserName -AccessRights Editor

itswt

I've noticed my script is not capturing any files if I have the filetype added in the -Include. For example I have this config value:

<FileTypesToDelete>*.txt,*.log,*.mf,*.xml</FileTypesToDelete>

and then in my script I setting my variable like this:

$fileTypesToDelete = @($configfile.Settings.FileTypesToDelete.Split(",").Trim())

and finally i want to get any of these files:

$logFiles = Get-Childitem $dir -Include $fileTypesToDelete[0],$fileTypesToDelete[1],$fileTypesToDelete[2], $liveSiteLogs -Recurse -Exclude $fileExclusions[0],$fileExclusions[1] | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -le "$LastWrite"}

am I missing something obvious? I i remove the -Include from the above line and write the files to the host then all the files I'm expecting to see are returned no problem

Hi,

Is there a way to remove variables that I create in a script after it has finished running. I have a script with a dozen odd variables which I would like to delete after the script has done its job.

The options I have seen are:

• Close down the Powershell environment and restart
• Use Remove-Variable command

If I use get-variable and limit the scope to script I see other variables which I did not define. I would only like to remove the variables which I have defined. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Regards,

MobileIAm