I'm using the following PowerShell command to automatically close a application:

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plugins\minorating\MinoRatingPlugin.exe"} | Stop-Process -Force

I need this to run in a .bat script and found that I can use the following command in the command prompt to do this:

PowerShell -command "& {Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plugins\minorating\MinoRatingPlugin.exe"} | Stop-Process -Force }"

Unfortunately it gives me the following error:

At line:1 char:45
+ & {Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plug ...
+                                             ~
You must provide a value expression following the '-like' operator.
At line:1 char:46
+ & {Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plug ...
+                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token 'G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plugins\minorating\MinoRatingPlugin.exe' in expression or statement.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordEx
   ception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExpectedValueExpression

Any idea what is wrong?
I've already tried putting ' and "'s around the $_.Path -like "G:\TCAFiles\Users\ywxychtb\930\plugins\minorating\MinoRatingPlugin.exe part, but this didn't help.

I need to create logins, passwords and permissions in SQL, GUI via Powershell.

my code is lost in the line 139.

If ($objTextBox.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox2.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox3.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox4.Text -eq '' -and $procName.Checked -eq '' -and $procName2.Checked -eq '' -and $procName3.Checked -eq '' ) 

And does not create the login on SQL Server, you can be?

[void][Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization") [void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing") 

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") 
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null 
$x = @() 
$Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form 
$Form.Text = "Administração de usuarios SQLServer" 
$Form.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(800,600) 
$Form.StartPosition = "CenterScreen" 
#$Form.controls.add() 
#$Form.Add_Shown({$Form.Activate()}) 
#$Form.ShowDialog() 


$Form.KeyPreview = $True 
$Form.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter") 
    {$x=$objTextBox.Text;$Form.Close()}}) 
$Form.Add_KeyDown({if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Escape") 
    {$Form.Close()}}) 

#nova ver ponteiro no primeiro campo 
#$Form.Cursor=[System.Windows.Forms.Cursors]::WaitCursor 
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::UseWaitCursor=$false 


$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button 
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(65,460) 
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23) 
$OKButton.Text = "OK" 
$OKButton.Add_Click({$x=$objTextBox.Text,$objTextBox2.Text,$objTextBox3.Text,$objTextBox4.Text,$procName.Checked,$procName2.Checked,$procName3.Checked;$Form.Close()})
$Form.Controls.Add($OKButton) 


$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button 
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,460) 
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23) 
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel" 
$CancelButton.Add_Click({$Form.Close()}) 
$Form.Controls.Add($CancelButton) 


$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label 
#$objLabel.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0 
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20) 
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20) 
$objLabel.Text = "Server:" 
$Form.Controls.Add($objLabel) 


$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
$objTextBox.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0 
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40) 
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objTextBox.Name="ServerName" 
$objTextBox.TabIndex = 0 
$Form.Controls.Add($objTextBox) 


$objLabel2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label 
$objLabel2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,70) 
$objLabel2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objLabel2.Text = "Database:" 
$Form.Controls.Add($objLabel2) 


$objTextBox2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
$objTextBox2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,90) 
$objTextBox2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objTextBox2.Name="Base Name" 
$objTextBox2.TabIndex = 0 
$Form.Controls.Add($objTextBox2) 


$objLabel3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label 
$objLabel3.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,120) 
$objLabel3.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objLabel3.Text = "User:" 
$Form.Controls.Add($objLabel3) 


$objTextBox3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
$objTextBox3.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,140) 
$objTextBox3.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objTextBox3.name="User" 
$objTextBox3.TabIndex = 0 
$Form.Controls.Add($objTextBox3) 


$objLabel4 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label 
$objLabel4.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(350,120) 
$objLabel4.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objLabel4.Text = "Password:" 
$Form.Controls.Add($objLabel4) 


$objTextBox4 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox 
$objTextBox4.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(350,140) 
$objTextBox4.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20) 
$objTextBox4.name="Pass" 
$objTextBox4.TabIndex = 0 
$Form.Controls.Add($objTextBox4) 


$groupBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox 
$groupBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,190) 
$groupBox.size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(755,200) 
$groupBox.Text = "Permissões e acessos Database:" 
$Form.Controls.Add($groupBox) 


$procName = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.checkbox 
$procName.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,40) 
$procName.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(100,20) 
$procName.Checked = $false 
$procName.Text = "Read" 
$procName.TabIndex = 0 
$groupBox.Controls.Add($procName) 


$procName2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.checkbox 
$procName2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(270,40) 
$procName2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(100,20) 
$procName2.Checked = $false 
$procName2.Text = "Write" 
$procName2.TabIndex = 0 
$groupBox.Controls.Add($procName2) 


$procName3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.checkbox 
$procName3.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(550,40) 
$procName3.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(100,20) 
$procName3.Checked = $false 
$procName3.Text = "Alter" 
$procName3.TabIndex = 0 
$groupBox.Controls.Add($procName3) 


If ($objTextBox.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox2.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox3.Text -eq '' -and $objTextBox4.Text -eq '' -and $procName.Checked -eq '' -and $procName2.Checked -eq '' -and $procName3.Checked -eq '' ) 
{ 


} 
Else 
{ 
$objForm.Cursor=[System.Windows.Forms.Cursors]::WaitCursor 

$Instance = $objTextBox.Text 
$DBName = $objTextBox2.Text 
$LoginName = $objTextBox3.Text 
$Password = $objTextBox4.Text 

$bb=$Instance 
$bb 
$bb 

$Server = New-Object ("Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Server") $instance 

#Recebi login pra ver se exist. 
$Login = $Server.Logins.Item($LoginName) 

IF (!($Login))  #check se é existente. 
{ 
    #Caso não existir é criado um novo login 
    $Login = New-Object ("Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Login") ($Server, $LoginName)   
    $Login.LoginType = [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.LoginType]::SqlLogin 
    $Login.Create($Password) 
} 

$DB = $Server.Databases[$DBName] 
$User = $DB.Users[$LoginName] 




if (!($User)) # check se usuário é existente. 
{ 
    #Se não Add. 
    $User = New-Object ("Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.User") ($DB, $LoginName) 
    $User.Login = $LoginName 
    $User.Create() 

    IF ($procName.Checked -eq $true) 
{ 
    $Role_Leitura="db_datareader" 

    $dbrole = $DB.Roles[$Role_Leitura]   
    $dbrole.AddMember($user.Name) 
    $dbrole.Alter() 
    Write-Host("User $user adicionado com sucesso para $Role_Leitura.") 
} 
Else{ 

}

IF ($procName2.Checked -eq $true) 
{ 
    $Role_Gravacao ="db_datawriter" 

    $dbrole2 = $DB.Roles[$Role_Gravacao] 
    $dbrole2.AddMember($user.Name) 
    $dbrole2.Alter() 
    Write-Host("User $user adicionado com sucesso para $Role_Gravacao.") 
} 
Else { 

} 



IF ($procName3.Checked -eq $true) 
{ 
    $Role_Modificacao ="db_owner" 

        $dbrole3 = $DB.Roles[$Role_Modificacao] 
    $dbrole3.AddMember($user.Name) 
    $dbrole3.Alter() 
    Write-Host("User $user adicionado com sucesso para $Role_Modificacao.") 
} 
Else { 
} 
  } 

}
$Form.Topmost = $True 

$Form.Add_Shown({$Form.Activate()}) 
[void] $Form.ShowDialog() 


$x 

Hi

Not sure if this is a bug or incomplete syntax. in Windows 2012R2 with IIS8.5 I have setup FTP.  When i ran the below PS script I did not get any error (not any confirmation)

Set-WebConfigurationProperty -pspath 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST'  -filter "system.ftpServer/firewallSupport" -name "lowDataChannelPort" -value 7014 
Set-WebConfigurationProperty -pspath 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST'  -filter "system.ftpServer/firewallSupport" -name "highDataChannelPort" -value 7000

This script was generated by IIS Configuration Editor

But after that i ran the below commands and  ftp would fail to start

net stop ftpsvc
net start ftpsvc

Error:

However if I ran this 

cmd /c \Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.ftpServer/firewallSupport /lowDataChannelPort:"7001" /highDataChannelPort:"7015"  /commit:apphost

and tried to start FTP, it would start without error.

Thanks

kumar

Hi all,

         looking to merge approx. 150 xlsx files into a single worksheet using powershell. (its aprt of a larger script which also performs other functions)

There seem to many examples or merging multiple files into multiple worksheets - but I haven't been able to successfully get any of them to merge into the same worksheet.

This is an ongoing requirement, so while exporting to csv's, merging and re-opening will work - its not really the long term solution im looking for.

Hi

I am trying to figure out how to move specific users from several ad groups to new ad groups. This will move the user from the old Citrix farm to the new one. So we want to take this by user or department

The naming of the old AD groups looks like this:

sec_ctx.app.XX.Outlook where XX are the region which gives access to a specific farm in Citrix. We use 3 regions EU, AP and US

The script should look for the groups and if they are member of that group they should be removed from the group and added to the new one like this:

sec_ctx.app.Outlook

So I have removed the regions from the group.

There are a group per application and one group giving access to a Full desktop in Citrix

sec_ctxEU.app.FullDesktop will become sec_ctx.app.FullDesktop

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

Torsten 

Hi 

I am trying to setup FTP using powershell in an Azure VM

In FTP Firewall Support how do I add value for External Ip Address of Firewall using powershell. 

Thanks

Kumar

I am creating the hangman game. For this excercise I am doing, when the player gets to their last guess which is guess 12, they are allowed to try and type the whole word in and not just the letter.Right now my script works perfectly fine with that, but when I have to enter in the word I am trying to guess on the very last guess, I have to put a space inbetween each letter for it to recognize what I am doing. Right now I have this.... and I am unsure why I need to enter in spaces between each letter.

#Reset variables at the beginning of each new round of play
  $tempString = ""
  $words[0] = @("","","","","","","","","","","","","","","")
  $attempts = 0
  $guesses = ""
  $reply = ""

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

#Create a Associative array and load it with words
$words = @{}
$words[0] = @("","","","","","","","","","","","","","","")
$words[1] = @("C","O","M","M","A","N","D","E","R")
$words[2] = @("F","L","A","G")
$words[3] = @("T","O","A","S","T","E","R")
$words[4] = @("M","A","R","K","E","R")
$words[5] = @("P","I","C","T","U","R","E")

Found many things on the web, but I cannot seem to grasp what is happening.  I have two csv files.

CSV1 has the following column headers:

Name, UserAssigned,Class,Function,Created, LastLogon,Department,Location,PCType,DN,OperatingSystem,ServicePack

CSV2 has the following column headers:

Name, Manufacturer, Model

There are items in CSV2 that are not listed in CSV1. not a problem as long as the ones that are in there get merged correctly.  

I would like the end results to have the following columns:

Name, UserAssigned,Class,Function,Created, LastLogon,Department,Location,PCType,Manufacturer, Model,DN,OperatingSystem,ServicePack

I assume I need to import the csv's and create a hashtable and psobject and then merge, but not having much luck.  Is there a quick and dirty way to do this?  Essentially I am looking to do a VLOOKUP using PowerShell.  

Thanks,

Matt

Matt Dillon

Hi.  If I run this command by itself, it works fine and returns the Citrix clientname.

 Get-XASession -Account DOMAIN\UserID | select clientname | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders

But if I run it in a script, it is returning: UserID Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData Micros......

$groupofUsers = (Get-ADGroupMember -Identity SEC_GROUP1 | where { $_.name.length -eq 7 }).name
ForEach ($groupUser in $groupofUsers)
{
    $clientComputerName = Get-XASession -Account DOMAIN\$groupUser | select clientname | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders
    Write-Host $igroupUserr $clientComputerName

"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing…"

Assuming I am reading a string that is supposed to represents a computer name, how can I check to see if there is a blank space in that string and if there is, treat it as an array and only read in the first element or just read in the string up to the space?

"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing…"

Hello,

I need some assistance editing a dynamic distrubution group via powershell (customer is on Office 365). I ran the below commands to retrieve the current DDG filter:

$var = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup -Identity "$Identity"
$var.RecipientFilter

The output I got was (Company name was changed for privacy purposes):

((((Company -eq 'Company Name') -and (((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -or (RecipientType -eq 'MailContact') -or (RecipientType -eq 'MailUser'))))) -and (-not(Name -like 'SystemMailbox{*')) -and (-not(Name -like 'CAS_{*')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetails
Value -eq 'MailboxPlan')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'DiscoveryMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'PublicFolderMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'ArbitrationMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq
 'AuditLogMailbox')))

The issue that they are seeing is that a couple of users are no longer with the company and their accounts have been disabled. However, the disabled users are still listed in the current list of members if I run:

Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter $var.RecipientFilter

To fix this I took the output from the current filter and tried to edit it to not include disabled accounts:

Get-DynamicDistirbutionGroup dl-all | Set-DynamicDistributionGroup ((((Company -eq 'Company Name') -and (((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -or (RecipientType -eq 'MailContact') -or (RecipientType -eq 'MailUser'))))) -and (-not(Name -like 'SystemMailbox{*')) -and (-not(Name -like 'CAS_{*')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetails Value -eq 'MailboxPlan')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'DiscoveryMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'PublicFolderMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'ArbitrationMailbox')) -and (-not(RecipientTypeDetailsValue -eq 'AuditLogMailbox')) -and (-not(UserAccountControl -like 'AccountDisabled')))

However this is not working and is instead kicking back errors that says

"Company : The term 'Company' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."

Any suggestions on getting this script edited?

Thanks in advance

I'm trying to output a hash table of nodes/values from an XML definition of a Schedule Task.

I'd like to accomplish this with System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.

Here's what it looks like using System.Xml.XmlDocument:

[System.Xml.XmlDocument]$xmldoc = new-object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$xmldoc.Load($pathtoxmlfile)
$values = @{}; 
$xmldoc.SelectNodes("//text()") | 
	% { $values[$_.ParentNode.ToString()] = $_.Value }; $values | ft
#OUTPUT

Name                           Value
----                           -----
AllowHardTerminate             true
DisallowStartIfOnBatteries     false
Author                         MYDOMAIN\myuser.name
Description                    my description
UserId                         MYDOMAIN\myuser.name
AllowStartOnDemand             true
Enabled                        false
Command                        C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe
StopOnIdleEnd                  true
Priority                       7
RunLevel                       HighestAvailable
...

Below is psuedocode -- the Add method will NOT work like this -- for illustration only.

System.Xml.Linq.XDocument

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.Xml.Linq') | Out-Null
$xdoc = [System.Xml.Linq.XDocument]::Load($pathtoxmlfile)
$xdoc.Add("//text()") | 
	% { $values[$_.ParentNode.ToString()] = $_.Value }; $values | ft 

Hello, I'm attempting to use PowerShell to pull various attribute values (e.g., objectClass, objectCategory, etc.) of members of groups on Active Directory domains. Some members are foreign security principals (FSPs), so the unique identifier that I have for each of them is the SID.  For some FSPs, I can readily get those values viaSystem.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier.Translate() and [adsi]("LDAP://<SID=S-1-5-21-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXX>").  But PS returns IdentityNotMappedException or a null value when I try Translate() and the ADSI accelerator (respectively) on other SIDs.  Typically this happens when the SID points to an object that no longer exists on the foreign domain.  But for other unresolvable SIDs, I have verified their existence in the foreign domain by looking up the group (containing the FSP) in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and by doing an LDAP query on the foreign domain for the given SID.  So my question is, if ADUC shows the resolved accounts when I look up the groups and view their memberships, how can I get PS to provide properties of the objects to which the FSPs point?

Some things to note:  In case it isn't obvious, the domain containing the groups trusts the foreign domains in which the group members reside.  Also, I'm running PS from a third domain, which is the primary domain of my organization.  This primary domain contains some of the members of the groups but not all.  PS is able to resolve/get the properties of objects on this (primary) domain when it finds them in groups (provided the objects still exist in the primary domain), unlike when PS tries to get the properties of FSPs in the other foreign domain.  I also tried usingSystem.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity() as follows:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement
$ct = [System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.ContextType]::Domain
$ctx = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.PrincipalContext -ArgumentList $ct, $domainName, $domainContext
$idType = [System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.IdentityType]::Sid
$fsp = [System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal]::FindByIdentity($ctx,$idType,$objectSIDstring)

I've tried using the domain where the groups reside as well as the domain where the PS script resides (our organization's primary domain) for $domainName (something like "example.com") and $domainContext (something like "DC=example,DC=com"), but $fsp ends up being null.  Finally, I'm using PowerShell version 3.

I hope that I have provided enough details, but if not, let me know.

David

If you run the help below

helpSelect-Object-Examples

Under this I find the following:

 -------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------
   
    PS C:\>Get-process | Select-Object -Property ProcessName,@{Name="Start Day"; Expression = {$_.StartTime.DayOfWeek}}
   
    ProcessName  StartDay
    ----         --------
    alg          Wednesday
    ati2evxx     Wednesday
    ati2evxx     Thursday
    ...

What is the StartTime?

I figured that since this was time it had to do with Date so I figured out that this was from Get-Date and I used the Get-Member to confirm that a part of this <dayofweek> was a property of the get-date

However, I cannot find StartTime listed on MSDN or as a property or method anywhere. I tried looking on google and not finding anything there with my searches.

I just learned about the get-member command today and its pretty eye opening and is very exciting with the possibilities but I was just trying to indenfity what that StartTime is part of.

I did find this site below but not sure I fully understand it

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.starttime(v=vs.110).aspx

by understand I mean the process.starttime

when I looked at another like System.DateTime    if I take that to be similar it would mean that startime was a cmdlet and its part of the process?

Can someone explain what is difference between LDAP and operation masters. As I know both perform the same job

hi

i have 200 windows 8/8.1/10 and on all i need to execute systemreset -factoryreset with options refresh or reset

Nikola Batinica System Administrator at BANINI AD www.banini.co.rs

Today I just learned how to use get-member to find the properties and methods of cmdlets.

I am curious if there is some command that does the reverse takes a property or method and tells you what its part of.

I have tried using help and get-command, and things of that nature but those have not worked for me unless I am just missing something because I am tired.