I'm trying to automation some IIS configuration using the webadministration module. I can see from using Get-PSDrive that it has loaded successfully--however, I can't interact with it in any way. I can't see content or set my location to the drive.

PS C:\> import-module WebAdministration
PS C:\> Get-PSDrive

Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root                                               CurrentLocation
----           ---------     --------- --------      ----                                               ---------------
Alias                                  Alias
C                   8.96          0.00 FileSystem    C:\
Cert                                   Certificate   \
D                                      FileSystem    D:\
Env                                    Environment
HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
IIS                                    WebAdminis... \\CITLBLDEMO04
[...]

PS C:\> iis:
set-location : Cannot find path 'IIS:\' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1+ set-location IIS:+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (IIS:\:String) [Set-Location], ItemNotFoundException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand

PS C:\> cd iis:
cd : Cannot find path 'IIS:\' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1+ cd iis:+ ~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (IIS:\:String) [Set-Location], ItemNotFoundException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand

PS C:\> Get-ChildItem -Path IIS:\
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path '\\CITLBLDEMO04\' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1+ Get-ChildItem -Path IIS:\+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (\\CITLBLDEMO04\:String) [Get-ChildItem], ItemNotFoundException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

I'm using 64-bit Powershell v5.0 on Windows 10. On my Windows 7 machine with Powershell v4.0, this doesn't appear to be a problem.

Even join-path won't work if it involves the IIS PSDrive path--I get a NullReferenceException because it can't find that part of the path.

$localsite = 'www1'
$path = join-path -path IIS:\Sites -ChildPath $localsite

produces 

join-path : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:1 char:9+ $path = join-path -path IIS:\Sites -ChildPath $localsite+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Join-Path], NullReferenceException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.NullReferenceException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.JoinPathCommand

Thoughts?

Hi Experts,

There are many scripts in forums and gallary to swap Primary and Secondary SMTP addresses.

But our requirement is little different.

we have bunch of users and DLs with 3 to 4 SMTP addresses, SIP and X500 (for cross domain and Ex Org migrated mailboxes).

Recently we added new email address as secondary to these bunch of users and DLs (~600 objects). New email address has couple of scenarios:

1. Both local-part and domain-part is new (new.name@NewDomain.com) 

2. Change only for local-part of email address (new.name@OldDomain.com)

Our requirement is to swap already existing Primary and secondary, Newly added smtp address, while retaining all the existing Proxy addresses - smtp, x500, SIP etc.

How do it swap the SMTP primary and secondary addresses retaining other entries?

Thanks in Advance.

Veera.

Veerappan Sundaram

Hi All,

I need to run this PowerShell command to get the Distribution group status:

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://PRODHT01-VM/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos
Import-PSSession $Session -AllowClobber
Import-Module ActiveDirectory -ErrorAction STOP

Function GetDLStatistics {
   Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach {$_.GUID} | ForEach {

      ## Run the Get-DistributionGroup Cmdlet
      $DLData = (Get-DistributionGroup -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Identity "$_")

      ## Run the Get-QADGroupMember Cmdlet - The @ makes sure it can count 0 and 1 values.
      $DLMembers = @(Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "$_" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

      ## Get values from Get-DistributionGroup Cmdlet
      $ACE_DL_Alias = $DLData.Alias
      $ACE_DL_DisplayName = $DLData.DisplayName
      $ACE_DL_AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom = $DLData.AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom
      $ACE_DL_AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers = $DLData.AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers
      $ACE_DL_HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled = $DLData.HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled

      ## Put all values in a string separated by ^ so that it can be put into a CSV.

      $String =  $ACE_DL_DisplayName +"^"+ $ACE_DL_Alias +"^"+ $_ +"^"+ $DLMembers.Count +"^"+
      $ACE_DL_HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled +"^"+ $ACE_DL_AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom +"^"+
      $ACE_DL_AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers

      $String | Out-File C:\temp\DLGroup.txt -Append
   }
}

GetDLStatistics

Using the <g class="gr_ gr_124 gr-alert gr_spell gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="124" id="124">powershell</g> remoting as per https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/samdrey/2015/04/06/reminder-adding-exchange-2010-or-2013-snap-in-using-add-pssnapin-not-supported-better-use-remote-powershell-from-rmilne/

However, I always get this error when I execute it from my laptop PowerShell ISE:

The pipeline was not run because a pipeline is already running. Pipelines cannot be run concurrently.
   + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (Microsoft.Power...tHelperRunspace:ExecutionCmdletHelperRunspace) [], PSInvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemotePipelineExecutionFailed
 
Get-DistributionGroup : The session Session1, c26e3c87-4520-4fae-a161-a2e4e898c74d, PRODHT01-VM is not available to run commands.  The session availability is Busy.
At C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\fd154ca6-4cb6-49ed-959f-c256e6a65d34.ps1:9 char:7
+       $DLData = (Get-DistributionGroup -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue  ...
+       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: ([PSSession]Session1:PSSession) [Invoke-Command], InvalidRunspaceStateException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeCommandCommandInvalidSessionAvailability,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeCommandCommand
 
No valid sessions were specified.  Ensure you provide valid sessions that are in the Opened state and are available to run commands.
At C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\fd154ca6-4cb6-49ed-959f-c256e6a65d34.ps1:line:9 char:7
+       $ <<<< DLData = (Get-DistributionGroup -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Identity "$_")

I also tried to execute the same PowerShell command above in the Exchange Server itself but I got this error instead:

[PRODHT01-VM] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot complete the operation within the time specified. Check if the machine name is valid and is reachable over the network and firewall exception for Windows Remote Management service is enabled. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [], PSRemotingTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionOpenFailed
Import-PSSession : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Session'. The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument and try the command again.
At C:\TEMP\GetDLStats.ps1:2 char:17
+ Import-PSSession <<<<  $Session -AllowClobber
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Import-PSSession], ParameterBindingValidationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportPSSessionCommand

Import-Module : The following error occurred while loading the extended type data file:
Microsoft.PowerShell, C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\Exchange.partial.Types.ps1xml : File skipped because it was already present from "Microsoft.PowerShell".
Microsoft.PowerShell, C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\exchange.types.ps1xml : File skipped because it was already present from "Microsoft.PowerShell".
Microsoft.PowerShell, C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\ActiveDirectory\ActiveDirectory.Types.ps1xml : File skipped because it was already present from "Microsoft.PowerShell".
At C:\TEMP\GetDLStats.ps1:3 char:14
+ Import-Module <<<<  ActiveDirectory -ErrorAction STOP
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Import-Module], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FormatXmlUpateException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportModuleCommand

Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Get-DistributionGroup" command...
ForEach-Object : The term 'Get-ADGroupMember' 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.
At C:\TEMP\GetDLStats.ps1:6 char:107
+    Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach {$_.GUID} | ForEach <<<<  {
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-ADGroupMember:String) [ForEach-Object], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ForEachObjectCommand

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

/* Server Support Specialist */

I'm trying to use the PowerShell Desired State Configuration to deploy software packaged in an EXE file. When installed manually, the software does show up in Programs and Features. However, Win32_Product doesn't see it.  DSC won't install the EXE files, usually by just hanging there and not doing anything.

The documentation out there on the Internet for the Package Resource of DSC (both Microsoft generated and admin generated) is, at best, really poor in helping me to troubleshoot, or even understand why it's not working.

1. I know using a Product ID is preferred.  Aside from installing the software on a "reference" computer, how would I retrieve the product ID without deconstructing the EXE file with development software, like Visual Studio?  (Especially since deconstructing another vendor's EXE file tends to violate support agreements)
2. How should the software name be formatted?  For my EXE files, I've used the name in the Details tab of properties, the one listed in Programs and Features, and the one in the setup.ini file.  All of these generate an error saying the Name doesn't match.  Where does DSC look to validate that the name matches the software package?
3. Most of the examples I've seen show the arguments property filled out.  Are the EXE files required to be compatible with command line install to be used by DSC?  If so, is there a standard set of arguments that Microsoft recognizes. or is it determined per developer?
4. When the DSC Package resource fails to install, where do I look to troubleshoot?  I have the DEBUG and Analytic event logs enabled on the server I'm testing on, and I've also added the LogPath parameter to the Config file, but they don't appear to say anything that would point me in the right direction.  Additionally, the file generated by LogPath remains blank.  I've also used the xDSCDiagnostics module, but while it helps in getting the events, it doesn't help me in understanding where the problem lies, and where to start troubleshooting.  Where else would I look to troubleshoot a DSC initiated installation?

Thank you ahead of time for any assistance you can provide.

I have been struggling to download the DSC Reskit Wave #10 and install it on a Win2012 R2 Server Core installation using PowerShell 4.0. I have read and tried to navigate through the blog from the Scripting Guys of October 13, 2014 regarding this subject but their PowerShell code suggestions error out. Does anyone one know of a reference or can document for me the procedure for downloading and installing a DSC Resource Kit Wave using PowerShell on a Server Core installation. Thanks for your help.

Michael T. Glenn

Michael T. Glenn

Good day all,

I'm having a problem running the below command: 

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity AllStaff | Get-ADUser -Properties * | select employeeNumber, displayName, mail, extensionAttribute1, extensionAttribute3, extensionAttribute2 | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation D:\TestFile.csv

error:

Get-ADGroupMember : The size limit for this request was exceeded
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ADGroupMember -Identity AllStaff | Get-ADUser -Properties * | select employe ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (AllStaff:ADGroup) [Get-ADGroupMember], ADException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryServer:8227,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADGroupMember

How do I change the size limit to around 7000.

Your help would be kindly appreciated.

Regards,

Dominique.

Hello all this is my first post and have only been using PowerShell for about a week.

I have a simple script to pull some lines from text files.

It works great if I don't add the pipe to export.

If I run the full script, it no longer executes Context.

I've read the help on Context and it doesn't seem to tell me why.

Is there another way to do this?

Select-String \\shared\e_drive\Process\Scrub\*.txt -pattern "Str1","Str2","Str3",-Context 0,1

This works great to the console window and shows me the next line after match.

Select-String \\shared\e_drive\Process\Scrub\*.txt -pattern "Str1","Str2","Str3",-Context 0,1|export-csv \\shared\e_drive\Process\Scrub\result.csv

This seems to ignore context as the file clearly doesn't contain the next lines after match.  Any help is appreciated.

I have a simple .csv file that looks like this
username,upn
thatguy,thatguy@domain.com

Why does this work: 
Get-RemoteMailbox -Identity thatguy | Get-User | %{ $dispName=$_.LastName + ", " + $_.FirstName ; set-remotemailbox -Identity thatguy -Displayname $dispName }

but this doesn't.
Get-RemoteMailbox -Identity $_.username | Get-User | %{ $dispName=$_.LastName + ", " + $_.Firstname ; set-remotemailbox -Identity $_.username -Displayname $dispName }

Above this line in my script, I'm using the $_.username variable to enable-remotemailbox and set the email address with no problems. I get this error.

Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Identity' because it is null.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Set-RemoteMailbox], ParameterBindingValidationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorNullNotAllowed,Set-RemoteMailbox

Hi guys,

Over the past month I have been trying to write a script that extracts it's contents, makes changes and then rezips it. Unfortunately I need to change the requirements of the script so that instead of creating a new zip file, I need to overwrite the current one. 

Here's my code right now:

[io.compression.zipfile]::CreateFromDirectory("C:\temp\contents\","C:\test\test.zip")

So the .zip file already exists at this location. What I want to see is that the contents of the test.zip get overwritten. This instead does nothing. It's really important that the zip is not deleted, just that it's contents are overwritten. 

Is there anyway to do this? 

EDIT: I do get an error.

"Exception calling "CreateFromDirectory" with 2 arguments: "C:\test\test.zip" already exists."

Hi I have a powershell script which picks a file and copies it to sharepoint library. Tested the script with local drive and the file gets copied across to sharepoint.

Changed the localdrive to a UNC path, I have full access to the folders, my script lists all the files in the folders and then just exits. Doesn't even catch an exception

$files = ([System.IO.DirectoryInfo] (Get-Item $localFolderPath)).GetFiles()
 
 write-host $files
 
 ForEach($file in $files)
    {

  if($file.Name.Contains(".pdf"))       
  {
   
            $fname = $file.Name
            write-host $file  # Displays the filename on the console
    try
    { 
     $fileStream = ([System.IO.FileInfo] (Get-Item $file.FullName)).OpenRead()

     $folder =  $web.getfolder($docLibraryName)
                      
                      
      write-host "Copying file " $file.Name " to " $folder.ServerRelativeUrl "..."
                  
      $spFile = $folder.Files.Add($folder.Url + "/" + $file.Name,[System.IO.Stream]$fileStream, $true)

      write-host -f Green "Success"

      $fileStream.Close();     

      Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body  -SmtpServer $SMTPServer

catch
    {
                    #move-item $file $localfailure -force
                   
                    $Body = $Body + $fname + " Upload Failure"
                   
                    Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body  -SmtpServer $SMTPServer
                    write-host -f Red "Failure"
                    Write "Error: $file.name: $_" >>c:\srini\spfiles\splogfile.txt
     continue;
    }

Not sure what the issue is, as it works fine from a localdrive, but not an UNC path

Any pointers appreciated

Thanks

Sri

Hi,

Once I execute powershell script on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 R2 which try to zip files using copyHere cmdlet after a reboot, for first 3 execution, it pops up window with error msg - File not found or no read permission. After first three runs compression occurs successfully.

Instead if I use CreateFromDirectory, compression is successful each execution after reboot.

If I execute the two scripts (one with copyHere and another with CreateFromDirectory) one after another after a reboot, then again copyHere throws same error as above till the first three attempts while CreateFromDirectory runs successfully in each of the attempt.

What is the reason behind copyHere failure for only first three attempts and how can I overcome this?

following is the code, it would work if each folder only contains 1 file, but will not work correctly if multiple files with different creation time were in the folders. 

$Locations = @("D:\folder1", "D:\folder2", "D:\folder3")

foreach ($Location in $Locations)
{

if  ((Get-ChildItem -Force $Location) -ne $Null)
  {
    $oldest = Get-ChildItem -Path $Location | Sort CreationTime | select -First 1

    if($oldest.TimeCreated -lt [datetime]::Now.AddHours(-12))

        {Write-Eventlog -computername LocalHost -logname Application -Category 3 -source SCOM_Custom_Monitor -eventID 200 -EntryType Information -message "File Age Check Results for '$Location', all files are newer than 12 hours."}
    Else
        {Write-Eventlog -computername LocalHost -logname Application -Category 3 -source SCOM_Custom_Monitor -eventID 400 -EntryType Information -message "File Age Check Results for '$Location', there are file(s) older than 12 hours."}

  }
else
    {Write-Eventlog -computername LocalHost -logname Application -Category 3 -source SCOM_Custom_Monitor -eventID 200 -EntryType Information -message "File Age Check Results for '$Location', folder contains no file"}

}

I'm using Windows 7 x64 Pro, just recently updated to Windows Management Framework 5.0 (Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3134760-x64.msu).  Ever since the update, whenever I click the powershell icon, the command console opens and closes immediately. 

Error message:

Windows PowerShell terminated with the following error:
 Could not load file or assembly 'System.Configuration.Install, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PubblicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Win7AndW2K8R2-KB3134760-x64.msu, still without success in fixing this issue.

our previous admin collected logons manually, our system is growing and this it is taking to long so I started working on a script to collect all of our machines logs.  My challenge is I also need it to collect only the event ID's of bad log on attempts but I dont know how to add it into here to pull just those.  Could you help me out?

cls
# server you want to export from
$computers = @("MXXXXXX")
#  logs you want to export
$Logs = @("System")
# amount of days you want to go back in time
$Days = "7"

$timestamp = get-date -f yyyyMMddHHmm
[dateTime]$After = (get-date).addDays(-$Days)
foreach ($computer in $computers) {
    write-host $computer
    foreach ($log in $logs) {
        write-host "- $Log"
        get-eventlog -logname $log -EntryType Error,warning -After $After -ComputerName $computer | Select-Object TimeGenerated,MachineName,Logname,EventID,EntryType,Source,Message | % {
        $_.Message = $_.Message -replace "`n",' '
        $_.Message = $_.Message -replace "`r",' '
        $_.Logname = $Log
        $_
        } | Export-Csv -Path "C:/myscripts/$timestamp-Eventlog.csv" -Append -NoTypeInformation -NoClobber
    }
    Write-Host "- Done! Exported to ./$timestamp-Eventlog.csv"
}

Also is it possible that each log has there own tab?

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I'm looking for an Office 365 powershell command (or two) that would let me force a mandatory password reset for the entire organization.

I'd like this to happen to every user as soon as possible.

Does anyone know such a command?

PS: We're not syncing with our active directory domain passwords.

Thanks!

I'm looking to setup a checkbox selector for Organizational Units in a domain, I can create the checkboxes correctly but I don't know how to access what has been checked when the user clicks the 'Apply' button?

import-module activedirectory

function checkbox_ou
{
	[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
	[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")

	$Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
	$Form.width = 500
	$Form.height = 600
	$Form.Text = "OU Picker v0.1"


	$Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("calibri, verdana, Times New Roman",8)
	$Form.Font = $Font

	$cbheight = 20

	$adorgunit = get-adorganizationalunit -filter * -properties canonicalname | sort name
	foreach ($adou in $adorgunit)
	{
		$ou_name = $adou.name
		$ou_cn = $adou.canonicalname
		$ou_dn = $adou.distinguishedname
		$cbheight += 20

		$checkBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.checkBox
		$checkBox.Name = "$ou_dn"
		$checkBox.Text = "$ou_name"
		$checkbox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(30,$cbheight)
		$checkbox.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(300,23)
		$Form.Controls.Add($checkBox)
	}



	$ApplyButton = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button
	$ApplyButton.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(130,400)
	$ApplyButton.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(100,40)
	$ApplyButton.Text = "Apply"
	$ApplyButton.Add_Click({$Form.Close()})
	$form.Controls.Add($ApplyButton)



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

}


checkbox_ou

Hello,

Is there a script that can create distribution lists on mass (100 plus)  in Exchange that already exist in Active Directory?

Thanks

Joshua