Hi,

I have created the following code which searches through a log file and displays the number of results it finds.

Im using regex to create a filter for the Get-Content command.

http://regexr.com/3dtau

The regex works fine, but doesn't seem to count the results correctly.  

Anything obvious i'm doing wrong?

$VolumeName = "1TB USB3 Backup Disk 2"
$TodaysDate = get-date -format 'dd-MM-yyyy HH'
$WeeklyDiskConnection = "C:\SBSA\EBD\WDC.log"

$combineSearch = "$TodaysDate $VolumeName"

$regexDisk = "^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)\d\d\s(17|18|19|20).+Disk [1-3]$"
$a = [regex]$regexDisk
$b = $a.Match("$($combineSearch )")
$c = $b.Captures[0].value

$Count = (get-content $WeeklyDiskConnection -Tail 55 | select-string -pattern "$($b.Captures[0].value)").Length

echo $Count

Example of log file contents:

thanks,

Fulton.

Have a good day.

I am currently trying to figure out how I get access to the messages that are being written to the Immediate Window in Visual Studio when the pipeline.Invoke() command is executed. I have been looking for events I can latch onto, to have this information also sent to a log file.

When the pipeline.Invoke() command is called, prior to it finishing, the following messages, are put into the immediate window and are the ones I would like to have in a log file.

[00000000] 12:06:14.482 D Creating AD sessions for ''
[00000000] 12:06:14.501 D Creating AD sessions for ''
[00000000] 12:06:14.502 D MRSClient: attempting to connect to 'ACADIA.xxxxxxxx.com'
[00000000] 12:06:14.516 D MRSClient: connected to 'ACADIA.xxxxxxxx.com', version 15.0.1178.0 caps:1FFF

Here is the method being used when these messages occur, take in mind it's during the p.Invoke() command.

public static CreateMailboxExportResponse CreateMailboxExportRequest(string path, string upn, string dc, bool isArchive = false)
        {
            CreateMailboxExportResponse response = new CreateMailboxExportResponse();
            string suffix = "primary";
            if (isArchive)
                suffix = "archive";

            try
            {
                CreateRunspace();
                Pipeline p = mRunspace.CreatePipeline();
                using (p)
                {
                    Command cmd = new Command("New-MailboxExportRequest");
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("BatchName", "TerminationActivities"));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("FilePath", path));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("Confirm", false));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("BadItemLimit", 10000));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("AcceptLargeDataLoss", true));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("WarningAction", "SilentlyContinue"));
                    if (isArchive)
                        cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("IsArchive"));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("Mailbox", upn));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("DomainController", dc));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("Name", (upn.Replace('@', '_') + "_" + suffix)));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("Suspend", true));
                    cmd.Parameters.Add(new CommandParameter("SuspendComment", "Termination Testing"));
                    p.Commands.Add(cmd);Collection<PSObject> results = p.Invoke();

                    if (results != null)
                    {
                        if (results.Count > 0)
                            response.ExportRequest = results[0];
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                response.HasError = true;
                response.Error = ex.Message.ToString();
            }
            return response;
        }

Any help getting the messages in the immediate window logged would be greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to create registry key as follows:

New-Item -Path 'HKCU:\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Liaison 98\SitaHost\PC/PCM'

New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Liaison 98\SitaHost\PC/PCM"

New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Liaison 98\SitaHost\PC`/PCM"

All 3 commands give error:

New-Item : The registry key at the specified path does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\Liaison 98\SitaHost\P ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (HKEY_CURRENT_US... 98\SitaHost\PC:String) [New-Item], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

As I understand it treats slash in PC/PCM as path seperator, and as PC key is missing it throws me an error. How can I escape slash in path so it will treat it as part of the name and not path seperator?

Hi 

I'm generating a SSRS report using Powershell. If I use static variables I can create the report. However I only want to use the last two items in the list of variable values obtained from the report to populate the input report parameters. Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Please see below for the code I'm using.

Kind regards,

Helen

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# add assembly 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
Add-Type -AssemblyName "Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91"

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# display calculated month end date 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$startTime = Get-Date 
Write-Host ("=" * 80) 
Write-Host "Generating Report" 
Write-Host "Start Time: $startTime" 
Write-Host ("=" * 80)

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# create timestamped folder 
# where we will save our report 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$dt = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MMM-dd hhmmtt" 
$baseFolder = "\\xxx\xxx\"

# if the path exists, will error silently and continue 
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $baseFolder -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null

$rv = New-Object Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# report Server Properties 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$rv.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl = "http://xxx/ReportServer" 
$rv.ServerReport.ReportPath = "/xxx/xxx" 
$rv.ProcessingMode = "Remote"

$rv.ServerReport.GetParameters() |
ForEach-Object {
    $param = $_
    $validValues = ""
    if ($param.ValidValues -ne $null)
    {
        $validValues = [string]::Join(",", ($param.ValidValues[-1..-2] |
                       ForEach-Object {$_.Value}))
    }

    $item = [PSCustomObject] @{
        ParamName = $param.Name
        ValidValues = $validValues
    }

 #$item
   $T15 = $item

   foreach ($element in $T15){$element   }

#$RegRefString =""
#if ($param = 'P_RegRef') {$RegRefString = $validValues}

#$RegRefString =""
#if ($T15.ParamName = 'P_RegRef') {$RegRefString = $T15.ValidValues}

}


# report parameters 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$inputParams = @{ 
"P_RegRef" = $RegRefString;
"P_Qual" = $Qual;
}

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# set up report parameters 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$params = $null

#create an array based on how many incoming parameters 
$params = New-Object 'Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportParameter[]' $inputParams.Count

$i = 0 
foreach ($p in $inputParams.GetEnumerator()) 
{ 
$params[$i] = New-Object Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportParameter($p.Name, $p.Value, $false) 
$i++ 
} 
# set the parameters 
$rv.ServerReport.SetParameters($params) 
$rv.ShowParameterPrompts = $false 
$rv.RefreshReport() 
$rv.ServerReport.Refresh()

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# set rendering parameters 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$mimeType = $null 
$encoding = $null 
$extension = $null 
$streamids = $null 
$warnings = $null

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# render the SSRS report in Excel 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$bytes = $null 
$bytes = $rv.ServerReport.Render("Excel", 
$null, 
[ref] $mimeType, 
[ref] $encoding, 
[ref] $extension, 
[ref] $streamids, 
[ref] $warnings)

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# save the report to a file 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$fileName = $baseFolder + "Report.xls" 
$fileStream = New-Object System.IO.FileStream($fileName, [System.IO.FileMode]::OpenOrCreate) 
$fileStream.Write($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length) 
$fileStream.Close()

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# calculate end time and duration 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
$endTime = Get-Date 
$duration = New-TimeSpan -Start $startTime -End $endTime 
Write-Host ("=" * 80) 
Write-Host "End Time: $endTime" 
Write-Host "Duration: $duration " 
Write-Host ("=" * 80)

#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
# show folder 
#-------------------------------------------------------------- 
explorer $baseFolder

Hi,

I would like to get day and month with leading 0. ( 02-06-2016)

But when I execute below , I get error Get-Date : Cannot bind parameter 'Date'. Cannot convert value "MM" to type "System.DateTime". Error: "The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is a unknown word starting at index 0."

$a = Get-Date -format "MM dd YYYY" ( only this will work)
$Month = $a.Month
$date  = $a.Day
$year = $a.Year

$Month

$date

$Year

Hi Guys,

can any one help me I am getting blank in passwordlastset for some users when i run the command Get-aduser.

Get-ADUser -Identity  Username -Properties * | select passwordLastset,LastLogonDate.

what could be the reason , checked user details  through dsa.msc , all looks good user not disable even he loged in system few days Back

Regards,

Triyambak

Regards, Triyambak

I have a toplevel.ps1 script that includes .includes validation.ps1. toplevel.ps1 also includes settings.ps1. The settings.ps1 also includes validation.ps1 so that it may be .included by other scripts that do NOT .include validation.ps1.

Does the double inclusion use more memory?

pseudo code below

####toplevel.ps1 ####

toplevel.ps1

   .include settings.ps1

   .include validation.ps1

end toplevel.ps1

#### settings.ps1 ####

settings.ps1

   .include validation.ps1

end toplevel.ps1

I am attempting to parse the output from a gpresult XML file, in order to retrieve the values for specific applied settings. I have generated the XML and imported it as a variable:

gpresult.exe /x C:\Temp\results.xml /f

$results = [xml] (Get-Content C:\Temp\results.xml)

I need to capture the password policy settings, which are contained in the Default Domain Policy. Here's an excerpt of the XML that shows these settings:

<ExtensionData><Extension xmlns:q2="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Security" xsi:type="q2:SecuritySettings" xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings"><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>MaximumPasswordAge</q2:Name><q2:SettingNumber>42</q2:SettingNumber><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>MinimumPasswordAge</q2:Name><q2:SettingNumber>1</q2:SettingNumber><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>LockoutBadCount</q2:Name><q2:SettingNumber>0</q2:SettingNumber><q2:Type>Account Lockout</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>PasswordHistorySize</q2:Name><q2:SettingNumber>24</q2:SettingNumber><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>MinimumPasswordLength</q2:Name><q2:SettingNumber>7</q2:SettingNumber><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>PasswordComplexity</q2:Name><q2:SettingBoolean>true</q2:SettingBoolean><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type></q2:Account><q2:Account><GPO xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base"><Identifier xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}</Identifier><Domain xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Types">tailspintoys.com</Domain></GPO><Precedence xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings/Base">1</Precedence><q2:Name>ClearTextPassword</q2:Name><q2:SettingBoolean>false</q2:SettingBoolean><q2:Type>Password</q2:Type> 

I've been exploring the dot-notation, and can see the Default Domain Policy. But how do I drill down and capture the values I need?

$results.DocumentElement.ComputerResults.GPO | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Default Domain Policy"}
Name             : Default Domain Policy
Path             : Path
VersionDirectory : 9
VersionSysvol    : 9
Enabled          : true
IsValid          : true
FilterAllowed    : true
AccessDenied     : false
Link             : Link
SecurityFilter   : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
ExtensionName    : {{B1BE8D72-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}, Security, Registry}

Hi,

Steps:

• I have a server remoting into another server to launch a custom application.
• The custom application then connects to a database using SSPI
• Unfortunately, the context that is passed to the DB server is NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS

The remote session is using the correct credentials and winrm and CredSSP are properly configured.

Question:

• Why is the custom application not getting the correct user context to use with SSPI

Thanks

I am trying to create a PowerShell script to logon to a Cisco router, get into privilege mode and output the configs to a text file, however I get the following error:

A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Successfully connected to router.example.com'.

Here is my script:

Import-Module SshShell

$time ="$(get-date -f yyyy-MM-dd)"
$filename ="config"
$ext =".txt"
$filepath ="C:\Backups"
$Hostname = "Router"
$Domain = "rns.xx.example.com"
$FQDN = $Hostname + $Domain
$elevatedPrompt = $Hostname + "#"
$user ="Joe"
$password ="Doe"
$c1 ="show run"

$s = New-SshSession -ComputerName $FQDN -User $user -Password $password
Send-SshCommand $s "enable" -Expect "Password:"
Send-SshCommand $s "$password" -Expect $elevatedPrompt
Send-SshCommand $s "sh run" | Out-File "$filepath$filename-$time$ext"

Close-SshSession $s

Hello,
I am new to powershell. I am trying to stop remote server service from a sql server agent job through a powershell script. 
The script fails at line 5 without much details. 
Below is the script which i am running as it is from inside a sqlserver agent job:
$services = "wuauserv"
$SvrName = 'MyRemoteServer'
get-service -computername $SvrName -name $services | % {

Write-host "$($_.Name) on $($Service.Machinename) is $($_.Status)"
 If ($_.status -eq 'stopped') {
         Write-host "Starting $($_.name) ..."
         Write-host "$($_.name) is started"
         $_.Start()}
elseIf ($_.status -eq 'running') {
         Write-host "Stopping $($_.name)..."
         Write-host "$($_.name) is stopped"
         $_.Stop() }
         }
The script is running as a sqlserveragentuser which is a domain account who is administrator on the remote server.
Error:
Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: line(5): Syntax error).  The step failed.
Gurus need you valuable inputs. Thanks

I am trying to write a Powershell script to do automated deployments for SSRS 2014.  My problem is linking the report to a shared dataset.  I keep getting the error:  [ERROR] Cannot convert argument "ItemReferences", with value: "System.Object[]", for 
[ERROR] "SetItemReferences" to type "SSRS.ReportingService2010.ItemReference[]": 
[ERROR] "Cannot convert the "SSRS.ReportingService2010.ItemReference" value of type 
[ERROR] "SSRS.ReportingService2010.ItemReference" to type 
[ERROR] "SSRS.ReportingService2010.ItemReference"."
[ERROR] At C:\Users\bshaw20\Documents\SSRS\Powershell Deploy\SSRS Deploy\SSRS 
[ERROR] Deploy\prototypev4.ps1:224 char:46
[ERROR] +         $rs.SetItemReferences($reportPath, @($myDataset))
[ERROR] +                                              ~~~~~~~~~~
[ERROR]     + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
[ERROR]     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

Here is my script:

function LinkSharedDataSets {
  # Get a list of reports and link them with the shared datasets

  $newDataSetName = "/Interstate Apps/Commercial/Set/setSum"
  $myDS = "setSum"

  $rpts | ForEach-Object {
    $reportPath = $_.path
    Write-Host "Report: " $reportPath
    $dataSets = $rs.GetItemReferences($reportPath, "DataSet")
    $dataSets | ForEach-Object {
      if ($_.Name -eq $myDS) {
        $myDataset = New-Object -TypeName SSRS.ReportingService2010.ItemReference
        $myDataset.Name = $myDS
        $myDataset.Reference = $newDataSetName
        $myRefs += $myDataset
        $rs.SetItemReferences($reportPath, @($myDataset))
      }
    }
  }
}

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Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru – May 2016

	Namrah Khurram	Traffic Lights Simulation via LEDs on Raspberry Pi	TGN: “Man this is cool. Good information and well structured. well I’m impresses Namrah!” Ed Price: “A cool scenario that’s masterfully explained! The code has great formatting. It could benefit from See Also and References sections at the end.”
	Manuel Cota	“DrawIndexedInstanced and the Concepts behind a Home-Made Game Engine”	Ed Price: “It could benefit from a TOC at the top and from See Also and References sections at the bottom, but I love how this breaks down the code and explains everything in depth! Great use of diagrams!” TGN: “I learned a lot from this article. Well done, thanks for sharing!”
	Sajid Ali Khan	UWP: Things Required To Do Right After Creation of New Project	Ed Price: “Great use of images and good References section at the end! I love how the code is both on GitHub and MSDN Gallery and how the download links are given!” TGN: “This can help a lot of people, my favourite this month! Thanks for sharing Sajid”

Visual C# Technical Guru – May 2016

	Emiliano Musso	Entity Framework Introduction using C#, part I	Ed Price: “This is a masterful article, It’s thoroughly broken down, and it leverages images, great code formatting, and even a download and an Italian language version at the end!” Jaliya Udagedara: “Great article with step by step explanation. If you are a newbie to EF, read this one article which will cover most of the basics. And you can download the sample code from MSDN Code Gallery.” Carmelo La Monica: “Good and very impressive article, it explain in all parts Entity Framework 7, i attend second part “
	SYEDSHANU	MVC ASP.NET Identity customizing for adding profile image	Carmelo La Monica: “Very good expression, good images and very detailed in all parts.” Ed Price: “Very thorough steps! Great scenario!” Jaliya Udagedara: “Good article explaining how you can manage your profile picture with a ASP.NET MVC application. Sample code is available in MSDN Code Gallery.”

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru – May 2016

Peter Geelen

Wiki: Fixing table layout (table right side off page)

Richard Mueller: “Great information that will help a great deal to fix tables in the Wiki. Good use of Wiki guidelines.” Ed Price: “This is a fantastic solution from Peter!”

Windows PowerShell Technical Guru – May 2016

	Matt McNabb	Office 365: How to Manager User License Lifecycle with PowerShell	Ed Price: “Wow! Great description of these steps, and it ends well with several other links to dig into!” Richard Mueller: “Good TOC. An excellent idea to code this and overcome limitations. This should be very useful.”
	Arleta Wanat	SharePoint Online: Get all checked-out files using Powershell	Richard Mueller: “Good headings and TOC. Good ideas and well explained.” Ed Price: “Great scenario and use of PowerShell code!”

Windows Server Technical Guru – May 2016

Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang)

Nano Server: Using New-NanoServerImage with Show-Command to deploy Nano Server

Mark Parris: “Excellent article on the deployment of Nano server. ” JM: “This is an excellent article on building a new Nano Server, thanks for your contribution!” Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines, with even horizontal rules and Return to top links. Show-Command is a very interesting feature I like a lot. Good references.”

Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker

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I use filesystemwatcher object to monitor file folder, it works fine. I use timer object, that works too. But when I use both together, It does not work.

Within file create event of filesystemwatcher object, I have a timer. When I drop first file to the file folder, the Timer object starts. When I drop the second file to the shared folder, filesystemwatcher will not response until the timer job finish in 30 minutes. Anyone have done the similar task? 

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I know there are various ways to suppress the 'RED' error info, using -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue, or trap{}, etc... but for the first time I have run into a scenario where I get this 'YELLOW' warning output... how do I suppress it?

PS SQLSERVER:\sql> (gi wrongInstanceName -ea silentlyContinue) -eq $null
WARNING: Could not obtain SQL Server Service information. An attempt to connect to WMI on 'wds-smqs' failed with the following error: The RPC
server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)
True

in example above, that output is yellow, the red error output is suppressed with -ea SilentlyContinue. Is there a way to also suppress this yellow warning output? I will be checking for and handling error cases in my script and I would rather not have this warning be output.

Hello i am quite new at powershell. But i try to learn it. I have to function at moment.

1) Folder Watch - will check new files in folder

2) Regex file and output new file.

What i want to do is when first script find new files in folder then second script start run and make regex and output new file.

Function Register-Watcher {

    param ($folder)
    $filter = "*.*" #all files
    $watcher = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{
        IncludeSubdirectories = $false
        EnableRaisingEvents = $true
    }



    $changeAction = [scriptblock]::Create('
        # This is the code which will be executed every time a file change is detected
        $path = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
        $name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
        $changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
        $timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
        Write-Host "The file $name was $changeType at $timeStamp"



    ')

    Register-ObjectEvent $Watcher "Created" -Action $changeAction


}

 Register-Watcher "C:\site-download"

Function regex-inout { $input_path = "C:\site-download\input.txt"
$output_file = "C:\site-download\output.txt"
$regex = "(?<month>VPIP<\/span><span class=""right"">\d{2}.\d{1})"
$regex2 = "(?<month>Winrate<\/span><span class=""right"">\d{1}.\d{1})"
$regex3 = "(?<month>PFR<\/span><span class=""right"">\d{2}.\d{1})"
$regex4 = "(?<month>Winnings<\/span><span class=""right"">\-[0-9]{1,9})"
$regex5 = "(?<month>3Bet<\/span><span class=""right"">\d{1}.\d{1})"

select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex -List | % { $_.Matches} | % { $_.Value } | Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '</span><span class=""right"">', ' = '} | Add-Content $output_file
select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex2 -List | % { $_.Matches} | % { $_.Value } |Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '</span><span class=""right"">', ' = '} | Add-Content $output_file
select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex3 -List | % { $_.Matches} | % { $_.Value } | Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '</span><span class=""right"">', ' = '} | Add-Content $output_file
select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex4 -List | % { $_.Matches} | % { $_.Value } |Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '</span><span class=""right"">', ' = '} | Add-Content $output_file
select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex5 -List | % { $_.Matches} | % { $_.Value } | Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '</span><span class=""right"">', ' = '} | Add-Content $output_file

} regex-inout

Can anyone help me with creating a powershell script for downloading and uploading files from remote  FTPS site. 

I can upload and download the folder contents from a vanilla FTP site easily, but could not find a .net library that handles same from FTPS ( port 990) site. Has Microsoft abandoned FTPS?

HI, 

Lets say i am in machine1. I want to execute a batch file which is in machine2, so that notepad.exe will be executed and a notepad will be opened onmachine2 

How can i do this using powershell script.

sekhar

Dear colleagues,

I am currently struggling when trying to automate the creation of a SCCM Software Package by using Package Definition Files (*.sms) provided by our packaging team.

If I create the Software package filling manually the Attributes and Executing Put in the end, it works fine. Software Package is correctly created. (replace SCCM Server and XXX values below by yours)

$packageClass = [WMICLASS]"\\SCCMSERVER\root\sms\site_XXX:SMS_Package"
$newPackage = $packageClass.createInstance()
$newPackage.Name = "My Test Program"
$newPackage.Version = "0004.200"
$newPackage.Manufacturer = "TEST"
$newPackage.Language = "English"
$newPackage.Description = "Test package to test Powershell/WMI scripting Package Creation"
$newPackage.PkgSourceFlag = 2
$newPackage.PkgSourcePath = "\\SERVERNAME\SHARE$\TEST\PATH2PACKAGE"
$newPackage.Put()

If I manually Create the Package from the Console using the New Package from Definition it also works well (Package and Programs are correctly Created (Test.sms file used for the test copied below after my signature; It is dummy)

If I try to use Powershell/WMI to create the Package from the *.sms file using SMS_PDF_Package Class, when I get the package Object, after setting the PkgSourcePath and trying to execute Put, I get the following error:

Method invocation failed because [System.Management.ManagementBaseObject] doesn't contain a method named 'Put'.
At C:\Test\TestCreatePackagefromPDF.ps1:10 char:1+ $newPackage.Put()+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (Put:String) [], RuntimeException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

The code used is the following:

$PDFPackagePath = "C:\TEMP\Test.sms"
$PDFPackage = [IO.File]::ReadAlltext($PDFPackagePath)
$PackagePDFClass = [WMICLASS]"\\SCCMSERVER\root\sms\site_XXX:SMS_PDF_Package"
$PkgPDFID = $PackagePDFClass.LoadPDF($PDFPackagePath,$PDFPackage)
$Obj = $PackagePDFClass.GetPDFData($PkgPDFID.PDFID)
$newPackage = $Obj.PackageData
$Programs = $Obj.ProgramData
$newPackage.PkgSourceFlag = 2
$newPackage.PkgSourcePath = "\\SERVERNAME\SHARE$\TEST\PATH2PACKAGE"
$newPackage.Put()

The variable $Programs also contain an array to the 2 programs (install, remove) defined in the sms. I am not even able to process them as I couldn't manage to get the Software Package saved first.

Anyone could tell me what I am doing wrong??

Many thanks in advanve

Ramon

Test.sms content pasted below

[PDF]
VERSION=2.0

[PACKAGE DEFINITION]
NAME=Test Package for Powershell/WMI
VERSION=1.0
LANGUAGE=Multilanguage
PUBLISHER=TEST
COMMENT=Test package to test Powershell/WMI scripting Package Creation from PDF
MIFFILENAME=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM
MIFNAME=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM

programs=install,remove

[install]
NAME=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM install
COMMANDLINE=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM_INSTALL.cmd
UserInputRequired=False
AdminRightsRequired=True
DriveLetterConnection=False
CanRunWhen=AnyUserStatus
Run=Hidden

[remove]
NAME=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM remove
COMMANDLINE=TEST_MSI_PROGRAM_REMOVE.cmd
UserInputRequired=False
AdminRightsRequired=True
DriveLetterConnection=False
CanRunWhen=AnyUserStatus
Run=Hidden

Cheers Ramon Jiménez

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {


            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Users\\Dan\\Desktop\\a.bat");

        }

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {


            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Users\\Dan\\Desktop\\a.ps1");

        }

Cheers Dan