I'm a PS rookie; OK with .NET and VBA. There is something fundamental I don't understand about PS language.
1:
echo [environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments")
[environment]::GetFolderPath
MyDocuments
2:
$thePath = [environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments")
echo $thePath
C:\Users\Tom\Documents
Why does 1 not print the same path as 2?
Is it significant what it does print?
-Tom. Microsoft Access MVP
Hi,
I am not able to download a content using task scheduler. URI is of following format :
-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command & {Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://XX.XXX.XX.XXX:8080/Server.svc/Module(Config='abc',MN='xyz',MV='0')/ModuleContent"}
Whereas the same work with tinyurl and not with the above one. Is this bcz of comma(,) in URI. I also tried uri encoding, that also didn't help.
Invoke-webrequest works perfectly with long url if run on powershell console directly.
Why is this not working from task scheduler with this long url and runs with tiny url?
I even tried with $ProgressPreference = "silentlyContinue" in task scheduler by appending it in argument section.
-SSS
Hi, I created PowerShell script to remove and add boot.wim in remote servers. The script works fine if I run it in single server and it works fine if I use batch script to execute powershell in remote server but if I use default stuff of WDSUTIL or get-wdsbootimage command to execute on remote server it doesn't work. I did following steps to find out reason.
Hi, I created PowerShell script to remove and add boot.wim in remote servers. The script works fine if I run it in single server and it works fine if I use batch script to execute powershell in remote server but if I use default stuff of WDSUTIL or get-wdsbootimage command to execute on remote server it doesn't work. I did following steps to find out reason.
Hello,
i would like to store a key typed in by user in registry as a secure string and decrypt is as a plain text again whenever i need to use it by retrieving from registry. How can i do it?
Hello Friends
I have created this super simple script which should run daily to backup the MySQL database running my WordPress website.
$root = 'C:\Backups\My Website\Database Dumps\'
$dateString = (Get-Date).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
$fileName = $dateString + "-MyWebsiteDbBackup.sql"
$backupFilePath = ($root + $fileName)
$command = ("mysqldump -u root wpdatabase > " + "`"$backupFilePath`"")
Write-Host $command
Invoke-Expression $commandWhen I run the script inside PowerShell ISE, it runs fine and creates the .sql file, however, in Task Scheduler, the task is stuck on Running with code 0x00041301.
Why is this happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Always Learning.
I am running a simple command:
Remove-ADGroupMember I would like to suppress an error message is account is not found in the group. I tried running-ErrorActionSilentlyContinue but not getting any luck?
Thanks for the help.
Hi all
I am in the middle of creating a CSV import utility that searches the CSV import for invalid and special characters. I would like to check each row's column for specific characters. Once it has checked the row I want it to export the results to a csv appended. I know how to do this part.
but I cannot specify how many columns there would be as I am creating a universal import tool.
I am not sure how exactly to apply this.
Do I need to do
1. For Each ($row in $csv) {}
followed by
2. For Each ($heading in $row) {}
or am I completely wrong?
Please help.
l am using Windows Multipoint Server 2012.
During work it pops up a small window says (Shell has stopped working , A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available)
then the computer freezes together with all LAN connected Atrust stations. Please help me, I need to know how can l fix that error.
Hi All
I have this piece of code, however its running really slow. I was wondering if there is an alternative to this piece of code.
try
{
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"; #Make all errors terminating
$CITbl = "[dbo].[databasedata]”
$s = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $inst
#$dbs=$s.Databases
foreach ($db in $s.Databases) {
if ($db.IsAccessible -eq $True) {
$dt= $db | Select @{n="ServerName";e={$svr}}, @{n="InstanceName";e={$inst}}, Name, Status, Owner, CreateDate, Size,
@{n="DBSpaceAvailableInMB";e={[math]::round(($_.SpaceAvailable / 1024), 2)}},
@{e={"{0:N2}" -f ($_.Size-($_.SpaceAvailable / 1024))};n=”DBUsedSpaceInMB”},
@{e={"{0:P2}" -f (($_.SpaceAvailable / 1024)/$_.Size)};n=”DBPctFreeSpace”},
@{n="DBDataSpaceUsageInMB";e={[math]::round(($_.DataSpaceUsage / 1024), 2)}},
@{n="DBIndexSpaceUsageInMB";e={[math]::round(($_.IndexSpaceUsage / 1024), 2)}},
ActiveConnections, Collation, RecoveryModel, CompatibilityLevel, PrimaryFilePath,
LastBackupDate, LastDifferentialBackupDate, LastLogBackupDate, AutoShrink, AutoUpdateStatisticsEnabled,IsReadCommittedSnapshotOn,
IsFullTextEnabled, BrokerEnabled, ReadOnly, EncryptionEnabled, IsDatabaseSnapshot, ChangeTrackingEnabled,
IsMirroringEnabled, MirroringPartnerInstance, MirroringStatus, MirroringSafetyLevel, ReplicationOptions, AvailabilityGroupName,
@{n="NoOfTbls";e={$_.Tables.Count}}, @{n="NoOfViews";e={$_.Views.Count}}, @{n="NoOfStoredProcs";e={$_.StoredProcedures.Count}},
@{n="NoOfUDFs";e={$_.UserDefinedFunctions.Count}}, @{n="NoOfLogFiles";e={$_.LogFiles.Count}}, @{n="NoOfFileGroups";e={$_.FileGroups.Count}},
@{n="NoOfUsers";e={$_.Users.Count}}, @{n="NoOfDBTriggers";e={$_.Triggers.Count}},
@{n="LastGoodDBCCChecKDB"; e={$($_.ExecuteWithResults("dbcc dbinfo() with tableresults").Tables[0] | where {$_.Field -eq "dbi_dbccLastKnownGood"}| Select Value).Value}},
AutoClose, HasFileInCloud, HasMemoryOptimizedObjects, MemoryAllocatedToMemoryOptimizedObjectsInKB, MemoryUsedByMemoryOptimizedObjectsInKB,
@{n="DateAdded";e={$RunDt}} | out-datatable
Write-DataTable -ServerInstance $SQLInst -Database $Centraldb -TableName $CITbl -Data $dt
#write-log -Message "Database info collection Finished on $svr at | $(get-date)" -NoConsoleOut -Path $progress_log
}}#end For Each
write-log -Message "Database info collection finished on | $svr at | $(get-date)" -NoConsoleOut -Path $progress_log
}
catch
{
$ex = $_.Exception
}finally{
$ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"; #Reset the error action pref to default
}
I have 2 columns of users - one has the employees and other one their managers. I need to email the list of employees working under each manager.How can I get just the users working for each manager?
manager 1, emp1; manager 1, emp2; manager 2, emp3;...
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I've already published with the Publish-Module many
modules but suddenly I get this message only for PSGallery
The specified name '$moduleName' is already used for a different item on the specified repository 'PSGallery'. Run 'Find-Script -Name
$moduleName -Repository PSGallery' to check whether the specified name '$moduleName' is already taken.
where $moduleName is the name of the module. The PowerShell I use is
Publish-Module -Path $path -NuGetApiKey $key -Repository PSGallery -WhatIf
Find-Module reports
that $moduleName is indeed a module. On PowerShell gallery it presents the artificat as a module Same Publish-Module works
for any other PSRepository.
Any ideas anyone?
Can't find anything on google and the message is not correct.
Link from stackoverflow
What I am trying to do is on startup have a script run (this is new server only) that looks at the IP assigned to the system (192.168.0.44) say .. then take the last octet (44) and add it too NEWSERVER to get newserver44
$octet =
Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -NewName "NEWSERVERXX" -Credential $credential -Force -Restart
I have tried the . splt .. but can not get it to work
Thanks
I am trying to write a GIU. Getting a user name from the text box and then trying to use it to remove from from ADGroup.
But getting an error:
Cannot bind parameter 'Members'. Cannot convert the "System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
I understand that TextBox is passing a different format than Remove-ADGroupMember expects as a member.
Do not know how to convert it.
Thank you
Thanks to Mike L. for helping on the octet part!!
heres the run down
we have to create scaleable server, they will create and remove as needed.
Problem is they are not on the domain and they have one set name .. so...
I need to do the following things in a PS script that runs at start up on each machine
Just want it to run the one time on startup and then just sit there and future restarts, but I dont want to erase the file incase we need it to run again (for what ever reason)
This is what i have so far
$domain = "mydomain.com"
$password = "thepassword" | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$username = "$domain\aduser"
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username,$password)
$ip = (Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter 'IPEnabled=True').IPAddress[0]
$lastOctet = $ip.Split('.')[-1]
Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -NewName "NEWSERVER$lastoctet" -Credential $credential -Force -Restart
Thanks in advance!
I'm having issues importing this csv file. Here the headings of what has been given to me in the csv file.
GIVENNAMESNDisplayNameOfficeDESCRIPTIONUserPrincipalNameSamAccountNameParentContainerPasswordEmailLogin ScriptConnect To
I tried doing on by one powershell with New-ADUser and I can't seem to get that working either. This is what I got.
I have a powershell script in which I am inserting some text in the clipboard and then from the clipboard to a excel sheet cell.
I am getting the workbook from here:
$workbook = $xldoc.Workbooks.Open($testType)and the $currentSheet which is send in the below function is initialized by :
$mysheet = $workbook.worksheets | where {$_.name -eq "JPT"}Now this $mysheet is send in the function addTitle as $currentSheet
The function used for this is:
Function addTitle($currentRow , $maxRow , $currentSheet ,$currentCol, $currentCode){
$i =1
$intRow = $currentRow
$cSheetName = $currentSheet.Name
$finCode=""
$fRow=$intRowfor($intRow = $fRow ; $intRow -le $maxRow ; $intRow++){
$codeName = $currentCode
$fin = $codeName +"_"+ $i +"`n"
$finCode=$finCode+$fin
$i= $i +1}
$clipboardData = $finCode#$newClipboardData = $clipboardData.Where({$_.TrimStart() -ne ""}).ForEach({$_.TrimStart()})[System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetText($ClipboardData)[System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::GetText()
$currentSheet.Cells.Item($fRow,$currentCol).Value2=[System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::GetText()
$currentSheet.Cells.Item($fRow,$currentCol).Select()|Out-Null
$currentSheet.Paste($finCode)|Out-Null}The error I am getting is:
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.At D:\UploadsNew\DataGenerator.ps1:239 char:26+ $currentSheet.Cells.Item($fRow,$currentCol).Select()|...+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+CategoryInfo:InvalidOperation:(:)[],RuntimeException+FullyQualifiedErrorId:InvokeMethodOnNullHi,
I am learning PowerShell and want to use Invoke-Command to stop a process on remote computer. I am getting below error.
Any idea why I am getting below exception?
C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName C123456 -ScriptBlock { Stop-Process $Agent -Force }
[C123456] Connecting to remote server C123456 failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot complete the operation. Verify
that the specified computer name is valid, that the computer is accessible over the network, and that a firewall exception for the
WinRM service is enabled and allows access from this computer. By default, the WinRM firewall exception for public profiles limits
access to remote computers within the same local subnet. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (C123456:String) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WinRMOperationTimeout,PSSessionStateBroken
I am writing a script that compares 2 text files that runs without a hitch in ISE but when I try to run the script from the command line as
powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -file C:\scripts\myscript.ps1
I get the error "Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Pattern' because it is an empty string. At C:\scripts\myscript.ps1 : 10 char:64 + $ event51 = Get-Content 'c:\scripts\file02.txt | Select-String $event41 -SimpleM....
+CategoreyInfo :InvalidData (:) [select-string], ParameterBindingValidationException + FullyQualifiedErrorID : ParamaeterArgumentValidationEmptyStringNotAllowed,Microsoft.Powershell.Commands.SelectStringCommand
I cannot figure out what is causing this error since it runs fine in ISE. Here is my script
Clear-Content c:\scripts\file02.txt
Clear-Content c:\scripts\file03.txt
$event10 = get-winevent -filterhashtable @{logname='ForwardedEvents'; id=4688}
$event10 | format-list >> C:\scripts\file02.txt
$event11 = get-content -path C:\scripts\file02.txt | where-object {$_ -like '*new process name*'} | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "New Process Name: ", ""}
$event21 = $event11.trim()
$event31 = $event21 | sort -u
$event31 >> c:\scripts\file03.txt
$event41 = compare-object -ReferenceObject (get-content -path c:\scripts\file01.txt) -DifferenceObject (Get-Content -Path c:\scripts\file03.txt) | Where-object {$_.SideIndicator -ne '<='} | select-object -expandproperty inputobject
$event51 = Get-Content 'c:\scripts\file02.txt' | Select-String $event41 -SimpleMatch -Context 19,5