Hello,

I have to write a PS script to update AD users' managers, job titles and description based on the employeeID value because that is the only unique value from ADP data.

The CSV comes in this format. "File Number" is employeeID, employee First name/Last Name, Job Title, Reports to Email is their manager's email

This is basically my script

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$import = import-csv "$env:C:\ADPADupdate\HRData.csv"

foreach ($user in $import) {
    $manager = get-aduser -filter "emailaddress -eq '$($user.'Reports to Email')'"
    get-aduser -Filter "enabled -eq 'true' -and employeeID -eq '$($user.'File Number')'" -Properties employeeID |
    set-aduser -Manager $manager.DistinguishedName -description $user.'Job Title Description' -title $user.'Job Title Description'
}

The PROBLEM is that. The data in the CSV are not perfect, some miss employeeID, some miss manager's email. When I clean out the incomplete rows, basically just delet them, then my script works perfectly. If I leave the incomplete rows in there, the script will error out and I get unexpected results, like employees get wrong job titles or managers.

How can I use the IF else statement to skip the incomplete rows? For example, tell it to update if the employeeID matches the one in CSV, SKIP if employeeID or manager fields are empty??

Thanks so much in advance for your feedback!

Hello !

In a PowerShell script, I want to do some research in Windows local mails.

I have the following script : 

Add-type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" | out-null

$outlook = New-Object -com Outlook.Application;

$namespace = $outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI");

Function Get-OutlookInbox {

    $accountsList = $namespace.Folders

    $query = "Test"
    $filter = "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject LIKE '"+$query+"'"

    foreach($account in $accountsList) {
        write-host "SEARCHING IN MAILBOX : " $account.name

        $scope = $account.FolderPath

        $search = $outlook.AdvancedSearch("'$scope'", $filter, $True)

        Start-Sleep -Seconds 10

        foreach ($result in $search.Results) {
            $result.Subject
            $result.ReceivedTime
            $result.SenderName
        }

    }

$inbox = Get-OutlookInbox

$inbox

It works well thanks to the `Start-Sleep -Seconds 10` as the `$outlook.AdvancedSearch` function is asynchronous, but I don't really like this way of developing, a bit crappy.

I would like to use AdvancedSearchComplete Event but I don't know how to use it in PowerShell, and the documentation is for VBA. I'm not very good at PowerShell development, I don't find a way to do it.

Thanks for your help !

Hi Experts,

 I am having trouble downloading excel file from online sharepoint portal using power shell. Could you please point me to the right directions. Here is the error. Thank you. 

-------------------------

$SharePoint = "https://MyCompanyOnlineSharepointPortal/SomeExcelFile.xlsx"
$Path = "c:\Temp\SomeExcelFile.xlsx"

#User Information'

$username = "Myusername@Company"
$password = "Mypassword"

#Download Files

$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.Networkcredential($userName, $password)

$WebClient.DownloadFile($SharePoint, $Path)

Hi, 

i'm looking for a way to copy data from one table to another for auditing purposes. 
In fact i'd would like to copy the entire table to another table and add the date of "copy" for each record in a new column. 

Source: SQLSERVER1\SQLInstance1 ; DB1 ; Table1
Target: SQLSERVER2\SQLInstance2; DB2; Table2

where Target is a drop of the source Table + DateReference column. 

Would this be possible through Powershell so I don't have to ask our DBA's to create a SSIS package for this? 

kr

Sam

HI,

We found this code at this location. https://github.com/octan3/img-clipboard-dump. We are beginner in Powershell and we are having a difficult time trying to understand the code.

Add-Type -Assembly PresentationCore
$img = [Windows.Clipboard]::GetImage()
if ($img -eq $null) {
    Write-Host "Clipboard contains no image."
    Exit
}

$file = "{0}\clipboard-{1}.jpg" -f [Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyPictures'),((Get-Date -f s) -replace '[-T:]','')
Write-Host ("`n Found picture. {0}x{1} pixel. Saving to {2}`n" -f $img.PixelWidth, $img.PixelHeight, $file)

$stream = [IO.File]::Open($file, "OpenOrCreate")
$encoder = New-Object Windows.Media.Imaging.JpegBitmapEncoder
$encoder.QualityLevel = 90
$encoder.Frames.Add([Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapFrame]::Create($img))
$encoder.Save($stream)
$stream.Dispose()& explorer.exe /select,$file

We would need to get this modified so that the files gets overwritten at every run instead of creating a new one at each run. How can we edit the script so that it would save to a specific folder with a file name provided that the path and the file name has been hard-coded inside the script. Please assist. 

For example : Say, we need the file to be saved into this path : --> C:\Images and the filename should be --> Image01.jpg resulting in this --> C:\Images\Image01.jpg

I am using below script from technet gallery for downloading an attachment from Office 365 Sharedmailbox. However I am getting following error

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/O365-Email-Attachments-to-6a45e84c#content

ERROR:

Invoke-RestMethod : The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

At line:21 char:13
+ $messages = Invoke-RestMethod $messageQuery -Credential $cred
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebReq 
   uest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Comm 
   ands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

Thanks, Samer Please take a moment to "Vote as Helpful" and/or "Mark as Answer" where applicable. This helps the community, keeps the forums tidy, and recognizes useful contributions. Thanks!

Hi all,

For my internship I need to write a script. My script is: Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties * | select Name,whenCreated, Description, whenchanged, Lastlogondate, LastBadPasswordAttempt, BadlogonCount, LockedOut, Enabled |export-csv c:\informatie-user-csv.csv.

how can I get all these properties in a different columns in my csv-file?

Greetings

Sam

Hi all.

try {
        $Name = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter the profile name for this VPN connection'
        $password = Read-Host -AsSecureString "Please enter your Pre-shared Key"

        # Default Cisco Meraki parameters
        $password = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($password))
        Add-VpnConnection -Name "$Name" -ServerAddress 193.214.153.2 -AuthenticationMethod MSChapv2 -L2tpPsk "$password" -TunnelType L2tp -RememberCredential -Force

        # Gives popup with information on next steps
        $wshell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
        $wshell.Popup("VPN-profile for $Name has been created.`nYou may now use this connection.`nUsername and password is required on first time sign on.`nSupport: contact | company", 0, "Completed") | Out-Null
    } catch {
        # Reports error and supresses "Completed"
        Write-Error $_.Exception.ToString()
        Read-Host -Prompt "The above error occurred, please try again. If the issue persists, please contact support.`nSupport: contact | company`nPlease press Enter to exit"
    }

Function Using-Culture([Globalization.CultureInfo]$culture, [ScriptBlock]$script) {
    $OldCulture = [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture
    trap {
        [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $OldCulture
    }
    [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture
    $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.InvokeScript($script)
    [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $OldCulture
}

Using-Culture nb-NO {
    try {
        $Name = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter the profile name for this VPN connection'
        $password = Read-Host -AsSecureString "Please enter your Pre-shared Key"

        # Default Cisco Meraki parameters
        $password = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($password))
        Add-VpnConnection -Name "$Name" -ServerAddress 193.214.153.2 -AuthenticationMethod MSChapv2 -L2tpPsk "$password" -TunnelType L2tp -RememberCredential -Force

        # Gives popup with information on next steps
        $wshell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
        $wshell.Popup("VPN-profile for $Name has been created.`nYou may now use this connection.`nUsername and password is required on first time sign on.`nSupport: contact | company", 0, "Completed") | Out-Null
    } catch {
        # Reports error and supresses "Completed"
        Write-Error $_.Exception.ToString()
        Read-Host -Prompt "The above error occurred, please try again. If the issue persists, please contact support.`nSupport: contact | company`nPlease press Enter to exit"
    }
}

I am migrating one of my print servers. I want to create a powershell script to point the clients/users to the new print server.

Any inputs on the logic I can use to accomplish this and how can I accomplish this for one client/user using powershell? If I have that I can then create a loop to do it for all clients/users?

I would like to compile a spreadsheet with the following data sources. 

Account Tab - User Logon Name

Organization Tab - Title

Member Of Tab - <All Group Memberships>

How would I use PowerShell to pull the member of information of a position title if I were to provide a user logon name?  I would also want this to export to a spreadsheet.

The only other method I'm using currently in-place of this is to run a vbscript to pull the member of data after providing the script a user logon name.  This then creates a txt document to which I manually pull the information and insert to spreadsheet.

Thanks for the support all!

This script is to check the name of the PC and depending on what site it is located it, it will run the .bat file which has registry settings that contain that site's autologin info. The script executes with no errors however, it's not actually modifying the registry settings. I've used all these .bat files in the past and know they work but I also know they have to be ran as an admin in order to work. 

Can anyone help me understand where I need to modify?

asdfasdf

I need help making my powershell command to execute the .bat file in CMD as an admin. The PS script determines the hostname of the PC and then maps a UNC path to the correct .bat file thats needed for that site.

Example: PS script determines that a computer's hostname his HINJ-%SerialNumber% so the UNC path for HINJ is mapped:  "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\hinjlogin.bat"

HINJlogin.bat contains the following add registry keys to add the AD autologin account for HINJ computers. 

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultUserName /t REG_SZ /d HINJkiosk /f

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultDomainName /t REG_SZ /d <MyDomain.com> /f

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultPassword /t REG_SZ /d <Account Password /f

The .bat file works if you right-click and run as admin. However, when ran from PS, it does not run the .bat file as admin so the registry keys are not changed properly. The last line of the PS script is supposed to run variable $Software as admin.

Below is the full PS:

###Variables
$hostname = hostname
$AMIK = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\amiklogin.bat"
$CRIC = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\criclogin.bat"
$FJIC = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ftjesselogin.bat"
$HFDH = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\hfdhlogin.bat"
$HDSV = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\hfsvloging.bat"
$HINJ = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\hinjlogin.bat"
$ICWR = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ICWRlogin.bat"
$LTR = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ltrlogin.bat"
$MSBA = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\MSBAlogin.bat"
$MSBW = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\MSBWlogin.bat"
$MSLF = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\MSLFlogin.bat"
$MSTM = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\MSTMlogin.bat"
$NHI = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\NHIlogin.bat"
$ODCA = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ATHlogin.bat"
$ODCK = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ODCklogin.bat"
$ODCH = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ODCHlogin.bat"
$ODCN = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\ODCNlogin.bat"
$SMIC = "\\mydomain.com\mdt\Deployments\Production\Applications\Imprivata\Autologin\SMIClogin.bat"

###Identify Workstation Location

If ($hostname -like 'IT-*') { $Software = $BSC
} 
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'AMIK-*') { $Software = $AMIK
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ATH-*') { $Software = $ODCA
} 
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'CRIC-*') { $Software = $CRIC
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'CRIN-*') { $Software = $CRIC
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ODCH-*') { $Software = $ODCH
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'DHCH-*') { $Software = $ODCH
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ODCM-*') { $Software = $ODCH
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ODCK-*') { $Software = $ODCK
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'FJIC-*') { $Software = $FJIC
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ICWR-*') { $Software = $ICWR
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'ODCN-*') { $Software = $ODCN
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'LTR-*') { $Software = $LTR
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'HFDH-*') { $Software = $HFDH
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'HFSV-*') { $Software = $HFSV
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'HINJ-*') { $Software = $HINJ
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'MSBA-*') { $Software = $MSBA
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'MSBW-*') { $Software = $MSBW
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'MSLF-*') { $Software = $MSLF
}
   ElseIf ($hostname -like 'MSTM-*') { $Software = $MSTM
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'NHI-*') { $Software = $NHI
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'RRC-*') { $Software = $RRC
}
  ElseIf ($hostname -like 'SMIC-*') { $Software = $SMIC
}


write-output $hostname
write-output $Software

powershell -command "start-process cmd -argumentlist '/c %CD% && $software' -Verb runas" 

 I bring in 2 daily files where I want to compare down to an invoice\line\day any record where a measure is different that
its source counterpart.

header
inv|line|day|qtyshipped|margin|source

Data:

2819|1|1|89|43.50|prd
2819|1|1|89|42.50|zrg

2820|1|1|89|43.50|prd
2820|1|1|85|43.50|zrg

 In this example I want to see an output that shows:

The key(inv\line\day) and then the measures that doesn't match 

 2819|1|1|1    --> display the record because margin is different between the sources.
 2819|1|1|4    --> display the record because qtyshipped is different between the sources.

 This script does it at a higher level Invoice Count and just lists the overall summed values. I need it at a more granular
level.

Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\margin_data\*.csv' | # Get each file
    ForEach-Object -Process {
        Import-Csv -Path $PSItem.FullName -Delimiter '|' # Import data
    } | 
    Group-Object -Property Source | 
    Select-Object -Unique -Property Name, @{
        Label = "Sum";
        Expression = {
            # Sum all the counts for each domain
            ($PSItem.group | Measure-Object -Property Source -sum).Count
            ($PSItem.group | Measure-Object -Property QtySHipped -sum).Sum
            ($PSItem.group | Measure-Object -Property Margin -sum).Sum
        }
    } |
    Sort-Object -Property Sum -Descending | Export-Csv -Path 'C:\margin_data\margin_data_compare.csv' -NoTypeInformation

Thanks.

I am executing this script to have a list of all directories and sub-directories located in the appdata of a user profile.  My script works like I want but, because some directories, many directories have space in name, I would to add quote at the beginning of each output line and a quote at the end of each line.

Now I am getting:

C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 1

C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 2

C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 3

I would like to have:

“C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 1”

“C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 2”

“C:\users\xyz\appdata\dir 3”

Here my script:

$ExcludeDirList=Get-ChildItem-Path“c:\users\xyz\appdata”-Recurse-Directory-Force-ErrorActionSilentlyContinue |  Select-Object -expandproperty FullName

Out-File-FilePath./list.txt-Append-InputObject$ExcludeDirList

Greetings,

I have a network directory \\network\folder that contains multiple directories with subdirectories, with the floowing hierarchy:

Root

    Folder A

        Data

        To Discard 1

         ....

         To Discard 2

    Folder B

        To Discard 1

         ....

         To Discard 2

....

    Folder N

        Data

        To Discard 1

         ....

         To Discard 2

Basically, I want in every level 1 directory delete all the To Discard folders with files, leaving only the Data folders.

Thanks!

I’ve got an input variable called DatabaseInput.

I would like to get all the subfolders from a folder location and use a substring function to remove the datestamp from the folder and match it to my input variable (DatabaseInput)

Example of the folder structure: Database1_20190221171833

I would like to remove the datestamp from the folder., however my code is bombing out. Please help!

Code below:

#Get all child items of the root backup folder
$BackupMounts = Get-ChildItem -Force $RestorePath | Where-Object { ($.Name -like “B1”) -or ($.Name -like “B2”)}

ForEach ($backupMount in $BackupMounts) {
(’------backupMount: ’ + $backupMount) | Out-File $SQLOutputFile -append
$RestorePath = “\xxxx\Backups” + $backupMount
(’------Restore Path: ’ + $RestorePath) | Out-File $SQLOutputFile -append

$databaseFolders =Get-ChildItem -Force $RestorePath"\Backups" | Where-Object { ($.Name -like “Database1*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database2*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database3*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database4*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database5*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database6*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database7*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database8*”) -or ($.Name -like “Database9*”)} | % {$.Name} | Sort -descending

#$databasefolders = Get-ChildItem -Force $RestorePath"\Backups" | Where-Object {($.Name -like $databasefolders.substring(0,($databasefolders.length -15)) -eq $DatabaseInput)} | % {$.Name} | Sort -descending

Hello, 

I am using Import-Excel to import a spreadsheet into PowerShell. I want to export specific columns to a separate sheet in the same spreadsheet. I know this is likely a simple task, but I'm having trouble finding examples. Any information is appreciated! 

- Matt

I have a task scheduler setup to run a powershell at startup using a service account.  The powershell itself starts a second powershell which monitors a group of folders continuously and upon seeing a certain condition starts a third powershell.  The first and third powershells close after executing their tasks.  A period of time (~5 minute) after running the task scheduler task the Event viewer reports an EventID 1530 warning and the monitoring (2nd) powershell looses the ability to start the third powershell (it's unable to get a PID).  The problem only exists when using task manager to start the powershell, starting the powershell from a command window running as the service account does not have the problem.

So 1) Why is my powershell accessing registry keys to begin with, nothing in my script is explicitly doing it.  2) How can I automate the startup of the powershell so that it doesn't create EventID 1530.