Questions tagged [batch-file]

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I am trying to create a pair of group policies, one that removes Office365, and one that deploys Office2024 LTSC during startup. I have created XML files for each of these processes and tested them ...

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I have the following situation: I have two user accounts. One is an administrator, and the other is a regular user with limited permissions. I'm trying to run batch files using Task Scheduler or the ...

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I am encountering an issue with AzCopy where my script runs perfectly fine in CMD but fails with authentication errors when executed via a batch file. Here's a breakdown of the situation: The aim is ...

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I have written a batch script to perform some folder synchronizing task. I have scheduled the script to execute using task scheduler on events such as sleep/hibernate(kernel power event id 42) and ...

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With a batch script to set variable from For and Tokens and remove the first char: for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8" %A in ( 'net user %username% /domain ^| find "Global Group ...

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I've been working on a problem that I was hoping someone with more experience could weigh in on. I've recently started learning about Windows .bat files, and I've been thinking about real-world ...

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Edit: This question has been answered, please scroll down ⬇️ This question is related to Server Fault because I am automating minifying some web files before deploying them to my server. So I have a ...

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Currently using XCOPY via a BATCH file which I created, in order to copy files over from a client computer to a mounted drive created in Azure. I have been using the XCOPY function for some time, ...

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I've written a batch file for a Windows server to detect whether a particular service is running and if it isn't, return a Critical status back to Nagios. The script works perfectly (as in, it can ...

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I am trying to add a scheduled task to run a batch file that updates / installs software. I created a GPO to create the task, using these settings: Task Settings Task settings 2 Task settings 3 For ...

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I was writing a batch file that was supposed to automatically set up a computer to receive "psexec" remote commads. Unluckly i didn't really pay attention to what i was writing and i wrote ...

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I need to be able to run a batch file that opens Access at a specific record. This I can do, but now I need to also run it on either 32 or 64 bit systems. Our company uses a mix of systems. This is ...

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I have had a client request that I setup a user account on a Windows device that will clear all user profile data once the account has been logged off. The computer is a shared device that will be ...

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I am setting up some local backups of AWS EC2 instances. The backups are set to run overnight via Windows Server 2012 R2 Task Scheduler. The basic flow of each backup is that an rsync copies the ...

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I want to run a batch file on all my domain clients via gpo(scripts/logon), but the problem is that to run a batch file, administrator privilege is required. I wanted to know is there any command or ...

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I have a simple batch file which calls other batch files, it looks like this: start /b run_part1.bat start /b run_part2.bat start /b run_part3.bat start /b run_part4.bat run_last.bat // fires ...

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I am trying to figure out a way to have a batch script overwrite every instance of a non-zero byte file inside of a specific directory and its sub-folders. I'm guessing since I'm looking for a non-...

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How to get the string before the character hyphen? The following code gets the string after the hyphen. How can I reverse this? set string=1.0.10-SNAPSHOT echo %string:*-=% SNAPSHOT But I want the ...

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@echo off IF NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\APPLICATION_DIR" ( msiexec /q /i "https://www.SOME-WEBSITE.com/software/APPLICATION_NAME_x64.msi" LICENSE_KEY="LICENSE_KEY_GOES_HERE&...

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I am trying to delete all folders on all drives with the above naming pattern, however only on the first folder level, i.e directly below the drive letter, like for example: F:\this folder's name ...

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There is a folder that contains many folders and subfolders, and each of these contains any number of password-protected 7zip archives. The password is the same for all of them. These are single-layer ...

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I'm looking for a way to push out commands to all workstations. The scenario is as follows: I often go to environments that I am not familiar with to audit the network. Part of that is a network scan, ...

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I am having an Admin account that wanted to run a batch file that will start and stop a few services for different users.(Wanted to perform from the same server) For example, what I wanted to do is ...

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So I have a large batch file, and in the middle it hits a start /wait command to run a silent install of an MSI. I'd like to have some animation or something to indicate that the batch file is in fact ...

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I have a process that works in the following way: downloading data from the internet. executing a program → creating output A. output A → executing a program → creating output B output B → executing ...

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This is what I like to achieve inside Window Server: Call external URL: https://www.example.com Save the result of that URL in a variable. If the variable is XXX kill a process inside the Window ...

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Basically, when I connect to any site, it loads not only stuff on that server, but also stuff like background images, scripts, icons, fonts from third party sites. I was wondering if it would be ...

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Not a coder but know the logic like understanding a language but not able to speak it. Environment is Windows server 2016. Trying to write a .bat file to replace empty spaces with zeros '0' in a file ...

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I want to list and kill all processes belonging to a session of a particular process that is using a port. This should happen through a windows batch command that would accept a port number as input. ...

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The scenario is like this. I need a previous day date (i.e. Today -1) as variable in a batch file. But if previous day is Sunday (i.e. script running on Monday) it should return the Saturday's date (i....

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I'm trying to get a list of users that are members of an Active Directory group that are not disabled. The best I've been able to find so far is: dsquery group -name "Group name" | dsget group -...

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I have a batch file which invokes a tool. Now i face an issue in the batch file at a for loop. But with all research about the Batch script, I am still not able to make out what the expression is ...

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I have been creating a scheduled task with powershell to use a group managed service account (the only kind allowed) on Window Server 2016. Did this approximately one year ago on 5 2016 VM's, and it's ...

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CustomApp is registered with a URI Scheme in Windows 10 so it launches when Chrome browser visits CustomApp://userid@departmentid Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CustomApp\shell\open\command C:\Windows\...

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I'm in a dead end now and need your help. I tried everything I could find on the web, but didn't succeed. I have hundreds of non-admin domain users working on their Windows 10 laptops outside our ...

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I have searched everywhere but cannot find a solution. Im unsure what is going on here but I desperately need some help in regards to this issue, Im running a batch file (Script for a game Server ...

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I have a scheduled task that runs a batch file, and even though I can see the results of it completing successfully, according to the task scheduler it fails with error 0xff, every time. title ...

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I have a complex setup that I'm having issues getting to work properly. Microsoft is so aggressive at defaulting PDFs to Edge. Edge gives our organization so many problems when working with PDFs and ...

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we are downsizing our organization and closing several stores. This may sound malicious but actually involves complete remote data destruction for company equipment. My team has been tasked with ...

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I am running into an issue here on Windows 10. I am trying to set an environment variable within the batch file using a for ... in ... do, but it never finds the file folder I am looking for. ...

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I have a Task Scheduler task that runs a batch file which copies a file from server1 to server2 on a different domain. Note:The scheduled task is running on Domain_A using user accounts created to ...

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What i need: To send "enter" key when batch is still processing a previous line. I am trying to use batch to have an .exe run through a series of input files. The batch file below runs a program, ...

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Having some difficulty with the delayedexpansion in cmd. This might be a stupid question but is there any way of summing within a function (ie without 'set') or using ! within ! (or something to ...

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I have a directory with many subdirectories. Each subdirectory is named with the yyyy-mm-dd format. I'm writing a Windows batch file and I need to grab the directory name with the most recent date and ...

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I use Windows. I want to delete all files and subfolders older than 5 days by system call. I have this command, but i want to delete all files and subfolders older than 5 days. FOR /D %i IN (C:\...

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I'd like to create a batch file to copy the files and folders by specific days. For example, 15th and 30th of the month(not 15th to 30th) copy the files and folder to another location. How can I write ...

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I am trying to echo the VALUE of a variable whose name contains another variable ($project!$project_number!_control) while using delayed expansion. I can't figure out the syntax to do this. Here's ...

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I am working on the project in which I have decided to install operating system from server PC to all the client PC. I have one windows iso file on the server PC which is shared on the network. This ...

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First I'll explain the context, because maybe I'm not doing it in the right way. We have an ERP developed using Oracle Forms 6i (yes, is really old). It has forms and reports. Reports have such ...

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So this question is VERY similar to this question, with this answer. But some of my processes have a space in the name, and CMD returns nothing. My original question has been answered in this answer, ...