Questions tagged [powershell-v4.0]

Question 1

I am using Get-SmbOpenFile, But surprisingly, it looses its connection and I can see that there is no lock even after couple of seconds later on the file any more, even it is still opened. I safely ...

Question 2

I want to delete 30 days old folder & all sub folder which name start "dba_20200312-0500311 - 123" # $curDateTime = Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd-HHmmss, folder save in this date format $mydays = (...

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First, I don't see any matches for "ISE" when I click the start button and type "ISE". I am able to run C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell_ise.exe and open ISE it seems to be the ...

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I written a script to verify the services were succefully stopped If not it will kill the running processes. Below is my script. Let me know what needs be added. I am very new to powershell. $...

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I have a file having data around 5GB. I tried to get size of the file using get-content $path2 | Measure-Object method. But its taking more time as Get-Content cmdlet is present. Is there method to ...

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In Powershell 4, I'm attempting to install the GoogleCloud module. I use the command: Install-Module GoogleCloud It fails with: PackageManagement\Install-Package : Illegal characters in path. At C:\...

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I need to capture the result of MSSQL Queries in Ansible output however, there are no supported Ansible modules which help me to achieve this. As a workaround, i have written a powershell script which ...

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I am trying to make a script that will let me update the files on the server by copying then from local. I made a bash script for this task that works on Linux, but a Power Shell script is also needed ...

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We are trying to break the following Path from the text file, the path is dynamic in length, i.e, it can be ABC\DSD\AAR\ARE or ABC\DSD. So we need a solution to break down the path as per the ...

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I am working on servers without access to the Internet. I am uploading DSC modules to the server, E.g. AccessControlDSC. The modules are being installed in c:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules ...

Question 11

I am currently adding Full control to an user manually. Please see below screen shot. But this needs to be done via a PS script.I followed https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2010/11/...

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I am looking for a script which will set the value to "Enable/Not Configured/Disable" of Allow Remote Shell Access in Gpedit via Powershell script. Below value state value should get changed to ...

Question 13

I've been building a Powershell Module for our helpdesk team, and ran into an issue at some point: They don't seem to have the proper access rights to add the Exchange 2013 Powershell SnapIn, and I ...

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I need to script some routine task to execute remotly from a serverA to many hosts but a couple of them fail to execute the script. If i execute this: $cred = Get-Credential myUser Invoke-Command -...

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I have used following command for my automation task. But it is throwing exception like below, parameter set cannot be resolved Command I used: Start-Process -FilePath powershell.exe -NoNewWindow -...

Question 16

What's the easiest way to get the OU containing an LDAP object in PowerShell? I'm working on a script to manage some groups that I've made "dynamic" with a script, and I can get the full ...

Question 17

Is it possible to check if a powershell command succeeded or not? Example: Set-CASMailbox -Identity:blocks.5 -OWAMailboxPolicy "DoNotExists" caused the error: Outlook Web App mailbox policy "...

Question 18

I have a list of users in a csv file, they are the displaynames. I wrote the following but all I get back is the displayname not the memberships what is needed? $csv = Import-CSV "c:\users.csv" ...

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I'm working on a Server 2012R2 server. I want to use the comdlets like get-dnsserverresourcerecord in the dns server module for PowerShell. It is not available in the ISE or in the list of modules. ...

Question 20

We have a certificate server from which users are able to download their certificate (User Template) from this URL: http://localhost/certsrv. I now want to create a script which will do the ...

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I am a PowerShell Noob so please forgive. I have a Windows ID on a Win 2008 R2 server that runs a dedicated Outlook VBA application. I have tried suggestions on how to get this userid to autologon ...

Question 22

Having this code in powershell: $Servers = "computer.domain.com" # Open Session $Session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $Servers # Create Daily Checkpoints. Invoke-Command -Session $Session -...

Question 23

Powershell error objects contain a lot of data but I can't seem to track down the time of occurrence for a given error. Using $Error[0] | fl -f retrieves a lot of information but none that appears to ...

Question 24

I have an environment with 16 vms on a host. They all run Windows2008R2. At one point I had powershell remoting work on all servers but one. Then I lost contact with two more. This is annoying, to say ...

Question 25

SO I wrote a script that gets some information from AD about a user and their associated computer(s). I have read online about a few of the problems people face with the Get-ADComputer cmdlet and ...

Question 26

Been setting up Powershell Remoting for all of our client machines (Pushed out GPO last week) and I can Test-WSMan on pretty much all of them and I get a nice expected response. Now on one of our ...

Question 27

I am trying to open a powershell session from one server to another. I can open sessions to servert1/2 which have the same configuration as far as I can tell. trustedhosts are the same, same user/pw ...

Question 28

I have a user that is used to run Powershell scripts, triggered by the Windows task scheduler on a Windows 2012RC2 server. The scripts use specific Snap-ins, which are added at the start of the script....

Question 29

I have a list of commands I run in a script like this Some-Cmdlet -someswitch | Outfile -filepath .\somefile.txt -append Another-Cmdlet -someswitch | Out-File -filepath .\somefile.txt -append Hello-...

Question 30

I'm currently using the Out-File cmdlet, like so: PS> Some-Cmdlet -someswitch | Out-File -filepath .\somefile.txt It works great. Is there anyway that I can actually get the command line itself ...

Question 31

Is there a Powershell Script to remotely check the CPU temperature of a Domain PC. Thanks

Question 32

I am using PowerCLI version 6 on a Windows server with 20 GB of free space. I am trying to use copy-datastoreitem with PowerCLI. It seems to work to transfer a .vmdk file from an ESXi datastore to ...

Question 33

I have an application server, running Windows 2012 R2, which generates a high volume of log files, to the point that it runs the application volume out of free space on a semi-regular basis. Due to ...

Question 34

I'm building a wrapper script for Get-Winevent to search multiple computers' event logs in parallel, using multiple search criteria. I'm contructing a XML filter for Get-Winevent, then call this ...

Question 35

C:\Temp\ifc has about 297 folders inside it with roughly 4.1 million files spread amongst them. Using a script I found elsewhere on this site, I wrote the following to delete all 'files' which are ...

Question 36

This should be absuredly easy but I keep running into a brick wall. I am running a Powershell script which performs an audit of my tasks and saves the result to a CSV. I keep getting a permissions ...

Question 37

I run a daily Powershell script via Windows Scheduler under a service account that updates a local svn working copy and commits changes. The svn client is sliksvn and is run by command line only. When ...

Question 38

I want PS4 on SBS2011 A requirement of a software our office uses is PowerShell 4. The server is Windows Small Business Server 2011. But PS4 and SBS2011 seem incompatible According to the TechNet ...

Question 39

I received a script that is supposed to scan the event logs of 4 DCs, searching the event ID 4740 (user lockout). This is script number 1. Now I thought to myself, "Why scan all the DCs when I can ...

Question 40

I am trying to install SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Win 8.1 x64 bit machine. When running the installer, I get the Reboot Required check failing the install. I have tried rebooting, no difference. I ...

Question 41

I was trying to find a way to set "Apply policy" to "Deny" for a certain group in several GPOs (about 50), so I was looking for a way to do it automatically, when I came across this post at an (...

Question 42

When I run Get-ADComputer cmdlet, I can view all of the single object's properties, like below. C:\PS>Get-ADComputer "Fabrikam-SRV1" -Properties * AccountExpirationDate : ...

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Is it possible to have a function return the name of the variable that stores it? i.e $a = myFunction and have the function know that it is held in $a, when $a is dynamically assigned to it in a ...

Question 44

I've been tasked with exporting the members of a few AD groups to .csv which I've always done in the past using the Get-ADGroupMember command in powershell, specifying the group name, selecting the ...

Question 45

This answer to theCleaner's question helped me some Windows DHCP Server - get notification when a non-AD joined device gets an IP address but the answer to his question involved Quest Poweshell ...

Question 46

As I need to be able to add and remove items from an array I need to cast it as an ArrayList as opposed to the more common options ([string[]], [Array], $Var=@()). I also need to preset it with data, ...

Question 47

I'm trying to convert capture a .VHDX as a .WIM file. The file in question is a syspreped Windows 7 generalized image. I'm working on Windows 8.1 and I have the Windows ADK installed. In powershell I ...

Question 48

When I attempt to remove provisioned apps from an offline Windows 8.1 image, most of the apps I want to remove cause no problem, but attempting to remove Microsoft.Office.OneNote causes an error. The ...

Question 49

I am new to the Powershell world. Below is my first script $sServer = "Fully.Qualified.Computer.Name" $os = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $sServer $object = New-Object –...

Question 50

I can get and set proxy settings for a WebClient object and make outbound calls. I can also supply -Proxy and -ProxyCredential to individual CmdLets, but how can I just set a global default so ...