Hi,

I'm really stuckwithmy PowerShell output...
I have a piece of code that will fill my $OutputCollection. When I print $OutputCollection to my screen I get something like:

ServerA KB3032359
ServerB KB3032359
ServerB KB3033889
ServerC KB3033889
ServerA KB3034196
ServerB KB3034196
ServerC KB3034196
ServerC KB890830
ServerA KB890830
ServerB KB890830
ServerA KB890830
ServerB KB890830
ServerA KB890830
ServerC KB890830
ServerA KB890830

What I need is to get an output (let's say as HTML page) that will result in:

  PATCH          ServerA   ServerB   ServerC   
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
KB3032359          x           x              -      
KB3033889          -           x              x     
KB3034196          x           -              -
KB890830            x           x             x

The members in my $OutputCollection are 'Server' and 'PATCH'

Can anybody tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance!
LeonBns

Hi,

I'm trying to run this command (exchange 2013), delete mails that are older then 30 days:

[int]$numberOfDays=30

[DateTime]$date=[DateTime]::Now.Subtract([TimeSpan]::FromDays($numberOfDays))

$m is the mailbox  identity.

$date is the date ,that mails that older or equal to  $date I want to delete.

I get this error:

Search-Mailbox : Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Ceres.NlpBase.RichTypes, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken

=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

At line:1 char:27

+ Get-Mailbox -Identity $m |Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery {(Received -ge $date) } -D ...

+                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Search-Mailbox], FileNotFoundException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileNotFoundException,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.SearchMailbox

Im a little new to Powershell.  Have scripted in VB and written some basic Apps in C# so I don't think what Im asking here is difficult in anyway.  Just need advice on how I should approach this in powershell. 

Scenario

HomeComputer

MyCloudServer 

(no workgroup or domains between the 2)

All I need to do is push a file to the server.  I've played with Invoked-Commands remotely and can makes changes on the server.  Example script here. 

Does anyone have any examples of this?

I'd like to run this command on many computers simultaneously. If I can use code that is like c sharp thread start even better.

Thread t =newThread(newParameterizedThreadStart(myMethod));
t.Start(myParameterObject);

Thanks

ForEach ($server in $servers)

{

   Set-MailboxServer $server -DatabaseCopyActivationDisabledAndMoveNow $true;
    Set-MailboxServer $server -DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy Blocked;

}

I am working on a script to terminate three processes for all users except IT and System accounts. I managed to get the script working just fine on my machine, but when I run it on the server I receive an error (see below).

I found that the issue is my conditional operator "-notin". This operator is not available in version 2.0 of PS, and unfortunately the server has no upgrade path to a new version of PS.

I would greatly appreciate any input on how I can work around this issue.

$SafeSysUsers = @("NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE","NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE","NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM")

$SafeUsers = @("User1","User2","User3")

$SafeAll = [array]$SafeSysUsers + $SafeUsers


Get-WmiObject win32_process -Filter "name='cmd.exe' OR name='calc.exe' OR name='notepad.exe'" | %{IF($_.GetOwner().User -notin $SafeAll){$_.Terminate()}}

ERROR:

Your must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the '-' operator.  At line:1 char:121

Unexpected token 'notin' in expression or statement. At line:1 char:122

Unexpected token 'SafeAll' in expression or statement. At line:1 char:128

I'm trying to pass a list of values through a simple command.  I have shortened my script to show where my error is.

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

clear

$computerlist = import-csv C:\SMALL.csv

foreach ($storepos in $computerlist)

{

Get-ACL $storepos

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

ERROR i'm getting:

Get-ACL : Cannot find path '@{storepos=\\computername\c$\SQLBackups\}'

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

SMALL.csv is this

storepos,

\\computername\c$\SQLBackups\,

\\computername_a\c$\SQLBackups\,

\\computername_b\c$\SQLBackups\,

\\computername_c\c$\SQLBackups\,

\\computername_d\c$\SQLBackups\,

Why doesn't the value $storepos = \\computername\c$\SQLBackups ?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I am looking to extract the shares and security permissions located across remote machines.

For eg,

\\server1\abc\

\\server2\xyz\

etc

I just want the shares and security permissions for the shares (abc and xyz as above) and not the subfolders.,i.e, who all have permissions with the access type. ( user john with read only access or user mark with read/write)

I tried icals,get-acl, etc but not able to generate desired output.

Could anyone plase help with this. Thanks

I'm trying to do this but it throws an error, if MMMMyyyy is April2015 I want to get May2015

Ta

Jonathan

$Plus1Month=((Get-Date-FormatMMMMyyyy).AddMonths(+1)).Date

Hi everybody,

I´m very close to going really crazy because I cant figure out whats wrong ...

I have the following query:

######################

$User = Get-ADUser -Filter {name -like "ABC1*"} | sort-object -property name -descending | Select -Exp Name -First 1 | ft name

######################

This is my result:

ABC1234

######################

Then I try to make this:

$User.Remove(3,0)

but I get the following error message:

Fehler beim Aufrufen der Methode, da [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData] keine Methode mit dem Namen "Remove" enthält.
In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1
+ $User.Remove(3,0)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

What I need is, just to "cut" the numbers (in this example 1234) and increase this +1.

Can somebody please help me?

Many thanks

Best regards

Sempai0815

Hi guys,

I want to automate an annoying task that has to be done every month. So what needs to happen is:

1. Open website with url.

2. Click on a hyperlink.

3. Select value in dropdown menu.

etc..

Steps 1 and 2 are working, I just can't get step 3 to work. When I inspect the site, the dropdown name is as follows:

<select name="host_id" onchange="applyGraphPreviewFilterChange(document.form_graph_view)">

<option value="0">Any</option>

<option value="46" selected="">SOME OPTION HERE</option>

Some other options are:

<option value="12">ANOTHER OPTION 1</option>

<option value="14">ANOTHER OPTION 2</option>

So what I want is to select option 14 for example. What I have now is:

$IE.document.getElementById(“host_id”).Value="ANOTHER OPTION 2"

also tested it with value 14. I get back:

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

I hope you guys can help me out.

Kind regards,

Toeter

In our company, we store the name of the building in which an employee works in one of the ActiveDirectory attributes named extensionAttribute# where # represents a number form 1-15.  I want to be able to store the names of buildings in the AD attribute named "buildingName". According to the buildingName attribute in the MSDN library, the syntax is "String(Unicode)".

buildingName attribute - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675250(v=vs.85).aspx

String(Unicode) syntax - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684455(v=vs.85).aspx

When I try something that seems simple to write some text into this attribute such as

Set-QADUser jdoe -ObjectAttributes @{buildingName="My Building Name"}

I get an error that says "Set-QADUser : The requested operation did not satisfy one or more constraints associated with the class of the object."

I have been searching forums and code libraries for a solution to this issue, but I do not understand why I can't store string data into this attribute. I did try the following code snippets to try to convert the string to Unicode (and UTF-8) before I wrote to the buildingName attribute, but I still get the same error.

$text ="My Building Name"
$enc =[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode
# $enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$encText = $enc.GetBytes($text)
$encText
Set-QADUser jdoe -ObjectAttributes@{buildingName=$encText}

Has anyone else had this issue or know how to overcome it? I can, of course, continue to use the extensionAttribute in which I currently have the data stored, but I really want to free it up and use the "buildingName" attribute.

Hi,

I wrote a script that goes through accounts that are being deleted to find applications where the users are not controlled by AD.  So they need to be removed from those systems.  I wanted to have the output be the body of an email so I create it as a text file, read each line in to a PSObject and then convert it to HTML.  It converts to HTML great, I can see that as I output the file to sanity check it was creating it properly.  The script errors though when I try to insert the $Fileline as the email body with the error message posted below the script.

Cheers

Jonathan

##Groups that need to be checked

Param(

  [array]$Applications= @("xa_AdobeWriter8","xa_AFLive","xa_APurchasingLive","xa_Bottomline","xa_Civica_ICON",`

  "xa_CrystalReports","xa_DMS","xa_DRS_Live","xa_ExperianCitizenView","xa_Flare","xa_FMS","xa_FrameworkiLive",`

  "xa_GCSXMail","xa_Highways_web","xa_InputAccel_Index7","xa_InputAccel_ValidationBen7","xa_InputAccel_ValidationCred7",`

  "xa_Lagan_ECM_Live","xa_Project2007","xa_RAISE","xa_Servitor_V8_Live","xa_SX3","xa_Uniform_Live","xa_Visio2007","xa_YFAS")

)

##Get the date for file naming

$Date=Get-Date-FormatMMMMyyyy

##Email Stuff

$From="You"

$To="Me"

$MailSever="It"

##Create an empty text file that contains the date in the filename

New-Item-PathC:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt-ItemTypeFile

##Add a comment to the top of the file explaining what it is for

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  "These are user accounts, of users who have left the business, whom used applications that are not"

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  "AD integrated. Therefore the deletion process does not remove them from these systems"

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  " "

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  "For the following applications create a support ticket for each and assign to the relevant team"

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  "For an application such as Raise or Uniform email the relevant administrator of that application"

##Loop through each security group and find users who are in the ToProcess Deletion OU and add to the $Date-Applications.txt file

##Add the name of the application, list the users discovered and separate each chunk with a row of dashes

Foreach ($ain$Applications){

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"  "----------------------------------"

Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"$a

Get-ADGroupMember-Identity$a|where-object {$_.distinguishedName -like"*OU=ToProcess,OU=Staff-Ex,OU=Users,OU=Here,DC=There,DC=EveryWhere,DC=uk"}`

|Select-Object-ExpandPropertyName `

|Add-Content"C:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt"

}

##Create a PSObject for later convertion to HTML

$File=Get-ContentC:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.txt

$FileLine= @()

Foreach ($Linein$File) {

 $MyObject=New-Object-TypeNamePSObject

 Add-Member-InputObject$MyObject-TypeNoteProperty-NameApplications-Value$Line

 $FileLine+=$MyObject

}

##Convert $FileLine to HTML and save as a file (Proves valid output as file can be opened in a browser)

$FileLine|ConvertTo-Html|Out-FileC:\PurgeUserRecords\ApplicationUsers\$Date-Applications.html

##Trying to convert to a format that I can insert into an email

$FileLine=$FileLine|ConvertTo-Html-Fragment

##Send an email in HTML format with the $FileLine data as the body

Send-MailMessage-From$From-Subject"User to Application Matching for Ex-Staff $date"-To$To-Body$FileLine-BodyAsHtml-SmtpServer$MailServer

PS U:\> $Error[0]

Send-MailMessage : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String' required by parameter 'Body'. Specified method is not supported.

At C:\scripts\MonthlyPurgeApplicationCheck.ps1:54 char:140

+ ... *.***.uk -Body $FileLine -BodyAsHtml -SmtpServer ***.***.***.uk

+                    ~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Send-MailMessage], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SendMailMessage

I'd like to write a Powershell script to transfer a specific file from my Windows 8 laptop to my Android phone via bluetooth.
I often edit my todo list (text file) on my laptop when I'm on the road (often without internet access)
 and I want an easy way to send this file to my phone via bluetooth. My laptop and Android phone are already paired via bluetooth.
To do this manually requires many clicks and steps.
Thanks

Good Morning,

I have script that when ypu have a user name goes out and looks up all the machines the user is connected with and scans the machines to see which one the user is currently logged on to and returns the value of the which they are logged into. When I run the it never recognizes the computer the user is logged on to and I know that one of the computers it returns is the one they are logged to currently. I think it has to do with the line if ($CurrentUser -eq $user). I am thinking that it comparing a object to a string and is failing. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

function Get-UserLogonComputer
{
[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true,ConfirmImpact='Low')]
Param
(
# The enter the username for this parameter
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,
ValueFromPipeline=$True,
ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$True,
Position=0)]
[string[]]$UserName
)
Begin
{
}
Process
{
# Add a new line for readability
Write-Host ""
# Loop through each user in the username array
foreach ($user in $UserName) {
# Print the username we are currently looking up
Write-Host $user
# Added string formatting at the end to get rid of the Name header
$PCList = Get-ADComputer -Filter {ManagedBy -eq $user} | Select Name
$PCLIst
foreach ($PC in $PCList) {
if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $($PC.Name) -Count 1 -Quiet) {
#The following command looks Uses WMI to get the active user
$CurrentUser = Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -Computername $($PC.Name) | Select UserName
$CurrentUser.username.ToLower()
$CurrentUser.ToString()
if ($CurrentUser -eq $user) {
Write-Host "The users current logged on machine is:" $($PC.Name)
}
Else {
Write-Host "Current user is not logged on to:" $($PC.Name)
}
}
Else {
Write-Host "Can Not Connect to" $($PC.Name)
}

}
}

}
End
{
}
}

We currently use UMRA to create and modify many scripts for creating new AD users, security settings, email, etc.  I exported one script in XML format and I am trying to convert to a powershell script and run to see if it works.  The script uses a CSV file to create new users, etc.  Can someone direct me on where to start with this process?  Thank you.

Can someone explain to me how to filter AD results based on  

-Filter { GivenName -eq Surname }

I am trying to get a list of accounts that have the same first and last name.  I get a syntax error with this filter and I don't know what is wrong.

I'm still learning so thanks in advance for any input you provide.

Hello,

I need to run a powershell script against my environment collecting various pieces of Server information into a single csv. The particular piece I am having trouble with is SQL Server Editions.

My server environment contains Microsoft SQL 2000 - 2012 servers and in some cases multiple instances per server. Also I do not have permissions to connect to many servers as well as others do not have or have running a SQL browser service.

I have the following code that I use to grab actual SQL servers that were:

$Service = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -ComputerName $Computer | Select Caption, State, PathName | ? {$_.PathName -like "*sqlservr.exe*" -and $_.Caption -notlike "*$*" -and $_.Caption -notlike "*#*"}

Using the Get-ItemProperty for sqlservr.exe I can figure out the version number per service,

But I can't seem to find a way to get the edition of the SQL Instance...

Thank you for your help

Basically i need to summarize a list of accounts in the below format to this TestAccount01-04:

TestAccount01

TestAccount02

TestAccount03

TestAccount04

I tried messing around some but was not successful. The accounts are stored in avariable ran by this command:

$accounts = Get-ADUser -Filter {samaccountname -like "TestAccount*"} -searchbase "OU=xxx,OU=xxx,OU=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=com" | select name

 Any ideas on how to do this?

I wanna excel in Powershell for Azure and thus looking for an reference book or article that can help to be an expertz

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