adding new values to a psobject?
Hi,maybe I'm too stupid but I looked through the web for two days now and I can't find a solution.I created a PSobject and added some properties and values. it looks like this: $script:resultall =...
View ArticleDownload files from Codeplex with start-bitstransfer
Hello, I'm quite new to Powershell. I want to download some files from the internet. In some cases there is no problem:Getting Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu from Microsoft: Start-BitsTransfer...
View Articlehow to get the master OU for every user and populate it in ExtensionAttribute8
Hello All, I am working on a script to add the master OU name only to the users extensionAttribute8 but i failed to do this.e.g. I have these users distinguishedName 1-...
View ArticleCall a 2nd PS, as another user and bring back paramters
Hi I'm new to PS, but not scripting in general and am trying to create a script to automate our Win7 build process.For various reasons, the machine will be built off the domain, then join itself to an...
View ArticleOdd param behaviour
Hello AllCan anyone explain the following odd behaviourExample 1Param...
View Articlereboot a list of servers and output results to file.
I am new to powershell and i am trying to write a simple script that will reboot a list of machines (XP, and 7) and input the results of the reboots to a text file. I created the below script that...
View ArticleChange a .lnk target
Hi 'm fairly new to PowerShell and I' m looking for a way to use a PowerShell script to change a short cuts target from an HTTP:\\ link to C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe dsquery.dll,OpenQueryWindow...
View ArticleAdd hebrew to powershell
My mailboxes have hebrew names. When i want to view or use hebrew at the exchange it show up as gibberish. So i cannot use many of the commands. How can i set the exchange shell to use hebrew?
View ArticlePowershell and WSUS - Get-WSUSClient - possible bug?
Tim here...I am attempting to write a script that looks at my Active Directory for specific OUs where I have Policies set to run Windows Updates. I have everything working as I would want. My issue is...
View Articleconvert PSH script to LDAP format
Hello, one of our developer need my below script in the LDAP syntax and i never tried this before, would you please help me $date=get-date -Uformat %m-%d-%y $Filepath =...
View ArticleCSV piped to Convertto-XML
This works:$csv = Get-Content "c:\temp\products.csv"$obj = $csv | convertfrom-csv -Delimiter ","$xml = $obj | convertto-xml$xml.InnerXml | Out-File -Width 80 "c:\temp\products.xml"But the output is a...
View ArticlePowershell is driving me insane
I am very familiar with Linux shell language, and since I am now learning Powershell, I need to show you something very basic for which, apparently, there is no workaround, and it is a bug for any...
View ArticleSearch Multiple Computer's Regestry
Hello, I'm very new to Powershell/scripting in general and have found this website to be a great resource. So far my Powershelling has been limited to little one liners but I now want to challenge...
View ArticleInput parameters not available when calling powershell script from VBA
Hello. I am having some issues when calling a PowerShell script from within VBA. The issue seems that the input parameters to the script do not seem to have a global scope as they do when you call the...
View ArticleModify script to be recursive and save to .csv file?
I've found (on this site: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tobias/archive/2008/11/25/cleaning-hard-drives-and-finding-folders-total-size.aspx ) a great script dir C:\ | Where-Object { $_.PSisContainer }...
View ArticleChange print que's settings
HiI have this script I found on the web to batch install printersWorking great ( server 2008 )But i want do add default settings as greyscale and duplexis that possible and if so, how?I Can live with...
View ArticleLimit to the length of an array
I'm building an advanced function to parse the security log. It seems when I add a 23rd element to my array $list, the script breaks. As long as I stay at 22 or less, it works. Below is the guts of my...
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How to create a list of files Zipped
I have a couple of huge zip files I need to report on. This was an extraction from a legacy db. There are multiple sub directories and the names are longer than 256 characters so winzip truncated the...
View ArticleThe specified path, file name, or both are too long
HiHoping someone can help, I've been running a script to delete files/folders and it's been running great, however recently some of the folder names have become very long and the script cannot delete...
View Articlerun a command with anther user credential
Hi, I wrote a PS script that ruining a command that deal with user email.I have the admin privilege for running this command.By default the mailbox user owner and the exchange admin have privilege to...
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