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Jake: I’ve written a one-liner as an example. It gets the computer names from a text file, then gets the files with the desired extensions on the system drive on each computer, gets the properties you...
View ArticleUnavailable computers missing from get-service command
Hi, I am running a query to get the status of service againsts multiple machines. The command i am using is - Get-Service -name bits -ComputerName s1,s2,s3 | format-table MachineName,Name,Status...
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Try this. 's1','s2'.'s3' | foreach { Get-Service -name bits -ComputerName $_ | format-table MachineName,Name,Status -AutoSize }
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I tend to test like this $servers = “sphinxdc01″, “sphinxdsc01″, “sphinxtest” $servers | foreach { if (Test-Connection $psitem -Quiet -Count 1) { Get-Service bits -ComputerName $psitem | select...
View ArticleReply To: Installing an exe with Powershell DSC Package resource gets return...
Update… I ran “psexec.exe -s D:\Temp\NET4.5.1\NDP451-KB2858728-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe /q /norestart /log d:\temp\ndp451-1″ and was able to install .NET 4.5.1. I looked at the .html log produced, and...
View ArticleEncrypted Credentials in Push mode on Windows 7
I’m trying to use DSC to maintain configuration on a handful of shared servers. My plan is to put my DSC scripts into Source Control so anyone on my team can edit the configuration and ‘push’ it from...
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I thought we’d covered this in The DSC Book, was it not? You need to include the certificate thumbprint that the node will use to decrypt the credentials – meaning the certificate itself must be...
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Which method do you advise? Setting up a Pull server from a UNC share (I hope I don’t need admin access to the file server since I hope to use our company’s shared network-store) or pre-deploying some...
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Well, two different things. Thing 1, you said you can’t have a Pull Server; a Pull Server can just be a file server if that makes the decision to use Pull a little easier. Thing 2, you have to...
View ArticleReply To: DSC and Separation of Duties
Composite configurations. The DSC Book covers them. Essentially, each admin gets their own config, which is exposed as a resource. A master, “composite” config, sucks them all in and produces the...
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Thanks Don, read the book ealier today (4am EST earlier) and must have missed that part, but got it now.
View ArticleReply To: two issues I noticed in get-alias
Your first example uses the “Name” positional parameter: [pre] get-alias ls [/pre] Which is the same as: [pre] Get-Alias -Name ls [/pre] With the second example you provided, you need to use a...
View ArticleReply To: Unavailable computers missing from get-service command
Another option: $Computername = 's1','s2','s3' $Name = 'bits' $Computername | ForEach-Object { $Computer = $_ Try { Get-Service -name $Name -ComputerName $Computer -ErrorAction Stop } Catch { $Object...
View ArticleReply To: PowerShell Desired State Configuration failed to register MOF file
Yes I used the resource designer toolkit to generate the MOF orginally and I just recreated it to test that I hadn’t made some sort of manual change at some point. I ran the Test-DSCSchema cmdlet on...
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And yet another option: [pre] function Get-MrService { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string[]]$ComputerName = ('s1','s2','s3'), [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]...
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I tweaked my code since there’s no since in checking for additional services if the first attempt fails. [pre] function Get-MrService { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]...
View ArticleReply To: PowerShell Desired State Configuration failed to register MOF file
Actually I think I have resolved it. The “Key” attribute must be the only attribute in the definition of that property. It seems if you define the type as “Hashtable” it creates a second attribute in...
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Thanks Guys. It worked.
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I have created a module that requires the sqlps module in order to work. The module I have created is a module manifest. Within the module manifest i have the following line NestedModules = @(‘sqlps’,...
View Articlenew-aduser error
Hi i wanted to create a script that will help me save time when i create a new user the script is a one-liner and goes like that : New-ADUser -Name (Read-Host “Name”) -GivenName (Read-Host...
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