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Short answer is using Read-host in the way that you do. I would either just type in the values, or turn your code into a simple function or create a csv file with the data and pass that to New-AdUser
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Depends on what you typed in for the “Name” prompt, I think. (Path might be involved as well.)
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By the way, this is the preferred way to prompt for input if a parameter hasn’t been passed in to your script. When you mark everything as Mandatory, the PowerShell engine takes care of that for you...
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can you give me an example to a simple function? why shouldn’t i use “read-host” Thanks
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psexec \\(gc .\computers.txt) -u doamin\user -p p@ssword -h -d powershell.exe “Get-Process”
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(gc .\computers.txt) | foreach { psexec \\$_ -u doamin\user -p p@ssword -h -d powershell.exe “net localgroup users” }
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$FileToImport = “C:\NewHires.csv” import-csv $FileToImport |ForEach-Object { New-QADUser -name $_.name -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -SamAccountName $_.Samaccountname -Email $_.email`...
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Is there a way to load the sqlps module with disable name checking enabled but keeping the sqlps module local to my modules scope. - You could load the module from within your script module. That’d...
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Read-Host is very inflexible. It just prompts you to enter something and that’s it. However, parameterizing your one-liner, as Dave did, has many advantages. It makes your script look and act like a...
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I don’t get what am I doing wrong with code formatting? I use the code tags and the formatting just gets ugly. On wordpress.com you can use [code language="powershell"][/code] and it works...
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Don thanks for taking the time to answer my question, everything worked as you suggested. I think that I will leave the sqlps import where it is, otherwise remove-module MyModule will not remove sqlps...
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<div class=”d4p-bbp-quote-title”>Istvan Szarka wrote:</div>I don’t get what am I doing wrong with code formatting? I use the code tags and the formatting just gets ugly. On wordpress.com...
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I don’t know. But Dave’s script is formatted alright, I wonder how does he do that.
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For simple stuff, you can use PRE tags instead of CODE. If you need to post code with backticks, or embedded strings that look like HTML, I use a PowerShell function to escape the code before posting....
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This is a VBscript that I used to use when getting Powershell out to my clients. I have ConfigMgr so I deployed it that way but this could just as easily be put into a login/startup script or some...
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My first guess would be to remove the double quotes from your parameters that specify a variable.
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Rather than depending on psexec, I'd use the [ADSI] type accelerator or WMI to get this information. I'm thinking something like this great post –>...
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I tried, didn't help. I also tried with semicolons between the parameters, but got the same errors. The VHD gets created alright, but not the VM. I've searched the internet for every possible way of...
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[code language="powershell"] Get-Content E:\Powershellscripts\DisableTheseServices.txt | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled -Verbose [/code]
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im sorry for the confusion. let me try to clarify. im looking to have "feedback" regarding lets say… installing an application(via msi) in a script.(keep in mind this script is running against a list...
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