Get-CimInstance works from S1 to S2 but not from S2 to S1
I am doing a simple command Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem – ComputerNema S2 from S1 which is a Windows 2012 R2 server running PowerShell 4.0 It fails with an error message tellingme...
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That usually means mutual authentication couldn't work. Are you able to Enter-PSSession from the one to the other?
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Hi all, Just wondering what technique I could use to shorten my command line other than using variables for each parameter.. e.g. Set-QADUser -Identity $_."Name" -UserPrincipalName...
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I prefer to use splatting to keep that sort of long command readable: $params = @{ Identity = $_.Name UserPrincipalName = $_.UserPrincipalName Alias = $_.Alias DisplayName = $_.DisplayName FirstName =...
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Thanks Dave, just what I was looking for… Are these hash tables?
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Yep, $params is a hash table. When you splat a hashtable, its keys become the names of command Parameters, and its values are the arguments passed to those parameters. You can also do splatting with...
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Thank you Dave. I will do some reading up on arrays as well.
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Thanks for the reply Rich; I was working on a logging hash table and wasn't fully understanding my results with IDictionaryEnumerator until I reread the documentation (thus both the question and...
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Hi, I have created a powershell script to retrive the Service status for list of computers but its only giving the first servive status. so kindly help me on this. my code is mention below....
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Yes, I had already tried that. What I do not see is any way to pass credentials using the Get-CimInstance cmdlet.
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Capturing Write-Verbose/Error/Warning in Custom Cmdlets and saving in SQL
Hi I'm exploring Don Jones' PS best practices about output from scripts using CmdletBinding() and the various Write-Verbose, Write-Debug etc. I want to combine this with the use of Custom Modules, and...
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You create a CimSession, and then pass that to the Get-CimInstance cmdlet. When you set up the session first, you get more options.
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So do you want the spreadsheet to have information about every service on every computer? Or are you only looking for a particular service?
View ArticleReply To: DSC Compliance Server and LCM's reporting back
I read through the blog post. Good information. When I tried calling the Compliance server I ran into an Authorization problem. The answer to my problem was in a comment added at the end of the post....
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My reply got cut off somehow (second to last paragraph)… I also had to enable anonymousAuthentication and disable windowsAuthentication in the web.config file of the Compliance service, which is how...
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The only thing I can think of which meets the requirements you've listed would be to create a new instance of System.Management.Automation.PowerShell and run the scripts inside that. Then you can set...
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Argh. It was all working fine with the changes. I was working on another script and when I came back to this one I receive this: Index was outside the bounds of the array. At...
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I removed lines within the New-Object PsObject -Property @{ ….. the culprit was the loginName line. I have another .ps1 that references it's own $loginName variable. Could that have been gumming up...
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Dave pretty much nails it. $service is a collection of services. To add a specific service, you'll have to first pick it out of the collection like so: # This is a Wmi query filter $service =...
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