Reply To: Check Exchange configuration Change
I don Do you think if a create a PSSession with an alternate Credential (with Exchange Permission) in the Module and pass the PSSession with my Exchange CMDlet that I will be able run the cmdlet as...
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Alain, I think you're trying to use DSC for something that it was not designed for. Don, please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that DSC has been designed to configure, monitor and...
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Hi Daniel Thank for your response The particularity of Exchange, it is because some configurations are local on the server and other configuration are store in Active Directory. To be able to read,...
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Dave, thanks for the feedback. Especially the compare and contrast of styles. This helped me see things from a different perspective. Thanks again.
View ArticleTrouble Scheduling Browser Window to Open
I tried to use PowerShell to launch a website every weekday… but it's not working as I expected. What am I missing? $trigger = New-JobTrigger -Weekly -DaysOfWeek Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,...
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Looks like the Register-ScheduledJob creates scheduled tasks which run in the background (and has no option to specify otherwise.) You'll have to modify the scheduled task after Register-ScheduledJob...
View ArticleVariables persist outside of loops?
Hi, I had a quick question about using variables inside of loops. I noticed that if create a variable inside a foreach loop that the variable still exists once i am outside of the loop. This seems a...
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PowerShell doesn't support the detailed scoping you're referring to. Read about_scope in the shell for details, but briefly what you're seeing is the designed behavior. Keep in mind it's a shell, not...
View ArticleHandling Array With Multiple Object Types
Hi again, another curious question. I'm trying to handle an array of users in local groups by doing the following: $groupuser = Get-CimInstance -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_GroupUser WHERE...
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This should do the trick: $users = $groupuser.PartComponent | Where-Object { $_.CimClass.CimClassName -eq 'Win32_UserAccount' } $users
View ArticleNot Returning innerHtml values
My goal for this script is to pull the IDs that are on one of the lookup sites that I have. This script allows me to log in and run the users names that are stored in a csv through the site. cls...
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Beautiful! I will definitely need to peruse namespaces more for valuable items like this.
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Ok thanks for the info. I'll check that out
View ArticleReply To: Variables persist outside of loops?
Bodies to PowerShell keywords (for, foreach, if, switch, etc) execute out in the scope of wherever that keyword is used, as you've discovered. However, ScriptBlocks have their own scope unless they're...
View ArticleInproper encoding?
Paste this into Powershell Prompt (or ISE) and Char returns "å". Save this as a .ps1 file and executing it and it returns "A¥". ~~~~ $Char = "å" $Char ~~~~ I've tried swathing the encoding but nothing...
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There are two possibilities that I can think of, off the top of my head. The encoding of your file might not support that character properly, or, if you're using PowerShell.exe, the console encoding...
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I'm running the script in the same window I'm manually inputting the $Char = "å". Do you have the same problem if you put the two lines into a script vs pasting it into PowerShell.exe? Joshua
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That's pretty cool. Thanks for the tip. It will definitely come in handy.
View ArticleReply To: Not Returning innerHtml values
There's really nothing we can do to help with this, without having access to the website itself. Webpage scraping, particularly through IE automation, is a very error-prone and fragile process. If...
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The website is a company one and i only have access to retrieve information, not to modify. As for the Invoke-Webrequest, Powershell v1 is installed and i cant install the anything higher. Thanks for...
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