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Saving the original XML inside your script file is easy; just use a here-string, like this: $xml = @' <?xml version="1.0"?> <catalog> <book id="bk101"> <author>Gambardella,...
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I suppose you could always change the registry values directly, if you’re game. For example, to turn off the “Let apps access my name, picture, and other account info” setting, you might do something...
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Hi all, I’m hoping someone could assist me with part of a script. I need to make a slight amendment but I’m not sure how to. Here is the part I need to change… $CopyDir = “C:\logs” $a = Get-ChildItem...
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Hi Dave. In your example I do not see here-string. I’ll have to look that up, but your idea looks promising. Am I just copying and pasting my XML into the script as in your example?
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I am trying to find the last time Windows update was run on server and report back a list of all servers which need updating. At the moment I am using Get-Hotfix and returning the date of the most...
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The Here-string is surrounded by @’ and ‘@, in this case. (Double-quoted versions also work, if you wanted to be able to expand PowerShell variables and expressions inside it.) Refer to the...
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So obviously $x.Delete() is the part that needs to be changed. In this case we want to do something like this: $CopyDir = “C:\logs” $a = Get-ChildItem $CopyDir foreach($x in $a) { $y = ((Get-Date) –...
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Thanks again Dave. I’m surprised that this was so simple. The output is something to be desired, but it works. Anything else I could use other than compare-object? What I’m doing is something like...
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You basically have two approaches here; you can compare text (which might be awkward if identical nodes are simply in a different order between files), or you can convert those to objects and write...
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I don’t care for the Code tags on these forums either; I always manually surround my code with <Pre> tags instead.
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I will be calling the here-string the “source of truth” I will need to read in a file which will have different values or possibly have added lines. The output from the compare-object does the job,...
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I guess I see three types of differences that can exist between XML files, off the top of my head: Elements (or trees of elements) that exist in one file but not the other. Elements that exist in both...
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To start, I think it would be easier to take the path of least resistance. So for now, I’m going to go for just telling me if the XML I’m reading is different from my authoritative source. If it is...
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There are a number of articles on the internet about Get-Hotfix and date problems. This seems the best script I have found so far; strangely, I cannot get it to sort on date. Clear-Host Get-HotFix...
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That is the script I “borrowed” To use as the centre of my script. I cannot sort it by date either I thought I was going crazy until I read your answer. I would like to hear if anyone else has managed...
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Clear-Host Get-HotFix -ComputerName win7 | where-object {$_.hotfixid -ne "file 1"} | Select...
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Hi, I got it to work using the script below. Do you foresee any issue from doing it this way? foreach ($a in Get-ChildItem C:\Output_logs_from_tests) { if ($a.CreationTime -lt...
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Hello everyone, As you may know from past experience or from reading the Forums Tips and Guidelines sticky, there are a couple of quirks with the forum software we’re using here related to CODE tags...
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