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I have to agree. My threshold for using someone else’s code is way too high, I think, though; I probably need to work on changing that. For people like you and me, who are probably capable of writing...
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I’m trying to compare two values. If they match, I need to say they match. If they do not match, I need to say they do not match. Simple enough, however, I have one character that is throwing this all...
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Are both of these values actually strings? When PowerShell displays objects as text, those curly braces sometimes indicate a property that is a collection. Assuming they’re both strings, in this...
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Thanks Dave. If I could buy you a beer, I would. Here is a virtual one! I had to modify my query a little, but it’s working great.
View ArticleSet applicationPoolDefaults properties
Hello! I need help setting the properties of applicationPoolDefaults itself. I cannot find this object under IIS:\AppPools and I would like to see if can use command Set-ItemProperty like in the...
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Quick question regarding Terminal Services Home Folders
I need to move a buttload of home directories which I have covered with the following command. Get-Content c:\scripts\test.txt | Foreach-Object {set-aduser $_ -HomeDirectory "\\ourserver\homedir\$_"}...
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Hi, i did this with ADSI $ou = [adsi]“$($OU)” $user = $ou.psbase.get_children().find($DN) $user.psbase.invokeSet(“allowLogon”,1)...
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That exactly right! for example: Set-ItemProperty .\DefaultAppPool -Name queueLength -Value 2000 would double the value from 1000 to 2000. -VERN
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I should add my PowerShell prompt was already in the IIS provider when I ran that. Set-Location iis: Set-Location AppPools PS IIS:\AppPools\>
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I’d like to set applicationPoolDefaults not DefaultAppPool. The only way I can find is to use set-webconfigurationproperty. set-webconfigurationproperty...
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Well, I’m back at it. This time, trying to optimize this as best as I can from a timeframe aspect. It seems that waiting on each Invoke-Command to finish on the current file server, output the results...
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You’re on the right track. You do want to use the -AsJob switch to Invoke-Command, and save the resulting Job object to a variable. However, you don’t assign the results to (for example) $colFS10Files...
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Hey Sirirako! I didn;t understand in your tweet that you wanted the AppPool defaults. You are correct! Nice job finding it! Get-WebConfiguration -Filter...
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Thanks for that example, Dave. It’s getting me on the right path to eventually get each server stored in its own respective $colFS10files, $colFS11files, etc… variable. I think I’m getting hung up on...
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Reply To: Invoke-Command Question on Remote File Server
So, the remote file servers are only on v2, so the -File parameter was my issue there. I’m sacrificing some efficiency by having to include $_.psiscontainer -eq $false in the pipeline, but until I get...
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Hey Selko, Oh that’s pretty cool. Haven’t heard of that before. Just wondering how this finds the correct OU? Doesnt it just .. search for itself?
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positional parameters and parameter sets
Hi All, why does running get-service ‘background intelligent transfer service’ work? We’re doing a book club in work, based on “powershell in a month of lunches” for powershell v2 (yes, i know it’s...
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Nice catch, but it’s not quite what you think. When you call get-service ‘background intelligent transfer service’ , it really is binding to the Name parameter, not the DisplayName (which you can...
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ah, i see: name Type: System.String The name that identifies the service to the system. This can also be the display name for the service. thanks a lot Dave, that’s really helpful!
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If you are really curious, download a copy of dotPeek sometime. It’s free, and it’s what I use to investigate how PowerShell’s various bits actually work. You can run this command to identify the DLL...
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