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Hello, Got following error when using substitution method on following command. How do I remove credentials when specifically using Add-Content? Issue is that credentials which I specify manually when...
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You just have to be more selective in which cmdlets the substitution applies to. A key of ‘*:Credential’ means your PSCredential gets applied to any cmdlet which has a “Credential” parameter. You...
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Don, and Dave, Thanks for precious information. It worked:)
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In a Windows all permissions are held on the object rather than the group or user. This was a deliberate decision in the early days of Windows NT. At the time it was a differentiator from Novell and...
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The server DSC requirements are handled when you install the DSC feature The “client” requirements are to install WMF 4 There are no ebooks that I’m aware of on DSC Books are being written on...
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I’ve found that SQL Agents jobs need to be run with a high level of privilege for PowerShell steps to work. I think you’ll probably need to stick with admin level rights
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This may not be high on the list of things to do, but can someone look into this. If i click the “Download All Files” link. What is actually downloaded is a text file (with a .zip) extension that...
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As indicated, it’s a known problem and as you surmise it isn’t high on the list. I’m swamped with customer work this week and am not sure when I’ll have time to swap out the server side code that’s...
View ArticleWhy $PSCommandPath is $null in ISE or PowerGUI
Hello, I’m trying to figure out how to find out where my script is located at the time of execution and from what I researched so far it seems to have been a problem with PS for sometime. I’m running...
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You can’t use certain automatic variables in your param block (such as $PSCommandPath, $MyInvocation, $PSCmdlet, etc); they don’t work the way you’d expect them to. Instead, you can move that logic...
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Hi Everybody, I am going to put my powershell scrip in batch file ( here is my batch file : c:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe -Command “Get-childitem –Path c:\windows\temp...
View Articleclient cert based authentication for a URL
Hi, we want to check URL response of a .asmx URL which needs a client certificate for authenticating. I got the cert object and then passed it to invoke-webrequest cmdlet, but no matter what i try I...
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Have you tried including ‘> C:\MyFolder\Output.txt’ in the double quotes as well? Or even using Out-File to create the log? Something like this:...
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Thanks Wilson, it works with double quote when I run the whole script on cmd line, but from batch file it wont create output file. Please take a look my attached command line file. I tried several...
View ArticleComparing Exchange Version Numbers & Outputting available updates
Hi All Hopefully someone will be able to help a PowerShell newbie! I have a requirement to compare the version number of a Microsoft Exchange server to a list of all available versions and report back...
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You might have an easier time using powershell.exe’s -EncodedCommand parameter; it was designed for situations like this, where quotation marks or special characters cause problems when trying to...
View ArticleReply To: Schedule rolling reboots with service check & email?
Howdy - Thank you for the response, I’m still working at this. The service I’m checking now is the RPC server and I found a better “batch file script” online than what I had so I am trying that, but...
View ArticleUser Report with attribs & email file?
Howdy: I’m working on yet another script and stuck on what to do with this. I need to query AD and use the quest module as it’s a 2003 domain with no gateway available. I can query the domain to get...
View ArticleReply To: "Inventory Intervention" – Processor inventory script
Hey Mike Thank you again for this! Is there a way to get the number of cores per physical processor from the script as well if the 2003 servers aren’t patched?
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Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem NumberOfLogicalProcessors | Select-Object NumberOfLogicalProcessors
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