How to remove characters from output
Hi, I have a powershell script that gives the below output @{Days=88} Basically, I am comparing the difference in Lastbootuptime with Get-date for a bunch of computers and doing a new-timespan (I...
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Just about any time you see that @{Days=88} format, it’s PowerShell’s string representation of an object which has a Days property, and usually it comes from the exact problem in your current code: $b...
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You can do this a couple of different ways, depending on your personal preference. You can set up a nested loop, as you already mentioned, or you can dynamically build a regular expression to test...
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Setting security rights on a group from other domain
Hey everyone, My first script! I’ve written my own script to obtain rights on a folder or file of a specific group, and give those exact same rights to a different group. My script: $directory =...
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From what I can see, you should be able to simply update your text file so instead of having “SG-PROD-Kit” for the TargetGroup, for example, it says “ProductionDomainName\SG-PROD-Kit”. Alternatively,...
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Just FYI, here is my final sample script, and works like a charm. Thanks again Don for the proper push. $strComputers = "Computer1", "Computer2" Foreach ($strcomputer in $strComputers) { If...
View ArticleReply To: set "FTP Authorization Rules" on virtualdirectory
Have you tried to stop the FTP site before running your commands? Maybe IIS has the config locked for writing.
View ArticleReply To: Remote Service commands – multiple services/servers?
So the Get-Service command lacks the property of the startmode so you have to resort to WMI to see that. However the stupid thing is that the Set-Service command does allow you to do this and will...
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Reply To: Setting security rights on a group from other domain
Hello Dave and thank you for answering. I’ve actually already tried that. It still resulted in a fail because it tries to look for the group named: ProductionDomainName\SG-PROD-Kit in my office domain.
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Hmm, that’s not really how it works. When you pass a DOMAIN\Name format string to an AccessRule constructor, it should try to contact that domain to look up the name. What error message, if any, do...
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On my way home it hit me that I tried it with (example) Contoso\Groupname and not Contoso.local\Groupname. Maybe that is what I did wrong :D. If it doesn’t work, I’ll try what you asked me to do in...
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Thanks Dave for explaining. It worked! I am new to powershell and this was my first post on the forum. This forum is like a tutor to me
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I would like to thank you for your help Dave! Changing the domainname to the full domainname (domainname.local) did the trick. You may not have actually said it, but you mentioning...
View ArticleRemote Sql Server backups
I have a script which looks like the following:- $machine = $computerName $server = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server(“$machine”) Write-Host “server = $($server)” $backup =...
View ArticleReply To: set "FTP Authorization Rules" on virtualdirectory
Thanks Vern for your input, but I solved it in a strange way: Experimenting with appcmd, I found the 2 commands to accomplish it: C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config “ftp root/usera”...
View ArticleReply To: Remove-Item help
hi, Will this work in powershell 2.0?. Add this function to you script. It should capture the calls to write-verbose. I do not have access to anything running powershell 2.0, so I cannot test it:...
View ArticleReply To: Remove-Item help
Hi Tore, That works for intercepting explicit calls to the Write-Verbose cmdlet, but it would not catch verbose output from compiled cmdlets such as Remove-Item. That type of output goes through the...
View ArticleNull valued expression
Using a combination of Search-ADAccount, Get-ADAccount and the directory class ADSISearcher object, I am trying to compile a list of properties into a PSObject. Some of the cmdlets do not yield...
View ArticleRestart servers with check of services?
Hello I would like to ask for some help on getting a script together that will reboot a list of servers and have the script check to verify that a couple of services have started after the reboot. The...
View ArticleDSC – WinRM HTTPS connection
I’ve been following Don’s DSC book, labbing up DSC and seeing what might work best in a production environment. My test scenario includes pulling via HTTPS, in a non-domain setting, and using OpenSSL...
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