Uninstalling PowerShell in Vista Home to upgrade to Vista Ultimate

I have Vista Home on a Dell studio laptop. I have just reinstalled this after a HD replacement. I am trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. A Compatibility check during the start of the upgrade says to uninstall Windows PowerShell. I went to the microsoft support site for guidance. I am unable to see PowerShell or its KB in the list of installed updates as the guidance said I should see. Hence, I am unable to select it to uninstall. The list of installed updates only says "Update for Microsoft Windows" or "Hotfix for Microsoft Windows." How can I get it to show PowerShell? A search

Nice seeing all of you hopefully I see you in the other forum

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Powershell Timespan and While Loop

Can you use the timespan feature to limit the amount of time that a given task will attempt to execute? I'm attempting to do a system audit, but a lot of the servers are behind firewalls and do not respond, thus I must wait for them to time out. What I'd like to do is say continue to try to contact the server until 10 seconds has passed, and then skip to the next server in the list. Could I use something like this in my system audit? $timespan = new-timespan -seconds 10 while ($timespan -ne 10) { Code }

Setting an executables privilege level in PS

Hi I need to set the option "Run this program as an administrator" on Server 2008 R2 for a number of executables. The option is required for UAC to step in when an user starts the executable and can be set on the compatibily tab of a files properties' dialog. Any ideas someone on how to do it with PS ? Thanks in advance, Markus

Retain formating from outlook email into word document?

As you can obviously tell from the script, I don't do this for a living. The script takes the contents of an existing email in outlook, removes some stuff from the header and then writes it to a new MS Word document. It is working. The next step is to get it to preserve the HTML formatting of the original email message. I tried Changing "$messagebody = $m.body" and "$selection.TypeText($wordcontent[1])" to "$messagebody = $m.htmlbody" and $selection.TypeText($messagebody)" but it didn't work. So I'm pretty much out of ideas about how to retain the html formatting whe

powerShell error with Events and ref Arguments

This sample Script brings powerShell to crash because of the ref Argument in the C# event. Does anybody have an idea how to solve the problem, when passing Events with ref arguments to a powerShell script. I just want to ask a script from a C# assemblie to get some values and not only one return value. #Add new Class Type Add-Type -TypeDefinition @' public class TestClass { public delegate void SetupEventHandler(ref int value); // public delegate void SetupEventHandler(int value); public event SetupEventHandler Setup; public void fire

Comparing objects

Hello, I don't know if it's the right process, but I would output any names which are not found in a text file, but was found in Active Directory. The text file is using this format: samaccountname:givenname:name user123:USER:USERR I'm using this commands: compare-object -includeEqual (get-aduser -filter * | ft samaccountname) (import-csv -path c:\comptes.txt -delim ":" | ft samaccountname) -prop samaccountname I don't understand what is returned. Is anybody know if I follow the right way? Thanks

Server Local Group Auditing Question

This script is modified from web to perform auditing of local server groups and their members. Since I have to do this on a large number of servers I would like the results written to a Access Database instead of on large text file. Since I am fairly new to powershell and scripting I dont know how to do this. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. ######################## #Functions ######################## $arrExclude = "NT AUTHORITY\LocalService", "NT AUTHORITY\Local Service", "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE", "NT AUTHORITY\Networ

help about_break

A part of the output of help about_break is You break out of the other looping statements in the same way you break out of the Foreach loop. In the following example, the Break statement exits a While statement when a DivideByZeroException exception is trapped using the Trap statement. $i = 3 while ($true) { trap [DivideByZeroException] { Write-Host "divide by zero trapped" break } 1 / $i-- } I don't think this is strictly true. Doesn't the break within that trap

Windows PowerShell Time out question

Wondering if there's a way to limit how long PowerShell will try to get the following information out of a servers WMI. Here's what I've got currently, it works fine so long the servers respond... $a = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application $a.visible = $True $b = $a.Workbooks.Add() $c = $b.Worksheets.Item(1) $c.Cells.Item(1,1) = "Domain" $c.Cells.Item(1,2) = "Server Name" $c.Cells.Item(1,3) = "Operating System" $c.Cells.Item(1,4) = "IP Address" $c.Cells.Item(1,5) = "Service Packs" $c.Cells.Item(1,6) = "System Type" $c.Cells.Item(1,7) = "Manufacturer" $c.Cells.Item(1,8)

comparing lastLogonTimestamp

This question is less about the problem at hand and more about how to deal with the issue of changing types in powershell. I need to find all the accounts in an OU created more than 30 days ago that have Never been logged into or haven't been logged into for 60 days. I have this snippet that uses the quest cmdlet: Get-QADuser -searchroot "corp.net/user accounts/users/OurOU" | where { ($_.whencreated -lt ((get-date).adddays(-30)) ) -and ( ( $_.lastLogonTimestamp -like "Never") -or ($_.lastLogonTimestamp -lt ((get-date).adddays(-60)) )

search specified applications

I want a script that will search a list of machines for specific applications (such as 'Microsoft Office). This script will list all applications installed. Is there a way to apply a filter or condition to find specified applications instlled on the machines? $Catalog = "C:\scripts\machinelist.txt" $CatalogList = Get-Content $Catalog foreach ($Machine in $CatalogList) { write-host "Connecting to $Machine..." $colItems = get-wmiobject -class "Win32_Product" -namespace "root\CIMV2" -computername $Machine foreach ($objItem in $colItems) { write-host "Instal

tutorial on calling cygwin bash scripts from powershell?

i've spent some time searching but haven't found much about this. quite a few comparisons of pros and cons of, say, bash versus powershell, but not much on calling back and forth between them. I have used cygwin for years and have begung using powershell in the past year or two; I find both extremely useful, but tend to use them separately: each tends to be good for certain kinds of problems and less good for others. now, however, i want to tackle something I haven't managed yet: calling a cygwin/bash script from inside a powershell script and using the result to do something usef

Copy files to server

Im trying to create and move the contents of a local folder up to multiple servers via a server list. So Im trying to do something like: $a=Get-Content "c:\scripts\serverlist.txt" a$ | md data cp c:\data\ a$ ? I know thats wrong but you see the idea. Thanks in advance.

Save options and paths in vars

Hello! At the moment I'm writing a small backup script with robocopy. Robocopy offers serveral parameters. For example: /XD exclude file list /XF exlude dir list /MIR Mirroring options Within my backup script, all exclude files and dirs are stored in an seperate variable: For example: $excludeFiles = "UsrClass.dat " + "UsrClass.dat.LOG1 " + "UsrClass.dat.LOG2 " + "ntuser.dat " + "ntuser.dat.LOG1 " + "ntuser.dat.LOG2" At the end of my script I'm using all my prepared variables and execute robocopy like this: robocopy $sourcePath $tar

trapping errors from commands entered interactively

If I enter a command that does not exist, here's what happens PS C:> xyzzy The term 'xyzzy' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:6 + xyzzy <<<< + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (xyzzy:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException Is there a way to trap this to be able to execute some custom PowerShell code at that po

Supressing Errors on my Screen

Hi, I am running a script against a list of 165 servers. Part of the reason I am running this script is to see if I can connect to all of them. In many cases I can not. I get a screen full of Bright red Error messages. Is there any way to suprpress these errors? The command I am running is: $OS = Get-WmiObject "Win32_OperatingSystem" -computername ($strComputer) If ($OS) { $WS.Cells.Item($rRow, 2) = "Online" $WS.Cells.Item($rRow, 3) = $OS.Caption } Else { $ws.Cells.Item($rRow, 2) = "Pings" $ws.Cells.Item($rRow,

Windows 2008 R2 and SQL SSMSE installation

Hi, I am tring to install SQL 2008 R2 and SSMSE on a Server 2008 Server that has already been upgraded to Powershell V2. I have been unable to get Powershell V1 installed, even after removing PoshV2, and downloading Poshv1, I get an error installing Posh V1, says this update does not apply to your system. If I install powershell via the deature mangement tool, it installs V2. So how in the heck can I install SQL and SSMSE on Server 2008 R2, if SSMSE requires PoshV1, and 2008 R2 comes with v2 by default? Why does SSMSE hangup on v1 so much, isnt Posh suppose to be backwar

Setting values of a filtered array

Hi All I want to read in a csv file, filter it based on the values of two of the fields and set the value of another field. Here's a simple example of what I'm trying to achieve: c:\somefile.csv contents: firstField,secondField,thirdField 1,2,"somevalue" 2,2,"avalue" 3,1,"somevalue" # Import file into array $csv = Import-Csv c:\somefile.csv # Where secondField = 2 and thirdField = "someValue" set thirdField = "anotherValue" $csv | where {$_secondField -eq 2 -and $_.thirdField = "somevalue"} | <set value of thirdField = "anotherValue"> How can I do this. As you can see,

How do a use a string as a param for a cmdlet when it contains opt

I have a script that cleans out old files, currently it is in this format write-host "\\sapecc01\Integration\SCC\Archive\* -Include *.txt" $a = Get-ChildItem \\sapecc01\Integration\SCC\Archive\* -Include *.txt foreach($x in $a) { $y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).Days if ($y -gt 28 -and $x.PsISContainer -ne $True) {$x.Delete()} } #Keep DESADV for 28 days write-host "\\sapecc01\Integration\SCC\Archive\* -Include DESADV_*.xml" $a = Get-ChildItem \\sapecc01\Integration\SCC\Archive\* -Include DESADV_*.xml foreach($x in $a) { $y =

Pulling data from a XML type variable

Hi, I have a command line utility that queries the HBA's on a server and return all sorts of usefull information. What I am looking for is the World Wide Name of each port. The Output looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <QLogic> <AppName>SANsurfer FC CLI</AppName> <AppVersion>v1.06.14 Build 25</AppVersion> <HBA> <GeneralInfo Number="0" Model="QLA2312" WWNN="##-##-##-##-##-##-##-##" WWPN="##-##-##-##-##-##-##-##" </HBA> <H

alternatives to suppress output

The following will destroy and recreate a subdirectory if (Test-Path subdir) {rmdir subdir -Recurse}; mkdir subdir but will produce output to the console: PS C:> if (Test-Path subdir) {rmdir subdir -Recurse}; mkdir subdir Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Larry\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 6/15/2010 6:01 AM subdir There are many ways to suppress the output to the console if (Test-Path subdir) {rmdir subdir -Recurse}; mkdir

Set Share Permissions to Everyone Full Control Remotely on SRVR 20

I have been trying for a couple days to create a share on a remote server and assign "Everyone" "Full Control" on a 2008 R2 server. Apparently I am the first person to ever do this on a remote server sinceI can not find a solution. The scriopt works locally, but not remotely. I can create the share on the remote server, but can not set Everyone to have full control. No errors, it just doesn't work. If I use VBScript I can, but not Powershell. Very weird, it seems as though you are unable to do this on a remote server (2008 Server R2 - UAC off) I am an Administrator, of c

check for file content in different paths out of a textfile

hi there sorry guys..for you this might be a simple question. but i am new to powershell and i am queued to following problem: 1: i have a text file (array.txt), which is automatically generated. the content of this file are 5 lines. each line points as unc path to a location. how can i automatically check in each unc path of this file if there are files in the folder? i tried to use an array and also a foreach solution but i cant find the way to it. 2: the above mentioned text file has (after the automatic generation of it) several blank lines. how i can prevent the crea

Variables and .value

Heres a simple script I've knocked together, largely by trial an error #WhereAmI.ps1 $usr=gci env:username $comp=gci env:computername $IPadd = ([System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($_) |select $_.ToString) $dom=gci env:userdnsdomain write-host "Formatted with Write-Host:" write-host $(" Username:",$usr.value) -foregroundcolor DarkGreen write-host $(" Computer:",$comp.value) -foregroundcolor red write-host $(" IP Address:", $IPadd) -foregroundcolor gray write-host $(" Domain:",$dom.value) -foregroundcolor DarkYellow write-host "Without formatting:" $usr $comp $IPadd.