Setup cannot proceed

I am wondering if anyone has run into this before while installing Powershell 2 on Windows Server 2003 Install begins extracting what looks like .Net framework libraries, then stops with a dialog box named Windows Management Framework Core Setup Error. The dialog box contains the following statement: Setup cannot proceed. Windows Management Framework Core is already installed on your system. With only and OK button. I have looked for an install of powershell 2 that does not contain the Management Framework Core to no avail. Is there a way to suppress the installation o

MSScriptControl.ScriptControl help

Her is my powershell code: $vbsCode = Get-Content "c:\scripts\CreateMailbox.vbs" $vbs = New-Object -ComObject MSScriptControl.ScriptControl $vbs.language = "VBScript" $vbs.addCode([string]::Join("'n",$vbsCode)) #$vbs | Get-Member $vbs.CreateMailbox() Here is my vbscript code: Function CreateMailbox(Server,User) Dim oExchsrv Dim sDispName oExchsrv = Server sDispName = User Set oUser = GetObject ("LDAP://cn=" & sDispName & ",ou=New Accounts,dc=stormontvail,dc=org") WScript.Echo sSamAcct & " mailbox created on: " & oExchsrv oUser.CreateMailBox "LDAP://CN=Mailbox Store (

Capture Error, Warning and Info in a single file.

Hi, I need to capture all the errors by external commands, write-error, write-host, write-warning in a single file. I tried using 2>&1, 9>&1,... nothing worked. It will be nice to have error displayed with the pre-fix ERROR:, warning with WARN: ,.... Is there any cmdlets / snapins to do that Thx, Harsha

lastlogon (time format)

$computer_lastlogon = get-qadcomputer -identity $computer$ -includedproperties lastLogon | foreach {$_.lastlogon} The results as follows: 3/10/2009 HH:MM:SS How can i format it such that results appear as 3rd Oct 2009 (without the hh:mm:ss) ?

pipelines supported by PowerShell cmdlets

From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315282.aspx <# Description The Write-Output cmdlet sends the specified object down the pipeline to the next command. If the command is the last command in the pipeline, the object is displayed in the console. Write-Output sends objects down the primary pipeline, also known as the"output stream" or the "success pipeline." To send error objects down the error pipeline, use Write-Error." #> This mentions two pipelines supported by PowerShell cmdlets 1) primary pipeline, aka "output stream" or the "success pipe

New-PSsession failing, but winrs commands work fine.

I'm successfully able to run winrs -r:http://localhost:5985, but when I try to create a new-pssession I get the following error: [localhost] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The configuration XML is not valid. T he provider "Microsoft.PowerShell" supports the =E5=8D=97=E6=85=8D=E5=81=AE= =E7=95=AC=E6=A5=A7=E5=89=AE=E6=B1=A5=E6=85=A5=E6=95=B3=E6=A1=93=E6=B1=A5=E4= =8D=AC=E6=B9=AF=E6=95=B4=E7=91=B8 method but it could not be loaded. Verify that the prov ider exports the =E5=8D=97=E6=85=8D=E5=81=AE=E7=95=AC=E6=A5=A7=E5=89=AE=E6= =B1=A5=E6=85=A5=E6=9

How to list the available COM applications

Hi all, While surfing for a specific problem, I saw some PoSH examples which use COM to call applications. One example is here : http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/06/13/630165.aspx Here, the "Virtual PC Guy" uses PoSH to call VirtualServer through its COM API. My question is pretty simple, is there a way to get all the COM objects available on my computer? Thanks.

unable to remove or clear variable ?

$dn_list = Get-QADObject -Type OrganizationalUnit | where {$_.dn -match 'Desktops'} | foreach {$_.dn} | sort next i did a remove-variable $dn_list or clear-variable $dn_list Error i got : Remove-Variable : Cannot find a variable with name 'OU=Desktops,dc=com' but i am still able to list out $dn_list. Why ?

Server Core

What is the benefit of having Powershell v2 on my 2008R2 server core domain controller. From an AD perspective how does this help me?

date format questions.

Hi, I am new at this PS scripts. I want to create a file name with a date component to make the name specific. I want to use the date and time to achive that. How can I get the date and time from a typical date format into a string like: 20100309120754 Thanks.

Why is powershell eating memory and not releasing it ?

Powershell 2.0 on XP sp3. I am NOT running a script, but i ran the commands interactively which export some items to a external file. I repeat each time and memory is not released when each time the commands run in less than one minute. How can i look "purge memory" on the fly ? Eg get-qadcomputer -searchroot 'OU=abc,DC=mc,DC=com' -sizelimit -includedproperties use rAccountControl | where {$_.useraccountcontrol -ne 4098} | foreach {$_.name} | out-file -filepath c:\results.txt -append I changed the OU each time and run the commands interactively , but memory usage in

What is teh easiest way to create mailbox on exchange 2003 without

This process seems to be pretty complicated. I have not been able to find anything to allow me to create an exchange mailbox for 2003. i don't want to use any 3rd tools for this process but .net and wmi or anything else built in is fine. A pointer in the correct direction would be helpfull. Thanks

Pause a running script

Hi, A while back I wrote a pretty trivial script ( -ok all my scripts are trivial, alright! ). All it did was take strings from one place, modify them and send them someplace else. Mundane stuff. The users love it though as it saves them so much time. One of the users has now asked me how to "pause" it. Hhhmmm.. It's just iterating through an array of strings, and using wscript.shell sendkeys to send the text into another application. How can I add functionality so that if the spacebar, for example, is tapped the script pauses till the same key is pressed again? I mean, i

Managing Outlook Windows Powershell

dear scripting guys i am new to windows powershell, and i need your help in creating a windows powershell script that moves all mails from folder A ( and all it's subfolders) to Inbox then delete the folder A thank you in advance

Background job hanging when openning SQL Connection

I have a script that runs background jobs which execute commands on an MS SQL 2008 Express server. The background jobs are all hanging when they try to open an SQL connection to the server. The following is a simplified command which hangs on my system: start-job { "START" > .\connect.txt; $conn = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=rcev21lp\SQLEXPRESS; Initial Catalog=hardware_audit; Integrated Security=SSPI"); "OPEN" >> .\connect.txt; $conn.open(); "CLOSE" >> .\connect.txt; $conn.close(); } If I run that command, connect.txt contains the following:

Trouble modifying Folder rights

I am working on a script to create new users in our domain. One of the steps is to create a home directory. What I want to accomplish is create the folder. Turn off inheritance from the parent object, and add the the individual rules that are necessary. So far I can create the folder and get the current acl but it does not seem to be getting modified. here is my code so far. New-Item "\\***********\test2" -type directory $strFolder = "\\***********\test2" $ACL = Get-Acl $strFolder $identity = "Domain\admjsampson" $rights = "modify" #$Inheritance = @("ObjectInherit", "Co

Can't Create a New Object in PowerShell

I'm trying to create a new object in powershell and I get the follow error: "New-Object : Cannot find type [Reflection2.Session]: make sure the assembly containing this type is loaded." Here is the power shell code that I'm running that is returning the error: $confObj = New-Object "Reflection2.Session" $confObj.Visible = $true The following code DOES work when I create a vbs script: Set confObj = CreateObject("Reflection2.Session") confObj.Visible = True If a assembly needs to be loaded, how do I find out which file to load? Thanks in advance!!

Pass argument for a command waiting for user input

Hi All, I am using perforce, in one scenario after execution of the command it keeps waiting for the user input on the command prompt. Once i give it displays some data and exits. I need to pass the argument after execution of the command in my automation script. Please let me know how that can be done. Also i need to capture the data. Thanks in advance. Harsha Check this http://openadda.com

Accessing Google SDK from Powershell.

So, far, I have managed to load the DLL libraries. I have even managed to connect to picasaweb as a service. Has anyone out there done anything with Google SDK in powershell? Is Zend a requirement for .NET? Thanks in advance!!! Chris http://www.powershellblog.com

Excel

Hi! :) Is there any good web-pages or other sources of information about Excel and PowerShell around? One specific question I have is: How do I select/activate a certain tab/sheet in a workbook? Thanks a million!! :) /Sofia powershell newbe

Getting File Version Info - Errors

I am trying to use the following command to get the version info of an specific file in Powershell: PS C:\> gc Servers.txt | foreach { [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo \\$_\C$\windows\system32\drivers\storport.sys } However, I'm getting the following error: Unexpected token '\\$_\C$\windows\system32\drivers\storport.sys' in expression or statement. At line:1 char:126 + gc Servers.txt | foreach { [system.diagnostics.fileversioninfo]::GetVersionInfo \\$_\C$\windows\system32\drivers\storport.sys <<<< } + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (\\

PS 2.0 still asks confirmation to run my script

Hi all, My company test system is made of several virtual machines which run the same PS script. This script is hosted on the host computer, each VM is intalled with PS 2.0 and all VMs are their ExecutionPolicy to "Unrestricted". At startup, the VMs connect a shared drive from the host computer and execute the script stored in this share. But, despite the "Unrestricted" policy, PS still asks confirmation to run the script. For me it's a blocking issue as my test system is intended to run without any human action. This process worked well with PS 1.0, how can I make it wor

Windows 2008 - Cluster Commands via Powershell

Hello, I want send Clustercommands, set Ressources Online/Offline, against a Cluster. We are using a Windows 2008 x64 SP2 Server. Unfortunately I didn't find any links in the web to help me for this question. Can anyone help me? * witch Power shell version do I need for this tasks * can you give me some Examples Thaks for your help Franz-Josef

Get-WinEvent Message NoteProperty - Message = null

When using Get-WinEvent to retrieve data from Event Logs the Message property is one of the default returned, however it does not display any information. I notice that it is a NoteProperty and it's definition is set to: Message = null The question is how to I retrieve the Message data or is this cmdlet not designed to do that?

Populating XML data

Hi Guys, I'm fairly new to Powershell (and XML) and have come across a stumbling block that I can't resolve. I'm trying to write some code to poulate an XML file with data about sites within our organisation. This issue is with the nested nodes (I think they're called nodes?) The XML which I hand wrote looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <Organisation> <Site> <Code>MEL</Code> <Name>Melbourne</Name> <MailServer>MAILSRV1</MailServer> <State>VIC</State> <SecurityGroups> <group>SecGroup1</group> <group>SecGroup2</group> </SecurityGroups> </Site> <

Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration

I have the following code I use to try to change the settings on our servers from dhcp to static. It gets "hung" up on the enablestatic() peice, I know its because after it changes the ip it looses the connection but how do I get Powershell to either fork off this command or time out earler. BTW it makes the changes it just stays hung for a long time before moving onto other machines. Any help appreciated (there are a few extral lines in there that I was playing around with to see if I could get it to work) # Connect-VIServer server function set-ip { # param ( # [Parameter(M

lock files

is there a way to know what application has lock a file in powershell.... actually I use processExplorer from sysinternal but it will be nice if we can do this in Powershell. -- Michael Soza Estudiante Ingenier�a Civil Inform�tica Universidad de Concepci�n

Additional Mailbox

i have the following code which will let me "use" the default mailbox in my outlook client $olFolderInbox = 6 $outlook = new-object -com outlook.application; $ns = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI"); $inbox = $ns.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderInbox) after this it reads through each email and if the subject matches a criteria and unRead=True then it writes out to screen my problem is I have another shared/group mailbox that we call "Notices" and the script needs to go through the "Notices" mailbox instead, i have spent this afternoon trying to find a solution to my problem but im stu

XML file misformatted

Hi everybody. I have PS enumerating multiple XML files. Unfortunately, some of the XML files are malformatted, eg. one of them contains an illegal first character on line one, like this "z": z<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> So, I need error handling to detect such an error. For this, I've created: [xml]$myXMLFileContents = get-content c:\errorProneXMLfile.xml - ErrorVariable errXML -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Unfortunately, PS halts on this error - it seems the "SilentlyContinue" is ignored :-( Maybe because the -ErrorAction only refers to the Get-Content... How do I

comprehensive PowerShell Language Reference

The recent blogposts by Bob Apthorpe like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2331829/is-there-a-language-reference-manual-for-powershell http://overscope.cynistar.net/authors/1-Bob-Apthorpe http://overscope.cynistar.net/archives/298-Windows-PowerShell,-Radioactive-Sludge,-and-Documentation-Failure.html have once again reminded me that I do not possess a comprehensive PowerShell Language Reference. Is there any initiative ongoing to create one? - Larry

How can I get details of Scheduled Tasks on remote computers?

I'd like to be able to check if Windows scheduled taks are running successfully on remote computers. How can this be done in powershell? Many Thanks, =Adrian=

Why can I do this in VBScript...?

Hi, I'm currently making heavy use of an application that provides an ActiveX scripting/automation interface via VBScript. In those scripts a special object is made available which represent the application's various properties and methods. Works great. However it's not Powershell, so it's not perfect. My question is that if I can run VBScript against this object, why can't I simply instatiate this object in Powershell and use that. Thing is, search as I have amongst all the dark corners of new-object -com

using PowerShell to toggle the "Snap To" Mouse property

I have been trying to toggle the "Snap To" Mouse property in XP using these PowerShell commands: PS C:> Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Mouse' -name SnapToDefaultButton -value 0 PS C:> Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Mouse' -name SnapToDefaultButton -value 1 They do indeed toggle the values of that registry value that the Control Panel/Mouse GUI Pointer Options "Snap To" checkbox toggles, but the app level (even a refreshed Control Panel itself) does not honor the new value. What am I missing? - Larry

Excel reference

Does anyone know a good reference for the excel functions/methods in powershell. doing the more advance stuff in excel through powershell. Setting print areas, centering columns etc...

win32_mappedlogicaldisk returns null on Vista

When I do "get-wmiobject win32_mappedlogicaldisk" on my XP system it works fine, and returns the expected information about my network drives. However, when I do the same thing on my Vista system, I get null. In both cases I'm running Powershell 2.0, and have mapped network drives. Any ideas? I'm a rank beginner in Powershell, so it's probably something simple I'm doing wrong... TIA, dl

enumerating empty groups

Can anyone tell me how I can list all empty AD groups? I've tried several variations on: get-adgroup -filter * -properties canonicalname,cn,members | where {$_.members -eq "{}"} | fl with no success. Thanks -- Mark Salter National Museum of Wales

Is it possible to format a PSObject with a .ps1xml file?

This might be a totally ridiculous question...but here goes anyway: I have a couple of filters in modules that write PSObjects to output using code like: $x = New-Object PSObject -Property @{ one = "one" two = "two" } Write-Output $x There's just way more properties. How does one specify 'default' formatting styles for a System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject like you can with other types using .ps1xml files? That may not even be the right question to ask. What I'd like would be a way to define the default formatting for format-table, format-list, etc for t

error loading xml file

hello, the $xml loaded the xml file and it did store the xml as a property, but it won't display on screen. i need some help navigate out of the dark many thanks PSH �� $xml = new xml PSH �� $xml.load("h:\windowspowershell\template.xml") PSH �� $xml format-default : Object reference not set to an instance of an object. + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [format-default], NullReferenceException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.NullReferenceException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FormatDefaultCommand

Convertto-HTML appending more information

Hi Guys, Struggling to figure this one out, and it has been bugging me for a while. I have written a script which checks services, logs, event viewer entries, queues, etc and then writes the necessary results to screen. Works perfectly. I want to change this so it's written to a HTML file, but because I am not using just one command to perform this action and I want to add comments inbetween, such as server names I am having no joy in terms of formatting. Or I lose the comments, etc So doing one command in a loop and outputing the contents to HTML is no problem. Eg: foreach

DESCARGAS - ANTIVIRUS GRATIS 7983

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Creating & comparing separate variables with contents of separate text files...

Hi everyone, I got my script to work with help I received from this group, thank you! :) Now I would like to streamline it a bit and would greatly appreciate some pointers. 1. My script looks for specific (text-) files in a folder, stores a backup copy in the folder above and then compares these "pairs" after a second script potentially altered the original file. I have tried to figure this out, but: if I did not want to store an actual file, but rather put the contents into a variable, how is this possible using the "foreach" construction? I played around with "foreach { $_ set-

Need help to run a script from a web site

Hello Gurus I have this PS1 file, which takes 4 paramters and does couple of functions like telnet to a device and run some commands on that device The PS1 file takes, device IP as one of its paramter and credentials I want to pass these paraemters from a asp.net page but I CAN NOT find any example on how to do it, I have been binging and googling but most of the stuff is exchnage related could some one help on how to call a PS1 from C# code with n parameters Note: I have NO programming experience and just started to learn this stuff Thx a lot

variable not working within exchange 2010 powershell

Hello, I`ve already asked a similair question which was solved through a different approach. My setup is as following: Windows 2k8r2 with exchange 2k10 and PowerShellPlus 3.0 installed. When i through the "Exchange management shell" do: [PS] D:\PowerShell Scripts>$companyname = "FTC" [PS] D:\PowerShell Scripts>$dc = "domaincontroller.domain.local" [PS] D:\PowerShell Scripts>new-globaladdresslist -name "$CompanyName GAL" -recipientFilter {(alias -ne $null -and custom attribute1 -eq $CompanyName)} -domaincontroller $DC i get the following output: Name

Command runs fine on commandline, but not from PS1 - why?

Hi everyone, I am having some trouble understanding why some scripts can run fine from the command prompt but fail when executed from a PS1. The following line works great when I just type it in as I go: $myvar1 = Compare-Object $(gc "cue1.cue") $(gc "..\cueequal.cue") - IncludeEqual It compares the contents of two .cue files (which are basically renamed text files) and dumps whatever is equal or different into the new variable 'myvar1'. Now, the same thing executed form a PS1 that lies in the same folder as "cue1.cue" just does not work at all, $myvar1 remains emp

Handling foreach ($item in $null)

Hello list, Let's assume that I have an XML file that looks like this: $toys =3D [xml] @" <toys> <toy name=3D"Jigsaw"> <minage>6</minage> <price>19.50</price> <comments> <comment>A very nice gift for all kids!</comment> </comments> </toy> <toy name=3D"Meccano"> <minage>7</minage> <price>14.50</price> <comments> <comment>I bought it for my son, but I was the one playing the most often!</comment> <comment>My daughter liked it, but it is more suited for children aged 9+</comment> </comments> </toy> </toys> "@ I h

Create renamed copy of file in same directory

Hi everyone, this is my first post here and yes, I'm a powershell newbie. I could not find a solution to my problem online, and I am not getting my little command to work - perhaps someone here is kind enough to offer some advice. :) The task: say I have 3 .jpg files and one tmp-file in my folder c:\test\jpgs\ File 1: house.jpg.test.jpg File 2: roof.jpg.test.jpg File 3: bird.jpg.test.jpg TmpFile: somefile.jpg.test.tmp (please note that I am aware of .jpg showing up twice in each of the actual image files, but ideally I would want this script to only find the file extensions .jp

Adprep

What are the features that can be leveraged by just upgrading the AD Schema to Windows Server 2008 (without actualling installing w2k8 DCs)? What are the features that can be leveraged by just upgrading the AD Schema to Windows Server 2008R2 (without actualling installing w2k8 R2 DCs)??

Change BG color in Wordpad instance

Greetings all, I have a powershell script which generates rich text file (.rtf) reports that contain a lot of detailed data which needs to be examined carefully over long periods. This could be done in greater comfort if the background color of the WordPad instance in which the report is displayed could be changed to black (or whatever color I choose) from the default white. # This paragraph is optional reading; skip if low on time or patience... In seeking a solution, I happened upon the help file for the Add-Type command (I'm using Powershell V2 (CTP3)) and found example 5

Domain Controller Names Only

I want to output the list of domain controllers names ONLY to a word document, how can we achieve this? Get-ADDomainController cmdlet provides lot of information of which i am only intrested in name attribute, how i can limit what attributes needs to be included in the output?

function more

Consider PS C:> gc function:more param([string[]]$paths) $OutputEncoding = [System.Console]::OutputEncoding if($paths) { foreach ($file in $paths) { Get-Content $file | more.com } } else { $input | more.com } From an idea I got from http://app.en25.com/e/es.aspx?s=1403&e=1136&elq=b63283fe0ae246f08e2ac6506cf151bf to avoid the dependence on more.com this could have been coded to use Out-Host -Paging instead of more.com - Larry