Questions tagged [powershell]
An interactive shell, scripting and programming language, and surrounding environment from Microsoft. Commonly used by system administrators managing Microsoft software (including Windows, Exchange, SharePoint, and cloud services Azure and Office 365), PowerShell is included by default with Windows, and takes over from previous languages such as VB Script.
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SCCM application detection - encrypted powershell script
When using SCCM powershell script detection for an application deployment type - is it possible to encypt the script/obscure such that it is unreadable to SCCM console users?
I'm trying to solve a ...
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Export object location from CSV
I need to export the object location of servers from a list. I have tried using the following script, but it only checks the mentioned OU, how can I search the entire domain and export the canonical ...
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automatically logoff interactive user sessions for workgroup windows servers
I have windows application servers that are not domain joined and any changes I make to them must be doable via a locally run script (not a remote command) that is executed when they are provisioned ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 fails to load Remote Desktop module in powershell
I have my citrix master image that i'm using to test a script meant for a staggered reboot for my target devices. Need to import remote desktop module for the script to work. For some reason i cant ...
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How can I create a file screen for each path in this variable?
I have a script that scans a server for drives that contains shares. After that I need it to create a file screen from a template that is already created with the same script, that part works fine.
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Cloudberry powershell
I am trying to automate the upload of files to Glacier using Cloudberry Explorer's PowerShell snapin but cannot seem to copy files to my preferred destination. For some reason, the source directory ...
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Users created using new-mailbox script on exchange shell are disabled by default
I've done this many times before and I don't recall hitting this problem, however I'm creating mailboxes on exchange shell using new-mailbox and the accounts which are created in AD are all disabled ...
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Set Windows2012R2 resolution remotely
I am trying to set the graphic resolution remotely.
I cannot use the Set-DisplayResolution, since it does not work with Windows2012R2.
I can use the system32 utility setres.exe to do it locally, but ...
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Using PSSession, Not able to run commands on azure server
Still trying to figure out how to automate a build of an azure server, and install software on it after the build.
The template referenced is our own version of the one from used is based off of the ...
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Find permission of specific account and owner to replace with new account
Using Windows 2008R2.
I have an ad account "fileadm" which have some permissions of many folders and files and for some it's a owner.
I need to replace this account with another account (with the same ...
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Scheduling a task or job with credentials to run after AD promotion start up
I am installing a new VM lab, few windows 2016 servers and AD forest.
Part of the lab is installing a DC in the new forest.
I have no issue with the feature installation and promotion.
My problem - I ...
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AWS + S3 - Linux downloads, powershell stalls?
I've set up an S3 bucket.
From a Linux host, once I create a config and credentials file, I can do:
aws s3api get-object --bucket <mybucket> --key <myfile> /root/<myfile>
and ...
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IncludeInvocationHeader not working with Start-Transcript
I'm working with a script that parses out a Windows Powershell transcript. The script is dependent on the ...
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Url Rewrite Rule needs to disabled and enabled to IIS
I am automating the creation of a URL Rewrite in a testing environment. I am configuring it using Powershell in IIS 8.5
Add-WebConfigurationProperty -pspath 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST' -location '...
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How do I overcome an "Insufficient winsock resources" message that prevents PS Get-ADUser from running
My account is a domain admin, I often log onto a particular server in our network (not the DC), and until recently I could query AD with PS commands, e.g.
Get-ADUser crm.webserver -Properties *
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Exchange 2007 export CSV of all external email addresses
A customer asked us the somewhat strange question to make an export off ALL the email addresses their company has ever mailed with.
Not the addresses of their own mailboxes, but all external ...
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Desired State Configuration HTTPS Pull Site Doesn't Work
I've created a domain certificate for my DSC web pull server (issued by my internal CA) and retrieved the thumbprint.
I exported the certificate from inetmgr and installed it on the pull server (both ...
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AWS and Powershell in a Lab (sub-account) of a primary AWS account
This is a little esoteric, but I need help folks!
So I have a corporate AWS account that holds my user permissions. The corporate account has a sub-account that is housing all Lab facilities (so ...
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Powershell reporting wrong info for Protected OU
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Properties ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion | where {$_.ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion -eq $false} | ft DistinguishedName,ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion
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Remoting from a WORKGROUP PC to Domain-Joined PC
I was wondering if it was possible to remote from a WORKGROUP PC to a domain-joined PC, using only the local credentials of the domain-joined PC. I know this is definitely doable through PSExec, ...
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Understanding exactly why the timestamp was not affected of ad objects
I made a script that takes data from an HR database and populates correlating attributes in AD e.g department, title, manager, location.
Since people change titles, departements and/or locations on ...
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Set Skype for Business PIN for all users
I know that the PowerShell command to set a single user's Skype for Business PIN is this:
Set-CsClientPin -Identity "User Name" -Pin 123456
This page seems to help:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-...
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Getting User group members using Powershell
I got a script Invoke-Command {net localgroup administrators} which only work in server 2012 & not in server 2008R2, getting error as mentioned below, even though "WinRM already is set up to ...
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Only allow remote command with credentials
I have server A and a server B in the same domain (Windows Server 2012 R2):
PS C:\Deployment> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
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Enable-PSRemoting Error
I manage a network of over 100 2008R2 Servers. There is no domain on the network for various reasons. I am running Enable-PSRemoting -Force on all the servers. Some of them are running just fine, ...
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. .\Variables.ps1 returning CommandNotFound
I am trying to call a variable called $company from one powershell script called "Variables.ps1" into another powershell script in the same folder called "edit_website.ps1" at the top of "edit_website....
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What Security Implications Does WSMan "TrustedHosts" Have?
I found that WinRM requires TrustedHosts (in WSMan:\client) to be set to run remote PowerShell commands. I am unable to find official documentation on the security ramifications and risks of trusting ...
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Windows 2012 - Powershell v4 update hosts file without restarting
I wrote a Powershell script where I update hosts file at runtime: add entries, clear entries.
An example of what I am doing:
Import-Module 'Carbon'
#Carbon module functions
Reset-HostsFile
#No ...
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Windows scheduled task running slow
I have a script which among other things, updates a CName record in DNS. It updates the same record on multiple DNS servers, one at each site as we can't wait for replication.
The first time the Get-...
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Why isn't PSReadLine part of my powershell?
Why isn't PSReadLine part of the default modules of my powershell? How can I get all the default modules?
⨯ idror@TLV-WPJ03 ~ $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
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Scheduled Powershell script occasionally dies midway through
I have a few powershell scripts that are scheduled, and they usually run just fine (both as a scheduled task, and when run manually)
I've got an issue where occasionally, they just stop working ...
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powershell exchange script output only works when typed manually
I'm typing the following command in exchange 2010 EMS and it works when I run it interactively.
$a = Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -server theName | fl name,activedatabasecopy,status,...
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Set Multiple IP Addresses For DHCP Option 6 DNS Server Using Netsh
I am trying to set two IP addresses for option 6 DNS server using this code:
$serverIpAddress = '11.12.13.14'
$subnet = '11.12.43.33'
$value = '11.12.74.21,11.12.74.22'
netsh dhcp Server $...
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How can I use Exchange Management Shell to set the FirstName and LastName on multiple mailboxes?
I imported 100+ new mailboxes using Import-CSV and New-Mailbox and the Name and DisplayName fields have been populated correctly however seems I missed setting the FirstName and LastName fields.
The ...
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exchange get-distributiongroup powershell issue
I need to add a member to about 50 distribution groups. I have the list of groups in "display name" format. According to documentation the -identity parameter of get-distributiongroup takes pipeline ...
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Backup powershell script pauses until i press space
I made a script to export all mailboxes ( as secondary backup for my Exchange 2013 Server.)
The script basically gets all the mailboxes from a list in a text file and does a for-loop going through ...
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Odd behavior using WinRM via powershell, works sometimes and other times does not
Been setting up Powershell Remoting for all of our client machines (Pushed out GPO last week) and I can Test-WSMan on pretty much all of them and I get a nice expected response.
Now on one of our ...
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How to get Adusers which are disabled of an defined company and shows the groups where this users are member of?
I have the following problem with my powershell script. With MemberOf I d'ont see all groups. I think the output is too long for the field.....
How can I resolve this problem? Any Help is welcome........
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Write-Eventlog to create events
I try to create events with similar codes like this:
Write-EventLog -LogName 'Windows PowerShell' -Source PowerShell -EventId 12345 -EntryType Information -Message 'Script started'
Creation process ...
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(Auto) Searching for every SMB Share in Network and List which has ,,Everyone" Read + Write access
Is there an comfortable way (example with PowerShell) to do a network scan for every share and list the shares which has setup that ,,Everyone" can Read and Write.
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Windows Server 2016 : using Restore-WebConfiguration
I'm trying to use the powershell cmdlet Restore-WebConfiguration on Windows Server 2016, and I'm getting this error:
PS > Restore-WebConfiguration name
get-webconfiguration : Retrieving the COM ...
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If an AD attribute appears in one LDAP tool, and not the other, what can be the cause?
I'm using the same userID, LDAP connection string to bind to an LDAP server and fetch information.
Tool #1 exposes the msExchMailboxGuid consistently and reliably.
Tool #2 (.NET) doesn't expose the ...
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can't open new powershell session from one server to another
I am trying to open a powershell session from one server to another. I can open sessions to servert1/2 which have the same configuration as far as I can tell. trustedhosts are the same, same user/pw ...
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PowerShell printing event not being triggered
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm trying to use PowerShell V5 to generate an event in which I can trigger an action. In the example, I'm just trying to write-output as my action. When I print, the ...
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Powershell task from Scheduled Tasks keeps running forever
I've created an scheduled task to call a webpage using PowerShell, but I don't know why it is not going to be ended after execution, and the status remains "Running".
The action is "Start a program", ...
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Mystery display -- Missing portions of server feedback in Windows PowerShell
What's up with this? I'm trying to use Windows10 PowerShell to interact with a Meteor application. I'm having a heck of a time displaying feedback from the server thru the PowerShell. Here's a ...
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Set PowerShell "Plugin\Microsoft.PowerShell\Quotas\MaxMemoryPerShellMB" using Group Policy
I want to apply the following PowerShell settings on many servers:
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 12345
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Plugin\Microsoft.PowerShell\Quotas\...
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New-ModuleManifest does not prompt for standard keys
On Windows 10, using PowerShell 5.0.10586.494 the New-ModuleManifest cmdlet just returns after prompting for the file path. This goes against the documentation.
How to Write a Module Manifest
https:/...
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NTFS ACL discrepancy in powershell
I have a case, where a user once had access to a directory and that user has been removed now. In fact their account has been deleted out of the AD entirely.
Typically when one sees a user deleted, ...
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How to install and use Windows Assessment and Deployment SDK on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I've recently installed the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK) on Windows Server 2008 R2. I've used the installer provided by Microsoft here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details....