I would like to do the equivalent of chmod -w+r-x foo or attrib +R foo in Windows Powershell. Putzing around, I notice a fairly gnarly Set-Acl function that looks significantly fancier than what I need. How do I do attrib +R foo in Windows Powershell? ...
I would like to know how to read, via vbscript, WMI, Powershell etc -the new Windows 7 Action center messages that the user normally gets informed of. I want to read all those messages on each machine and store then in a central database, then disable the messages from displaying to the user on the local machines. My questions are - 1....
Hi, In my custom powershell provider I want the user to be able to skip the internal call to InitializeDefaultDrives. The InitializeDefaultDrives method is called when the provider starts. I guess this is when I use the Add-SnapIn cmdlet to load my provider. So it looks like i'm searching for a way to add dynamic parameters to to the A...
Hi! I have multiple volumes (as nearly everybody nowadays): on Windows they end up specified as C:, D: and so on. How do I list these all like on a Unix machine with "ls /mnt/" with Powershell? ...
What is the Powershell equivalent to Perl's qw() function? In v2 I can write my own with -split, but I'm assuming that there's an exiting method that I just can't find in the documentation. ...
I have a file template.txt which contains the following: Hello ${something} I would like to create a PowerShell script that reads the file and expands the variables in the template, i.e. $something = "World" $template = Get-Content template.txt # replace $something in template file with current value # of variable in script -> get He...
I'm implementing a custom PowerShell provider. I'm now working on the remove-item cmdlet implementation. The RemoveItem method has the following signature: protected override void RemoveItem(string path, bool recurse) When I type: Remove-Item .\Myobject -recurse the PowerShell infrastructure provides me with the value true in the rec...
As far as I know, a forward slash is not a reserved keyword in powershell But running the following in cmd pops up an about dialog "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:about The same in powershell gives: 'C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe' /command:about You must provide a value expression o...
I'm using Powershell to talk to the Windows 7 task scheduler service via COM through the Task Scheduler 2.0 interfaces (e.g. ITaskDefinition). I want to pull out a particular trigger from the Triggers collection on ITaskDefinition. It appears that the proper way to extract a particular trigger is through the Item property, which is an in...
Does anyone know how to perform IISRESET with Powershell Script? I'm using powerguieditor with powershell 1.0 instlled on a windows 2008 box. ...
How do you run this command in powershell: C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbfullsql="Data Source=mysource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;" -dest:dbfullsql="Data Source=.\mydestsource;Integrated Security=false;User ID=sa;Pwd=sapass!;Database=mydb;",computername=10...
I am trying to write a script that will output any directory that has not changed in over 90 days. I want the script to ONLY show the entire path name and lastwritetime. The script that I wrote only shows the path name but not the lastwritetime. Below is the script. Get-ChildItem | Where {$_.mode -match "d"} | Get-Acl | Format-T...
I'm trying to run various commands using psexec.exe from Windows Sysinternals. What I need is a simple script to read the output of those commands. For example if everything went OK, then it returns a 0. If something went wrong, then it will spit out an error code. How can it be done? ...
What is the prescribed method for display status or progress information to a user from a Powershell script? For example, "Connecting to database..." Normally I'd print to STDERR. Powershell has a Write-Progress cmdlet, but that's for a progress bar. ...
I'm a Powershell newbie, trying to get a simple script to run. I have a list of files that I want to copy from some src_dir to a dst_dir. I wrote a simple script (which is obviously wrong since it didnt do anything when I executed it). Could someone please help check to see what I'm doing wrong? # source and destionation directory $sr...
I need to rename a lot of directories and their sub directories. I have a csv file which contains the old directory names and the required new name. 1,blah,old_name1,new_name2,wibble 2,foo,old_name2,new_name2,bar 3,john,old_name3,new_name3,paul 4,george,old_name4,new_name4,ringo Note that some of the directory names are old_name1-m...
Here is the deal, I am going through an INI file with some code. The idea is to return all of the categories found in the INI file with a regex, and then set at an arraylist = to results. So here is the code: switch -regex -file $Path { "^\[(.+)\]$" { $arraylist.Add($matches[1]) } } However, th...
I have a function that lets me write the file-path of files to a text file, depending on your input. That sounds confusing, but I don't know of a better way to put it, so here's the function: Function writeAllPaths([string]$fromFolder,[string]$filter,[string]$printfile) { Get-ChildItem -Path $fromFolder -Recurse $filter | Select-Obj...
I have the following log entry that I am processing in PowerShell I'm trying to extract all the activity names and durations using the -match operator but I am only getting one match group back. I'm not getting all of the matches that I see when I do the same thing in C# using the Regex object. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong...
I am using System.Management.Automation to build a program that serves as a firewall, essentially, and I was wondering if there is a specific cmdlet in PowerShell 2 to handle ipsec changes for a server? (i.e., that duplicates netsh ipsec functionality)? Or would I have to write one? :P I am hoping for a cleaner solution than calling a ...