Steps to reproduce: Create a TestAlias module in \WindowsPowerShell\Modules\TestAlias\TestAlias.psm1 with the following function and alias: function foo { write-output 'foo' } New-Alias -name bar -value foo From Powershell a session import-module TestAlias bar The term 'bar' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function...
Just getting started with PowerShell. I was running DOS .bat files in my post build events in VS and wanted to graduate up to PowerShell. Bat files were easy...CALL something.bat. I tried to do that with a PowerShell ps1 file and my trial-and-erroring got me to the following (first thing that worked...tried all the simple things first...
Hi, I have a directory of videos (.AVI files) that I want to determine the duration of, and to create a file listing the titles and durations of all the videos, sorted in descending order of the video duration. Can anyone offer a PowerShell script to do this? Thanks, MagicAndi ...
Hi, I am trying to get the "date of birth" column in my excel sheet compared with system date & get the matches. The next step would be to get the associated datas(login names) in the same row, of the matched dates & display the same or dump the data to any file somewhere. This is what I have now: $link = "http://sp-fin/sites/arindam-s...
PowerShell's help (powershell -?) states: -Version Starts the specified version of Windows PowerShell. However, when starting PowerShell 2 with powershell -Version 1 all things I tried that are only present in v2 and not v1 still work, such as the -split operator or the Get-Random cmdlet. So what exactly changes when running Power...
Hi, I have been trying to create a post login script that will change the default gateway to a specific IP and then renews its IP but haven't had any luck. I know the normal cmd line is ipconfig \renew for renewing it IP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ...
Hi, I on occasion I get asked to produce a list of users who have Full Access rights to a particular Exchange 2007 Mailbox. At the moment I am doing this manually, and I'd ideally like to do it with Powershell. Is there anyway to produce a list of Full Access Permissions (and Send On Behalf rights would also be useful). Thanks, Jonny...
Sometimes we need to perform small administrative tasks in SharePoint. A simple PowerShell script is a really good tool for that. For instance, such script can enumerate event handlers of a list: [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") $site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($args[0]) $site.Ro...
I'm writing a Windows batch file and want to copy something to the desktop. I think I can use this: %UserProfile%\Desktop\ However, I'm thinking, that's probably only going to work on an English OS. Is there a way I can do this in a batch file that will work on any internationalized version? UPDATE I tried the following batch f...
Can anyone tell me how to create a scheduled task using powershell that runs as the local system or local service? Everything works great except the call to ITaskFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(). If I pass in $null, or "", than the call bombs saying invalid username or password. Any thoughts" $Rootfolder.RegisterTaskDefinition("Test", ...
Why are the variable assignments that I make inside the Trap block not visible outside it? $integer = 0; $string = [String]::Empty; $stringBuilder = new-object 'System.Text.StringBuilder'; trap { $integer = 1; $string = '1'; $stringBuilder.Append('1'); write-host "Integer Variable Inside: " $integer; write-host "St...
API: namespace ClassLibrary1 { public class Class1 { public static string Test(string input) { if (input == null) return "It's null"; if (input == string.Empty) return "It's empty"; else return "Non-empty string of length " + inpu...
I have a scheduled task which executes a powershell script every hour. The powershell script must make a call to a one-way WCF service operation. Essentially it just needs to kick off an operation. My question is how do i go about doing that? I thought that just executing the url would in fact kick off the request but apparently that...
Somehow I can't read an XML file with very simple structure in my PowerShell script. The XML file is generated by "Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit" and I want to load its contents into a database. The script is very simple: $datalist=[xml] (gc ".\users.xml"); foreach ($ROW in $datalist.ROOT.ROW) { Write-host $ROW.CompName; } The...
I'm trying to execute a wcf service operation from PowerShell using the following script. $uri = "http://myserver.com/myservice.svc?wsdl" $proxy = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri $proxy.CleanupExpiredTransactions() However, I am getting the following exception. Exception calling "CleanupExpiredTransactions" with "0" argument(s): "Object...
When I run my script directly from the Powershell console it works. When I run my script in PowerGUI and try instantiate an object, I get an error: Exception calling ".ctor" with "3" argument(s): "Could not load file or assembly 'MyLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=77f676cc8f85d94e' or one of its dependencies. The s...
I have a list of filenames in a text file like this: f1.txt f2 f3.jpg How do I delete everything else from a folder except these files in Powershell? Pseudo-code: Read the text file line-by-line Create a list of filenames Recurse folder and its subfolders If filename is not in list, delete it. Thanks in advance. ~HP ...
As part of a simple backup process, I would like to save files with the name indicating the date and time of the backup. Right now I am using yyyyMMddTHHmmss, i.e. "20100601T115720". I would like to be able to parse those dates back to allow clean up of files older than a certain date. (The backup date time is not necessary the same as t...
My script's input parameter is a date or a number. Here's a script that works fine, so you can see what I am trying to do: param($date = (Get-Date)) if ($date -match "^\d+$") { $date = (Get-Date).AddDays($date) } elseif ($date -as [DateTime]) { $date = [DateTime]::Parse($date) } else { 'You entered an invalid date'...
I'm trying to run a Powershell script without leaving Eclipse IDE so I setup External tool config as follows: under "main" tab: Location: C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe Working Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\ Arguments: "& C:\PowershellScripts\script.ps1" I save it and click run but ...