I'm trying to insert a bunch of data into a SharePoint list. The List is a custom list based on the Item content type with a couple of custom columns, Contact and Code, where code is a custom field type based on SPFieldText. I am exploring the list using PowerShell 2.0, and enumerating the fields of the list (or any given list item) ca...
How do I get PowerShell to wait until the Invoke-Item call has finished? I'm invoking a non-executable item, so I need to use Invoke-Item to open it. ...
I'd like to clean up some directories after my script runs by deleting certain folders and files from the current directory if they exist. Originally, I structured the script like this: if (Test-Path Folder1) { Remove-Item -r Folder1 } if (Test-Path Folder2) { Remove-Item -r Folder2 } if (Test-Path File1) { Remove-Item File1 } N...
I have multiple sites configured in IIS7 on my Windows7 development machine to run on the same port and usually only run one at a time depending on what I'm working on. I would like to be able to start and stop my development sites from PowerShell instead of having the IIS manager opened. Does anyone have a good resource to point me in...
Hi, I've been trying to run the following command line from a Powershell build script we have; but keep running into issues & 'C:\Dev\Yadda\trunk\BuildScripts\U tilities\csmanage.exe' ` /create-deployment ` /name:yadddayaddyaddadev ` /label:yadddayaddyaddadev ` /package:https://yadddayaddyadda.blob.core.windows.net/mydeployment...
In C# you can get the current ParameterSetName in the ProcessRecord override of a PowerShell Cmdlet with code like this: switch (ParameterSetName) { case FromUriParamSetName: loadFromUri(); break; case FromFileParamSetName: loadFromFile(); break; } I'm trying to figure out ho...
Hi, Following the release of SharePoint 2010, there has been renewed interest in using PowerShell to manage SharePoint solutions. I'm interested in finding out how my peers are currently using PowerShell with SharePoint, either 2007 or 2010. For example, I use a PowerShell script to determine the number of sites, sub-sites and page...
Is it possible to make Get-Variable always return variables in the order they've been declared? & { $c = 2 $b = 1 $a = 0 get-variable -scope local } ...
I have to stop a browser from a PowerShell script, which I do by piping it into Stop-Process -Force However, this is very abrupt. When the browser is restarted, it detects that it didn't shut down cleanly, and tries to restart the previous session. Is there some way I can tell it to shut itself down gracefully? ("There are two ways we...
Hi, I am a newbie in powershell. I have a simple powershell script that just replace text but I found that the regex replace turn my multiline data source into a single line text when the output is produced. I want the line breaks to be preserved. Here is the dumb down version of the script. $source=(Get-Content textfile.txt) $process1...
this is the scenario. p1 |_f1 |_f2 p2 |_f1 |_f2 Can anyone please help me with a powershell script that copies the files shown above from the TFS to a temporary folder ??? where f1,f2,and so on are the subfolders.. ...
Does "-eq" in Powershell test reference equality (like "==" in c#) or does it do the equivalent of calling Object.Equals() ...
I have the following array value $outData with several columns. I am not sure how I align some columns right? $outData | Select-Object ` Name ` @{Name="Freespace(byte)"; Expression={"{0:N0}" -f $_.FreeSpace}}, ' .... # other colums ` | Format-Table -AutoSize It works fine. However, when I tried to use align for the ...
knowing what PowerShell can do on a command line I have never learned how to write GUIs with it. Should I? Or just go back to the good old HTA / VBScript? ...
Hi, I am trying to create web sites from IIS manager. I already have few web site and Application pools. I want to add few more and this is gonna happen again in future. So what i need right now is i want to inherit the properties of previously created web site and apppool to this new website. I mean how can i inherit the properties fr...
Here's my situation. I have a PowerShell module which imports the PowerShell-JSON library; this library converts JSON strings into PowerShell objects. My module provides an interface to CouchDB, so my JSON strings are obtained from HTTP calls. I have a function, Send-CouchDbRequest, which makes the HTTP request to CouchDB and returns ...
PS> C:\Windows\System32> Get-TfsItemProperty $/MyFirstTFSProj -r ` -server xyzc011b| Where {$_.CheckinDate -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-150)} | Copy-Item D:\john\application1 -Destination C:\Test -whatif Copy-Item : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline i...
Hi, I've written a powershell script which removes folders more than 7 days old. It seems to be removing the folders, but for some reason its giving me errors. I was wondering if anyone might be able to tell me why? The script is... $rootBackupFolder = "\server\share" get-childitem $rootBackupFolder | where {$.PSIsContainer -AND $.Na...
Can i use powershell script to copy a set of files from a folder to Clear Case..?? i have the task of synchronising files from TFS to Clear Case.. like i need to take a set of files aftr a certain date from tfs server and synchronise these files to Clear case.. ...
During investigation of some problem I found that the reason was unexpected different conversion to string[] of seemingly same input data. Namely, in the code below two commands both return the same two items File1.txt and File2.txt. But conversion to string[] gives different results, see the comments. Any ideas why is it? This might be...