I have a PowerShell snapin, and I would like to run a bit of initialization code (hooking some AppDomain events) each time my snapin is loaded (i.e. once for each powershell.exe process that is started). How can this be accomplished? ...
I suppose my question is somewhat similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2607865/redirecting-the-standard-output-input-error-into-from-a-textbox but it is powershell-centric. I'm working on an GUI created using PrimalForms that will act as a frontend to my website deployment scripts. Up until now, I've been using start-tra...
I am writing a simple unit test harness in powershell I designed the harness such that its assert functions takes a script-block as a parameter to allow the harness to run the code from within the assert function and treat any exceptions are thrown as a test failure. If the tests fail I want to return line in the unit test in which the...
I have been following Richard Siddaway's Awesome Series on Powershell+Access2007. Unfortunately it ends before discussing creating/running/modifying access 2007 queries in powershell. How could this be done? ...
I would like to set up functionality where a powershell script would access the email in a specific mailbox. It would then parse each email to engage in dialog with a specific set of users. To serve as a system that could be interacted with through email. How could this be pulled off? ...
What exaxctly is happening in example 1? How is this parsed? # doesnt split on , [String]::Join(",",("aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa," + ` "aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa".Split(',') ` | foreach { ('"' + $_ + '"') })) # adding ( ) does work [String]::Join(",",(("aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaaaa,aaa...
I have this service that, when request is received, runs a powershell command and returns result. Here is the invoker class code: public class PowerShellScript { public PowerShellScript() { } public Object[] Invoke( String strScriptName, NameValueCollection nvcParams ) { Boolean bResult = true; int n = 0; ...
Hi, Powershell provides the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet which allows for a web service proxy object to be created. However the Powershell in SQL Server 2008 doesn't appear to support this. Is there a way to get SQL Server's Powershell to support the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet? Many thanks. ...
I have a nested switch statement inside a switch statement. I am wondering if it is possible to grab the un-nested current item within the scope of the nested switch statement. I know I can accomplish this with a for loop with moderate difficulty but I am hoping there is some elegance I am missing to accomplishing this with switch statem...
I'm trying to install some custom Windows services using PowerShell, and I've been unable to run InstallUtil without getting the following error: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '' Here's what I've run that causes the error above: Invoke-Command -ComputerName <remote machine> -ScriptBlock {Invoke-Item ...
We have a custom comonent that wraps some of the functionality of powershell so it can be used frim BizTalk 2006. For most operations (checking a file path, copy or move a file) this works fine. However we have the need to fire up a GUI app remotely to do some processing. The component itself handles the connection to the remote box, ...
I am trying to import a CSV file containing many contacts to a public folder in exchange 2007 installed on SBS2008 for use by outlook users. I have this script that I am trying to run through powershell 1.0 (there seems to be no powershell 2.0 installable for SBS2008). I have created a folder in the Public Folder area called pub_contac...
On one of my servers the command New-WebSite stopped working today (it was working fine yesterday), throwing the exception "Index was outside the bounds of the array". PS C:\Windows\system32> Import-Module WebAdministration PS C:\Windows\system32> New-WebSite -Blah New-Item : Index was outside the bounds of the array. + CategoryInf...
How can I call a rest based API from a PowerShell script and process the Json answer? ...
I want to list all virtual directories that belong to a web site with a certain name using WMI and PowerShell. I know I can list all virtual directories on a server using the code below, but how can I filter out only those that belong to a specific site? Get-WmiObject IIsWebVirtualDir -namespace "ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2" ...
I am struggling getting Exchange mManagement Shell commands to run in my C# code. Here' the problem. I have access to a test Exchange Server running Exchange 2010. I have run my Exchange Mgmt Shell commands directly on the server inside the Exchange Mgmt Shell Simple Example: get-mailbox I created a console app to run my PS c...
Is there a Powershell command to check if a file is in use by another user? If not, what would it take to write a script that can? ...
I've been tasked with re-writing this in bash. But whilst most powershell is easy to read, i just dont get what this block is actually doing!!? Any ideas? It takes a file which is sorted on a key first, maybe thats relevant! Thanks for any insights! foreach ($line in $sfile) { $row = $line.split('|'); if (-not $ops[$row[1]]) { ...
I have been implementing makeshift types by dynamically adding methods to PSObjects I want to be able to compare two instances of my objects using the "-eq" "-lt" and "-gt" operators (I assume this would require me to implement interfaces like IComparible, and IEquatible) Is this sort of thing possible? (I'm thinking perhaps not as the...
I have been playing around with the dynamic abilities of powershell and I was wondering something Is there is anything in powershell analogous to Ruby's method_missing() where you can set up a 'catch all method' to dynamically handle calls to non-existant methods on your objects? ...