Powershell Megathread: Verb-Noun Scripting is the future

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Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Amazing discovery: run "invoke-item ." To open the current directory in Explorer.

But use the alias:

code:

ii  .

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 04:49

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 09:34

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I often export mailboxes from exchange using New-MailboxExportRequest. I then check the progress by rnning Get-Mailboxexportrequest before going on with the next step in the task. (usually delete mailbox)

How can I write a script that will perform the export and wait for the export to complete before running another command?

# ¿ Nov 24, 2015 01:03

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Here's an easy one that for some reason I am just not seeing the solution to. I'm blaming holiday booze.

I want to:

*Get a list of mailboxes
*If those mailboxes dont already have an Out of Office reply set,
*apply my generic out of office reply.

code:

$users = Get-Maibox -OrganizationalUnit "OU=Staff,DC=company,DC=com"

foreach ($user in $users) {

if (get-mailboxAutoReplyConfiguration $user.mailbox -AutoReplyState -ne "disabled") { # <-- this part is not right at all

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity $user -AutoReplyState Scheduled -StartTime "12/23/2014 5:30pm" -EndTime "01/04/2015 5:00pm" -ExternalMessage $replytext -ExternalAudience:All -internalMessage $null

}
}

Phone posting but I think that syntax is ok.

Also bonus for any Melbourne goons: There's a Melbourne Powershell usergroup firing up (finally). This dude is running it: https://twitter.com/david_obrien

# ¿ Dec 29, 2015 12:19

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

2010 SP3 supports installing PS 3.0

# ¿ Jan 13, 2016 01:44

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Ask me about expiring staff who decide to stay on for a few extra days.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2016 01:22

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

The disable-mailbox exchange cmdlet removes the mailbox but only disables the AD user.

*please check this is correct before running it.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 01:19

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I'm creating a new script with parameters but they are not working.

I've saved the file as new-user.ps1 and when I run ./new-user.ps1 from the console I expect to the able to tab through the available parameters.

Am I missing something painfully obvious here?

code:

[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
   [ValidateSet("Blue", "White")]
   [string]$brand,
	
   [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
   [ValidateSet("Sydney","Melbourne")]
   [string]$location,
   
   [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
   [string]$username= $(Read-Host "Please provide the username")
)

Edit - it was because I had errors elsewhere that halted the script. All good.

Swink fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Mar 10, 2016

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 07:54

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Some sweet Done Jones action from the Powershell Summit thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playlist

There's like 30 videos on all kinds of topics.

The forums arent letting me post the link to the playlist so here's a single video. You can find your way from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KprrLkjPq_c

Swink fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Apr 16, 2016

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 01:56

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

I've just upgraded my Win7 laptop to Win10. I'm missing the package management cmdlets. Find-module, find-package etc. What gives?

There they are, I had to run as admin. Go me!

Swink fucked around with this message at 12:21 on May 27, 2016

# ¿ May 27, 2016 12:17

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Today I wrote a script to poll a bunch of IP addresses (I was trying to find a specific host among an otherwise empty subnet. Document your networks plz)

It was super quick and dirty and I used this little trick which I thought was worth sharing

"1..100" builds a nice array of numbers.

code:


1..254 | foreach ($element) {

    if (Test-Connection 192.168.1.$_ -Quiet) {

        Write-Host "Found something on: .$_"
        
   }

   }

# ¿ Jun 2, 2016 10:54

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

Just pitching in to say that if you're writing scripts with % and ? or whatever the hell, you are the devil. There are no prizes for brevity here, you should be as explicit as possible.

Vulture Culture posted:

There's an awful lot of DSC resources for managing NTFS ACLs lying around. Anyone have a favorite?

I'm interested in what you're using DSC for? I am just picking it up again after a year and the community isn't anything compared to Chef, which is a bit disappointing.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2016 09:28

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

The respect I have for the author of that is matched only by my desire to punch them in the stomach.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2016 09:51

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 09:34

Swink: Apr 18, 2006; Left Side <--- Many Whelps

What version are you running? I've had problems with UNC paths with version 3.

My specific problem was trying to invoke commands from a UNC path. The shell just wouldn't see the file.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 00:43

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