Threads Replies Last Post 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22   Using the $_ pipeline with WMI Newbie here... I am trying to develop a list of software that needs to be uninstalled on a computer. I have the output list : IdentifyingNumber name vendor ----------------- ---- ------ {01A4AEDE-F219-49A2-B855-16A016EAF9A4} Intel(R) PROSet II Intel and am trying to iterate through the list and get-wmiobject for eac... 3 27.04.2007 14:27:03 Need to customize shell view for existing mount point Hello, I have an existing mount point that I would like to customize the right hand pane shell view in Windows Explorer. Specifically, I would like to add my own custom columns to this view. Is there a way to do this without developing a full-blown namespace extension? Thanks, Brad... 2 27.04.2007 13:22:27 subtraction problem my first script doesent work $a = (get-wmiobject win32_logicaldisk -filter "name='d:'").size $b = (get-wmiobject win32_logicaldisk -filter "name='d:'").freespace $c = $a - $b write-host $a write-host $b write-host $c error: The operation '[System.UInt64] - [System.UInt64]' is not defined. At line:1 char:10 + $c = $a - <<<< $b what is the problem?... 5 27.04.2007 12:26:00 Type Extensions and parameters A while ago I created a function that gave the total size of a directory including all sub directories. I'm currently enjoying reading "Windows Powershell in action" book by Bruce Payette, which introduced me to Type Extensions. So I have created the Type Extension: <Types> <Type> <Name>System.IO.DirectoryInfo</Name> <Members> ... 3 27.04.2007 09:18:01 Copy|Move-ItemProperty: different meaning of -Name: why? From help: Copy-ItemProperty -name <string> Move-ItemProperty -name <string[]> It seems to me Copy and Move parameters should be as much similar as possible. Variant with <string[]> looks more practically useful. Any remarks? -- Thanks, Roman Kuzmin ... 3 27.04.2007 08:07:52 Get-wmiobject, permissions issue... hello everyone! I am having a bit of an issue getting past the wmi permissions using the following script. if i run as an admin it connects just fine but if connect as a differnet user it gives me access denied message *** Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) *** I have granted the user account full permission to control the service b... 6 26.04.2007 23:27:41 network drives Hi there, i'm trying to list all network drives mapped on a computer on powershell, by writing their letter, names, and paths (ie : \\xxxx\xxxx\xxxx) how could i do it ? thx Nico ... 3 26.04.2007 23:13:25 redirect write-host How do I redirect the output of a script that uses write-host? Ie I have a script Foo.ps1 write-host Hello and I have tried Foo > foo.log Foo | tee foo.log If I change the write-host to write-output, then I can redirect the output, but then when I use the tee, the output does not appear on the console until the script completes (I have a long running script and I want to see ... 13 26.04.2007 22:10:03 How take an user input in command line Options I want to take user input from commandline and procees based on it In windows XP I can do set /p test=Enter 1 or 2 IF %test%==2 GOTO TWO IF %test%==1 GOTO ONE How can I do in WIndows CE 4.2 or CE 5.0. It doesn't recognize set /p command Any help is appreciated ... 2 26.04.2007 15:06:36 powershell user demographics I'm curious, now that powershell has been out for some time, what the demographics are.. Are there more powershellers with a Developer Bent, or a Admin Bent? of those with an Admin Bent, are they classic GUI admins, with a little commandline work for essentials, or do they have development or scripting background. Maybe some of you could share the answer to these questions for yourselve... 5 26.04.2007 15:01:45 Not updating drive listing? I'm tring to use TrueCrypt with powershell. TrueCrypt is an encryption program which in my case is encrypting a whole drive/partition meaning the drive lester only shows up after I run the program. I'm running it inside powershell, but I can't seem to access the drive unless I restart powershell. Get-PSDrive shows the drive (O:) but I can't access it. Is there a way to get it to refres... 4 26.04.2007 14:12:20 Running External Application I am trying to get powershell to read an OU in AD and install a program on each computer in that OU...i have it where it will show all the computers in the OU and "connect" to them but the application gets executed on all of them at once and doesnt work...i need to figure out how to stager it i guess. Maybe get it to where it runs on one and completes and then the next and completes a... 6 25.04.2007 21:53:18 Where does the 'out' verb come from? VC# Express is telling me: Error 1 'System.Management.Automation.VerbsCommon' does not contain a definition for 'Out' C:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MyOvoSnapIn\MyOvoSnapIn\OutOpcMsg.cs 10 25 MyOvoSnapIn I have the following C# section in my cmdlet: [Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.Out, "OpcMsg")] public class OutOpcMsg : PSCmdlet What might I be missing here? There are definitely out- cmdl... 2 25.04.2007 17:28:44 simple questions This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C7869E.42FA4080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Team, can someone help in achieving=20 dir /p and start . in powershell Thanks, Preetam ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C7869E.42FA4080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Tra... 6 25.04.2007 16:58:40 Constructor definition How would I get construction definition for the assemblies loaded by [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom() I can use Type.GetConstructors method to get the all the constructors but how do I find out about the parameter definition? ... 2 25.04.2007 16:16:04 clr the editor? Hmmm? clr not supported? Also discovered a bug when entering... c:\>cmd clr Leaves the PowerShell open but no commands will run. The exit command has to be submitted twice. ... 5 24.04.2007 23:04:00 Accessing Firewall settings from WMI Is there a way to read the various firewall exceptions (program/port/protocol) via WMI? -- Keith ... 7 24.04.2007 19:31:24 How to disable filename globbing? Hi: I have a simple PowerShell function where I want to pass a string as an argument to a program that's being executed. Here's my function: function hgrep { compgrep --include="*.h" $args } My problem is that the string seems to be interpreted as a regular expression, or a wildcard for filename globbing. Is there a way that I can just pass the string "*.h" to a program?... 8 24.04.2007 19:24:11 Network Error Statistics Hello All, I would like to use powsershell and wmi to derive the same information as: netstat -ps IP Any ideas or suggestions? Ultimately I am interested in determining the network error statistics from the PC. For example: I would like to collect CRC, runts, giants etc. Thanks in Advance ... 11 24.04.2007 19:10:03 sum all .length not giving the same result as windows explorer ?? I've created this little script. when I run it on my C:\ it does not show the same result as windows explorer !! (ps result is 9.4Gb and Windows explorer usage result is 14,3Gb) #Get-FolderSize.ps1 # display full size (including subdirectories) $TotLength = 0 $NoFiles = 0 $RootName = dir | select-object -First 1 -property Directory dir -recurse | foreach-object { $TotLength+= $_.le... 6 24.04.2007 12:23:38 Invoking PowerShell functions with parameters from .NET: issues. I have to invoke a PowerShell global function from C# code: using (Pipeline p = ...CreatePipeline()) { Command c = new Command("MyFunction"); c.Parameters.Add("Name1", ...); c.Parameters.Add("Name2", ...); p.Commands.Add(c); Collection<PSObject> result = p.Invoke(); ... } (Question: is this way OK?) Let MyFunction is: function MyFun... 1 23.04.2007 12:35:54 Info : "Console based intellisense" Tabcompletion for PowerShell I released a new version of my PowerTab PowerShell tabcompletion extension, http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/04/16/powershell-tabextension-part-5-powertab-0-9.aspx with what I think a lot of new cool and usable functionality , amongst others offering DoubleClick support, extensable output system and "Console based intellisense" for PowerShell Enjoy, Greetings /\... 3 22.04.2007 22:05:07 Bug with multidimensional arrays I don't know if this is a bug but I don't understand the behavior when adding elements to a multidimensional array. I want to know the number of elements in the array so that I can loop through it later. Here is an example where every thing works fine until I add to the array. PS C:\> $a = (1,2), ("a","b") PS C:\> $a[0][1] 2 PS C:\> $a[1][1] b PS C:\> $a.length 2 PS C:\... 2 22.04.2007 19:24:03 Foreach loop over $NULL in Powershell I've noticed that in powershell, if I run a foreach loop over a null valued expression, the loop runs at least once. The following code illustrates this issue #--------------------# $nullColl = $NULL foreach($item in $nullColl){ "This is an item" } #--------------------# which prints "This is an item" once. Is this a feature or a bug of powershell? It seems to me that intuitively... 3 22.04.2007 08:00:02 WMI access is denied Hello all, I am just starting with powershell and am loving it. I have written a few scripts that work on all machines in my network except for five. I keep getting wmi access denied. I have searched for answers on this but have not found one. Thanks for any help. ... 3 22.04.2007 06:26:00 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22