File System

Console Profile Run Function

Archdeacon — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:33:49 GMT

This is the Console version of the ISE Run-Script function posted earlier. Typing 'Run example' from the command line will run and log the start and end times of 'example.ps1'

Log start & end times of PowerShell ISE scripts run

Archdeacon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:23:44 GMT

This function should be included in the PowerShell ISE profile.ps1 and it will display the start and end times of any scripts started by clicking 'Run Script' (or ALT+R) in the Add-ons Menu; additionally they will be logged to the Scripts Event Log (which needs creating first) and also to a text log file. This defaults to that created by the Windows Script Monitor Service (available from www.SeaStarDevelopment.Bravehost.com) which normally indicates the full command line used to start each script.

It works across multi Tab sessions on the local computer, and will now (V3.1) accept command line parameters.

Smart backup , Create folder by Date

Aman Dhally — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:24:15 GMT

hi,

This is a simple script which i write to do my file server backup.

to find more about script visit this url: http://newdelhipowershellusergroup.blogspot.com/2011/11/smart-backup-using-powershell.html

thanks

aman dhally

Uncompress a directory structure on a NTFS file system

Markus Hahn — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:34:49 GMT

This script will uncompress a directory and all sub-folders using WMI. For example you wish to uncompress D:\users (for what reason ever) you only need to type :

uncomp-dir.ps1 "D:\users"

The WMI functionality can only compress/uncompress one folder (including files), but no sub-folders. My function lists the entire directory substructer and pipes one directory after the other to the WMI function to uncompress it. This also works the other way around if you change the line

$uncomp = $wmi.Uncompress() # uncompresses the directory

$uncomp = $wmi.Compress() # compresses the directory

Monitor the Microsoft Security Essentials database for updates

Archdeacon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:20:06 GMT

In order not to interrupt the Microsoft Security Essentials database update by inadvertently disconnecting from the Internet, this procedure can be used and invoked from $profile.
As there is no Event Log entry generated for the start of the update, FileSystemWatcher is used. There are a number of files that are updated (even the '{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}' folder has its name changed each time) and these can be filtered out, as can the 2 Event Log 2000 entries, so that only 1 message appears in the Notification area on completion, by using GLOBAL scope variables.

1 To many File copy

Robert Burke — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:22:36 GMT

This script can be used to copy one or many files from a single location to many servers

File Search and Replace

Robert Burke — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:19:16 GMT

Based on your requirements this script will do a file find and replace against multiple servers in the servers.txt file

Finding large files in the file system - Useful when doing disk cleanup

Anand Kumar Deva — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:45:39 GMT

Finding large files in the file system - Useful when doing disk cleanup

Recurse is used as the script will find files in the sub folders as well.

~ Anand Kumar Deva

MakeAlphabeticDateOrder

Michael — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:52:04 GMT

Changing the CreationTime or LastAccessTime argument of files to get an alphabetic order.

Get-DriveLetterByIndex

Tobias — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:30:04 GMT

submit a disk # and/or a partition # and get back the drive letter of the local disk(s) hosted there. Illustrates how to access related WMI classes, detect which parameters were submitted by the user and how to return information as object.

Get WMI Disk Information

jbruns2010 — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:59:30 GMT

Use this to display disk information from a WMI point of view.

Get Drive ID and Drive Letter

Tobias — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:36:44 GMT

If you need to know which drive ID is linked to which logical disk drive letter, use this script. It shows a number of interesting techniques to get the information. First, it illustrates how to retrieve a WMI class and find its *related* classes. This way you can link Win32_DiskPartition and Win32_LogicalDisk. Next, it implements a function called Combine-Object which allows you to "melt together" two objects. As a result, Get-Drives returns objects that contain BOTH the properties from Win32_LogicalDisk and Win32_DiskPartition. This way, you can easily output disk ids and corresponding drive letters etc.

Add NTFS permissions to a folder

Tobias — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:00:27 GMT

Create-UserProfileFolder creates a profile folder in c:\profiles for the user specified, removes existing permissions, adds full permissions for Administrators and change permissions for the user, both of which are fully inheritable. This is an example of how to use icacls.exe from within PowerShell and how to receive error codes to determine whether the operation was successful.

"touch" for Powershell

Christer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:21:33 GMT

A simple function for you who misses the touch function in bash..

Disk Space

clayman2 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:39:11 GMT

The following script will connect to a list a servers provided from a text file, it will return the disk size and free space of the drives. It will create a HTML report and email the file. You must create a file with either the name of the servers or IP addresses line by line. Within the script there are a few variables that will need to be modified, and some varibales to change the look of the HTML report.