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How would I use get-itemproperty remotely?

jwhite — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

I have a foreach loop. And what I want to do is get a reg key value from each server in that loop. I have something like this:

$serverlist = get-exchangeserver blah blah

foreach ($server in $serverlist){

get-itemproperty -path "hklm:\..\.."

}

However im returning the value for only the computer im on, any thought on how I could get all the servers?

Cheers.

Trouble using multiple variables in Exchange?

jwhite — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

I'm having this issue with using multiple variables in exchange powershell. Basically I have $var1 and $var2.

I have an if,else statement that is looking at those two variables. Upon either of them being eq - true, they provide a service restart capability. This works fine, the problem is that if the test that either of those two variables is looking for is not ran then the script errors out saying "unable to parse null valued expression". its like powershell is telling me that it can't find a variable to compare the results against.

So if neither $var1 or $var2 is populated regardless of being true or not, the script throws the error being that I didn't run the test that populates those variables.

Anyone know anyway around that happening? Basically I don't want to have powershell throw this error just because the $variables are not being populated??

Re: How do I use Invoke-Command correctly?

jwhite — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Ok I got the command to work, turns outs that when you use -connectionuri you have to specify http://fqdn of the server/powershell when running a remote powershell command. However I have a new challenge.

I have two variables: $domainid and $server. $domainid has the fqdn suffix of the server, like company.com

$server has the server name like server01.

Is there a way to append the two variables together so that each server in the list has the fqdn appened to it. Like for example, server01.company.com and server02.company.com. Basically I want to create a third variable that appends the fqdn to each server so that when you type in third variable you get:

$variable3:

server01.company.com

server02.company.com

What I want to do is call the third variable with -connectionuri http://.. Any thoughts??

How do I use Invoke-Command correctly?

jwhite — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Im trying to run the command test-outlookconnectivity -protocol:tcp or http -trustanysslcert:$true. I'm wanting to run it on a remote machine as if I were on the machine, and have the output returned to the screen of the local machine.

As stated in this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347578.aspx, i tried to use the invoke-command. My syntax looks like this:

Invoke-command -comuptername <sever name> -scriptblock {test-outlookconnectivity ....} -authentication Kerberos. However I got this error:

"Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot process the request. The following error occured while using Kerberos authentication: The network path was not found."

Anyone got any idea what im doing wrong? I have permissions to run the cmd on both machines and I can also successfully ping the remote machine.?? Thanks.

Need to grab Exceptions from a test-outlookconnectivity test in powershell...

jwhite — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I have a variable:

$result = test-outlookconnectivity -protocol:http -trustanysslcert:$true -verbose

What I want to do with it is pull any errors exceptions from the verbose output, and store them into a seperate variable so that I can use it how I want. So as an example:

$error = @()

$result = test-outlookconnectivity -protocol:http -trustanysslcert:$true -verbose

From there have any errors exceptions added into the $error variable. So I would have something like the following:

$result = test-outlookconnectivity -protocol:http -trustanysslcert:$true -verbose

$error = Error.exception mesage (the RPC server is unavailable).

So if I type $result i get the entire results of the test. If I type $error i get that one like of text.

Any thoughts??

Re: Add event logs to a transcript!

jwhite — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Ok so I was doing some further digging and realized that when a file in in use by start-transcript, that file appears to become locked from use by any other cmdlets. So what I did was this:

start-transcript output file is C:\transcript.txt

Run cmdlet, run test

stop-transcript

get-eventlog >> C:\transcript.

By doing this it appends the get-eventlog to the transcript file. That is what I have found so far.

Re: Add event logs to a transcript!

jwhite — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Yes so I added the -append switch to the start-transcript. Also did a >> with get-eventlog so it would append that info to the info in the transcript. Problem is that it's throwing the error "unable to access the file as another person or process is all ready using it". So how would I get the info from get-eventlog to add its info to the file from the transcript. Bascially im wanting to have the entire shell session logged into the transcript and also any application events as well. ANy thoughts..?

Cheers.

Add event logs to a transcript!

jwhite — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I added the transcript option to my script. Using the start-transcript. What I want is to have event logs to be added into the transcrpt. I know you can use get-eventlog -logname application... But I want to add specific logged events into the transcript. Like,

start-transcript -append eventlogs, something like that. Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Show a menu based on multiple variables!

jwhite — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I'm writing a script in powershell. What I want to have happen, is to have a menu to restart a service appear based on an error being detected on the server. Say a service is not running, or outlook does not pass a connectivity test, I want the script to use both variables in determining to show the menu. Like for example,

if (($service.status -ne "running") or ($outlook connectivity result -like "failure") {show menu}. Something like that is what I'm looking for.

Any thoughts? Cheers.

Blinking text in powershell?

jwhite — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Anyone know if its possible to make your text output in powershell blink? So if you have an error for example it will blink and catch the users attention. Thoughts??