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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.

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.

Recycling an IIS AppPool in powershell...

jwhite — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I have put together a script that pulls a list of servers in the array and then tests outlook and owa connectivity to each. I also added a menu that allows a restart of selected services on all servers that show an error in connectivity.

What im wanting to do is be able to recycle or restart an IIS AppPool within the powershell session. So everytime I run get-wmiobject -class IISApplicationPool -namespace root\MicrosoftIISv2 I get the error:

"Invalid Namespace". Anyone know how I can 1. get a list of all the namespaces, and 2. recycle an iisapppool using get-wmiobject in powershell? Thanks..