powershell-3.0

I want to use a PowerShell script to automate tasks related to the user when the user logs in. Sometimes a user will have moved his Documents folder from the default location. How can I determine the location of the user's Documents folder in PowerShell with a method that will work for all special folders? I tried to use SHGetKnownFolderPath calls from PowerShell based on Lee Holmes work As pinvoke website C# sample doesn't use StringBuilder, I assumed it was not required and stripped builder + "-Using" references param($KNOWNFOLDERID) $Pinvoke = @’ [DllImport("shell32.dll")] public static

I have been doing a bit of work with PowerShell v3 (CTP2 from here ) and its new Invoke-RestMethod like so: Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $dest -method PUT -Credential $cred -InFile $file However, I'd like to use this for pushing very large binary objects, and therefore like be able to push a range of bytes from a large binary file. For example, if I have a 20Gb VHD, I would like to break it up into chunks of say, 5Gb each (without splitting and saving the individual chunks first) and PUT/POST these to BLOB storage like S3, Rackspace, Azure, etc. I am also assuming the chunk size is larger than the

I am trying to download a file using PowerShell 3.0 from my TeamCity build server. I have configured TeamCity to use NTLM authentication but I cannot download the file directly and get redirected to login. I am trying to use the following PowerShell code to download the file. $artifacts = "http://teamcity/repository/download/bt1/.lastSuccessful/%7Bbuild.number%7D.zip" Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $artifacts -UseDefaultCredentials My response from the request is a redirection to the login page. Here is the code for the final solution . $artifacts = "http://teamcity/repository/download/bt1/

Question: How to write an event log entry with structured XML data using PowerShell? My PowerShell script writes to the Windows event log using the Write-EventLog cmdlet. Currently I use the -Message parameter to set the event log message: Write-EventLog -LogName $EventLogName -Source $EventSource -EntryType Error -EventId 1 -Message "MyMessageHere" If you look at the message using Windows EventViewer you get an XML like this: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> [...] </System> <EventData> <Data>MyMessageHere</Data> </EventData> </Event> I.e. the

I'm currently running a PowerShell (v3.0) script, one step of which is to retrieve all the HTML files in a directory. That works great: $srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $srcPath -filter "*.htm*" However, now I'm faced with having to identify all the non-HTML files...CSS, Word and Excel docs, pictures, etc. I want something that would work like the -ne parameter in conjunction with the -filter parameter. In essence, give me everything that's not "*.htm*" -filter -ne doesn't work, I tried -!filter on a whim, and I can't seem to find anything in powershell doc on MSDN to negate the -filter parameter.

This question was migrated from Server Fault because it can be answered on Stack Overflow. Migrated 6 years ago . Learn more . When PowerShell 3.0 is installed, I can force PowerShell to start using the version 2.0 -Version Starts the specified version of Windows PowerShell. Enter a version number with the parameter, such as "-version 2.0" This is useful with snapin that does not supports the .Net Framework V 4 (SharePoint!). Is there an equivalent for PowerShell ISE ? I tried to run powershell_ise.exe -version 2.0 but this does not works. Running powershell_ise.exe -help does not show any