powershell-2.0

I have a script that includes a function for logging. The function writes log to $msg variable then writes the message to the screen. i can redirect this output to a .txt file for logging. I need to run the script to multiple servers using invoke-command and write the log output to a txt file on the computer running the script. I am trying to figure out how to output $msg in the write-log function from the PSSession and return it so I can create a master log file for all the servers. Should I create and populate a custom object? Not sure how to do that and get the results back from the remote

Because of a messed up group policy object, multiple computers have TightVNC installed when they shouldn't. The GPO is gone, so just removing the software from there isn't an option that I'm aware of. Therefore, I'm scripting things in order to remove PowerShell from a list of computers. This is my script: if ($args.length -ne 1) { Write-Warning "Must pass computer name, ending script."; break } $pc = $args[0] Write-Output "Scanning $pc for TightVNC...." $prod = wmic /node:$pc product get name | where {$_ -match "TightVNC"} if ($prod) { Write-Output "Found TightVNC, attempting uninstall...."

I am trying to replace a chunk of text in a file using PowerShell. For instance, I have a .sql file and I know the exact chunk of an SQL script that needs to be replaced in that particular file. After reading through some of the PowerShell replace examples it looks like PowerShell returns the content of the file in an array (each line representing one entry in the array). For example: GO :on error exit GO IF (DB_ID(N'$(DatabaseName)') IS NOT NULL) BEGIN ALTER DATABASE [$(DatabaseName)] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE; DROP DATABASE [$(DatabaseName)]; END GO PRINT N'Creating $

I have a simple requirement. I need to search a string in Word document and as result I need to get matching line / some words around in document. So far, I could successfully search a string in folder containing Word documents but it returns True / False based on whether it could find search string or not. #ERROR REPORTING ALL Set-StrictMode -Version latest $path = "c:\MORLAB" $files = Get-Childitem $path -Include *.docx,*.doc -Recurse | Where-Object { !($_.psiscontainer) } $output = "c:\wordfiletry.txt" $application = New-Object -comobject word.application $application.visible = $False

$filesremoved | export-csv -Path E:\Code\powershell\logs\filesremoved.txt -NoTypeInformation I've also tried $filesremoved | export-csv -Path E:\Code\powershell\logs\filesremoved.txt -NoTypeInformation -NoClobber The file appears to be overwritten every time. Is there a way to keep adding content to the file? I get errors Export-Csv : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Append'. The -Append parameter of Export-Csv doesn't exist until PowerShell 3.0. One way to work around it in PowerShell 2.0 is to import the existing CSV, create some new rows, append the two collections,

I'm having difficulty accessing PSObject s with NoteProperties defined, that are being passed through to a remote session via Invoke-Command . The reason I am constructing an object for this purpose is that I need access to two separate pieces of information in the remote session, but PowerShell only provides for a single InputObject . My code looks something like this: $sessionInput = new-object -TypeName System.Object $sessionInput | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name NoteProperty1 -Value @("some", "value") $sessionInput | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name NoteProperty2 -Value

I'm trying to convert a hashtable to a json object for use in a web service with powershell 2.0. $testhash = @{ Name = 'John Doe' Age = 10 Amount = 10.1 MixedItems = (1,2,3,"a") NestedHash = @{ nestedkey = "nextedvalue" } } function toJson($obj){ $ms = New-Object IO.MemoryStream $type = $obj.getType() [Type[]]$types = ($obj | select -expand PsTypeNames | Select -unique) + [type]'System.Management.Automation.PSObject' $js = New-Object System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer $type, $types, ([int]::MaxValue), $false, $null, $false $js.writeObject($ms, $obj) | out-null $utf8