powershell-2.0

I am trying to write a script that will look through a set of folders and keep only the last 10 files. The files in each folder could be created daily, weekly or monthly. I need the script to keep the 10 most recent copies regardless of the creation date or modified date. Using another post I created the script below that works but it doesnt keep 10 copies it keeps any file that isn't older than 10 days. $ftppath = "C:\Reports" Get-ChildItem $ftppath -recurse *_Report_*.zip -force|where {$_.lastwritetime -lt (get-date).adddays(-10)} |Remove-Item -force Any idea on how I can tweak this to work?

I have a list of XML files, from which I have to get the string after a particular line. In the files, I need to look for a tag Event and get the attribute value DLLRoutine . e.g. the tag would look something like below ... <Event Definition="Validate" DLLPath="" DLLName="Helper.dll" DLLClass="HelpMain" DLLRoutine="pgFeatureInfoOnValidate_WriteToRegSelectedFeatures" InputParameters="pTreeViewFeatureTreeServerOS" RunOnce="no"/> I just need to get Dllroutine values. How to do it using PowerShell? Assuming your XML structure is something similar to: $xml = [xml]' <Events> <Event Definition=

I have a script I'm writing that makes a connection to a SOAP service. After the connection is made, I need to pass in a the username/pass with every command I send. The problem I have is that when I use read-host to do this, my password is shown in cleartext and remains in the shell: PS C:\Users\Egr> Read-Host "Enter Pass" Enter Pass: MyPassword MyPassword If I hide it with -AsSecureString, the value can no longer be passed to the service because it is now a System.Security.SecureString object: PS C:\Users\gross> Read-Host "Enter Pass" -AsSecureString Enter Pass: ********** System.Security

I have a PowerShell script which installs a patch (contains set of files to be added) on a customer machine. For this, I have created a batch file which executes this PowerShell script. For the customer to run this batch file, the PowerShell script file must be placed onto the customer machine as well. The PowerShell script is in text format, which can be read and understood by the customer easily. Can we convert this script file into some non-readable format (e.g. bin or exe), so that it is not readable by the customer? You can convert the script to Base64 encoding, so that it's not

I've got a powershell script that monitors a log file, filters out the interesting bits and then presents those bits to me as and when they are written to the file. Works wonderfully. The line of interest is: get-content "$logFile" -wait | where { select-string $searchTerm -inp $_ } Now I want to get fancy! I would like the font colour to change everytime a particular term is encountered. I can set the font colour easily enough, but how would you do it on-the-fly with the above statement? Edit: Figured it out, but can't post an answer for 8 hours. Will upload it tomorrow. Try Get-Content

I have the following script, $createZip = { Param ([String]$source, [String]$zipfile) Process { echo "zip: $source`n --> $zipfile" throw "test" } } try { Start-Job -ScriptBlock $createZip -ArgumentList "abd", "acd" echo "**Don't reach here if error**" LogThezippedFile } catch { echo "Captured: " $_ | fl * -force } Get-Job | Wait-Job Get-Job | receive-job Get-Job | Remove-Job However, the exception raised in another powershell instance cannot be captured. What's the best way to capture the exception? Id Name State HasMoreData Location Command -- ---- ----- ----------- -------- ------- 343

I am trying to create a empty database in SQL server using powershell and SMO but cannot seem to find a way of doing it. Is this possible? Connection script for sql server: [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null $serverName = "localhost" $server = new-object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $serverName $server.ConnectionContext.LoginSecure=$false; $credential = Get-Credential $loginName = $credential.UserName -replace("\\","") $server.ConnectionContext.set_Login($loginName); $server.ConnectionContext.set_SecurePassword($credential