Category "powershell"

How to Ignore lines with StreamWriter WriteLine

trying to figure out how to ignore or stop specific lines from being written to file with StreamWriter. Here is the code I'm working with from How to pass argum

Error Get-ADUser: Invalid enumeration context

I currently need to export the groups of all users in my domain and I get the error Error with Get-ADUser: Invalid enumeration context. In the script I indicate

cUrl vs Invoke-WebRequest

Can anybody explain to me why cUrl (the real cUrl) works but Invoke-WebRequest doesn’t? Same machine, same variables. To me it looks like they should both

PowerShell Get-ChildItem on folder that does not exist behaves different with the -recurse flag

I am testing a Power Shell script to clean out a folder and I noticed some unexpected (to me) behavior when i used the - recurse flag I have read the help file

Is there a PowerShell command to tell PS not to wait for a service to start before continuing?

Powershell is waiting for a service to start or stop before it moves on to the next line in the script, but I need it to move on without waiting. The idea beh

How to delete folder from Task Scheduler with PowerShell?

I can create a Scheduled Task in Windows using the Register-ScheduledTask PowerShell cmdlet with a particular path (i.e., using -TaskPath "\SomePath\" and -Task

Disable turn off this device to save power for NIC

$NICs = Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapter -filter "AdapterTypeID = '0' AND PhysicalAdapter = 'true' AND NOT Description LIKE '%wireless%' AND NOT Description L

Create a user in MongoDb using powershell

I'm using MongoDb v3.0.3 and want to create a user in a database with admin privileges using powershell. I hook into the C# driver but I don't get very far: $p

How do I make my plugins work with `set encoding=utf-8` in Vim run from Windows PowerShell?

What I want I want to use the a plugin for Vim and I use the famous plugin manager pathogen for this (https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen). The plugin is vi

The term 'conda' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

I have installed Anaconda 2019.03 for Windows Installer in Windows 10. When typing anything which starts with conda on Powershell getting error: conda : The

Checking if a UNC Path/Server Folder Exists

I am working on a project that utilizes a PowerShell script that creates a new login on a remote SQL Server (SSMS) and then checks to see if a particular folder

Flutter stuck on 'flutter' command - no output to console and it doesn't ever finish

I started following this tutorial about Flutter, and I followed each step until the installation of Flutter on windows, even added flutter to PATH. Now, once I

Flutter stuck on 'flutter' command - no output to console and it doesn't ever finish

I started following this tutorial about Flutter, and I followed each step until the installation of Flutter on windows, even added flutter to PATH. Now, once I

Passing json text as command line argument

I am trying to pass the following JSON text into my python code. {"platform": "android", "version": "6.0.1"} My code is as follows. import sys import json d

How to pass Json parameters to powershell script

I would like to pass Json data to Powershell script. PowerShell script: Get-AzMySqlFirewallRule -ResourceGroupName "dev" -ServerName "dev-DB-Server" | Out-File

The term 'node' is not recognized... In Powershell

I have been trying to resolve this issue for the whole day. When I run node -v or npm install in cmd prompt, it works absolutely fine. But when I run the same

Using powershell to get the "Audit Policy" security setting value

I am trying to use Powershell (auditpol) to query the security setting values of the Audit Policy items. So far with all the auditpol commands, I only able to g

How can I find the product GUID of an installed MSI setup?

I need to find the product GUID for an installed MSI file in order to perform maintenance such as patching, uninstall (how-to uninstall) and also for auditing p

Unable to retrieve cross domain users with get-adgroupmember -recursive

I am tasked to provide a list of AD group members from a number of AD groups and export it to .csv. If any of the AD groups in question has even one cross-domai

Cannot retrieve the "Received Date" from an Outlook Meeting by using Powershell

I have been trying (unsuccesfully) to obtain the "Received Date" for the meetings in my Calendar by using this script. At first, I thought I could use the Crea