Category "powershell"

Why won't Variable update?

I'm currently editing our new employee script for AD and I am running into an issue, I added 2 radio buttons for the home folder, one radio button will update t

How can I compare a file's SHA256 hash in PowerShell to a known value?

If I've downloaded a file with a known SHA256 hash, how can I use PowerShell to check that the file matches the expected hash?

How to sudo on powershell on Windows

Whenever I need to run a powershell script it complains of security, if I add powershell.exe -nologo -executionpolicy bypass -File .\install.ps1 I still get per

How do I overwrite a file using PowerShell?

New-Item -Path "C:\aws" -Name "script.ps1" -ItemType "file" -Value "text in file" I am trying to create a file using the above command, if the file already exi

Task scheduler to run tasks only during the last full workweek of the month

I have multiple tasks that need to be scheduled during the last full workweek (Monday through Friday) of every month. These will be scheduled from a Windows Ser

TaskScheduler: "Access is Denied" (0x80070005) when running scheduled tasks on Windows Server 2019

I just set up a new Windows Server 2019 instance, and am trying to run tasks (C# console apps) through Windows Task Scheduler. I've set it up to log in as a cer

PowerShell - Automate loading .pst files into Outlook and exporting individual .msg items inside

I am currently working on a project where I have been given a lot of .pst files. These files contain individual .msg files inside which I need to run an analysi

'this.Client.SubscriptionId' cannot be null

We noticed that our Azure Subscription field is empty eg: Get-AzContext -ListAvailable Name Account Subscrip

Mapped network drives are not showing in My Computer

I am trying to create a external network drive using PowerShell 5.0. I Need those drive to display in My Computer. For that purpose I am using this follow comma

Invoke-Command with -credentials

I want to invoke a command on a remote server, I do not want to have to put in the password to run the script. I've tried encrypting the password and storing it

reads variable from a text file and set it to current PowerShell session env variable

let's say that I have a text file that defines some variables something like this file : .env USER=user DB_NAME=userDB DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=5432 and I wa

The term '\venv\Scripts\activate.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

I have been trying to get a venv to activate for the last week. Currently, the errors say The module 'venv' could not be loaded. For more information, run 'Impo

Installing Dolt on Windows 10

I was trying dolt out for windows for a project ran into this error Access to the path 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bad' is denied. I think its was permission

How to create a JSON body with PowerShell which is Deserializable by .NET6 when using az rest to call a .NET6 Azure Function

We are using AzureCLI to be able to call an Azure Function endpoint upon a successful deployment. The call to get token works and the call to our azure functio

Powershell: Using Get-ChildItem with variables

I am writing a script that will iterate through folders, grabbing substrings of the folder names as variable values, and then iterate through the log files in e

Understanding Powershell: example - Convert JSON to CSV

I've read several posts (like Convert JSON to CSV using PowerShell) regarding using PowerShell to CSV. I have also read that it is relatively poor form to use

Programmatically change Keyboard Layout

I work in a Swiss company environment with de-CH as the standard keyboard-layout, while using a de-DE keyboard. I'm able to change my keyboard settings manuall

Windows10 Powershell - Alarm, World Clock, Timer, Stopwatch?

Windows 10 has a decent little Application that lets you set multiple Alarms, World Clocks, Timers and Stopwatches. Powershell also has some Stopwatch function

It there a way in powershell to make a positive number to a negative number whitout using multiplication?

I was wondering if there is a way to make a positive number into a negative number whitout using a multiplication like $b = $a * -1 I'm looking for the most cos

How to deploy Update Management to Azure resources the programmatic way

I'm currently trying to setup Azure's Update Management Solution to a resource group I have setup. I've read through a lot of documentation on this matter inclu