This is probably because the PowerShell script is being launched from a 32 bit instance of PowerShell. The ServerManager commands are only available from 64 bit version of PowerShell. See: Can’t access ServerManager module via PowerShell –Edit – To add to jbsmith’s comments— Extra things to try: When you ran the Get-Command cmdlt: gcm | … Read more
Casting the character array to System.String actually seems to join the array elements with spaces, meaning that [string][System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() does the same as [System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() -join ‘ ‘ when you actually want [System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() -join ” As @mjolinor mentioned (+1), this is caused by the output field separator ($OFS). Evidence: PS C:\> [RegEx]::Escape([string][IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) “\ \ \|\ \ ☺\ … Read more
Use: $Items.Title -contains ‘foo’
Edit your profile script (pointed to by $profile) and set the desired colors yourself: # set regular console colors [console]::backgroundcolor = “darkmagenta” [console]::foregroundcolor = “darkyellow” # set special colors $p = $host.privatedata $p.ErrorForegroundColor = “Red” $p.ErrorBackgroundColor = “Black” $p.WarningForegroundColor = “Yellow” $p.WarningBackgroundColor = “Black” $p.DebugForegroundColor = “Yellow” $p.DebugBackgroundColor = “Black” $p.VerboseForegroundColor = “Yellow” $p.VerboseBackgroundColor = … Read more
This will work for doc as well as docx files. $documents_path=”c:\doc2pdf” $word_app = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application # This filter will find .doc as well as .docx documents Get-ChildItem -Path $documents_path -Filter *.doc? | ForEach-Object { $document = $word_app.Documents.Open($_.FullName) $pdf_filename = “$($_.DirectoryName)\$($_.BaseName).pdf” $document.SaveAs([ref] $pdf_filename, [ref] 17) $document.Close() } $word_app.Quit()
If all the files exist in the same directory and can be matched by a simple pattern, the following code will combine all files into one. Get-Content .\File?.txt | Out-File .\Combined.txt
try this: [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“MyDocuments”)
There is a great article on TechNet from the Hey, Scripting Guy series that goes over a situation very similar to what you are describing: Renaming a computer and resuming the script after reboot. The magic is to use the new workflows that are part of version 3: workflow Rename-And-Reboot { param ([string]$Name) Rename-Computer -NewName … Read more
While the PowerShell interface for scheduled task triggers is limited, it turns out if you set the RepetitionDuration to [System.TimeSpan]::MaxValue, it results in a duration of “Indefinitely”. $trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger ` -Once ` -At (Get-Date) ` -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 5) ` -RepetitionDuration ([System.TimeSpan]::MaxValue) Tested on Windows Server 2012 R2 (PowerShell 4.0)
There were some great comments to the question, and I’ve spent some time investigating various ways to approach the problem. To begin with, what I’ve initially asked for is not possible. I mean, if you go the module way, then the module should be physically present on a target machine to be able to Import-Module … Read more