HI All,
How to Change the Screen Saver Settings to Mystify in Windows 7 using vbscript?
Thanks
Divakar
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How to Change the Screen Saver Settings to Mystify in Windows 7 using vbscript?
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New-ADuser error: The server is unwilling to process the request
Hi
I am attempting to add new users in bulk to AD using the below PowerShell script:
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Import-Csv "C:\users1.csv" | New-ADuser -PasswordNeverExpires $true -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "Pass1234" -AsPlainText -Force) -Enabled $True -Server <AD-servername>
Note: <AD-servername> is replaced by the actual name of the Domain Controller
The contents of the CSV are (lines 1 & 2 only are provided below):
Name,Type,SamAccountName,GivenName,Surname,DisplayName,Description,EmailAddress,Company,StreetAddress,State,PostalCode,City,Country,Organization,Path,UserPrincipalNameDOE John,User,DJohn,John,DOE,John DOE,Sales Supervisor ,DJohn@domain.com,Corp Europe,16 Street Add,MA,1234,Boston,USA,Corp,"OU=Users,OU=warehouse01 - boston - ma,OU=Massachussetts,DC=domain,DC=net",DJohn@domain.com
When executing the script I get the following error:
New-ADuser : The server is unwilling to process the request
At C:\Users.ps1:2 char:29
+ Import-Csv "C:\users ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (CN=Djohn...et,DC=domain,DC=net:String) [New-ADUser], ADException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : The server is unwilling to process the request,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.NewADUser
After investigation on different forums (e.g: http://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/help/misc/troubleshooting_tips.html#admgmt_usermodificatio_80072035 or http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/ae10b881-ae5b-4382-b033-47174e5acd8a/error-with-newaduser-command?forum=winserverpowershell) I have verified:
- that the OU Path is spelled correctly
- that no other user with the same samaccountname exists in AD
- that the pipe from import-csv to new-aduser works correctly
- that the import-csv command imports correctly (see result below):
Name : DOE John
Type : User
SamAccountName : DJohn
GivenName : John
Surname : DOE
DisplayName : John DOE
Description : Sales Supervisor
EmailAddress : DJohn@domain.com
Company : Corp Europe
StreetAddress : 16 Street Add
State : MA
PostalCode : 1234
City : Boston
Country : USA
Organization : Corp
Path : OU=Users,OU=warehouse01 - boston - ma,OU=Massachussetts,DC=domain,DC=net
UserPrincipalName : Djohn@domain.com
PS: the OU Users is the child OU of warehouse01 - boston - ma which is itself a child of Massachussetts
PPS: Domain.com is the external dns domain name. Domain.net is the local dns domain name. All our users have this format.
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What is this error? what am i doing wrong?
Thanks,
Karim
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find users that changed password in last 180 days
how can i find users in the domain that have not changed their passwords in the last 180days?
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Need to run Icacls command on multiple servers
Hi
I have a text file with the list of servers and it is called servers.txt and I want to run the below command on all the drives on all the servers in that text file.
icacls folder1 /T /Grant "domain\user1:F"
Can you please give me a sample Powershell script to do it
thanks
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scripting to install executable drivers
I have a script working fine with msi but it doesn't work with exe installer. Need professional advise and help
The first part of script create a folder and unzip the zipped folder which contain setup.exe
But the rest part of script running 3 installers didn't work , just hanging. If I manually run each installer at PS console, it is ok but I want them to run in sequence , silently and remotely with GPO that has already enabled PSRemoting. GPO also set up to load the files (unzipped)in local C:\test folder:
# install msi and exe Installer$installer = 'c:\test'
$exe = @('$installer\dellDriver\dellver1.02\setup','$installer\dellDriver\firmDriver_Win7_64Bit')
$msi = @('$installed\Installer_Win7')
#foreach ($exefile in $exe)
{
start-process -FilePath "c:\test\dellDriver\dellver1.02\\Setup.exe" /s
Start-Process -FilePath "c:\test\dellDriver\firmDriver_Win7_64Bit.exe" /s
Start-Sleep 120
Start-Process -FilePath "c:\test\Installer_Win7.msi" -ArgumentList "/qn" -wait
}
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re-run vbs script with time interval.
i have some vbs script and i want it to run automatically after each 10minutes. (No task scheduling). any line of code outside/inside same script which runs wanted vbs file with 10min interval.Thanks
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record each keystroke
is there any vbs/batch code to record and store each key stroke hit by user?i don't want to use softwares.
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Installing printers drivers from power shell on win client
Hi,
I am using a powershell script to install printer drivers from our print server. I am getting a error.
Sript :-
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\ptprint\pg1-b")
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).SetDefaultPrinter('\\ptprint\pg1-b')
PTPRINT is our print server and pg1-b is printer shared name.
Error : -
Exception calling "AddWindowsPrinterConnection" with "1" argument(s): "The I/O operation has been aborted because of
either a thread exit or an application request. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E3)"
At C:\Users\amitkumar_patil\Desktop\addprinter.ps1:4 char:1
+ (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\ptprint\p ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation
Exception calling "SetDefaultPrinter" with "1" argument(s): "There is no printer called "\\ptprint\pg1-b"."
At C:\Users\amitkumar_patil\Desktop\addprinter.ps1:10 char:1
+ (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).SetDefaultPrinter('\\ptprint\pg1-b')
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation
1. How to solve this ?
2. Is my way to install drivers is incorrect via power shell ?
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Find name of last user to have changed any AD user password
I am curious to know if there is a way to get the username of the person that last changed a password (not necessarily his own).
For example: A regular user (say Gary) forgot his password and calls an admin whose username is ADM_JDOE and who has the right to reset passwords. How can I find out that the last password change was made by ADM_JDOE (or any other admin) and not by Gary?
Thanks,
SK
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Move Text content to Excel
HI team,
I have a number of text file in a folder. each file gives information like hostname, OS, username, service pack etc. about individual machine. Example of one of the file
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Hostname = desktop12456
OS = Windows 7
username = Joe B
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I want to collect this information of all text files in excel sheet as
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Hostname OS Username
desktop12346 Win 7 Joe B
laptop123456 win 8 mick s
.
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Could please help give a idea which cmdlets can I use in writing a script ?
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http://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/539cb3d9548c357fe1003136
http://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/539cb3d9548c357fe1003136
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VBScript Icacls
Dear,
I dont know what wrong with below script its not sccuessfully running
Option Explicit
Dim Obj, intRunError, strHomeFolder
Set Obj = wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")
strHomeFolder = "C:\Program Files\Temp\"
'intRunError = Obj.run ("%COMSPEC% /c Echo Y| cacls " & strHomeFolder & " /c /g users:M ", 2, True)
Obj.Run "icacls strHomeFolder /grant:r users:(OI)M"
Support@Mytechnet.me
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Delete content of all users Download folders
Hi ,
I checked in the forum for that but did not find anything that can suits my issue.
I need to delete all the content of all users download folder every night .
I tried this %userprofile%\Downloads | where {($_.LastWriteTime).AddDays(1) -lt (get-date)} | remove-item -force -recurse
but it does not help.
Could you please help me or put me in the right direction .
Thanks
AGYL
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Start Application in Background
Hi,
Is there a way to start a programm in the background?
I want to run a VirtualBox in Headless mode without opening any window.
With a C#.Net Programm I archived it like this:
myProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = @"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"; myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe"; myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("-s {0} -v on", args[0]); myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; myProcess.Start();
Now I would like to do it with powershell, as I thought that it also should work as it is also .Net able ...
I used the Start-Process comand but I does not work.
I tried some combinations like this:
$str = @("-s","vmBox","-v","on");
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe" -ArgumentList $str -NoNewWindow -WorkingDirectory "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
But doing so, the program occupies the current powershell console and does not continue running when I close the terminal.
Is there a way to do so?
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3030821-allow-connecting-to-test-controller-using-differen <-- Vote for connecting with any user to Test Contrtoller
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adding PDF options to a script
Hello everyone,
I use a powershell script (provided in the scripting guy blog and slightly modified by myself) to convert all .rtf files in a folder to pdf:
$wdFormatPDF = 17
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
$word.visible = $false
$folderpath = "C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\powershelltest\*"
$fileTypes = "*.rtf"
Get-ChildItem -path $folderpath -include $fileTypes |
foreach-object `
{
$path = ($_.fullname).substring(0,($_.FullName).lastindexOf("."))
$doc = $word.documents.open($_.fullname)
$doc.saveas([ref] $path, [ref]$wdFormatPDF)
$doc.close()
}
$word.Quit()
ExitMy question is this: How do I specify options for the created PDF docs?
I need the created PDFs to have these characteristics:
- Set the “Initial Page layout” to “Bookmarks Panel and Page”
- Must be saved as PDF Version 1.4 (acrobat 5.x compatible)
- Enable fast web view
- Enable bookmarks to have longer lengths than 40 characters (by default it seems the resultant PDF has 40 character limit on bookmarks, my .rtf files use embedded tc links for bookmarks that are much longer)
- Not be PDF/A (seems to be default)
Any hints and pointers are much appreciated as I am very inexperienced with powershell and could not find anything helpful in my searches.
Kind regards,
Tiaan
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Rename files using text or excel file
I am trying to find out how to rename files on my pc using the names stored in a text document
eg. the file on the pc is called "C07_08.dat"
the text file has the following line "3am Eternal KLF 03:15 121 BMG C07.08"
i want to change the name of the file "C07_08.dat" to "3am Eternal.mpeg"
What I would like is a batch file or program or something that will see the text "C07.08" and find the corresponding file "C07_08.dat" and rename it "3am Eternal.mpeg"
eg. the file on the pc is called "C07_08.dat"
the text file has the following line "3am Eternal KLF 03:15 121 BMG C07.08"
i want to change the name of the file "C07_08.dat" to "3am Eternal.mpeg"
What I would like is a batch file or program or something that will see the text "C07.08" and find the corresponding file "C07_08.dat" and rename it "3am Eternal.mpeg"
I have managed to create a excel document that has the information in four separate columns
Column A has the name of the file I want to use (ie. 3am Eternal) Column B & C have unneeded information and Column D has the file reference (ie. C07.08)
I was told that Python or Visual basic could do this so I downloaded them but I have no experience with this so im lost as to what to do, I have over 1800 of these files so doing it file by file will take quite a while.
I have included a sample of the text file for reference if that helps
3am Eternal KLF 03:15 121 BMG C07.08 4 In The Morning Gwen Stefani 04:22 092 UMA HD1.10 4 Minutes Madonna ft J Timberlake 04:04 113 WAR HE3.05 5 6 7 8 Steps 03:24 000 BMG C48.03 5678 Steps 03:23 140 MUS H16.02 6 Of 1 Thing Craig David 03:15 116 WAR HE2.11 60 MPH New Order 03:51 125 WAR N57.11 7 Days Craig David 04:30 084 SHO N41.16 7 Things Miley Cyrus 03:29 107 EMI HE7.09 99 Luft Balloons Nena 03:58 095 WAR C27.10 99 Times Kate Voegele 03:27 112 UMA HG6.07 A Girl Like You Edwyn Collins 03:47 126 MDS R06.08 A Little Bit Pandora 03:35 132 UMA H23.01 A Little Less Conversation Elvis VS JXL 03:02 115 BMG H68.03 A Matter Of Trust Billy Joel 04:00 110 SON C59.11 A New Day Has Come Celine Dion 04:20 092 SON H65.20 A Woman Like You Mondo Rock 04:03 169 MUS R06.01 About You Now Sugababes 03:32 083 UMA HD5.08 Absolutely Everybody Vanessa Amorosi 03:52 124 TRA H40.06 Absolutely Fabulous Pet Shop Boys 03:45 132 EMI C15.02 Accidentally In Love Counting Crows 03:08 138 UMA H94.05 According To You Orianthi 03:18 066 UMA HG4.12 Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 03:55 122 SON K11.02
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Insert SQL table from powershell to SQL 2000
Hey guys,
Im far from a Powershell guru and DEFINITELY not a SQL guy. With that being said, I'm trying to write a SQL table(2000) from a powershell script I have written. The script is using the FileSystemWatcher to write any new files that have a .tif file extension to a SQL table.
Obviously, This is not working. Here's my insert code.
$conn=New-ObjectSystem.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=$SQLServerName; Initial Catalog=$SQLDatabase; Integrated Security=TRUE")
$conn.Open()
$insert_stmt="INSERT INTO in_cofa_pvs (in_item_key, in_lot_key, imgfileName, in_cofa_crtdt) VALUES ('$item','$lot','$name','$timestamp')"
$cmd=$conn.CreateCommand()
$cmd.CommandText=$insert_stmt
$cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
$conn.Close()
I guess I have two questions. 1 is my code looking correct ? All the variables are defined in code prior. 2 can I even use Powershell to insert tables into SQL 2000 ? and 3 if question 1 is YES and 2 is YES what the heck am I doing wrong here ?
Is there a way that I can log my SQL attempts to see failure/success ? Obviously the first is going to be the case. But when I have it working I would like to see if either is true.
Thanks Guys
Rich
Rich Thompson
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WSUS products and classifications
Hi,
Does anyone have a powershell script to list the products and classifications enabled on a wsus server?
Any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Rick
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Move mail from Inbox to subfolder with Exchange Web Services 2.0 and Powershell
Hi
I have created a script (With help from Google and some blogs :-)) that basically does the following:
1. Finds all mails with attachments
2. Saves the attachment
2.1 If it's a .ZIP file, the file is extracted
3. Prints the attachments
4. Moves the file to a subfolder called Archive (This part doesn't work
The steps from 1 to 3 is working fine, but the part about moving the items to the subfolder it fails.
I have tested it with my own username and it's working as expected, but when I run the script in production with the service account I have created with impersonation rights it fails.
As far as I can see the problem is that the service account can't get the ID of the subfolder. I use the following code:
$FolderName = "Archive"
$oFolder = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder($EWSService)
$oFolder.DisplayName = $FolderName
#Define Folder View really only want to return one object
$fvFolderView = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderView(1)
#Define a Search folder that is going to do a search based on the DisplayName of the folder
$SfSearchFilter = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SearchFilter+IsEqualTo([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.FolderSchema]::DisplayName,$FolderName)
#Do the Search
$findFolderResults = $EWSService.FindFolders($InboxID,$SfSearchFilter,$fvFolderView)
If ($findFolderResults.TotalCount -ne 0)
{
$DestID = $findFolderResults.ID
$Email.Move($DestID) | Out-Null
}The "$findFolderResults.TotalCount" actually returns 1 if the folder is present but "$findFolderResults.ID" is empty, and therefor the "$Email.Move($DestID)" fails.
Any ideas?
Lasse
/Lasse
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Update vbscripts that copy files to sharepoint via DAV to use powershell instead.
Update vbscripts that copy files to sharepoint via DAV to use powershell instead.
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