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PowerShell is a command prompt and a scripting environment designed for automating all Windows tasks, including system administration. It is ideally suited to automating tasks and leveraging all the power of the .net libraries.
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Get Powershell to search for blank cells from referenced row and not search the whole column
I would like to to search for blank cells in an Excel spreadsheet from a referenced row ($startRow) but instead Powershell searches the whole column (it starts at row 1).
How can I get it to start ...
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Powershell catch non-terminating errors WITH SilentlyContinue
I would like to catch and handle non-terminating errors but using -ErrorAction SilentlyContiune. I know i need to use -ErrorAction Stop in order to catch a non-terminating error. The problem with ...
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Get-ChildItem reports different value to Explorer
Fairly straight question, why does Get-ChildItem -recurse report a totally different number of folders to what Explorer reports?
For example I have a data drive with a substantial number of folders ...
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Writing Progress status
I have an NTFS Audit script and would like to add a basic progress bar. At the moment I have a function that I call like normal, with $i = 100 to indicate my max %. I run through the folders via
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How do I add multiple email addresses?
Below is the code i'm using. I'm unable to add multiple addresses using the powershell Emailaddresses parameter. The code works fine if I just put in one email address, but once I add two addresses ...
visual-studio-2012
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A contribution to the TechNet Script Center Repository must contain a code snippet
I am unclear what the benefits of snippets are, but I was going to publish a script I wrote to TechNet. I finish all the entries and the page tells me: A contribution to the TechNet Script Center ...
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Invoke-WmiMethod not working with powershell pssession (invoke-command)
I am simply trying to execute a program on a remote machine using a pssession:
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {cd c:\
powershell; Invoke-WmiMethod -path win32_process -name create ...
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Moving All Files with a Certain Name (Sorting) WINDOWS 8
Ok, so I have a large amount of ebooks and other files that I would like to sort into folders by Author name. The way I would normally do this in Linux will not work on my Windows 8 laptop. I've been ...
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Powershell regex works for one line, but not another
I'm running a powershell script to automate my build of my apk for an android project. I can pass in an app version code and name that my build script will use to replace those parameters in the ...
android
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How to improve TCPClient and Network Stream write performance
I have written a sample code as below using powershell
$objSyslogSender = New-Object PsObject
$objSyslogSender.PsObject.TypeNames.Insert(0, "SyslogSender")
$objSyslogSender | Add-Member -MemberType ...
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How to execute .ps1 files in Windows Azure Powershell
How to execute .ps1 files in windows Azure Powershell?
Does windows azure powershell use different extension for batch files?
I have tried .bat and .ps1 extensions without luck.
Note that I have ...
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PowerShell Split-Path does not work properly with IIS: drive qualifier
I am using PowerShell v3.0 and the IIS Administration Cmdlets to add and remove websites from my IIS 7 instance. I use Import-Module WebAdministration to make sure the IIS: drive is available, and I ...
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PowerShell to List Parent Folders if a file or folder within has not been modified within the last 365 days
I am looking for a script to list only the Parent folder and only if no file or folder within the Parent folder has been modified within a certain number of days.
This will allow me to move these ...
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Install Windows 8 app (appx) remotely via PowerShell?
As the title says.
My scenario is I have some company app that want to install to all of machines in network.
I know that I can install .exe and .msi remotely from my machine to any machines in ...
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EntityFramework 6.0 CreateDatabaseIfNotExists Code first to create database
What am I doing wrong. I have got a user DbContext setup and working when I originally created the Code-First with powershell it all worked fine.
I implemented Database Initializer as expected on ...
