PowerShell connect & append data to GoogleSheet - powershell

Question

**Problem I am trying to solve: **
We want to be notified whenever one of our kiosk machines restart due to a Windows Update, so we can remotely connect right away and reset them to the desired state.
After trying different options (i.e. send email via SMTP triggered by an event via Task Scheduler, which proved unreliable due to script taking too long before restart occurs), this is the next attempted solution (perhaps it occurs faster?).
**Current solution attempted: **
Write data to a GoogleSheet via PowerShell script (below), triggered via Task Scheduler when a specific event occurs (i.e. Event Id: 1074). From there, GoogleSheet can easily send us the notification we want using Apps Script (details not relevant for this post).
Import-Module UMN-Google
# Set security protocol to TLS 1.2 to avoid TLS errors
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
# Google API Authozation
$scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file"
$certPath = "C:/Scripts/GoogleService/my-cert-path.p12"
$iss = 'name#projectname.iam.gserviceaccount.com'
$certPswd = 'mypassword'
try {
$accessToken = Get-GOAuthTokenService -scope $scope -certPath $certPath -certPswd $certPswd -iss $iss
} catch {
$err = $_.Exception
$err | Select-Object -Property *
"Response: "
$err.Response
}
$accessToken
# Define the GoogleSheet and the target Sheet
$spreadSheetID = 'google-sheet-id-i-omitted-from-this-sample'
$sheetName = 'MachineActivityData'
$EventId = 1074
$A = Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 1 -FilterHashTable #{Logname = "System" ; ID = $EventId }
$Message = $A.Message
$EventID = $A.Id
$MachineName = $A.MachineName
$Source = $A.ProviderName
# Set the arrayValues
$arrayValues = #($MachineName, $Source, $EventId)
$appendValue = 'Append'
# Write to GoogleSheet (appending data)
Set-GSheetData -accessToken $accessToken -append $appendValue -sheetName $sheetName -spreadSheetID $spreadSheetID -values $arrayValues
Issue encontered:
When running the above script, I get the following error:
Set-GSheetData : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Append'.
At C:\Scripts\script_GoogleSheetConnection.ps1:40 char:1
+ Set-GSheetData -accessToken $accessToken -append $appendValue -sheetN ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-GSheetData], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Set-GSheetData
As you can see, I am using UMN-Google. This documentation helps, but I couldn't find much more than this to help with this error.
This error has something to do with the -append value not being correct.
Per the linked documentation, it appears to be a string (as in the example, and function definition). But I tried other options as well (i.e. bool...).
Any idea why the function Set-GSheetData is not accepting this parameter?
Quick note, I am fairly new to using PowerShell. I appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you kindly,
I tried the above script, and expected data to be appended to the specified GoogleSheet. However, the function Set-GSheetData returned an error, as a parameter is invalid. Per documentation, the parameter I entered is correct.