I am trying to build a script to gather the DFSR backlog details of a list of servers.
So far the script will query a text file for a list of servers.
From that list it will use various Powershell commands to determine what replication groups it is a member of and what connections it has. Once I have that data stored in variables I can then use it in dfsrdiag backlog to check the status.
The problem I have is how can I capture and set select properties to variables that I can use to create the dfsrdiag command.
Anyone out there know the best way to select the particular properties and store then to variables in Powershell?
Cheers
Woodsy
Here is a simple example using get-service. You can create an object called $report that contains only the properties you want. You can export $Reportto a CSV.
All you need to do is apply this to your script.
$Services = Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.name -like "A*"}
[Array]$Report = foreach ($service in $Services)
{
[PScustomobject]#{
Name = $service.DisplayName
Shortname = $service.name
Status = $service.Status
StartType = $service.StartType
}
}
$Report | select Name, Shortname, Status, StartType
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I'm trying to run a command again some mailboxes, after obtaining the mailbox names from a Retention Compliance Policy.
I can export the GUID to a CSV and then call the CSV, but I'm trying to limit my use of CSV's
The Below works with a CSV file
$Accounts = Import-Csv 'C:\Temp\MailboxInfoGUID.csv'
ForEach($Account in $Accounts)
{
$Guid = $null
$Guid = #()
$Guid = $Account.ArchiveGuid
Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity $Guid -FullCrawl}
$Users = Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy $LabelPolicyName -
DistributionDetail | Select - ExpandProperty ExchangeLocation | Select -
ExpandProperty Name
I'd like to run the command without using a CSV file, but to get the mailbox identity I need to look in the Compliance Policy
How can I use the mailbox names obtained from the policy to then run a crawl on the mailbox
If I understood you correct, you would like the following:
Get the mailboxes from Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy.
Iterate through each of those mailboxes grabbing the GUID property.
Using Get-Mailbox.
Pass the newly obtained GUID to Start-ManagedFolderAssistant.
Given that's what you're after, the following should work:
(Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy $LabelPolicyName -DistributionDetail).ExchangeLocation.Name |
ForEach-Object -Process {
Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity (Get-Mailbox -Identity $_).ArchiveGuid -FullCrawl
}
Due keep in mind that I don't have the ExchangePowerShell module installed so I am going off just logic; you may have to adjust the properties.
I am trying to Search a String from a Variable.
I am dumping Azure Activity Logs in a variable and trying to find a specific line for that log. Here is my codes below.
$log=Get-AzLog -ResourceId "/subscriptions/SubscriptionID/resourceGroups/ResourceGroupName/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/qcsqldw/databases/DatabaseName" -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30
$find=$log | Select-String -Pattern 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action'
Write-Output $find
I am trying to Search this Line "Action : Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action" from the Log
While running the above script I did not got any output.
Please help me on this.
It seems you are searching the the Authorization Action property from your Azure Activity resource logs. If this is the case then you don't need to do any string searching, and simply reference the Authorization.Action property. Get-AzLog will give you a System.Object[], which can just be queried normally with Foreach-Object or Where-Object. You can find out this type information with (Get-AzLog).GetType().FullName.
You could run this query to get all your results with Foreach-Object:
Get-AzLog -ResourceId $id -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30 | ForEach-Object {$_.Authorization.Action}
Which will give you the Authorization.Action property from all your logs that ran from the start time 2020-04-01T00:30.
If you want to modify this query to search for a specific action, you can filter with Where-Object, then select Authorization.Action from the results:
(Get-AzLog -ResourceId $id -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30 | Where-Object {$_.Authorization.Action -eq "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action"}).Authorization.Action
I have found some great examples on foreach loops in Powershell here but I just can't wrap my head around foreach loops for what I am doing.
I found great scripts that deal with migrating printer when migrating from one Windows print server to another however my challenge is that I am migrating from an Novell iPrint server to a Windows server.
The struggle is that the printer name or share name (or any printer property) for iPrint printer is not the hostname so I have to come up with some translation table with iPrint name and Printer hostname.
Initially, I wanted to just have column 2 of my translation table have it execute my powershell command to install a network printer which would make things easier.
I am in the process of trying to create a logon script to query printers that are installed on computer and have it do a 'foreach' loop against a CSV with iPrint names and hostnames.
csv 1
installediprintprintername1
installediprintprintername2
installediprintprintername3
printtranslationtable.csv
column 1 column 2
iprintprintername1 hostnameprinter1
iprintprintername2 hostnameprinter2
iprintprintername3 hostnameprinter3
iprintprintername4 hostnameprinter4
This is what I got so far but not able to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated!
$printers = #(Get-wmiobject win32_printer)
$path = "\\networkdrive\printtranslationtable.csv"
$printertranslation = Import-Csv -path $path
foreach ($iprintprinter in $printtranslationtable) {
foreach ($name in $csv1) {
if ($name -eq $printtranslationtable.column1) {
Write-Host $newPrinter = $printtranslationtable.column2
}
}
}
Update
So I was able to tweak the script #TheMadTechnician suggested and able to get this PS script to work in my environment. What I am trying to do is to check if new printers are installed and if they are then just exit script. This is what I have but can't get it to exit or break. I was also trying to write the new printers into text file but not necessary, I would like for it to stop executing script.
if (($printers.name -like "\winprint*") -eq $true) {
$printers.name -like "\winprint\" | out-file -FilePath "C:\windowsprinters.txt" -Append
{break} {exit}
}
When you read the file with Import-Csv, PowerShell creates an array of custom objects with property names from the header line. On the other hand Get-Content produces simple array of string values. I came up with this one liner, which goes thru the translation table and checks if the printer list contains one. This is not optimal if you have billions of printers, but keeps things clear:
printers.txt:
iprinter2
iprinter3
printertable.csv:
"Column1";"Column2"
"iprinter1";"hostname1"
"iprinter2";"hostname2"
"iprinter3";"hostname3"
"iprinter4";"hostname4"
PowerShell:
$printers = Get-Content .\printers.txt
$prtable = Import-Csv -Delimiter ";" .\printertable.csv
$prtable | ?{ $printers -contains $_.Column1 } | %{Write-Host "Install $($_.Column2)"}
Ok, so you query what printers are installed, and you have a translation table loaded from a CSV, now you just need to look at that translation table and cross reference which entries have a listing in the local computer's printer listings.
$printers = #(Get-wmiobject win32_printer)
$path = "\\networkdrive\printtranslationtable.csv"
$printertranslation = Import-Csv -path $path
$printertranslation | Where{$_.Column1 -in $printers.ShareName} | ForEach{ Add-Printer $_.Column2 }
I don't know what property of the win32_printer object aligns best for you, but I would suggest ShareName or DeviceId. Those should be something like:
ShareName: XeroxColor02
DeviceId: \\printserver\XeroxColor02
I have a need to get a list of databases contained in each DAG but I am struggling to get it. If I use
Get-databaseavailabilitygroup
I get a list of the DAGs and the member servers but as soon as I try
Get-databaseavailabilitygroup|get-mailboxdatabase
I get an error saying the DAG name can not be found on the DC.
What am I doing wrong?
We have 3 seperate environments each with different database names and a different number of databases.
I am trying to get a list of the databases in each DAG as this will be passed into a function that works out which DAG to create the mail account on and then creates the account on the database with the least number of users on it.
I want to create it this way so I can use the same script across all environments and it will also cater for new databases
TIA
Andy
That's what Group-Object is for:
Get-MailboxDatabase |
Group-Object MasterServerOrAvailabilityGroup |
Select -ExpandProperty Group
I worked it out but would be interested in anything that is easier
$dags = get-databaseavailabilitygroup
foreach ($dag in $dags){
$mbx = Get-mailboxdatabase | Where-Object {$_.masterserveroravailabilitygroup -EQ $dag}
foreach($db in $mbx){
write-host $db.name
}
}
((Get-MailboxServer) | Where-Object {$_.DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -eq 'EX13DAG'} | Select-Object -Property Name).Name
my first post here. I am working on a script using powerShell, the objective is to set a certain amount of CPU-threads per USER's process, using the forum here, i was able to find most of the answers, and even got my script to run, except, if it sets the affinity, it sets it to EVERY-Process, not just the user i need.
here is the code(with comments):
# GET LIST of all process running
$pList = get-wmiobject win32_process
# loop through created array and get the OWNER of the processes
foreach ($p in $pList) {
#If "myUserName" is found:
if ($p.getowner().User -eq 'myUserName') {
# get process name
$procName = $p.ProcessName
# trim STRING to remove EXE
$procName = $procName.Replace('.exe','')
# use get-process to make array of processes run by "myUserName"
$activeProc = Get-Process -name $procName
# Loop to set affinity for each process
foreach ($i in $activeProc){
$i.ProcessorAffinity=0xFE
}
}
}
when i execute this command, all of the process are set to new Thread Count,
any suggestions how to make it ONLY adjust threads for SPECIFIC user?
Thanks a lot guys!
this is pretty urgent.
By calling get-process -name $procName you are finding all processes that have the same name as one run by the user.
Instead of using the ProcessName, use ProcessId.
In PowerShell version 4.0, you can use the -IncludeUserName parameter on the Get-Process cmdlet. Once you have a list of processes, you can then filter then using the Where-Object cmdlet, which has a default alias of ?.
Get-Process -IncludeUserName | Where-Object -FilterScript { $PSItem.UserName -match 'system' };
Or short-hand might look like this:
gps -inc | ? { $_.UserName -match 'system' };
Note: Using the -IncludeUserName parameter requires privilege elevation.