Recently I decided to split My Pc into two Users one for gaming and one for work to increase my work productivity. Now I am wondering is there a way to:
run a PowerShell script on UserLogin Opening Certain Apps/Programs and maybe even putting in custom input like login info for immediate login.
run different scripts depending on the logged-in User.
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TLDR: How do I automate uninstall of all drivers in two categories without needing to know the OEM number beforehand?
First things first - I'm as far from an expert as they come. I'm an L1 support desk grunt messing with powershell to try automate the tedious parts of my job. A persistent issue we've got with 90% of our machines requires uninstalling all drivers for audio devices, and because I'm too lazy to do this in a remote session, I'm trying to automate it through a script that fires off a bunch of commands through psexec to a specified hostname.
Downside is driver name is not always going to be the same on each machine, and the OEM number for the drivers isn't consistent across multiple machines either. This doesn't matter when you're doing it through device manager - just need to uninstall everything in the Audio I/O and Sound Controllers dropdown - but I've no idea how to specify this in command line.
I'm sure it's possible. I've been poking around at pnputil and Get-WindowsDriver and there's gotta be some way to do it. Might be something with wmic that could work, but I'm not familiar enough with that command. I could just do it manually, but then I'd have to spend five minutes in a laggy remote session making small talk with a user, and I can't stand small talk.
So essentially my question is: Is there a way to query OEM info of every driver in a specific category, and then pipe that info into a cmdlet that'll uninstall them?
I've written a script that allows users to start, stop, or check various services on various environments pertinent to our work. Currently, for IISReset, it checks all of the app pools it controls, ergo starts and stops too.
Is there a way to point to only two or three specific sites or app pools and not touch the others?
The current code I am using is...
& \env\Windows\System32\iisreset.exe /STATUS
These "programs" are called Services (they are registered in Windows as Services), so you can find the ones you are interested in, and then use the -Service cmdlets that are native to PowerShell to manage them (Get-Service,Stop-Service, Start-Service, etc.). Run gcm *-Service to see the list.
In Windows 10 on a desktop or laptop, what is the best place to put a command prompt program that I wrote myself or acquired from the net. I have one admin account on each of my computers, a standard account for my own routine use, and additional standard accounts for each friend or visitor. I want the admin account to be able to modify the program, and the standard accounts to be able to execute it.
I'm leaning toward putting it in the public folder and setting custom permissions so standard users will only be able to execute. Is this the best choice?
I'm reasonably experienced with Windows 8.1 but just bought a new laptop with 10.
Public User folder and restrict it with sharing options or security and set accessbility to administrator, define who can execute or edit.
I have a CasperJS script which logs into our test website platform. Our website application produces dynamic data which is updated every second, and normally using a web browser the login is left running (as you would using webmail)
The script logs into the website as a user, waits five seconds for the page to populate with data and uses the this.capture function to grab a screen shot to confirm the details are correct.
What I want to do, is follow on from the login as I've noticed the CasperJS script does not stay logged in as our customers logins are persistent.
I want to do this because we are load testing a new proof of concept platform.
Does anyone know how I make CasperJS do this?
I also want to parse a csv list of username/passwords to simulate logins - I'm presuming that I have to do this via a shell script or get PhantomJS invoke each login sequentially?
(background: I'm not a web developer, but someone with 20 years of IT and Unix/Infrastructure - so I would class myself as an intermediate skill scripting)
Persistent login
This is what the --cookies-file commandline option is for. It stores all cookies in a file on disk and on subsequent invocations of the script will use the stored cookies to restore the session. So just run your script like this:
casperjs --cooies-file=cookies.txt yourScript.js
yourScript.js should be able to tell that are already logged in.
Multiple credentials
Your other problem can be solved in different ways, but none of them should be invoked with the --cookies-file option.
Since a CSV is a simple file format you can read it through the PhantomJS fs module and iterate over them with casper.eachThen. For each iteration, you would need to login, do your thing and don't forget to log out just in the same way you would do in a browser session.
Parse the CSV somehow in the shell and pass the pairs into CasperJS. Then you can access casper.cli to get the credentials to log in. With this option you don't need to log out, since each invocation runs in its own PhantomJS instance and doesn't share cookies.
This option can be combined with your first question, if that is what you want. Add on each invocation the option --cookies-file=cookies_<username>.txt, so you can run the shell script multiple times without logging in each time.
Load testing
If I understood correctly, then the web application is password protected. You would need to run a separate CasperJS process for each username/password pair. You should check the memory footprint for one script invocation and scale up. Memory is the primary limiting factor which you can calculate for your test machine, but CPU will also hit a limit somewhere.
PhantomJS/CasperJS instances are full browsers and are therefore much heavier than a slim webserver. So you will probably need multiple machines each with many instances that run your script to load test the webserver.
I've written some UI Automation that runs an installer and clicks on its buttons to complete the installation without human interaction.
The main reason to do this is to automate installations that cannot be automated through orthodox means (such as parameters, or deployment packages).
This is a low cost solution and it works well on a user pc, but crucially it doesn't work on our build farm, which the system was written for primarily.
After some investigation I think this is due to the fact that in the build agents although a user is logged in, this login is not "interactive", and the screen will not be rendered unless Windows has to.
I can force the rendering by connecting via Remote Desktop, and the automation works correctly then.
If the Remote Desktop window loses focus though (for example by being behind another window), the automation stops working.
I suspect if I could trick Windows into believing a user is logged in interactively, and Windows rendered, the automation would work fine, but I have no idea how to achieve this.
I know this solution is far from solid and if you can recommend better ways to approach the problem I'm happy to hear them, but it's really cheap to implement, and quite effective if it can be made to work (the code being built in the build farm depends on the packages being installer, so after a sync the auto installer needs to be run, and we'll have up to 30-40 machines to manage and maintain).
In short: does anybody know how to trick Windows into believing it should behave as if a human user was logged in interactively?
Thank you in advance!