I'm trying to get one master PowerShell script to run all of the others while waiting 30-60 seconds to ensure that the tasks are completed. Everything else I tried wouldn't stop/wait for the first script and its processes to complete before going through all the others at the same time and would cause a restart automatically.
Main script, run as admin:
$LogStart = 'Log '
$LogDate = Get-Date -Format "dd-MM-yyy-hh-mm-ss"
$FileName = $LogStart + $LogDate + '.txt.'
$scriptList = #(
'C:\Scripts\1-OneDriveUninstall.ps1'
'C:\Scripts\2-ComputerRename.ps1'
);
Start-Transcript -Path "C:\Scripts\$FileName"
foreach ($script in $scriptList) {
Start-Process -FilePath "$PSHOME\powershell.exe" -ArgumentList "-Command '& $script'"
Write-Output "The $script is running."
Start-Sleep -Seconds 30
}
Write-Output "Scripts have completed. Computer will restart in 10 seconds."
Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
Stop-Transcript
C:\Scripts\3-Restart.ps1
1-OneDriveUninstall.ps1:
Set-ItemProperty -Path REGISTRY::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin -Value 0
taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
2-ComputerRename.ps1:
$computername = Get-Content env:computername
$servicetag = Get-WmiObject Win32_Bios |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty SerialNumber
if ($computername -ne $servicetag) {
Write-Host "Renaming computer to $servicetag..."
Rename-Computer -NewName $servicetag
} else {
Write-Host "Computer name is already set to service tag."
}
The log file shows:
Transcript started, output file is C:\Scripts\Log 13-09-2019-04-28-47.txt.
The C:\Scripts\1-OneDriveUninstall.ps1 is running.
The C:\Scripts\2-ComputerRename.ps1 is running.
Scripts have completed. Computer will restart in 10 seconds.
Windows PowerShell transcript end
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They aren't running correctly at all though. They run fine individually but not when put into one master script.
PowerShell can run PowerShell scripts from other PowerShell scripts directly. The only time you need Start-Process for that is when you want to run the called script with elevated privileges (which isn't necessary here, since your parent script is already running elevated).
This should suffice:
foreach ($script in $scriptList) {
& $script
}
The above code will run the scripts sequentially (i.e. start the next script only after the previous one terminated). If you want to run the scripts in parallel, the canonical way is to use background jobs:
$jobs = foreach ($script in $scriptList) {
Start-Job -ScriptBlock { & $using:script }
}
$jobs | Wait-Job | Receive-Job
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I'm running an exe from a PowerShell script. This executable writes its logs to a log file. I would like to continuously read and forward the logs from this file to the console while the executable is running.
Currently, I'm starting the exe like this:
$UNITY_JOB = Start-Job
-ScriptBlock { & "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2019.2.11f1\Editor\Unity.exe" $args | Out-Null }
-ArgumentList $UNITY_ARGS
If I just do Get-Content $LOG_PATH -Wait at this point, I cannot detect when the exe terminates and the script blocks indefinitely.
If I start a second job for the logs, the output is not sent to the console:
$LOG_JOB = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { Get-Content $LOG_PATH -Wait }
(I need "real time" output, so I don't think Receive-Job would work)
I'd use a loop which ends when the job's status is Completed:
# Just to mock the execution
$extProgram = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { Start-Sleep -Seconds 30}
$file = 'C:\path\to\file.txt'
do {
cls
Get-Content $file -Tail $host.ui.RawUI.WindowSize.Height
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 # Set any interval you need
} until ((Get-Job -Id $extProgram.id).State -eq "Completed")
Thought I would share this quick function I made for myself, feel free to adapt it and improve it according to your needs.
Sometimes you want to run commands as the logged on user of a remote computer.
As you know, some commands show output for the user who runs it and if you run the same command with Invoke-Command, it won't return the user's information, but yours). Get-Printer is an example amongst many others.
There is no easy, quick way of running commands as the logged on user natively without any third-party apps like PsExec or others so I made this quick function that uses VBS, PS1 and Scheduled Task to make it happen.
It runs completly silently for the user (thanks to the VBS) and the output is shown in your console. Please note it assumes the remote computer has a C:\TEMP.
Created in a Windows 10, powershell v 5.1.17763.503 environement.
I don't pretend it's final and perfect, it's the simplest way I found to do what is needed and I just wanted to share it with you guys as it can be very useful!
Check the comments for explanation of the code and feel free to use it as you wish. Please share your version as I'm curious to see people improve it. A good idea would be to make it support multiple computers, but as I said it's a quick function I did I don't have too much time to put into refining it.
That being said, I had no problems using it multiple times as is :)
*Output returned is in form of a string, if you want to have a proper object, add '| ConvertFrom-String' and play with it :)
PLEASE NOTE: The surefire way of grabbing the username of who is currently logged on is via QWINSTA (since Win32_ComputerSystem - Username is only reliable if a user is logged on LOCALLY, it won't be right if a user is using RDP/RemoteDesktop). So this is what I used to grab the username, however, please note that in our french environement the name of the username property in QWINSTA is "UTILISATEUR",so you have to change that to your needs (english or other language) for it to work. If I remember correctly, it's "USERNAME" in english.
On this line:
$LoggedOnUser = (qwinsta /SERVER:$ComputerName) -replace '\s{2,22}', ',' | ConvertFrom-Csv | Where-Object {$_ -like "*Acti*"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UTILISATEUR
See code in the answer below.
function RunAsUser {
Param ($ComputerName,$Scriptblock)
#Check that computer is reachable
Write-host "Checking that $ComputerName is online..."
if (!(Test-Connection $ComputerName -Count 1 -Quiet)) {
Write-Host "$ComputerName is offline" -ForegroundColor Red
break
}
#Check that PsRemoting works (test Invoke-Command and if it doesn't work, do 'Enable-PsRemoting' via WMI method).
#*You might have the adjust this one to suit your environement.
#Where I work, WMI is always working, so when PsRemoting isn't, I enable it via WMI first.
Write-host "Checking that PsRemoting is enabled on $ComputerName"
if (!(invoke-command $ComputerName { "test" } -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
Invoke-WmiMethod -ComputerName $ComputerName -Path win32_process -Name create -ArgumentList "powershell.exe -command Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -Force" | Out-Null
do {
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 200
} until (invoke-command $ComputerName { "test" } -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
}
#Check that a user is logged on the computer
Write-host "Checking that a user is logged on to $ComputerName..."
$LoggedOnUser = (qwinsta /SERVER:$ComputerName) -replace '\s{2,22}', ',' | ConvertFrom-Csv | Where-Object {$_ -like "*Acti*"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty UTILISATEUR
if (!($LoggedOnUser) ) {
Write-Host "No user is logged on to $ComputerName" -ForegroundColor Red
break
}
#Creates a VBS file that will run the scriptblock completly silently (prevents the user from seeing a flashing powershell window)
#"
Dim wshell, PowerShellResult
set wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Const WindowStyle = 0
Const WaitOnReturn = True
For Each strArg In WScript.Arguments
arg = arg & " " & strArg
Next 'strArg
PowerShellResult = wshell.run ("PowerShell " & arg & "; exit $LASTEXITCODE", WindowStyle, WaitOnReturn)
WScript.Quit(PowerShellResult)
"# | out-file "\\$ComputerName\C$\TEMP\RAU.vbs" -Encoding ascii -force
#Creates a script file from the specified '-Scriptblock' parameter which will be ran as the logged on user by the scheduled task created below.
#Adds 'Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript' for logging the output.
$Scriptblock = "Start-Transcript C:\TEMP\RAU.log -force" + $Scriptblock + "Stop-Transcript"
$Scriptblock | out-file "\\$ComputerName\C$\TEMP\RAU.ps1" -Encoding utf8 -force
#On the remote computer, create a scheduled task that runs the .ps1 script silently in the user's context (with the help of the vbs)
Write-host "Running task on $ComputerName..."
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ArgumentList $LoggedOnUser -ScriptBlock {
param($loggedOnUser)
$SchTaskParameters = #{
TaskName = "RAU"
Description = "-"
Action = (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "wscript.exe" -Argument "C:\temp\RAU.vbs C:\temp\RAU.ps1")
Settings = (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -StartWhenAvailable -DontStopOnIdleEnd)
RunLevel = "Highest"
User = $LoggedOnUser
Force = $true
}
#Register and Start the task
Register-ScheduledTask #SchTaskParameters | Out-Null
Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName "RAU"
#Wait until the task finishes before continuing
do {
Write-host "Waiting for task to finish..."
$ScheduledTaskState = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskName "RAU" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty state
start-sleep 1
} until ( $ScheduledTaskState -eq "Ready" )
#Delete the task
Unregister-ScheduledTask -TaskName "RAU" -Confirm:$false
}
Write-host "Task completed on $ComputerName"
#Grab the output of the script from the transcript and remove the header (first 19) and footer (last 5)
$RawOutput = Get-Content "\\$ComputerName\C$\temp\RAU.log" | Select-Object -Skip 19
$FinalOutput = $RawOutput[0..($RawOutput.length-5)]
#Shows output
return $FinalOutput
#Delete the output file and script files
Remove-Item "\\$ComputerName\C$\temp\RAU.log" -force
Remove-Item "\\$ComputerName\C$\temp\RAU.vbs" -force
Remove-Item "\\$ComputerName\C$\temp\RAU.ps1" -force
}
#____________________________________________________
#Example command
#Note: Sometimes Start-Transcript doesn't show the output for a certain command, so if you run into empty output, add: ' | out-host' or '| out-default' at the end of the command not showing output.
$Results = RunAsUser -ComputerName COMP123 -Scriptblock {
get-printer | Select-Object name,drivername,portname | Out-host
}
$Results
#If needed, you can turn the output (which is a string for the moment) to a proper powershell object with ' | ConvertFrom-String'
Is it possible to launch a PowerShell Job that persists after the creating script terminates? So far as I can tell, the Job is tied to the initiating script.
What I have now is this
$name = 'iexplore'
$waitTimeinMinutes = 30
Start-Job -argumentList #($name, $waitTimeinMinutes) -scriptblock {
param (
[string]$name,
[int]$waitTimeinMinutes
)
$cutoff = [DateTime]::Now.AddMinutes($waitTimeinMinutes)
while ([DateTime]::Now -lt $cutoff) {
if (Get-Process -name:$name -errorAction:silentlyContinue) {
Stop-Process -name:$name -force -errorAction:silentlyContinue
}
if (Get-Service $name -errorAction:silentlyContinue | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "running"}) {
Stop-Service $name -force -errorAction:silentlyContinue
}
Start-Sleep -s:10
}
}
It works as intend. For half an hour it watches for a Process or Service called iexplore and kills it if it is found. However, I need to continue processing a calling script, and this job is killed when the calling script terminates. I presume there must be a way to initiate a job separate from the calling script?
I'm running this simple script of MSIEXEC uninstall:
$script = {
invoke-expression "msiexec /qn /x '{C5CF41A6-A65A-4BB3-8C6C-87FF4A730EFD}' "
$logcheck = ""
while($true)
{
if($logcheck -match "Removal success or error status: 0")
{
return
}
else
{
start-sleep -Seconds 1
[string]$logcheck = get-eventlog -logname application -newest 1 | foreach-object {$_.message}
}
}
}
Invoke-Command -computername Comp-name -Credential Domain\user -scriptblock $script
Write-Host "Done"
Everything seems to work great, the MSI was being uninstalled successfully but the powershell process stays open and doesn't stop.
Any idea how can I stop it?
It doesn't stop because of the while($true)
That logcheck is not really full proof, it gets the newest log item and then checks for status "Removal success or error status: 0". If any other application adds an entry to the log at the same time, this loop will run forever.
Better to get all log items since a certain date, e.g. start datetime of msiexec and look for the success message. (and not use the loop)
Overview
Looking to call a Powershell script that takes in an argument, runs each job in the background, and shows me the verbose output.
Problem I am running into
The script appears to run, but I want to verify this for sure by streaming the results of the background jobs as they are running.
Code
###StartServerUpdates.ps1 Script###
#get list of servers to update from text file and store in array
$servers=get-content c:\serverstoupdate.txt
#run all jobs, using multi-threading, in background
ForEach($server in $servers){
Start-Job -FilePath c:\cefcu_it\psscripts\PSPatch.ps1 -ArgumentList $server
}
#Wait for all jobs
Get-Job | Wait-Job
#Get all job results
Get-Job | Receive-Job
What I am currently seeing:
Id Name State HasMoreData Location Command
-- ---- ----- ----------- -------- -------
23 Job23 Running True localhost #patch server ...
25 Job25 Running True localhost #patch server ...
What I want to see:
Searching for approved updates ...
Update Found: Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB2807986)
Update Found: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - March 2013 (KB890830)
Download complete. Installing updates ...
The system must be rebooted to complete installation.
cscript exited on "myServer" with error code 3.
Reboot required...
Waiting for server to reboot (35)
Searching for approved updates ...
There are no updates to install.
cscript exited on "myServer" with error code 2.
Servername "myServer" is fully patched after 2 loops
I want to be able to see the output or store that somewhere so I can refer back to be sure the script ran and see which servers rebooted, etc.
Conclusion:
In the past, I ran the script and it went through updating the servers one at a time and gave me the output I wanted, but when I started doing more servers - this task took too long, which is why I am trying to use background jobs with "Start-Job".
Can anyone help me figure this out, please?
You may take a look at the module SplitPipeline.
It it specifically designed for such tasks. The working demo code is:
# import the module (not necessary in PS V3)
Import-Module SplitPipeline
# some servers (from 1 to 10 for the test)
$servers = 1..10
# process servers by parallel pipelines and output results immediately
$servers | Split-Pipeline {process{"processing server $_"; sleep 1}} -Load 1, 1
For your task replace "processing server $_"; sleep 1 (simulates a slow job) with a call to your script and use the variable $_ as input, the current server.
If each job is not processor intensive then increase the parameter Count (the default is processor count) in order to improve performance.
Not a new question but I feel it is missing an answer including Powershell using workflows and its parallel possibilities, from powershell version 3. Which is less code and maybe more understandable than starting and waiting for jobs, which of course works good as well.
I have two files: TheScript.ps1 which coordinates the servers and BackgroundJob.ps1 which does some kind of check. They need to be in the same directory.
The Write-Output in the background job file writes to the same stream you see when starting TheScript.ps1.
TheScript.ps1:
workflow parallelCheckServer {
param ($Servers)
foreach -parallel($Server in $Servers)
{
Invoke-Expression -Command ".\BackgroundJob.ps1 -Server $Server"
}
}
parallelCheckServer -Servers #("host1.com", "host2.com", "host3.com")
Write-Output "Done with all servers."
BackgroundJob.ps1 (for example):
param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string] $server
)
Write-Host "[$server]`t Processing server $server"
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
So when starting the TheScript.ps1 it will write "Processing server" 3 times but it will not wait for 15 seconds but instead 5 because they are run in parallel.
[host3.com] Processing server host3.com
[host2.com] Processing server host2.com
[host1.com] Processing server host1.com
Done with all servers.
In your ForEach loop you'll want to grab the output generated by the Jobs already running.
Example Not Tested
$sb = {
"Starting Job on $($args[0])"
#Do something
"$($args[0]) => Do something completed successfully"
"$($args[0]) => Now for something completely different"
"Ending Job on $($args[0])"
}
Foreach($computer in $computers){
Start-Job -ScriptBlock $sb -Args $computer | Out-Null
Get-Job | Receive-Job
}
Now if you do this all your results will be mixed. You might want to put a stamp on your verbose output to tell which output came from.
Or
Foreach($computer in $computers){
Start-Job -ScriptBlock $sb -Args $computer | Out-Null
Get-Job | ? {$_.State -eq 'Complete' -and $_.HasMoreData} | % {Receive-Job $_}
}
while((Get-Job -State Running).count){
Get-Job | ? {$_.State -eq 'Complete' -and $_.HasMoreData} | % {Receive-Job $_}
start-sleep -seconds 1
}
It will show all the output as soon as a job is finished. Without being mixed up.
If you're wanting to multiple jobs in-progress, you'll probably want to massage the output to help keep what output goes with which job straight on the console.
$BGList = 'Black','Green','DarkBlue','DarkCyan','Red','DarkGreen'
$JobHash = #{};$ColorHash = #{};$i=0
ForEach($server in $servers)
{
Start-Job -FilePath c:\cefcu_it\psscripts\PSPatch.ps1 -ArgumentList $server |
foreach {
$ColorHash[$_.ID] = $BGList[$i++]
$JobHash[$_.ID] = $Server
}
}
While ((Get-Job).State -match 'Running')
{
foreach ($Job in Get-Job | where {$_.HasMoreData})
{
[System.Console]::BackgroundColor = $ColorHash[$Job.ID]
Write-Host $JobHash[$Job.ID] -ForegroundColor Black -BackgroundColor White
Receive-Job $Job
}
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
}
[System.Console]::BackgroundColor = 'Black'
You can get the results by doing something like this after all the jobs have been received:
$array=#()
Get-Job -Name * | where{$array+=$_.ChildJobs.output}
.ChildJobs.output will have anything that was returned in each job.
function OutputJoblogs {
[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Name')]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
[System.Management.Automation.Job] $job,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]
[string] $logFolder,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=2)]
[string] $logTimeStamp
)
#Output All logs
while ($job.sate -eq "Running" -or $job.HasMoreData){
start-sleep -Seconds 1
foreach($remotejob in $job.ChildJobs){
if($remotejob.HasMoreData){
$output=(Receive-Job $remotejob)
if($output -gt 0){
$remotejob.location +": "+ (($output) | Tee-Object -Append -file ("$logFolder\$logTimeStamp."+$remotejob.Location+".txt"))
}
}
}
}
#Output Errors
foreach($remotejob in $job.ChildJobs){
if($remotejob.Error.Count -gt0){$remotejob.location +": "}
foreach($myerr in $remotejob.Error){
$myerr 2>&1 | Tee-Object -Append -file ("$logFolder\$logTimeStamp."+$remotejob.Location+".ERROR.txt")
}
if($remotejob.JobStateInfo.Reason.ErrorRecord.Count -gt 0){$remotejob.location +": "}
foreach($myerr in $remotejob.JobStateInfo.Reason.ErrorRecord){
$myerr 2>&1 | Tee-Object -Append -file ("$logFolder\$logTimeStamp."+$remotejob.Location+".ERROR.txt")
}
}
}
#example of usage
$logfileDate="$((Get-Date).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd-HH.mm.ss'))"
$job = Invoke-Command -ComputerName "servername1","servername2" -ScriptBlock {
for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {
$i+"`n";
if($i -gt 2){
write-error "Bad thing happened"};
if($i -eq 4){
throw "Super Bad thing happened"
};
start-sleep -Seconds 1
}
} -asjob
OutputJoblogs -Job $job -logFolder "$PSScriptRoot\logs" -logTimeStamp $logfileDate