I am working on Windows Server 2003 and I need to get something like the following by using this command Get-WinEvent -ListLog Application, Security, System
LogMode MaximumSizeInBytes RecordCount LogName
------- ------------------ ----------- -------
Circular 33554432 15188 Application
Circular 201326592 298459 Security
Circular 33554432 10074 System
I need the result of the property MaximumSizeInBytes but Get-WinEvent is not supported on Server 2003
I see that Get-EventLog has a property called MaximumKilobytes but the result I get is different
I would like to know if there is a command can be ran locally to get the same result
First why are you still on WS2K3? --- ;-}
Before you respond, I know, I know, some orgs... right!? ;-}
Yet, unless someone on this site has WS2K3, there is no way for them to validate stuff.
This cmdlet not supported on WS2K3 is not a bug or missing thing. cmdlets are OS version and PowerShell version specific.
All that being said. Just because a command does not exist on your system, does not mean you cannot try use it.
This is why implicit PSRemoting exists.
Remoting the Implicit Way
Using implicit PowerShell remoting to import remote modules
Mostly you see this used for ADDS, Exchange, O365 cmdlets and the like, but you can do it for any module / cmdlet on a remote host to use on your local session. Using implicit remoting the cmdlet really does not run on your system it is proxied. Just be sure to use the -prefix argument so to not end up with duplicate cmdlets being listed.
Example
$RemoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName 'RemoteHost' -Credential (Get-Credential -Credential "$env:USERDOMAIN\$env:USERNAME")
Import-PSSession -Session $RemoteSession -Prefix RS
So, no you call the cmdlets using the prefix when you want to use one from that session.
Get-RSWinEvent
Now, as I said, I have no WS2K3 boxes to mess with as I am all WS2K12R2/16/19. Yet, give it a shot.
As no one has provided a satisfying answer yet I will just post the answer I found online here. The following command saved my life:
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NTEventLogFile | Select-Object -Property MaxFileSize, LogfileName, Name, NumberOfRecords
I will not choose my own answer as the final answer just yet so if you can think of a better solution please feel free to add it :)
Thank you for viewing my post and tried to help
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I need the ability to have users run a script that requires the ActiveDirectory module. I copied over the following:
"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\ActiveDirectory", "Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.resources.dll", "Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.dll".
The script runs two Get-ADUser commands, 1 without the -Server parameter and the other with. The issue is that the former is working but the latter is not.
Is there another module that I need to copy over?
I don't like the idea of installing administrative tools for non-admins. Even if you could get away with copying files and not doing the full-blown RSAT installation. Not the least of reasons is you are dramatically increasing the attack surface for malicious actors. The better solution is (Just Enough Administration) JEA, or a philosophically similar approach.
JEA / Contrained endpoints can get complicated, but a summary of what you can do looks something like this:
New-PSSessionConfigurationFile -Path 'C:\PSSessionConfigs\DemoPSEndpointConfig.pssc' -ModulesToImport ActiveDirectory -VisibleCmdlets "Get-ADUser"
Register-PSSessionConfiguration -Path 'C:\PSSessionConfigs\DemoPSEndpointConfig.pssc' -ShowSecurityDescriptorUI -Name DemoPSEndPoint
Run these commands on a system that has the ActiveDirectory module (likely the whole RSAT component) installed, it doesn't need to be a Domain Controller. It will create a new PowerShell remoting endpoint configuration that exposes only the commands you wish. The Register-PSSessionConfiguration command will display a security dialog where you can permission which users you want to allow to connect, you want to grant them read & execute permission. Once that's done, you can get the results with an Invoke-Command command like this:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName <ServerName> -ConfigurationName DemoPSEndPoint -ScriptBlock { Get-ADUser <UserName> }
You can add the -Server parameter in the command without issue. You can expand the cmdlets you are allowing in the New-PSSessionConfiguration command.
Again this is very much a summary of a more complex topic but should be enough to get what you want.
Personally, I don't use configuration files as much as I use startup scripts. I think the latter is more flexible. You can get some information about that here. If you really want to dig into this there are references at the end of the article including a link to the PowerShell JEA documentation. There's also a link to some of the MVP articles I used to develop my own endpoints.
The ActiveDirectory module is dependent on the RSAT (remote server administration tool). This is avalible to install/activate through powershell: https://mikefrobbins.com/2018/10/03/use-powershell-to-install-the-remote-server-administration-tools-rsat-on-windows-10-version-1809/
With this installed you automatically also get the Activedirectory module installed.
Is there an event log of some kind that is made when a remote pssession is initiated on a computer? I need to be able to see where a remote session has originated from.
Currently I am running
Get-EventLog -LogName "Windows powershell" -newest 100 | Format-List -Property * | where {$_.UserID -eq "username"}
But it is not filtering and/or showing remote connections.
We are here to help you with code issues. This is really not a code issue, but a understanding of how to set up and where correlate such detail. So, it's potentially a question for another forum.
Anyway, to get you close to what you are after, there are extra steps you need to employ to get such information. More on that in a bit.
Now, once you get this all setup and you write your script to pull / look at such info and you are having issues with that, then post that back here for folks to see what can be done
So, that leads us to here:
There are three general areas for logging available:
• Module Logging
• Script Block Logging
• PowerShell Transcription
If you have not done so, I would advise enabling on PS auditing and script logging for more insight into this use case and well as transcript logging (which can capture all commands / code executed on a host machine). If you set all this up properly, you fist look to the transcript log for details and well as the log name you reference in your post for other details.
Set this enterprise wide via GPO or DSC.
There is lot's of guidance on how to set this up.
For Example:
Audit PowerShell Usage using Transcription and Logging
Get-Command -Name '*transcript*'
CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Cmdlet Get-TRSTranscriptionJob 3.3.234.0 AWSPowerShell
Cmdlet Get-TRSTranscriptionJobList 3.3.234.0 AWSPowerShell
Cmdlet Start-Transcript 3.0.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Host
Cmdlet Start-TRSTranscriptionJob 3.3.234.0 AWSPowerShell
Cmdlet Stop-Transcript 3.0.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Host
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/wmf/5.0/audit_overview
Practical PowerShell Security: Enable Auditing and Logging with DSC
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ashleymcglone/2017/03/29/practical-powershell-security-enable-auditing-and-logging-with-dsc
More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: Extra PowerShell Auditing
Get-Module Microsoft.* | Select Name, LogPipelineExecutionDetails
Get-Module Microsoft.* | ForEach { $_.LogPipelineExecutionDetails = $True }
(Import-Module ActiveDirectory).LogPipelineExecutionDetails = $True
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable #{LogName='Windows PowerShell';Id ='800'} -MaxEvents 1 | Select -Expand Message
https://learn-powershell.net/2014/08/26/more-new-stuff-in-powershell-v5-extra-powershell-auditing
Investigating PowerShell: Command and Script Logging
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/investigating-powershell-command-and-script-logging
I recently wrote a script that updates registry values on remote desktops after checking, for instance, that a certain application, MyApp, is properly installed.
The aforementioned application is installed/deployed by SCCM (2012, not R2 for the moment).
In the process of optimizing the script, I wanted to change the test of the install state of MyApp (from late to early filtering).
So far, no luck and so far, no explanation either.
I can't properly understand why it seems not possible to do some early filtering with the following command :
gwmi -ComputerName myserver -Namespace root\ccm\clientsdk -query "select * from ccm_application where Fullname='MyApp'"
Of course, nor can we use :
gwmi -ComputerName myserver -Namespace root\ccm\clientsdk -class ccm_application -filter "Fullname='MyApp'"
Late filtering, of course, works but I wanted (and expected) early filtering to work, especially since I am checking the Install state of an app for quite a lot of remote desktops.
Of course, I do know that I could (can) use SCCM for that purpose (executing a script only if ...) but that still does not explain why I can't do early filtering.
Whenever I try to query that class with my installation while specifying either properties or a filter, I get the error "Provider is not capable of the attempted operation". It doesn't matter if I use Get-WmiObject or Get-CimInstance.
I get the same error when I run this:
PS C:\> WMIC.EXE /NAMESPACE:\\root\ccm\clientsdk PATH ccm_application GET FullName
Node - <SERVERNAME>
ERROR:
Description = Provider is not capable of the attempted operation
PS C:\> wmic /NAMESPACE:\\root\ccm\clientsdk PATH ccm_application WHERE "FullName='Java 32-bit'"
Node - <SERVERNAME>
ERROR:
Description = Provider is not capable of the attempted operation
Although this works just fine:
WMIC.EXE /NAMESPACE:\\root\ccm\clientsdk PATH ccm_application
Seems like a limitation of the provider then, not a problem with your code. -Filter and -Property don't work by design.
Note that I am using 2012 R2 SP1 (5.00.8239.1000), so this may not perfectly apply. However, it seems unlikely that they would remove the functionality from the provider moving from 2012 to 2012 R2.
I need to find the status of a service on a remote computer. Though I can use the following command:
Write-Host (Get-Service -ComputerName "remoteServerName" -Name "serviceName").Status
which would give me correct status of service. However I have PowerShell 1.0 installed on the server where i need to run this script. -ComputerName parameter doesn't work for PowerShell 1.0. Currently I'm not supposed to install higher version of PowerShell.
Any idea how to get the status of a service in PowerShell 1.0?
First and foremost (and I can't stress this point enough): If the operating system supports it you should upgrade to at least PowerShell v2.0. No exception. If the system doesn't support PowerShell 2 or newer it's already out of support and should have been replaced/upgraded months ago.
With that said, you can use either WMI (as suggested by #vonPryz):
Get-WmiObject -Computer 'remoteServerName' -Class Win32_Service -Filter "DisplayName='ServiceName'"
or sc.exe (as suggested by #Kayasax):
& sc.exe \\remoteServerName query 'ServiceName'
Of these two WMI is the more PoSh approach, as it doesn't require parsing text output.
How to extend volume using powershell (I prefer WMI over powershell remoting) on remote computer ?
OS is win XP sp3.
I ended up with somethin like this:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $compName -Credential $compCred -ScriptBlock {"rescan","select volume 2","extend" | diskpart}
I'm still looking for better solution, if there is one.
There is a set of scripts Microsoft's Storage Team wrote to handle this that can also be hooked into System Insights as automated remediation actions:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2018/06/19/creating-remediation-actions-for-system-insights/
You can also see my answer with PowerShell function here, in Remotely extend a partition using WMI: