I'm trying to check if Windows Deployment Services is installed in server 2016 using powershell and then use this condition to do further steps. I've tried using Get-WindowsFeature but it gives the status list of all roles and features. I want a command that checks whether a single role or feature is installed or not.
My intention is to:
if(WDS is not installed){
Install-WindowsFeature -Name WDS }
else
Do nothing
Facing problem in finding out status of WDS role
Found the answer thanks to #TheIncorrigible1 and #DavidMartin
Using Get-WindowsFeature -Name WDS | % Installed worked.
Also, Get-WindowsFeature -Name WDS | Format-List helps in finding more helpful details.
You can use
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$FeatureName
)
(get-windowsfeature |where name -eq $FeatureName).Installstate
Just pass FeatureName to the the variable
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I have McAfee Drive Encryption installed on my Machine and trying to query the application using Powershell, however there is a really strange issue happening.
When i go the Uninstall Key in the registry, i can see McAfee Drive Encryption there, however it does not find it when i run the following command:
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Where { $_.DisplayName -match "McAfee Drive" } | select DisplayName, DisplayVersion
now i tried to simply put the code as: Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*
and it lists all the applications in there but not the McAfee Value!, i have tried this on another account / Machine and that worked fine, so wondering if anyone had a similar issue at all?
Any Help is appreciated.
I've run into an error after following this document (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/cloud-communication-online-meeting-application-access-policy) when trying to set up an application access policy in powershell. This is the cmdlet that was run, which produced the error,
New-CsApplicationAccessPolicy -Identity "MeetingsPolicy" -AppIds "<app-id>" -Description "MeetingsPolicy"
The error received in powershell is the following,
"New-CsApplicationAccessPolicy : Unable to cast object of type 'System.Management.Automation.PSListModifier' to type
'System.String'."
Can anyone help shed any light on what is the problem here and how to fix it please?
P.S Im using Powershell 5.1 on Win 10 and running Powershell in admin mode.
Have also tried the following using "splatting", which also did not work.
$props = #{
identity = 'MeetingsPolicy'
appids = '<app-id>'
description = 'MeetingsPolicy'
}
New-CsApplicationAccessPolicy #props
So it turned out the Microsoft Teams cmdlet module version 3.1.0 has issues in there when installed with no previous version. I had to install the 2.3.2-preview version first, which allowed the cmdlets to work. I then updated this version to 3.1.0 and it works fine.
So the steps you need to take are the following,
i) Remove the teams module from powershell,
Uninstall-Module MicrosoftTeams -Allversions
ii) Install the older version first,
Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -RequiredVersion 2.3.2-preview -AllowPrerelease
iii) Connect to teams
Connect-MicrosoftTeams
v) Update to the latest version (Optional)
Update-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams
Run cmdlet and it should work now.
Credit to Marcus Rath for his post here https://blog.matrixpost.net/teams-powershell-several-cmdlet-doesnt-work-errounable-to-cast-object-of-type-system-management-automation-pslistmodifier-to-type-system-string/, which explains the issue in more detail.
Is there an event log of some kind that is made when a remote pssession is initiated on a computer? I need to be able to see where a remote session has originated from.
Currently I am running
Get-EventLog -LogName "Windows powershell" -newest 100 | Format-List -Property * | where {$_.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 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.
I've searched through the SOFTWARE\Classes and SOFTWARE\Microsoft subkeys, but couldn't find anything related to "spartan" or "edge". Given that Edge is still very new, there really isn't much information about this yet.
As an example, this is how I gather the information about the Internet Explorer Version via the registry on a remote machine:
$ieVersion=[Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $args[0]).OpenSubKey('SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer').GetValue('SvcVersion')
Use the Get-AppxPackage command:
Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach Version
The package name is valid on build 10240 but if you are on an earlier build, it might be different. If the above doesn't find the package try -Name *Edge* or -Name *Spartan*.
$productPath = $Env:WinDir + "\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_*\MicrosoftEdge.exe"
If(Test-Path $productPath) {
$productProperty = Get-ItemProperty -Path $productPath
Write-Host $productProperty.VersionInfo.ProductVersion
}
Else {
Write-Host "Not find Microsoft Edge."
}
Source How to determine the version of Microsoft Edge browser by PowerShell
For Edge on Chromium above 44 version
powershell:
Get-AppxPackage -Name *MicrosoftEdge.* | Foreach Version
cmd:
powershell "Get-AppxPackage -Name *MicrosoftEdge.* | Foreach Version"
I tested using two commands back to back. I ran from an elevated PowerShell session New-PSSession -ComputerName "The remote PC I was testing this on." and then once the connection was made I ran the Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.MicsrosoftEdge and it pulled down the information, but I think it was more build information. You can also filter it down to version using the Pipe character. The full command looked like this.
Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | select-object Version
I found this forum and others that lead me to some of the other switches and parameters I did not know about.
How can I find the Microsoft Edge version on Windows 10 in powershell?
I was trying to find an alternate way of remotely finding out what browser version it was. Trying to verify if it is updating regularly. I am still learning. I hope this helps. I found another article that shows me exactly what I am looking for differently without powershell.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/161325-how-find-version-microsoft-edge-chromium-installed.html#option2
You may see multiple versions of Edge installed via Appx-Packages. I would recommend this approach:
$EdgeExe = Get-ItemPropertyValue 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\msedge.exe' "(default)"
$version = (Get-Item $EdgeExe).VersionInfo.ProductVersion