I am new to Powershell and after having a few ideas and deciding to tinker around a bit I noticed that I can write a script in Poswershell that will make a search request on a search engine that I specify.
The issue is I am not sure exactly how it works. How is this script able to know how to open my web browser when all I did was specify a string filled with an address?
I have searched up other posts and have not found anything close to what I am asking (I believe).
Here is my source and I will also add an image.
[String]$SearchFor = "bing rewards"
$Query = "http://www.bing.com/search?q=$SearchFor"
Start $Query
Thank you all for your help.
Read help on start-process
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.management/start-process
If you specify a non-executable file, Start-Process starts the program
that is associated with the file, similar to the Invoke-Item cmdlet.
So if I would have a TXT File in C:\test.txt and run
start-process c:\test.txt
It would open my default application assiociated with that file. On my PC it would open test.txt in notepad.
Hope that makes it clear now.
It simply uses the default application to open URLs on your desktop i.e. your default Internet browser.
Same behavior if you paste the URL (without variables) in your Start > Run box.
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in my powershell script a lot of items are getting printed in the console.
I want to copy them and validate a data is present or not. Any way I can do it?
I am yet to get any solution for this. thank you in advance
One Way to record everything thats going on with your Script is Powershell Transcript
Or you can just Copy the Output from your Console to a Text file in Notepad++ or something like that...
But to be honest I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve with that, wouldn't be the goal with a script that you don't have to check something like that?
My suggestion would be that you look for a way to validate anything you need within your Script, and maybe implement some sort of Logging to have the Option to review it when something has gone wrong...
I used $variable = command and it is working.
if your case is to validate your logs I suggest saving the logs into a file and then validating them and don't use the console for that purpose.
if you still want to copy them from the console try this: Copy text from a Windows CMD window to clipboard
In your situation, i would use Start-Transcript into a log file.
And then get information from the log file using filters.
I often have to move a large number of files from one part of sharepoint to another, and the GUI often has issues with data loss or duplication, as well as being extremely repetitive and time intensive.
Ideally I'd really like there to be a way to just navigate sharepoint files as if they were just any other files on a command line in a computer file system. Is such a thing even possible? If not, is there at least a way to cp files from one directory into another?
Things like these make it seem easy, except the file paths don't actually match up in reality to any expected path:
https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2018/03/sharepoint-online-move-files-using-powershell.html
When attempting to use the SPO or PNP module in powershell, the documentation is pretty unclear. Get-PNPfile either always returns file not found if I try to use /Documents/Foldername like one would think. Even if I right click and copy link and get that messy url and make sure to deal with the ampersands, it still doesn't work. For example
Get-PnPFile -Url "https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/team/Documents/file"
I would expect this to well, return an object that contains something pointing to the file, but it never works.
One possibility is that MFA is a requirement in the environment I'm using and it seems requires a flag -UseWebLogin which appears to work without errors, but it also appears to work when I mistyped the url of the team name when I used the command Connect PnPOnline, so maybe there is an issue there?
First for MFA, it will be better to user Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://domain.sharepoint.com" -Interactive just like the comment on your original post.
And for the file not found error, it seems you are not using the correct URL. Have a try on the site relative URL.
Here is what I have tested
So, the solution ended up being the use of the "sync" feature which then creates an alias that can be manipulated as if it was a regular file on a machine using powershell. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to interact with the sharepoint filesystem via command line which is bonkers.
I am pretty new to IT Administration and I think I have a pretty complicated request but I want to know if it is even possible through Intune. I have an application that I want to deploy and I think I would either need to package the application as a Win32 app or via a Powershell Script. I basically would need to download the zip from this website, extract the contents, open the WCX, silently pass through the prompts, and pin the app to the taskbar. Again I am not sure if this is even possible but this would save me a lot of trouble if there was an easy way to do this. Here is the link.
https://kb.tempworks.com/help/how-to-add-an-enterprise-shortcut-to-the-desktop
To download a file, use Invoke-WebRequest with the -OutFile parameter.
To Install a .wcx you use rundll like this:
rundll32.exe 'tsworkspace,WorkspaceSilentSetup' C:\Path\To\The.wcx
(There's a whole wrapper script for that on the old technet script gallery)
It's impossible by design to pin things to users' task bar or start menu programmatically (well, you could script a bunch of hotkey presses and clicks, but don't).
After trying to use ConvertTo-Application and New-WebApplication, I've had no luck converting a folder to an app when it's located on a network share.
I receive a "Path doesn't belong to 'WebAdministration' provider"
I've scoured the internet trying to find a solution, including several links from stackoverflow.
Basically I'm making a GUI script to create a website, convert folders to webapps, I have two comboboxes for selecting current websites and AppPools. The GUI also let's me create AppPools. The GUI works great, but I'm just trying to get this one feature of it going.
This feature of the script is something that is required by management.
New-WebApplication -Name $Name2 -Site $SiteN -PhysicalPath $Path -ApplicationPool $AppP
(also)
ConvertTo-WebApplication -PSPath "\\domain.local\webstuff\WebSites\Dev\Internet\foldername\scriptdevsite\scriptdevsite2\SiteApp1"
Now, I realize that ConvertTo-WebApplication is for converting Virtual Directories to apps, but I wanted to try this and see if it'll work.
The New-Website command works great, but it makes apps and leaves the folders.
So I'll get scriptdevsite2\SiteApp1\SiteApp1, not going to work.
We have websites that have physical folders that sometimes need to be converted to an application and occasionally removed for testing.
Likely going to have to implement some C# for this, I've been checking into Application Class.
But it's not very helpful, at least not to me.
I'm still new to this site, so if there's anything I'm leaving out, I apologize in advance.
Thank you for your help
I wrote a scrip in Powershell to open ie and get webpage content automatically every minute to check if my API for website is working correctly:
$ie = New-Object -com internetexplorer.application
$ie.navigate($url)
...
$ie.Quit()
After a month my disk C is strangely filled up with IE temporary files, nearly 20GB. I think maybe it's related to my script. The version is Internet Explorer 10.
So how can I open ie without generating these files ? Thanks.
I believe it is better to say not how not to generate cache files at opening but how to clear them after this. As far as I see it now here you can try to clear those files by yourself as here. Or you can set up IE to clear them by itself as per here. Also here some help.