I have a general question regarding the possibilities of Powershell, which I am learning at the moment. As practice I wanted to create a simple script which automatically starts steam and logs me in. I got the following:
$steamExe = (Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Valve\Steam\ -Name SteamExe).SteamExe
Invoke-Item $steamExe
After this the steam window pops up and Im not sure how to continue.
Can I reference and type into the input fields of the Username and Password?
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I have the function below that produce multiple outputs, is there a way I can put all the outputs of the function in a text file. I tried below to use Out-File it did not work any suggestions?
cls
function functionAD {Write-output ""...}
functionAD | Out-File -FilePath C:\test\task5.txt -Append
the script above still did not work.
UPDATE: This is, in fact, possible if you overwrite the Write-Host function. It can be done like this:
function Write-Host($toWrite) {
Write-Output $toWrite
}
Copy and paste this code into your PowerShell console, then run the program.
Don't worry about permanently overwriting the Write-Host command, this will only last for the current session.
OLD COMMENT:
Unfortunately, Write-Host can not be rerouted to another file stream. It is the only 'write' command that acts in that way. That is why PowerShell programmers generally try to avoid using it unless there is a specific reason to. It is intended for messages sent directly to the user and is thus send to the program (powershell) itself rather than a console.
I would suggest using some other command if the function is your own. Write-Output is always a safe bet because it can be redirected to any other stream.
Here is a link if you have more questions: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/understanding-streams-redirection-and-write-host-in-powershell/
I know there are question that is already answered however those are the log files I don't need and I can't get it to work. This part of PowerShell is something I didn't learned yet. I'm trying to do the following: I wrote a script to create users, mailboxes, folders etc however I want to enable a log file, just simple and plain.
Something only certain people can access and where the log files have the following info, for example: PSmith created on 01/29/2019 the user account JDoe.
How can I do this? I tried a lot found online however I have to rewrite my whole script for some to work.
Easiest option: you can enable transcript which would log every single command that is entered at the console potentially creating a huge file but you would have to filter for the specific messages yourself.
There are tools like microsoft orchestrator that would run your script and log the results automatically but those are expensive other than that you would pretty much have to build the logging yourself.
My suggestion would be to send the message to the windows event logs. This way you dont have to manage the log files, windows does it for you with date and time stamps. This would also make it audit and query friendly.
I believe you need something like this, if not please provide more code.
$creator = (get-aduser $env:username | Select Name).Name
$date = get-date -UFormat "%d/%m/%Y"
I believe you have the $user in your script.
$log = $creator + "created on " + $date + " the user account " + $user.Name
Out-File $log "C:\temp\log.csv"
Just need a little help with a Powershell Script.
I have a last messagebox on my script. what i want to accomplish is bring the messagebox in front of all the windows.
cmdlet that i use is
$end=[system.Windows.Forms.Messagebox]::Show('StartUP Tool Progress Completed!','StartUP Warning')
Alternatively, if all you need is a message box you can use the Wscript Shell:
$wshell = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
$wshell.Popup("StartUP Tool Progress Completed",0,"Completed",0x0)
For more information: Popup Method
This is a WinForms question, more than a PowerShell question. You'll need to pass in Form.ActiveForm. Form.ActiveForm would give you the currently active form, even if you are raising your MessageBox from any other class.
However, I think you might want to look at Read-Host -AsSecureString or, more preferably, Get-Credential if the prompt is for confidential data.
Read-Host uncontrollably stops the script to prompt the user, which means that you can never have another script that includes the script that uses Read-Host.
Thankfully, PowerShell has a lot of built-in help for launching dialogs. You're trying to ask for parameters.
You should use the
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
attribute, and correct typing, to ask for the parameters. Read up on "params" if you haven't already.
If you use Parameter attribute on a [SecureString], it will prompt for a password field. If you use this on a Credential type, ([Management.Automation.PSCredential]), the credentials dialog will pop up, if the parameter isn't there. A string will just become a plain old text box. If you add a HelpMessage to the parameter attribute (that is, [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, HelpMessage = 'New User Credentials')]) then it will become help text for the prompt.
Finally, you can try this dirty trick, leveraging Microsoft Visual basic DLLs:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.VisualBasic') | Out-Null
$computer = [Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction]::InputBox("Enter a computer name", "Computer", "$env:computername")
I'm trying to run a program that will web scrape from Pastebin using PowerShell. I used the following code to do so:
Set Wshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Wshell.Run "%ComSpec% /c powershell & $result = Invoke-WebRequest
""https://pastebin.com/raw/wAhYB4UY"" & $result.content ", 0, True
$result.content will bring up everything I need from Pastebin. How can I transfer $result.content to a VBScript variable?
I know this is possible using the Exec() method as demonstrated here, but I can't use it because I want my code to stay hidden, which to my knowledge is not possible with Exec() (without having a window popping and closing)
I also don't want to use File I/O in Powershell because that can really complicate other things I want my program to do in the future; however, If absolutely no options are available, then I can use it.
EDIT: Some readers pointed out that my script only consists of running Powershell, so why not program my script in PowerShell? Well, not everything I am planning for this script to do can be done in PS. for example, I want my script to type some stuff outside of PS. I also want to wait until the user has pressed a certain key, in my case PrtSc (which will create a popup a message using MsgBox).
$Path = 'https://pastebin.com/raw/etc'
$Raw = Invoke-WebRequest $Path
$Raw.Content
What do you want to do with the data that using VBScript is the preferable tool?
We have an ERP application with restrictive licensing, which we access via RemoteApp. We need to only allow one instance per user. So, I've been experimenting with PowerShell to try to do this.
What the script has to do is check and see if "pxxi.exe" is running for the calling user.
My first attempt used WMI. It worked, but it turns out WMI is very very slow.
(gwmi win32_process -Filter "name='pxxi.exe'" | ? {$_.getowner().user
-eq $env:username}).pid
My second attempt used Get-Process. This works great, but unfortunately requires elevated rights.
Get-Process pxxi -IncludeUserName | ? {$_.username -match $env:username}).id
My third attempt focused on the win32 command line program Tasklist.
$result = Invoke-Command { c:\windows\system32\tasklist.exe /fi
"username eq $env:username" /fi "imagename eq pxxi.exe"}
This works! And thanks to EBGreen's code, I can extract just the PID.
($result[3] -split '\s+')[1]
And while that runs really quick as an Administrator, for regular users, Tasklist runs as slow as WMI, above...
So, that puts me back to square one.
Does anyone out there know of a bit of code to quickly check and see if a user XYZ is running a process with name ABC.EXE ?? This needs to work for regular users (but regular users don't need to see other user's processes) and it needs to not take 30+ seconds to run.
I'm not married to powershell. VBScript would be fine. Or any little tool available on the internet.
Thanks!
For the example that you have:
($result[3] -split '\s+')[1]
Be aware that this works for just one result being returned. If you expect more than one instance then you should write a loop to iterate from the 4th item in the array on splitting each item to get that process's PID.
I gave up trying to find a way to do it in Powershell. Either the method was too slow, or required admin.
So I wrote something in C#:
c# - check if program is running for current user