I am using Putty to transfer files from my windows machine to Linux machine.
I am able to transfer, when i run the script and also if i run the same script using Schedule task with my credentials.
if schedule the task to run using system account(SYSTEM) or other user account, file transfer not happening.
Do i need to save any session vales?
PuTTY saves session information in the registry for the current user only, this information will simply be not available for the other accounts you mentioned. So you either need to provide them by exporting yours and importing them in the other user's accounts or simply provide everything needed on the shell command invoked to copy your files. The latter sounds much easier to me in combination with a little script which gets invoked by the task scheduler.
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I accidentally screwed up my darktable configuration, so I reloaded it from scratch. To avoid losing all my recorded changes I have done to my pictures, I wrote a powershell backup script for the darktable database. I want to launch this script from the windows task scheduler when ever I launch darktable. I have found the event id which indicates in the security log of a new process has occurred which I should be able to use to automatically launch my backup script from task scheduler. I want to add code to the script to check the services to see if darktable is actually running and only perform the backup if it is. Anyone know how I can identify this?
I have a new project at work, for customer, that require me to do an OEM image creation.
The pre
The idea would be deploy OEM image, it will install, and deploy all software, and then shutdown. Once started back up it will prompt users to chose pc name, select Domain to join and regional settings.
I think i can do this by using a powershell script and wrapping it up in an msi and add it to MDT with no silent install switches (so that it prompts users to manually go through the steps)
Now my issue is how do i inject a powershell script as well as ensure that if this scipt has user input required, that it actually prompts the user to input the data (is this even possible with Wix?)
WiX is able to install files, configure Windows settings, interact with SQL Servers, and etc, but you are working with an installer file. It is not possible to receive input from the end user after a system reboot from WiX alone since you can run a PowerShell script while the system is active, but once it restarts, the process will get terminated and has to be restarted. Unless there is some way to schedule the PowerShell script in Windows such as running it from a service created in C#.
I have to think this is a solved issue but I am just not getting it to work. So I have come to you StackOverflow with this issue:
I have a windows server 2016 machine running in amazon ec2. I have a machine.ps1 script in a config directory.
I create an image of the box. (I have tried with checking noreboot and unchecking it)
When I create a new instance of the image I want it to run machine.ps1 at launch to set the computer name and then set routes and some config settings for the box. The goal is to do this without logging into the box.
I have read and tried:
Running Powershell scripts at Start up
and used this to ensure user data was getting passed in:
EC2 Powershell Launch Tools
I have tried setting up a scheduled task that runs the machine.ps1 on start up (It just hangs)
I see the initializeInstance.ps1 on start up task and have tried to even coop that replacing the line to run userdata with the line to run my script. Nothing.
If I log into the box and run machine.ps1, it will restart the computer and set the computer name and then I need to run it once more to set routes. This works manually. I just need to find a way to do it automagically.
I want to launch these instances from powershell not with launch configurations and auto scale.
You can use User data
Whenever you deploy a new server, workstation or virtual machine there is nearly always a requirement to make final changes to the system before it’s ready for use. Typically this is normally done with a post-deployment script that might be triggered manually on start-up or it might be a final step in a Configuration Manager task sequence or if you using Azure you may use the Custom Script Extension. So how do you achieve similar functionality using EC2 instances in Amazon Web Services (AWS)? If you’ve created your own Amazon Machine Image (AMI) you can set the script to run from the Runonce registry key, but then can be a cumbersome approach particularly if you want to make changes to the script and it’s been embedded into the image. AWS offers a much more dynamic method of injecting a script to run upon start-up through a feature called user data.
Please refer following link for ther same:
Poershell User data
Windows typically won't let a powershell script call another powershell script unless it is being run as Administrator. It is a weird 'safety' feature. But it is perfectly okay to load the ps1 files and use any functions inside them.
The UserData script is typically run as "system". You would THINK that would pass muster. But it fails...
The SOLUTION: Make ALL of your scripts into powershell functions instead.
In your machine.ps1 - wrap the contents with function syntax
function MyDescriptiveName { <original script contents> }
Then in UserData - use the functions like this
# To use a relative path
Set-Location -Path <my location>
# Load script file into process memory
. <full-or-relpath>/machine.ps1
# Call function
MyDescriptiveName <params-if-applicable>
If the function needs to call other functions (aka scripts), you'll need to make those scripts into functions and load the script file into process memory in UserData also.
Hello Folks,
I have a powershell MTA (GUI script using winForms), which works well, lets take the script name to be "ENDUserMTA.ps1" which does invoke certain commands and does something which really needs admin rights. this works fine when run manually or via task scheduler or when set via [registry] RunOnce or Run or whatever when there is admin rights..
The problem is i want to invoke this script on the END users laptop and make them to work with it [interactively]
Options that i have tried so far:
Tried Scheduling the "ENDUserMTA.ps1" in Task Manager SYSTEM account [using When running the task, use the following user account] - this starts and run NOT INTERACTIVE [since system account does not have interactive session]
Tried Scheduling the "ENDUserMTA.ps1" in Task Manager with Different user account which has admin rights [using When running the task, use the following user account] - This again starts but the GUI is not shown to the End User who has logged without admin rights, rather shown to only the user who was set under the option [When running the task, use the following user account]
My situation is not possible to create PSSessions or Delegated Remoting. I am now is middle of forest and no where to go!!!
Not sure how to invoke the script as admin to a user who has logged into a machine without admin rights..
WHat i exactly need or similar solution: When scheduling this script, i schedule the script to start atlogon[any user], after the script completes it will delete the scheduled task
Pls help..
Balaji
Begining on Vista Microsoft has started to separate UI stacks for security reasons.
My advise for your problem is to change the architecture of your code in order to create two scripts.
The first one with no UI will be scheduled with administrative rights
The second one with UI will be started with the user rights and will be a client of the first one.
You can use Inter-Process Communication between the two scripts, but you will met a security issue, you server part vill need particular ACLs to allow the client part to connect.
It exists other way to communicate between scripts, but it's not so easy with an asynchronous UI architecture on one side. It would be simple using managed code (.NET code) or native code(unmanaged code). For me, you are on the limit of the scripting place even if scripting capacities are very large as far as PowerShell is built on the top of .NET.
I have a .exe file in some location C:/foo/myhost.exe which actually creates MSMQ queues in the system and I need to run that a specific user (Network account). I am looking for script where business user can login to the server click the exe(But it should run as network account). I can shift-right-click on exe but I am looking to automate it.
Any help is appreciated
runas with savecred option
http://anyadangtech.blogspot.ca/2009/06/runas-without-password.html
But you need to run the first time to input the passwd. Afterwards it will remember the passwd.