I've a sitecore template with field name state. Where a state field has a drop link field which displays the country states from "Country State" node.
I'm trying to write a query which shows all the courses with given states.
But when I run the query below it shows "Sitecore.Data.Items.ItemState".
gci -recurse | format-table state
Any idea on why it's not displaying the state GUID value instead?
I understand this is long overdue and you have probably dealt with it long time ago, but for the sake of anyone who would run into it in the future, let me explain why and how.
The reason why State returns the Sitecore.Data.Items.ItemState text is that the Sitecore items contains a property named State on the Item object.
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions attaches additional dynamic properties on to the object that expose your item fields. Those however cannot collide with the existing item properties which would be the case here. To avoid the collision SPE will detect it and prepend the dynamic property with an underscore. In your case the one liner that would give you the expected results would be:
gci -recurse | format-table _state
or if you wanted to display the property as State still rather than _state you could use the following syntax:
gci master:\content | format-table #{Name="State"; Expression={$_._state } }
Hope this still helps someone.
Related
I have installed Import-Excel Module for PowerShell by dfinke which has a great functionality but I'm facing some troubles with the headers.
I would like to insert only the text into a string array, but instead, it comes with the header even when -NoHeader is declared. According to the documentation it's not its function not insert the header in the variable but I'm looking for a way to do it. So far I came with a newbie solution of $xlsxArray | Format-Table -HideHeaders | Out-File C:\temp\info.txt and then remove the spaces with .Trim() so the file doesn't get written #{P1=ContentofTheCell}.
Is there a better way to accomplish it?
Thank you so far.
You didn't give enough detail about the desired output, but I'll try to give guidance.
Import-Excel will return objects. Normally the column headers become the property names on the objects. When you use -NoHeader, the property names are simply named P1, P2 etc... An object's properties must have names. If you want the data from those properties you may have to process differently. You can access the properties like any other object collection:
$ExcelData = Import-Excel "C:\Temp\Some.xlsx"
$ExcelData.PropertyName
The PropertyName would be the column header from the file. So let's say I had a colum named Balance in that file, then the example would something like:
$ExcelData = Import-Excel "C:\Temp\Some.xlsx"
$ExcelData.balance
Output:
7254.74
4268.16
3051.32
64.77
323.22
146.62
14798.83
Note: these are pretty simple examples. Obviously things can get more complex.
I am looking to create a rule in Office 365 applied to all of the members in our org.
I would like this rule to append a warning on all incoming email from outside the organization with the same Display Names as our users.
When I attempt to apply it to all of the users in our org I get an error stating that the rule is too long.
In order to solve that I pulled a group, but I am still about 1000 characters over the limit.
I would like to make two variables, that each hold one half of the list, created by this command:
(Get-DistibutionGroupMember -Identity email#contoso.com -ResultSize Unlimited).DisplayName
I have attempted to modify the ResultSize parameter, but what I would need is result 1-100 and then 100-200 from the same list.
Another caveat to this problem is that the list cannot be static. It is something that the script will have to update every time it is run.
There is a sub-string command that you can use on a particular username that I have utilized when I made something for AD, but I am not aware of any way to break up a list like this.
If anyone has any other ways to solve this issue I would be more than open to any suggestion.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
There are many ways of doing it. I found it very readable.
My favorite one is this one:
$ObjectList = 1..1000
$Step = 100
$counter = [pscustomobject] #{ Value = 0 }
$ObjectListSplitted = $ObjectList | Group-Object -Property { math]::Floor($counter.Value++ / $step) }
Then if you want to show the third subset just use this format :
$ObjectListSplitted[3].Group
Have a look to this solution already explained.
As a note other languages are capable of slicing an array of object with a start, stop and a step, have a look here if you're curious.
As per the subject, I'm trying to get the name of a property and the value assocaited with that property, for a specific mailbox.
So, the line below gets me a nice list of the available object properties, and a default column displayed in the output has the heading 'Name'
Get-Mailbox -Identity "Person Name" | gm
I then want to say something like:
For the object: "Mailbox of Person Name"
Where the property of "Mailbox of Person Name" has a name like 'quota'
List both the actual property name and it's value for "Mailbox of Person Name"
I've tried a number of things using -ExpandProperty/Select-Object/Where-Object but they're all failing. I'm sure this is pretty basic, but Powershell is definitely not my strength. Can anyone show me how to structure this pipeline correctly?
You do not need to use Where-Object, only Select-Object:
Get-Mailbox -Identity "Person Name" | Select-Object -Property *quota*
You seem to have used the correct commandlets. Where-Object filters. Select-Object selects specific properties.
From my experience, sometimes what you see on the console doesn't match the actual property name because there is a formatter that can even change the column name. If you you drive the Where-Object and Select-Object with that virtual property name then they do fail. Also sometimes, the output is not really a recordset that works well with these cmdlets.
My advice is to always check the type of an object when things go strange. Starting from $items=Get-Mailbox -Identity "Person Name".
Then $items.GetType() reveals the actual .net type.
Then $items.Count reveals if it is actually an array or a single object.
Then $items|ForEach-Object {$_.GetType()} reveals the type of each object.
Also the $items|Get-Member is very helpful to figure out the property names. If necessary use it also within your loop.
That is how I troubleshoot strange behaviors and if you can post your findings and the code you tried with Where-Object and Select-Object that would be a great help.
I'm writing a Powershell runbook that will scale up a VM ScaleSet until an Application Insights alert is resolved.
To do this, I need to query the status of the alert in my Powershell script, ie no if an alert has been triggered or resolved.
I have tried to use Get-AzureRmAlertRule and Get-AzureRmAlertHistory, but this only gives me respectively the disabled/enabled state of the alert rule, or the actions that were perform on the rule itself (ie updating the rule, or deleting the alert, etc).
Is there any way to simply know if an alert is currently being triggered or resolved?
So I'm actively working through this issue too and thought I would share what I found.
The following was pulled from Microsoft documentation:
The Get-AzureRmAlertHistory cmdlet gets the history of alerts as they are enabled, disabled, fired, resolved, and so on.
While messing around with this command, I found that if you don't give it any parameters, it will only return history for the current day; however, when you use the -StartTime and -EndTime parameters you can obtain details of alerts from further in the past.
While this doesn't give you the current status of an alert in a single command, can throw together some logic that will grab the latest alert within a given time range and check the status there.
For my purposes, this code with check the status of a sibling alert from within a runbook that was called from the alert webhook. So I can gather the time ranges based on the data provided in the webhook. I know this isn't a perfect solution for all cases, but at least it could be used as a starting point.
Note: The version of the AzureRM.Insights module I'm working with is 3.2.1 behavior may differ depending on the version of this module you're using.
Update:
As I continued to work on the code, I found that there are some issues with filtering with the -ResourceId parameter. When you provide the ResourceId for the alert that you want to find history on, it won't return any result. From what I can tell, the ResourceId isn't populated when the alert objects are returned when using the Get-AzureRmAlertHistory cmdlet with just the -ResourceId parameter. I did manage to find two ways to get this to work though.
Pass the -DetailedOutput parameter in before the -ResourceId parameter. It turns out that the ResourceId is populated in the DetailedOutput and can be matched there; however, if you pass the -ResourceId in first, the cmdlet acts as though it evaluates that first prior to bringing back the detailed output.
Get-AzureRmAlertHistory -StartTime 2018-01-16 -EndTime 2018-01-17 -DetailedOutput -ResourceId $AlertResourceID
The property CorrelationId contains within it the ResourceId. Using the Where-Object syntax, you can match on your ResourceId using Regex.
Get-AzureRmAlertHistory -StartTime 2018-01-16 -EndTime 2018-01-17 | Where-Object {$_.CorrelationId -Match "$AlertResourceID/incidents/.*"}
Now that you have the records you want, you can use a simple Sort-Object on the -EventTimestamp property and assign the results to a variable. Then if you reference the -1 index of the variable you assigned your results to, it should give you the latest alert instance along with the alert Status.
$AlertHistory = Get-AzureRmAlertHistory -StartTime 2018-01-16 -EndTime 2018-01-17 | Where-Object {$_.CorrelationId -Match "$AlertResourceID/incidents/.*"} | Sort-Object -Property EventTimestamp;
$AlertHistory[-1];
So I have an interesting script I am trying to figure out, basically I need to change a custom attribute value to a new one. The problem is its for both users and computers and not specific to the groups. So for instance the value might be Billing1 for several users in an OU and this need to be Billing2. So I need to find any instance of the Value of Billing1 and change it to Billing2 not knowing the user or computer object. I can successfully change one at a time if I know who the user is by using Set-ADUser, Set-ADComputer and even with Set-AdObject but I need to figure out a Find and replace function.
I have searched for this and I have found examples of where I can use CSV for users and computers but again I don't know who has what since the value in the attribute can vary and also changes if a reorg happens.
got the correct script...
Get-ADComputer -Properties enterattributename -Filter {enterattributename -like "value to search" } |Set-ADComputer –replace #{ enterattributename =”value to change”}
this also can be applied to Get-ADUser and Get-ADObject