I have a following problem:
I'm in need of a code that will close all running process from a given path on a remote machine.
So far I've found and came up with those 2 lines but none of them actually work.
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "\\$computername\C$\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\**"} | Stop-Process -Force
This is the second line I've found but still does not want to work with me :)
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "ExecutablePath LIKE '\\$computername\C$\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\'" -ComputerName $computername | Invoke-WmiMethod -Name Terminate
I will be happy to get some advice. Belive that this is something rather simple to do..I hope that is.. :)
Something like this should work:
(Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -ComputerName $computerName | ?{ $_.ExecutablePath -like "*Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader*" }).Terminate()
You might have to tweak the "like" expression, however.
Another way to approach this is to run that command local to the machine with PSRemoting.
Invoke-Command $computername -script {
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "c:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Reader 10.0\Reader\*"} | Stop-Process -Force
}
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this is my code i want it to show a few services from my servers but it keeps showing all of them. i tried using -Name but power shell 7 keeps saying that doesn't exist please help
$offlineServices = (Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server.Name {Get-service [string]$server.Value | `
Where-Object{$_.status -eq 'Stopped'}} ).Name
Get-Service can be used directly against remote servers, like this:
Get-Service -Name $server.Value -ComputerName $server.Name |
Where-Object Status -eq 'Stopped'
If you want to stick with your original remoting technique, you need to use the using modifier:
$offlineServices = (Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server.Name -Script {Get-service $using:server.Value |
Where-Object Status -eq 'Stopped'}).Name
NOTE: you should also remove the backtick before Where-Object as it isn't needed and might cause you issue later when modifying/debugging the code.
I am trying to collect a list of the viewers installed on a set of servers. I am trying to loop through that list and run a wmi query and store the results and export a table with with the wmi result and server name next to it.
I am running this on server 2012
$computers = Get-Content C:\computers.txt
$WMIQuery = foreach ($computer in $computers){Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_Product | where-object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}}
$WMIQuery
$WMIQuery | Out-File c:\Viewers.txt
Desired Results
Server Name Object1 Object2
Server1 Microsoft Excel Viewer Microsoft Visio Viewer
I output the file and get a blank txt file.
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product |
Where-Object {$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer" } |
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
Your original code wasn't identifying the computer to perform Get-WMIObject against, so it was looking at only the computer that you were running the script on.
If there are many products on the remote computer, you may want to consider filtering on the remote computer instead of locally, so as to avoid transferring large amounts of data over what may be a slower-than-ideal network:
foreach ($computer in (Get-Content -Path "C:\computers.txt")) {
Get-WMIObject -ComputerName $computer -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name LIKE '*Microsoft Viewer*'"|
Out-File -Append -Path "C:\viewers.txt"
}
(I think I have the filter syntax correct; I seem to have to hack at it every time I write a new filter...)
I don't have enough rep to add a comment, but Jeff is correct. However, there are still issues with the original poster's query. The following piece of code will yield no results based on the examples provided by the poster:
{$_.name -match "Microsoft Viewer*"}
That needs to either be changed to
{$_.name -like "*Microsoft*Viewer*"}
or
{$_.name -match "Microsoft.*?Viewer"}
Here is my code, it works and creates a job for each computer in the OU but does not populate the $Computer variable in my script block causing this to fail.
I am sure I am missing something small since I have never created jobs before in Powershell but after working on this for an hour or two I have been unable to figure out what I am missing.
#Gets all workstations that need to have software installed, if you don't want to uninstall all of the software from you will need to use a text document and Get-Content
$computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Workstation Test,OU=Workstations,OU=Workstations,DC=CONTOSO,DC=COM" | Select DNSHostName -ExpandProperty DNSHostname
$Computer
#Use Get-WMIObject to find the IdentifyingNumber
$Computers | ForEach-Object {Start-Job -Name "$Uninstall" -ScriptBlock {(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_product -ComputerName $Computer -Filter {IdentifyingNumber LIKE '{CD95F661-A5C4-44F5-A6AA-ECDD91C2410B}'}).uninstall()}}
Instead of $computer you need to use $_.
$_ represents the current item in the pipeline.
Alternatively you could do:
ForEach ($Computer in $Computers) { Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ScriptBlock {(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_product -Filter {IdentifyingNumber LIKE '{CD95F661-A5C4-44F5-A6AA-ECDD91C2410B}'}).uninstall()} }
Here you continue to use $Computer inside the foreach as it now gets populated with each item in the collection.
Also FYI your $computer line above the ForEach-Object is currently unnecessary (it's just outputting an empty variable, unless you've already populated it elsewhere).
Edit: per comments I also noticed that the start-job seemed redundant as -computername was being used on the wmi cmdlet. Invoke-command is preferred as it uses winrm, so I've modified it as such in my code above.
I am new to PowerShell and I am trying to write a script that will install a series of network printers for me. To get me started I was looking for a way to find all shared printers on a print server and then install them locally. Here is something that doesn't work but gets the idea across. One thing to note is that this is this script is being run on a win 2008 server.
Get-WmiObject -computername $printServer -class Win32_Printer | Where {$_.name -notlike "Microsoft*"} | add-printer -connectionname \\$_.systemName\$_.shareName
I don't currently have a way to test this but I believe that this may work for you.
$printClass = [wmiclass]"win32_printer"
Get-WmiObject -computername $printServer -class Win32_Printer | ? {$_.name -notlike "Microsoft*"} | % { $printClass.AddPrinterConnection([string]::Concat("\\", $_.systemName, "\", $_.shareName)) }
I have 3 instances of application running from different places. All processes have similar names.
How can I kill process that was launched from specific place?
You can get the application path:
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "*something*"} | Stop-Process -WhatIf
That will work for the local machine only. To terminate remote processes:
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "ExecutablePath LIKE '%something%'" -ComputerName server1 | Invoke-WmiMethod -Name Terminate
I would like to slightly improve Shay Levy's answer, as it didn't work work well on my setup (version 4 of powershell)
Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.Path -like "*something*"} | Stop-Process -Force -processname {$_.ProcessName}
You can take a look at the MainModule property inside of the Process class (which can be invoked via powershell).
foreach (Process process in Process.GetProcesses())
{
if (process.MainModule.FileName == location)
{
process.Kill();
}
}
I'd also consider the possible exceptions that can occur while calling this code. This might occur if you're trying to access processes that are no longer present (killed since the last time GetProcess was called) or processes for while you do not have permissions.
Try this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee177004.aspx
Stop-Process -processname notepad
The below command kills processes wherein "something" is part of the path or is a command line parameter. It also proves useful for terminating powershell scripts such as powershell -command c:\my-place\something.ps1 running something.ps1 from place c:\my-place:
gwmi win32_process | Where-Object {$_.CommandLine -like "*something*"} | % { "$(Stop-Process $_.ProcessID)" }
The solution works locally on my 64bit Windows 10 machine.