At an impasse, (a complete loss as to where to go next)
I am building a powershell script to automate a number of manual tasks one of which is to run a query within access and then email that object to a number of recipients.
The closest I have got to was running
$Acc = New-Object -com Access.Application
$Acc.OpenCurrentDataBase("L:\Operations Database\OPS\OPS-V2.0.accdb")
##Test email object
$Acc.DoCmd.RunMacro("EmailLiveFNZ")
This ran the macro that I had produced in Access but I was then required to manually click on an Outlook warning box so it has not resolved the issues.
I have then started playing around with various versions of the following script but can't get it to work.
$Acc = New-Object -com Access.Application
$Acc.OpenCurrentDataBase("L:\Operations Database\OPS\OPS-V2.0.accdb")
##Test email object
$Acc.DoCmd.SendObject acSendQuery, "LiveFNZFundXfer", acFormatXLS, _
"email#address.com", , , _
"Live Transfers", , False
I am assuming that I can send the query out using powershell automatically I just can't find the assistance I need online...
Alternatively if anyone knows how to save an access object to a specific folder location on a PC I could have the script email the file from there, I can't work it out...
Thanks for your help!
Regards
R
I also tried;
$Acc = New-Object -com Access.Application
$Acc.OpenCurrentDataBase("L:\Operations Database\OPS\OPS-V2.0.accdb")
##Test export object
$Acc.DoCmd.OpenQuery("LiveFNZFundXfer") | Export-CSV "C:\LiveFNZFundXfer.csv"
This compiles without errors but does not export anything
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I am trying to read emails from a folder in Outlook Desktop using powershell, and I can do that with the code below.
But is there any way by which I could also set the Unread property to $False for those emails
directly in outlook ? ( not in the objects stored in variables )
Browsing the website I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34161683/13568461 which says to use MailItem.Save but I cant figure it out how to update my code to make use of that.
Much appreciated if anyone can help with that piece of code. Thank you in advance
Add-Type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook"
$Outlook = New-Object -comobject Outlook.Application
$namespace = $Outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
$Folder_AI = $namespace.Folders.Item('user#domain').Folders.Item('AI-ServiceDesk-Servers')
$Count_ItemsUnread = $Folder_AI.UnReadItemCount
$All_Folder_Items = $Folder_AI.Items | Select-Object -Property UnRead, Body
$All_Folder_Items | ForEach-Object {
$Email_Status = $PSItem.Unread
$Email_Body = $PSItem.Body
$Email_Status
}
But is there any way by which I could also set the Unread property to $False for those emails directly in outlook ? ( not in the objects stored in variables )
No, you need to get an item to set up a property. The Save method is required to make changes permanent and avoid any dialogs for saving changes made programmatically in Outlook.
When dealing with Exchange accounts in Outlook you may reach the limit of concurrently opened items if you iterate over all items in the folder/store. That is why Find/FindNext or Restrict methods are recommended. They allow getting items that correspond to your search criteria and iterate over them only. Read more about these methods in the article that I wrote for the technical blog:
How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET)
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to open an Access Database and then open a specific table named "UserInfo" using PowerShell. At that point, I would modify the records within that table. As for now, I simply want to get to the table. I have this very basic code I saw somewhere else and modified a tad. I have looked everywhere and can't find a solution to getting to this table. Ultimately, I think that I am looking for a method to use in conjunction with DoCmd?
$filename = "Z:\Database2.accdb"
$accdb = New-Object -ComObject access.application
$accdb.Visible = $true
$accdb.OpenCurrentDatabase($filename)
$accdb.DoCmd
I'm using powershell to get the Status/Availability of certain users by using the following code:
Import-Module "C:\...\Microsoft.Lync.Model.dll"
$Client = [Microsoft.Lync.Model.LyncClient]::GetClient()
$Contact = $Client.ContactManager.GetContactByUri( $args[0] )
Write-Host $Contact.GetContactInformation("Activity")
Let's say I'm passing in testuser#testcompany.com as the script argument.
If I run this script, it will return "Presence unknown". However, if I open up the Skype client manually and search for the user, I can see their availability then (let's say this user is set to Available).
Now, if I run my script again now after I've searched for them in Skype, the script will return the proper result by printing "Available" to the console. The script will continuously return the proper result until I restart Skype. At the point, it will return "Presence unknown" again until I search for the user in Skype.
If the user is in my Recent Conversations in Skype and I simply view my Recent Conversations tab rather than searching for them, that is enough to have the script start returning the proper result.
It would appear as though it is unable to query their availability until it is manually loaded into cache(?) from my client. Any idea why this would possibly happen or how I can have it return the proper results without manually searching for the user first?
Only workaround I have found is to create a conversation with the target user like this:
Import-Module "Microsoft.Lync.Model.dll"
$client = [Microsoft.Lync.Model.LyncClient]::GetClient()
$contact = $client.ContactManager.GetContactByUri($email)
$convo = $client.ConversationManager.AddConversation()
$convo.AddParticipant($contact) | Out-Null
Write-Host $contact.GetContactInformation("Activity")
$convo.End() | Out-Null
It doesn't appear to cause any IM windows to popup on the users side.
It would be interesting to see your powershell code for the subscription solution
Looks like you have to subscribe to user presence information. Lync SDK MSDN documentation has outlined the solution at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj937284.aspx.
Similar solution at https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/12357db7-769f-4808-bc99-9b2fb2ed8ce2/presence-unknown?forum=communicatorsdk
I already know Powershell is not really meant for GUI automation, but just the same I have a pretty large Powershell script that needs to perform a single GUI operation, that being a left mouse click. I have searched for hours and have not found a satisfactory solution. The closest I have found is an add on called Wasp, but it was written in 2009 and appears to be incomplete anyway.
Is there another add in available to solve this problem?
I cannot condone using this as a first resort, but it should work. Generally when dealing with web pages you want to use URL parameters as much as possible since webpage elements are volatile.
With that said you should be able to create an IE comobject and then select the element that way. For example:
First create an IE object:
$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.navigate("YourPageURLHere.com")
$ie.visible = $true
You can manipulate certain elements by ID (ex: name="username") or even type. These can be easily found be viewing the source code of a webpage. Here are a few examples:
$Username = $ie.document.getElementByID("Username")
$Username.value = $UsernameValue
$SearchButton = $ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("button")
$SearchButton.click()
Even if the webpage changes, since we have it all attached to the IE object you can then grab the output elements that generate after the submit button is clicked and feed them back into your script.
I want to write a powershell script that will open an Internet Explorer instance as a com object so i can manipulate it. The problem is I need to run it with a parameter to make sure IE is run as a new session.
The parameter I need to pass is -noframemerging I need to pass this so each instance is a new session. Here is the code I've been using to get the instance started.
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
If someone could give me a hand figuring out how to be able to create multiple objects as a new session in IE that would be fantastic!
Here is my solution:
$IEProcess = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("iexplore", "-noframemerging")
Sleep -Seconds 1
$ie = $(New-Object -ComObject "Shell.Application").Windows() | ? {$_.HWND -eq $IEProcess.MainWindowHandle}
I launch an instance with the System.Diagnostic.Process library, I was using Start-Process but getting some weird outcomes, this fixed that right up. At this point I have an instance of IE open with the noframemerging switch and a variable pointing the process.
I threw a sleep in there to give the com object a chance to construct before trying to reference it.
Then I grab all the windows com objects and select the one that has a handle (HWND) that is the same as the one from the process I just started and assign it to my $ie variable.
The end result is I have a variable that references a com object of Internet Explorer that is independent of all other sessions. The reason I needed this in particular is I'm opening many instances of IE and logging into a website with different user accounts, if they share a session the login page is skipped and they will already be logged in as the first user that logged in.
Thanks for all the help guys!