I am trying to get latest on a specific folder and was wondering how I would do this. I have been reading the MSDN documentation about the Workspace class but unfortunately it doesn't seem to provide any information about how I would go about getting latest of a specific folder.
For example, I have a single workspace but with multiple working folders. My PowerShell script can get latest but only at workspace level. Is it possible to get it from a working directory level or at a particular folder level?
Thanks in advance, DS.
EDIT
I believe this is possible as power tools is able to do it via right clicking a folder and getting latest. Ideally, want to replicate this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Workspace.aspx
The below shows my script in practice..
$tfs = .\tfs-get-instance.ps1 -uri $uri
$vcs = $tfs.TfsTeamProjectCollection.GetService([Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionControlServer])
[psobject]$workspace = $vcs.GetWorkspace([System.Environment]::MachineName, [System.Environment]::UserName)
$workspace.Map($sourceFolder, $localFolder)
$result = $workspace.GetLocalItemForServerItem($sourceFolder);
if ($result -ne "")
{
echo $result
}
You should be able to use the Workspace.Get Method (String[], VersionSpec, RecursionType, GetOptions) to get what you want.
On the other hand, if you don't necessarily want to do it using the .NET objects, you could let tf.exe do the actual work, like the following:
& $TfExePath workfold /map "$codePath" "$LocalFolderPath" /collection:"$tfCollection" /workspace:$workspaceName
& $TfExePath get "$codePath" /version:$ChangeSet /force /overwrite /all /recursive $workspaceName
On the other hand, if you have the TF PowerTools installed you should also have PowerShell cmdlets for working with TFS. I have never used them, but I'm guessing you should be able to use them instead of using tf.exe if you want to. I would probably go for the PowerShell cmdlets in the power tools if they fill your need.
Related
So this may be an odd request and maybe I'm going about this all wrong but I also have a unique situation. I have servers that are sometimes cloned and I need to run a script that I created on the clones servers. Due to the nature of the clones they cannot be connected to a network.
Currently I am manually putting the generic script on each server before cloning and then running the script on the clone server.
What I would like to do is have a script that runs and gathers all the information, say installed programs as an example, and generate a custom version of my current script on the servers before they are cloned.
I have both the powershell script that gets the server information and the generic one that makes the changes to the clone but I have not found a way to merge the two or any documentation so I don't know if i am hitting a limitation with this one.
Edit for more explanation and examples. I'm doing this from my phone atm so I dont have an example I can post.
Current I have a script that has a set number of applications to uninstall, registry keys to remove, services to stop ect. In another application I have a list of all the software that we have for each server and I can pull that data for each server. What I need to do is pull the data for each server, and have a script placed on each server that will uninstall just the programs for that server.
Currently the script has to run through every potential software and try to uninstall it and then check the other application to see if there are any additional programs that need to be uninstalled.
Hope this extra info helps.
Thanks.
Stop thinking of it as code.
Use script 1 to export blocks of text into a new file. for example, you might have a configuration that says all Dell servers must have this line of code run:
Set-DELL -attribute1 unmanaged
where on HP, the script would have been
Set-HP -attribute1 unmanaged
on web servers, you want:
set-web -active yes
where if not a web server, you want nothing.. so, your parent script code would look like:
$Dell = "Set-DELL -attribute1 unmanaged"
$HP = "Set-HP -attribute1 unmanaged"
$web = "set-web -active yes"
if (Get-servermake -eq "Dell")
{
$dell | out-file Child.ps1 -append
}
if (Get-servermake -eq "HP")
{
$HP | out-file Child.ps1 -append
}
if (Get-webserver -eq $true)
{
$web | out-file Child.ps1 -append
}
The result is a customized script for the specific server, child.ps1.
Now, you can take this and run with it. You could say add functionality to the child script like "Is it an AD controller", etc.
However, you might be better off having all of this in a single script, and just block off sections that don't apply in an if statement for example.
I'm still not totally sure I understand what your asking. If I've missed the mark, tell me how, and I'll tell you how to tweak this better. (And hopefully obvious is that the Get-whatever is sample code. I don't expect that to be what your using to determine a computer make/model/etc)
Example
If you look at the picture, I have marked some sample files/source in VS2017 source Control Explorer as deleted, but TFS doesn't delete it automatically, you have to destroy it manually with the tf destroy command.
I wanted to make PowerShell use the TFS REST API to get source that has been marked for deletion, but looking through their API reference, I haven't found a way to do this, it doesn't seem like the API exposes that kind of information, but somehow Visual Studio 2017 is able to get it, so surely I should be able to?
I'm using TFS2017 Update 2, so this is api version 3.2.
Why I want to do this: We're running low on space and we have lots of team project collections with source marked for deletion. It would be very tedious to destroy everything manually.
If you have TFS Power Tools you can use this PowerShell script to destory all the deleted items (with tf and not with rest api, but it does the work, you don't need to do it manually):
$tfsServer = Get-TfsServer -name http://YOURTFSSERVER:PORT
$destroyList = get-tfschilditem -item $/Root/ -server $tfsServer -Deleted -recurse | Where {$_.DeletionId -ne 0}
foreach($item in $destroyList)
{
$itemPath = '"' + $item.ServerItem + ";X" + $item.DeletionId + '"'
tf destroy $itemPath /i /startcleanup
}
There are no REST APIs for this. You will have to use tf.exe.
Sorry if this has been answered before, I have tirelessly searched and cannot find the exact answer I am a Mac user and have not ventured into Windows registry before.
I am creating an installer for audio plugins and have a separate demo version of the titles. In the registry for the demo version, I have the entry
Demo=1
and also have paths set for various components of the plugins, which are optionally installed, these are stored in the registry as the user may install these into different directories depending on their host software
VST3=C:\Somepath\VST3
VST32=C\AnotherPath\VSTPlugins
VST64=C\AnotherPathAgain\VSTPlugins
I have found how to search the registry to check if Demo=1
$val = Get-ItemProperty -Path hklm:software\Audio Vitamins\Structure -Name “Demo”
if($val.Demo -eq 1)
{
**** This is where I need help *****
}
How do I set Powershell to remove a particular file 'structure.vst3' from the path set in VST3 or or 'structure.dll' from the paths set in VST32 and VST64. Note these can all be present or only 1 of them depending on the original install.
You have a couple of different paths (pun intended) you can take here.
You can organize your "demo = 1" files into one folder and the others in another and reference the demo folder location in the registry. Then you get the file location and use del to remove them. Much easier and doesn't require you to track which ones are there with unnecessary registry entries.
$demofolder = gp -path HKLM:\path\to\registry\key -Name "demofolder"
dir $demofolder -file|%{del $_ -force}
I'm trying to develop my own Boxstarter script for spinning up new machines. I just realized that I'd really like to add a line that will change default applications to open certain file types. For example, I want to open .txt files with Notepad++. I know how to do this by right-click the file and checking it's properties, but is there a line I can add to my Boxstarter script that will do it? Or, since Boxstarter is basically a special set of PowerShell commands, is there a PowerShell command I can invoke directly to change the opens with property? I did some searching, and most of the results were about how to get PowerShell to open something, not change the opens with property. The rest were all about how to open PowerShell.
Another similar, but not quite the same, way to go about this is to change the file association you want to associate with a particular applicaition. Chocolatey includes some helper commands to do this and is therefore available to your Boxstarter package. Here is an excerpt from one of my Boxstarter packages:
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".txt" "$env:programfiles\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".dll" "$($Boxstarter.programFiles86)\jetbrains\dotpeek\v1.1\Bin\dotpeek32.exe"
So now double clicking on any text file opens sublime or any dll opens dotpeek.
But I agree. Its still helpful to be able to add to the "Open With..." list.
Thanks to #Raf for pointing me in the right direction. Here's the code to change the OpensWith property of .txt files:
$principal = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name
$key = [Microsoft.Win32.Registry]::CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.txt\UserChoice",[Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck]::ReadWriteSubTree,[System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights]::ChangePermissions)
$acl = $key.GetAccessControl()
$right = "SetValue"
$denyrule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryAccessRule($principal,$right,"DENY")
$ret = $acl.RemoveAccessRule($denyrule)
$ret = $key.SetAccessControl($acl)
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.txt\UserChoice -Name ProgId -Value Applications\notepad++.exe
Slightly modified from an answer in the TechNet forums.
I haven't figured out if there's a boxstarter shortcut for this, but changing the ACL rules was the key. Without it, you don't have the proper access to change this particular registry item. Even when I tried running Powershell as Admin and made sure I had all the right permissions on the UserChoice key (both the administrator account and my user account had Full Control), I kept getting an error that the Requested registry access is not allowed.
I am trying to "Get Latest Version" of a particular folder from TFS, using Powershell.
I have installed the TFS Snappin, and have been using TFS Power Tools cmdlets in PowerShell (such as Get-TfsChildItem and Select-TfsItem etc) [How do I set up TFS PowerShell Snapin ], and have gone through their documentation (which I didn't find explanatory enough!).
Confused, on the exact cmdlet to use, when I am trying to get the latest version of an entire Folder structure from TFS, that is mapped to my local drive (and not just a changeset or ChildItem).
Example :
Tfs Path - $/APD-RepairSolutions/Main/Database
Mapped path - D:\TFS\APD-RepairSolutions/Main/Database.
I want a code, that would iteratively get the latest version of the entire folder Database,( that has number of tables,stored procedures etc.)
I am using ..
PS D:\Tfs\APD-RepairSolutions\Main\Database> $server=Get-TfsServer -Name http://tfs:8080/tfs
PS D:\Tfs\APD-RepairSolutions\Main\Database> Get-TfsChangeset -Recurse -Server $Server
Not helping my case - as it is only returning the latest changeset in the current directory.
To get latest (tf get) use Update-TfsWorkspace.
Get-TfsChangeset is the equivalent of tf changeset.
Gotcha! with Update-TFSWorskpace. Has some helpful parameters as well. -Items is used to specify the exact items you want to update.
PS D:\Tfs\APD-RepairSolutions\Main>Update-TFSWorkspace -All -Overwrite -Force -Recurse -Items .\Database
The Workspace is replaced with updated versions of items. Thanks #Kmoraz!
If you would like to use the TFS API instead, you can use the Workspace.Get Method:
# Load the TFS assemblies
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client")
$ws = $vcServer.QueryWorkspaces("<WORKSPACENAME>", $null, $null);
# Specify properties of intended workspace get
$recursionType = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.RecursionType]::Full
$latestVersion = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.VersionSpec]::Latest
$getOptions = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.GetOptions]::GetAll
# Get what I want!
$ws.Get("$/Remote/Folder", $latestVersion, $recursionType, $getOptions)
Would be a good idea to replace the nulls with your domain login and computer name when Querying Workspaces.