I need to create entry to Windows Event Log (e.g. application log). I know how to do all the stuff beside filling in the user who performed the action.
Example:
I need to create a script, that writes some message into application log. I used this tutorial, which worked fine: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/06/20/how-to-use-powershell-to-write-to-event-logs.aspx
But I am not able to influence the "user". When adding entry in windows log, it always fills "User: N/A".
Any idea how to pass "user" argument to the "write-eventlog" cmdlet?
Thank you for your help.
Even though (as far as I'm aware) Write-EventLog does not provide an option to write directly to the "User" field, you have two workarounds:
Use built-in standalone exec "EventCreate.exe" (type in eventcreate /? to see the manual)
This one does support providing the username field. I'm not sure, but it may require a password for that user too.
Second workaround would be to pass $env:USERNAME to the "message" field of Write-EventLog. This way you will still obtain the environment's current user.
I hope that helped.
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In Azure AAD, I want to use Powershell to clear the value for a user's extension attribute named "employeeId". When I try to Set-AzureAdUserExtension to $null or "", it gives a binding error. Will Remove-AzureAdUserExtension do this? All the help files, docs and internet searches about this command say that it "Removes a user extension from Azure Active Directory". I'm pretty sure that means it will clear the attribute value for one user, as I want. But I'm afraid it might try to remove the user extension attribute from the schema, which is absolutely what I don't want.
Please help me confirm this command's effect before I blow up my customer's directory.
It will just remove the attribute value for one user, rather than remove the user extension attribute from the schema, feel free to use it.
Test sample:
Get-AzureADUserExtension -ObjectId <user-object-id>
Remove-AzureADUserExtension -ObjectId <user-object-id> -ExtensionName employeeId
I'm currently having trouble applying logon script(powershell) on windows servers.
The logon script has the line to set user environment variables but the variables don't look like being applying immediately from the result of set command on command prompts.
I've been looking at the behavior through process monitor while logging on to the new session.
And finally I have found the newly created variables need to be associated with RegenerateUserEnvironment function on shell32.dll.
I'm able to look at the correct result of set command after RegenerateUserEnvironment is called.
So I was wondering whether we had a way to trigger RegenerateUserEnvironment function and it needs to be executed on powershell.
Can you shed some light on this?
Best Regards,
Haewon
I have spent a couple of hours search for a solution to disable my Azure Service Bus Topics using Powershell.
The background for this is we want to force a manual failover to our other region.
Obviously I could click in the Portal:
but I want to have a script to do this.
Here is my current attempt:
Any help would be great.
Assuming you're sure your $topic contains the full description, modify the status parameter in the array and then splat it back using the UpdateTopic method. I'm afraid I can't test this at present.
$topic.Status = "Disabled"
$topicdesc = $NamespaceManager.UpdateTopic($topic)
I don't think you'll need to set the entity type for the Status, nor do you require semi-colons after each line of code in your loop.
References
PowerShell Service Bus creation sample script (which this appears to be based off): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/paolos/2014/12/02/how-to-create-service-bus-queues-topics-and-subscriptions-using-a-powershell-script/
UpdateTopic method: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/microsoft.servicebus.namespacemanager.updatetopic.aspx
Additional note: please don't screenshot the code - paste it in. I'd rather copy-and-paste than type things out.
I have a problem with some old apps and I need to set an environment variable from AD (hurray)
I'm quite new to PS scripting, so I can use some help.
In my AD I have filled the attribute departmentNumber with information, that part works fine.
Now I need to create a logon script which reads this field from the current user (attribute: departmentNumber, derived from: inetOrgPersonUser) and set this as an environment variable called AFDELING.
I know this can be done using a VB script, but I prefer PS. Can anyone help me with this one?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Peter
Working with environment variables in PowerShell involves the special variable $Env and unfortunately you need to use a .NET method to set environment variables as no cmdlet exists (at least as of v2):
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("AFDELING", "DeptNo", "User")
The first string parameter is the variable name, the second is the value and the third is basically the persistance level requested for the variable: Machine, User or Process - both machine and user will survive a reboot and future applications will have access to them, though you will need to be running PowerShell with an administrative account to modify the machine-level variables.
Getting the user info should be equally easy. There are a variety of ways that you can access Active Directory, though one of the simplest in your case would be to use the System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class:
$de = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
$DeptNo = $de.Properties["departmentNumber"]
That should query the current user record from a domain controller, and assign the value from the departmentNumber attribute to the $DeptNo variable. You can then just pop that variable into the second parameter from the first example.
I need to create an AS/400 command. Based on the requirement, it has two parameter, say A and B, which cannot be filled in the same time. Both will be displayed when F4 is pressed to prompt, but only one can be filled at a time. If both are filled an error message should appear saying this is invalid. Can someone tell me how to create a command like this? What do I need to specify in the CMD source to achieve it?
Use the DEP command definition statement to control the parameters.
CMD PROMPT('TEST')
PARM KWD(A) TYPE(*CHAR) PROMPT('A')
PARM KWD(B) TYPE(*CHAR) PROMPT('B')
DEP CTL(*ALWAYS) PARM(A B) NBRTRUE(*EQ 1)
The CMD source only has rudimentary ability to perform validity checking. Typically, end user business rules are enforced by a validity checking program. See CRTCMD VLDCKR(). The VCP is very similar to the CPP, except if the command fails validity checking, your VCP sends a *DIAG message to the caller with the details of the reason, and a CPF0002 *ESCAPE message to the caller to tell it the command did not run.