If the ActiveDirectory module is present add before your code. To check if exist try: ActiveDirectory module is default present in windows server 2008 R2, install it in this way: For have it to work you need at least one DC in the domain as windows 2008 R2 and have Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) … Read more
When in doubt, read the documentation. -Force Allows the cmdlet to copy items that cannot otherwise be changed, such as copying over a read-only file or alias. The default behavior for Copy-Item is to replace existing items. The -Force switch is only to enforce replacement if for instance the destination file has the readonly attribute set. You can use -Confirm to get … Read more
Try the -Force parameter: You can use Test-Path -PathType Container to check first. See the New-Item MSDN help article for more details.
Use the -wait parameter with Get-Content, which displays lines as they are added to the file. This feature was present in PowerShell v1, but for some reason not documented well in v2. Here is an example Once you run this, update and save the file and you will see the changes on the console.
Use (V3 version): Or for V2:
The simple answer for this one is that you have an undeclared (null) variable. In this case it is $md5. From the comment you put this needed to be declared elsewhere in your code The error was because you are trying to execute a method that does not exist. The .ComputeHash() of $md5.ComputeHash() was the null valued expression. Typing in … Read more
Here is a simple way using ExtractToDirectory from System.IO.Compression.ZipFile: Note that if the target folder doesn’t exist, ExtractToDirectory will create it. Other caveats: Existing files will not be overwritten and instead trigger an IOException. This method requires at least .NET Framework 4.5, available for Windows Vista and newer. Relative paths are not resolved based on the current working … Read more
Edit the publishsettings file, giving each subscription a different name. Then re-import. At that point, you’ll be able to easily access each one uniquely by name.
I believe it’s in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\. In order to confuse the innocent, MS kept it in a directory labeled “v1.0”. Running this on Windows 7 and checking the version number via $Host.Version (Determine installed PowerShell version) shows it’s 2.0. Another option is type $PSVersionTable at the command prompt. If you are running v2.0, the output will be: If you’re running version … Read more
Not much documentation on PowerShell loops. Documentation on loops in PowerShell is plentiful, and you might want to check out the following help topics: about_For, about_ForEach, about_Do, about_While. Another idiomatic PowerShell solution to your problem is to pipe the lines of the text file to the ForEach-Object cmdlet: Instead of regex matching inside the loop, you could pipe the lines through Where-Object to … Read more