General Scripting and Coding – Page 11

Send an Email Using PowerShell

I often write administrative scripts and am required to send an email using PowerShell. There are a couple of ways to do this depending on our objectives. If we just require an email then I opt to use the Send-MailMessage...

January 31, 2020

PowerShell

Group Data using PowerShell

I’ve been running an audit on Active Directory (AD) recently, with a view to sending emails to multiple users based on AD group membership. Rather than sending a separate email to each user in an AD group (adding load to...

January 30, 2020

PowerShell

PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths

Sometimes when writing PowerShell scripts we encounter an issue where PowerShell cannot locate UNC paths correctly. PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths Take the following chunk of code; make sure you change the UNC path to a valid path, and run...

January 21, 2020

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Installing and Uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell

This blog post shows code that can be used when installing and uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell. You can adapt the code to add more parameters (public properties etc) as necessary. You can use this chunk of PowerShell code to...

December 11, 2019

PowerShell

Find Newly Launched Processes

This simple chunk of code will find newly launched processes (specifically their process IDs) that have started between a given period: $existingProcessPids = Get-Process -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select -ExpandProperty Id #new processes launched here start-process notepad.exe start-process cmd.exe $newProcessIds =...

October 31, 2019

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Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell

This blog post proposes a consistent method of obtaining the current working directory using PowerShell, whether your scripts are embedded inside an executable or not. Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell I tend to use a great tool called...

October 10, 2019

PowerShell

List Certificates for Local Machine and Current User

This PowerShell script will list certificates for local machine and current user certificate stores. get-childitem -Path Cert:\ | foreach-object ({ $location = $_.Location foreach($store in $_.StoreNames.Keys) { get-childitem -Path "Cert:\$location\$store" | foreach-object ({ $thumb = $($_.ThumbPrint) $issuer = $($_.Issuer) write-host...

July 18, 2019

Batch Scripts

Wait For a Service To Stop in a Batch File

Sometimes in a batch file we need to wait for a service to stop in a batch file before we continue to processing our script. NET STOP will only wait a finite amount of time for a service to stop,...

May 29, 2019

Batch Scripts

Register or Unregister DLLs in a Folder

Sometimes when we’re debugging an application we might want to ensure that every DLL (or OCX) is registered correctly. And rather than registering each assembly manually we can write a batch file to register or unregister DLLs in a folder:...

May 22, 2019

Batch Scripts

Check If a Windows Update Exists

Here’s a script that will check if a windows update exists on a device. Yes, there are manual ways of finding out by navigating to Control Panel > Programs and Features > View Installed Updates, but sometimes it’s quicker to...

May 16, 2019

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Category: General Scripting and Coding

Send an Email Using PowerShell

Group Data using PowerShell

PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths

Installing and Uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell

Find Newly Launched Processes

Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell

List Certificates for Local Machine and Current User

Wait For a Service To Stop in a Batch File

Register or Unregister DLLs in a Folder

Check If a Windows Update Exists

PowerShell Script Support for Installing and Uninstalling Intune Win32 Applications

Use PowerShell to Read MSI Windows Installer Properties

Evergreen Application Packaging converting Winget to MSIX

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