General Scripting and Coding – Page 13

Search for a File Inside a Merge Module

Sometimes I need to search for a file inside a merge module (MSM). Since I don’t know which specific merge module I’m looking for, I wrote this script to iterate through every merge module in a specific folder to find...

January 12, 2018

MSI (Windows Installer) Custom Actions VBScript

Clean Up the Windows Start Menu

Sometimes after installing a setup.exe with limited command line switches, we may want to clean up the Windows start menu. Usually as part of our Application Packaging best practises we remove ‘Uninstall’ shortcuts, ‘Update’ shortcuts, and shortcuts to readme’s and...

January 12, 2018

PowerShell

Using a Hashtable to store Key/Value Pairs

This is a simple example of using a Hashtable to store key/value pairs. Rather than referencing a value in an array using a numeric index, we now have named (the key) human-readable values that we can use to reference a...

November 14, 2017

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Check if a Computer is a Member of an AD Group

[catlist name=”PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory” conditional_title=”Other Posts in this Series:” numberposts=5 pagination=yes customfield_orderby=”series_post_order” order=”asc”] This post provides an example of how we can use ADSI to check if a computer is a member of an AD Group using the...

June 29, 2017

PowerShell

Check if System.Object[] contains a value (Updated)

This isn’t the most interesting of blog posts admittedly. But I was using the SQL Server Management Objects (SSMO) in my PowerShell script to return a result set from a stored procedure in SQL server. The data set returned from...

May 16, 2017

PowerShell

Export to CSV using PowerShell and Dynamic Data

This post explains how to export to CSV using PowerShell and dynamic data. I find that hashtables are quite useful for various scenarios when scripting in PowerShell. We can also utilise them when exporting data using Export-CSV. I provide two...

May 4, 2017

ASP.Net

Debug SOAP and REST in IIS Express using Fiddler

I’ve been using Visual Studio 2013 Express to make a C# website that uses SOAP to request services from another company. Everything was working fine, until one day I suddenly started getting HTTP 500 errors. Naturally the service provider said...

April 5, 2017

PowerShell

Get Filenames and Versions in Folders and Subfolders

This is just a quick one-liner that I use to get filenames and versions in folders and subfolders. I tend to use it every now and then to compare two folder structures on different machines, and then I can use...

April 5, 2017

PowerShell

Write to the Windows Installer Binary Stream using Powershell

Here’s a small chunk of code from a recent request asking how to write to the Windows Installer binary stream using Powershell: $msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly = 0 $msiOpenDatabaseModeTransact = 1 $windowsInstaller = New-Object -ComObject windowsInstaller.Installer $pathToMSI = "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\AlkaneExample.msi" $database2 = $windowsInstaller.GetType().InvokeMember("OpenDatabase", "InvokeMethod",...

February 10, 2017

PowerShell

Count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV

This post provides an example of how to count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV. This script finds all AD groups beginning with ‘MSI – ‘ or ‘App-V – ‘ and returns the number of members...

February 6, 2017

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Category: General Scripting and Coding

Search for a File Inside a Merge Module

Clean Up the Windows Start Menu

Using a Hashtable to store Key/Value Pairs

Use ADSI to Check if a Computer is a Member of an AD Group

Check if System.Object[] contains a value (Updated)

Export to CSV using PowerShell and Dynamic Data

Debug SOAP and REST in IIS Express using Fiddler

Get Filenames and Versions in Folders and Subfolders

Write to the Windows Installer Binary Stream using Powershell

Count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV

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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