Petri IT Knowledgebase Forums - Powershell http://www.petri.co.il/forums/ For issues related to Powershell on Windows Server 2008/R2, and for products using PS. en Sun, 26 May 2013 06:34:54 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.petri.co.il/forums/images/steelblue/misc/rss.jpg Petri IT Knowledgebase Forums - Powershell http://www.petri.co.il/forums/ PSDrives, UNCs, expanding variables! http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=63369&goto=newpost Tue, 07 May 2013 15:25:45 GMT Hi Guys!

What I'm trying to achieve seems very simple. I'm trying to use a PSDrive to plop the contents of a variable into a remote file on a server (obviously this will expand out to many servers once I have it tested). The file path is expanded from the Server Name which is in the variable $SName - and the filename is "servername.ini". A credential for a known Domain Admin user has been placed in $A.

I created and used the drive using the following:

Code:

New-PSDrive -Name U -Path "\\$SName\C$" -Credential $A

Set-Location U:
$IniFile | Set-Content -Path "$SName.ini"
The issue I have is that in the "Set-Content" command, the path of "U" is expanded three times so that I get the following error message:

Code:

Set-Content : Could not find a part of the path
'\\servername\C$\servername\C$\servername\C$\servername.ini'.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong in creating and/or referencing this PSDrive?

Sorry for being a n00b... TIA.

p.s. I have also tried the obvious 'set-Content -Path "U:\$SName.ini" ' instead of using "Set-Location". ]]> Powershell Stonelaughter http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=63369 Disabling users in AD with powershell script http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=62856&goto=newpost Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:13:40 GMT Hi,

I am looking for a script that will disable users (from a csv file) and at the same time write "User disabled, contact John Doe" in the description field.

My csv file looks like this:

Username
Warren Buffet
Bill Gates
Bruce Willis
Sylvester Stallone

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I've been searching the internet for this, and I can't find anything that makes things clear. I'm curious about how to use the set-ACL cmdlet to either check existing permissions for a group or user on an object, or to modify permissions. Could someone please explain to me the easiest way to do this? Thanks. ]]> Powershell Chromebuster http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=62621 The memberOf attribute returns DN names, I want simple group names http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=62596&goto=newpost Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:19:16 GMT Hi guys was wondering if there a simple way to format my result of a command i ran. see below GET-ADUSER -Identity NAME -Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf the result i get is the full DN of the groups but what i want is the results just to show the simple name and not the full DN. ... Hi guys was wondering if there a simple way to format my result of a command i ran. see below
GET-ADUSER -Identity NAME -Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf

the result i get is the full DN of the groups but what i want is the results just to show the simple name and not the full DN. Can you assist and recommend a good starter book for learning powershell?

Thanks ]]> Powershell joeyg2391 http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=62596