Questions tagged [powershell-5.1]
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How to run my PowerShell script for multiple local users?
I have a big PowerShell script that I want to run for each user automatically. I want to run this command as Admin and not have to specify credentials of other Standard users because all Standard users are Microsoft password-less accounts using…
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Remote DSC execution fails to resume after node reboot
Using PowerShell DSC, we're attempting to install DotNet Core among other application prerequisites onto a remote machine. We've set and applied LCM to Reboot and Continue. When executing the DSC the resources before and DotNetCore itself is…

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Windows Terminal doesn't recognize a script function
I've recently discovered the Windows Terminal and wanted to give it a try. However, it doesn't seem to work the same as the original PowerShell Console. When I try to call a script function in it like . .\Func-Test.ps1; My-Func -test abc it…

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Restoring database from file or multiple files
Trying to restore the file or files returned by this statement
$backupFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $BackupPath -Filter "*$tstamp*.bak" -Recurse | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime | Select-Object
I am executing this command. I get a warning and the…

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How to remotely start service on Azure VM with powershell 5.1
How can I start a service on an Azure VM remotely? It seems impossible to do without Powershell being "Run as Administrator". Is there a way to launch as admin?
(I would pass in Get-Credential parameter, but unfortunately the 5.1 version Set-Service…

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Powershell: Regex matching with Get-content -Raw flag results in empty results
Solution was adding (?ms) to the front of my regex query
I am trying to search for chunks of text within a file, and preserving the line breaks in a chunk.
When I define my variable as $variable = get-content $fromfile,
my function (below) is able…

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Can you sense javac errors using Powershell?
I am using javac in Powershell right now, but I am having an issue. The message
selected file has been succesfully compiled:)
I made it show after compilation shows up even if there have been errors during compilation. Here is my current…

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Powershell Replace Method Stopped Working For This Loop
The replace method worked in this code for two years, why did it stop? Am I missing an update? Did a security update kill it? I just want to know if it's me, or if by some fluke it worked to begin with.
The following is a slice of a script that…

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Trimming columns containing zero in powershell
Help! I'm looking for a PowerShell solution that can do the following
to trim columns from a csv file containing only zeros:
Read/open the csv file
Scan the first column for 'Total'
Scan the first row for 'Total'
Read that 'Total' row until the…

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Does 2>$null still work in Powershell 5.1?
It was my understanding that anything that writes to $error should be re-directable to $null, but I can't make it work, even with something as simple as substring or a bad cmdlet name:
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> asdf 2>$null
asdf :…

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Validate an expired ActiveDirectory password using PowerShell or LDAP
As title said, I need a way to validate an expired password against ActiveDirectory.
It has to be LDAP, or PowerShell, because the user will perform validation via a NodeJS service from another machine running Linux.
I have tried using…

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Powershell 5.1 if statement result is incorrect
I'm using Powershell 5.1 in constrained language mode with no access to additional modules.
I've created a script to return information from "net user query (username) /domain" that includes an If statement to return results if the end user I'm…

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PowerShell: store Out-String results formatted in an array
I have a script that is looking for some values in xml-like files:
$path = "C:\Users\*.xml"
Get-ChildItem $path |
Select-String -Pattern "", "" | Out-File out.txt
The result is:
I am trying to store these in an…

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PowerShell - Accessing root web.config
I can't seem to find a good hint on accessing the root web.config, currently in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config. In my situation, I want to apply a few security settings to cascade down to apps (ex: disable…

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Is it possible to check if a specific key is pressed in Powershell without pausing the entire script?
The only ways I know to check if a key is pressed in Powershell are $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey() and [console]::ReadKey(). I want to make a script that writes in the console "1 is pressed" whenever 1 is pressed and"1 ain't pressed" whenever 1 isn't…

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