I'm running the following ps command: Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\ccm\SoftMgmtAgent -Class DownloaContentRequestEx2 | Remove-WmiObject
However I would like to add a count to return in the end of also how many dcr's it deleted after execution?
Thank you
Attempted with generic .count command to no avail in accurate results
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I need to get all installed Windows updates with PowerShell.
Result should contains update name, KB number, CVE id and severity rating.
I had try next scripts:
Get-HotFix,
wmic qfe list,
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_QuickFixEngineering.
But it returns only KB numbers.
Also I tried filter installed updates from next script result:
Get-ChildItem -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\Packages'.
But this script return not all updates.
Next script don't return all installed Windows updates too:
$Searcher = $Session.CreateUpdateSearcher()
$HistoryCount = $Searcher.GetTotalHistoryCount()
$Updates = $Searcher.Search("IsPresent=1").Updates
$Updates | ForEach-Object {$_}
I have no more ideas and I will be grateful for help.
Take a look at the PSWindowsUpdate module in the PowerShell gallery. The Get-WUHistory cmdlet inside this module might just have everything you need.
I am trying to create a deployment script which adds freshly deployed workstation primary users to local admin group. I utilized CCM_userAffinity class to obtain username, however - Add-LocalGroupMember does not accept its output.
Ive tried creating task sequence variable to pass into powershell script which adds to group with no success either. Preferably the solution would be integrated within deployment TS, however due to no success i have reverted to ps package deployment.
$computer = "LocalHost"
$namespace = "root\ccm\Policy\Machine"
$query = "ConsoleUser"
$PrimaryUser = Get-WmiObject -class CCM_UserAffinity -computername $computer -namespace $namespace | select-object $query | format-wide
i expected the output from -class CCM_UserAffinity to be accepted by Add-LocalGroupMember, however i get this instead -
Add-LocalGroupMember : Cannot bind parameter 'Member'. Cannot convert the "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData" value of type
"Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData" to type "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.LocalPrincipal".
As you plan on using the value you retrieve and not displaying it there is no need to use something like "format-wide" which only makes the output human readable and is the reason for your FormatStartData datatype.
You can just use :
$PrimaryUser = (Get-WmiObject -class CCM_UserAffinity -computername $computer -namespace $namespace).ConsoleUser
which returns a string and that is taken by the -Member argument of Add-LocalGroupMember
One thing to keep in mind is that in theory there can be more than one ConsoleUser per machine. So the ConsoleUser might be an Array or not. If you can guarantee that there is always only one user in your environment per machine (at the point where the ts runs) you can just use it as is. Otherwise you would have to specify which user you want to use and I can of course not tell you what a good rule for that for your environment would be.
Also I hope you checked that the WMI class CCM_UserAffinity is already populated at the stage where you want to run this script, I could not tell you if this is the case.
So we have recently had issues with the KB971033 update within our network and i have managed to get a working script for removing it and reactivating windows, however when trying to get a detection script working to assure it only runs on effected computers i cant get it to correctly output true or false when testing against installed KBs.
So far this is what im running. No matter what i do it will output false. Anything obvious i am missing?
if ((get-hotfix).hotfixid -eq "KB971033") {$true} else {$false}
(get-hotfix).hotfixid returns an array, so you should not compare that with -eq.
This ought to do it:
((Get-HotFix | Select-Object -ExpandProperty HotFixID) -contains 'KB971033')
or for short:
(((Get-HotFix).HotFixID) -contains 'KB971033')
It's IMO quite inefficient to sieve through all Hotfixes when testing a distinct one.
if (Get-Hotfix -ID KB971033 -EA 0) {$true} else {$false}
-EA 0 is an abbreviation for -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Maybe Try
if ($(get-hotfix).hotfixid -eq "KB971033") {$true} else {$false}
The "$" is going to make "Get-Hotfix" result into an object with member ".hotfixID".
In my Windows Server 2016 Environment your Code works fine...maybe the Hotfix is not installed or not listed with 'get-hotfix'
Otherwise you can try this:
$HotfixID= "KB971033"
IF((get-hotfix).hotfixid | ?{ $_ -eq $HotfixID}){$true} else {$false}
It works also on Remote Computer:
(get-hotfix).hotfixid -ComputerName "***SomeDNSName / FQDN***"
I'm struggling trying to grab the latest volume/Drive using PowerShell
I have a result of a PowerShell look like this
PS C:\Users\me> Get-WMIObject Win32_Volume | select Name
Name
----
C:\
D:\
E:\
\\?\Volume{021a6bbd-0b97-4973-824a-7c635e362f09}\
\\?\Volume{bae1c1d6-59c3-44b1-9360-b7d3101c0e92}\
PS C:\Users\me>
If I want to access just this
E:
How can I filter out to :\ with the highest alphabetical order ?
I've been trying so many options using Select-String, but seems to get worse result.
The ones you want don't start with "\\". The drive letters may be returned in any order, so you need to sort them and take the last one:
Get-WMIObject Win32_Volume | Where-Object {$_.Name -NotLike '\\*'} | select Name | Sort-Object -Property Name | Select-Object -Last 1
Or, if the drive letter is known to be in the range A to Z, then it would be more sensible to use -Like '[A-Z]*' instead of -NotLike '\\*'.
Try something like this
Get-WMIObject Win32_Volume | where {$_.Name -eq "E:\"}
this should give you a list of objects wich you can access like an array. Also there is a lot of useful information here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/2007.04.powershell.aspx
First off, this is my first post, so if I incorrectly posted this in the wrong location, please let me know.
So, what we're trying to accomplish is building a powershell script that we can throw on our workstation image so that once our Windows 10 boxes are done imaging, that we can click on a powershell script, have it pull the key from the BIOS, and automagically activate it. That being said, here is the script that we've put together from various sources.
(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey | out-file c:\license.txt
$computer = gc env:computername
$key = get-content c:\license.txt
$service = get-wmiObject -query “select * from SoftwareLicensingService” -computername $computer
$service.InstallProductKey($key) <--------THIS IS WHERE IT FAILS
$service.RefreshLicenseStatus()
We start running into the issues on the line $service.InstallProductKey($key). It seems, that no matter how we try to invoke that, it will consistently fail with the error "Exception calling "InstallProductKey"". I've even replaced the variable ($key) with the specific activation key, and it STILL fails with the same error.
The reason we have it outputting to a license txt file part way through is so that we can verify that the command is indeed pulling the product key (which it is).
At this point, I'm not sure where to go. It seems that people have tried to do this before, however, nobody has really wrapped up their posting with what worked and/or what didn't. I can't imagine that this is impossible, but I'm also not fond of wasting anymore time than needed, so anybody that has any insight into this issue, I'd be very grateful.
We've gotten it to work on two machines that were previously activated, and later deactivated, but on new machines that have been freshly imaged, and have yet to be activated, it will fail every time.
Two things as per my observation:
(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey | out-file c:\license.txt
I don't think that it is returning any value to your license.txt.
If yes, then I would like you to see if there is any space before and after the license key. You can use trim during getting the content from the file.
Second thing, when you are getting the content from the file make sure it is not separating into multiple lines. In that case, you have to cast it as string like [String]$key or you can call toString() method for this.
One more important thing is to refresh after the installation.
$service.RefreshLicenseStatus()
Note: Make sure you are running the shell in elevated mode.
Alternative: Try Hardcoding the values and see the result
$key = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" # hardcode the key
$computer= "Computer01" # Hardcode the computer
$service = get-wmiObject -query "select * from SoftwareLicensingService" -computername $computer
$service.InstallProductKey($key)
$service.RefreshLicenseStatus()
For further thing ,please post the exact error.
Hope it helps...!!!
Found out that the key from Get-WmiObject has whitespace on the end. The original command will work if a .Trim() is added. Also not running as administrator will result in the same error.
(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey | out-file c:\license.txt
$computer = gc env:computername
$key = (get-content c:\license.txt).Trim() #trim here
$service = get-wmiObject -query “select * from SoftwareLicensingService” -computername $computer
$service.InstallProductKey($key)
$service.RefreshLicenseStatus()