So I'm trying to count the number of font files (that have different extensions) inside the local font folder of every computer in my domain at work to verify which computers have an up to date font installation using powershell.
So far I have
Write-Host ( Get-ChildItem c:\MyFolder | Measure-Object ).Count;
as a means of counting the files, I'm just at a loss on how exactly to replicate this and get a output that indicates the file count for the path for every computer on my domain (the file path is all the same for each)
How should I best proceed?
You will have to run the command against every computer. Assuming you have some sort of domain admin privelege and can access admin shares on all computers, you can use the c$ share.
The code below takes a list of computers in a single column CSV with no headers and runs the command against the admin share on each
$computers = Import-Csv -Path C:\computers.csv -Header Computer;
foreach($c in $computers)
{
Write-Host (Get-ChildItem "\\$($c.Computer)\c$\MyFolder" | Measure-Object).Count;
};
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The task given was to create a way for our staff to see who has the file open that they want to use, as Windows says it is either locked and doesn't name the person who has it locked, or it displays the person who made the file but not the person who currently has it open.
I can look it up in Computer Management on the fileserver, but were are hoping to speed up this for the end users.
I've written this powershell script on our fileserver and it works perfectly, I have this running every 5 minutes in Task Scheduler with administrative permissions:
get-smbopenfile -ClientUserName * |select clientcomputername,clientusername,path | Out-File -Encoding utf8 "S:\LockedFiles.txt" -width 300
The output looks like this:
clientcomputername clientusername path
------------------ -------------- ----
IPADDRESS DOMAIN\USERNAME S:\FOLDER\FILE.FILEEXTENSION
What I really want to do now is get the computer name rather than the IP address, just in case staff are logged into multiple machines at the same time.
I wondered if ClusterNodeName or PSComputerName would provide this, but the returned data is always blank.
I thought about this and below is one option (the first line is pseudocode), but as I see it that would mean recursively altering the piped data or reading in piped data, which I'm not even sure how to do.
$ipaddress = IPADDRESS
$Workstation = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostByName($ipaddress)
Write-Host $Workstation.HostName
Anyone have any ideas on how I can do this? Is there a better way?
I assume you're looking to add a new property to your output object that has the resolved DNS Name from the IP Address found in the ClientComputerName property. For this you use Resolve-DnsName to attempt the name resolution and a Try Catch in case it fails to capture the exception message. For the export I would recommend you to use Export-Csv.
Get-SmbOpenFile -ClientUserName * | ForEach-Object {
$dnsName = try {
(Resolve-DnsName $_.ClientComputerName -ErrorAction Stop).NameHost
}
catch {
[ComponentModel.Win32Exception]::new($_.Exception.NativeErrorCode).Message
}
[pscustomobject]#{
ClientIpAddress = $_.ClientComputerName
ResolvedHostName = $dnsName
ClientUserName = $_.ClientUserName
Path = $_.Path
}
} | Export-Csv "S:\LockedFiles.csv" -Encoding utf8 -NoTypeInformation
I have to re-mount removable drives (which require authentication) each time I boot the computer and Windows Indexing keeps removing the removable drives (perhaps because the removable drives are not available when the computer boots). In an ideal world Windows Indexing would keep these locations and just list them as 'Unavailable' (which it sometimes does). However because it doesn't I am interested in executing a script that queries the Windows Indexing locations and if it does not list the removable drives then add them. At the bottom of this thread I pasted the Batch script that I setup to run at boot (via Start Up folder) to search for a specific folder that is available thereafter mounting one of the removable drives.
I have found several examples of how to do this on Windows 7 (links pasted below) but I can't figure out how to do it in Windows 10. The links provided to the DLL (Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll) no longer resolve.
When searching for the latest Windows Search SDK for Windows 10 I was lead to the Windows SDK here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/-search-developers-guide-entry-page
I installed the C++ related portion of the Windows SDK then searched for Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll but I couldn't find it. Perhaps the DLL has changed?
From How to rebuild Windows Search Index by using PowerShell?
Load DLL containing classes & interfaces
Add-Type -path "C:\Temp\SearchIndexSdk\Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll"
#Provides methods for controlling the Search service. This
interface manages settings and objects that affect the search engine
across catalogs.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb231485(v=vs.85).aspx
$sm = New-Object Microsoft.Search.Interop.CSearchManagerClass
#Retrieves a catalog by name and creates a new ISearchCatalogManager
object for that catalog.
$catalog = $sm.GetCatalog("SystemIndex")
#Resets the underlying catalog by rebuilding the databases and performing a full indexing.
#https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266414(v=vs.85).aspx
$catalog.Reset()
From How to add a location to windows 7/8 search index using batch or vbscript?
#Code copied from "Powershell Tackles Windows Desktop Search" http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/powershell-tackles-windows-desktop-search/
#Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll is needed, download from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7388
#Load the dll
Add-Type -path "D:\Unattend\UserFiles\Tools\Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll"
#Create an instance of CSearchManagerClass
$sm = New-Object Microsoft.Search.Interop.CSearchManagerClass
#Next we connect to the SystemIndex catalog
$catalog = $sm.GetCatalog("SystemIndex")
#Get the interface to the scope rule manager
$crawlman = $catalog.GetCrawlScopeManager()
#add scope
$crawlman.AddUserScopeRule("file:///D:*",$true,$false,$null)
$crawlman.SaveAll()
I would add a comment to the existing threads but I am not able to because I don't have reputation of 50 (dumb rule IMO).
Last... I found this site which lists the DLL along with some code but it hasn't been updated in a long time.
https://github.com/FileMeta/WindowsSearchSample
Thanks in advance!
Batch script that runs at boot:
#echo off
echo Windows Search is being restarted to recognize the Z drive
:while
if EXIST Z:\Watch (
I WANT TO CALL POWERSHELL SCRIPT TO ADD THE LOCATION TO THE INDEX IF NEEDED HERE
sc stop WMPNetworkSvc
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > nul
sc stop WSearch
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > nul
sc start WSearch
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > nul
sc start WMPNetworkSvc
echo Exiting this script in 5 seconds
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > nul
exit
) else (
echo Waiting 60 seconds to check if Z drive is available
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 60 > nul
goto :while
)
When I do a search for Searchdll in what I believe to be the folder where the Windows SDK installed to (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10) I find the following. If I had to guess which DLL is the Windows 10 equivalent of Windows 7's Microsoft.Search.Interop.dll I would guess that it's the 1st one i.e. interop.searchapi.dll.
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64\interop.searchapi.dll" does return without error... however $sm = New-Object Microsoft.Search.Interop.CSearchManagerClass returns with error that it cannot find the class in the assembly.
When I cd to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64" and enter ([appdomain]::currentdomain.GetAssemblies() | Where-Object Location -Match 'interop.searchapi').gettypes() I get the following
When I enter (([appdomain]::currentdomain.GetAssemblies() | Where-Object location -match 'interop.searchapi.dll').gettypes() | Where-Object name -eq 'CSearchManagerClass').getmembers() | Format-Table name, membertype I get
From the list of commands in the previous threads I do see GetCatalog and I presume that the members GetCrawlScopeManager, AddUserScopeRule, Reset, and SaveAll exist.
I don't know how to find the fully qualified class name or I'm doing something else wrong (unknowingly).
When I enter ([appdomain]::currentdomain.GetAssemblies() | Where-Object Location -Match 'interop.searchapi').fullname I get the following
Interop.SearchAPI, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
But when I enter $sm = New-Object Interop.SearchAPI.CSearchManagerClass I get an error that it can't find the type Interop.SearchAPI.CSearchManagerClass.
For license porpuses I try to automate the counting process instead of having to login into every single server, go into directory, search a file name and count the results based on the change date.
Want I'm aiming for:
Running a powershell script every month that checks the directory "C:\Users" for the file "Outlook.pst" recursively. And then filters the result by change date (one month or newer). Then packing this into an email to send to my inbox.
I'm not sure if that's possible, cause I am fairly new to powershell. Would appreciate your help!
It is possible.
I dont know how to start a ps session on a remote computer, but I think the cmdlet Enter-PSSession will do the trick. Or at least it was the first result while searching for "open remote powershell session". If that does not work use the Invoke-Command as suggested by lit to get $outlookFiles as suggested below.
For the rest use this.
$outlookFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Users" -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "Outlook.pst" }
Now you have all files that have this name. If you are not familiar with the pipe in powershell it redirects all objects it found with the Get-ChildItem to the next pipe section and here the Where-Object will filter the received objects. If the current object ($_) will pass the condition it is returned by the whole command.
Now you can filter these objects again to only include the latest ones with.
$latestDate = (Get-Date).AddMonths(-1)
$newFiles = $outlookFiles | Where-Object { $_.LastAccessTime -gt $latestDate }
Now you have all the data you want in one object. Now you only have to format this how you like it e.g. you could use $mailBody = $newFiles | Out-String and then use Send-MailMessage -To x#y.z -From r#g.b -Body $mailBodyto send the mail.
Same question exists for Python here: How can I get the Dropbox folder location programmatically in Python?, or here for OSX: How to get the location of currently logined Dropbox folder
Same thing in Powershell. I need the path of DropBox to copy files to it (building a software and then copying it to dropbox to share with team).
This Dropbox help page tells us where this info is stored, ie, in a json file in the AppData of the user: https://www.dropbox.com/help/4584
function GetDropBoxPathFromInfoJson
{
$DropboxPath = Get-Content "$ENV:LOCALAPPDATA\Dropbox\info.json" -ErrorAction Stop | ConvertFrom-Json | % 'personal' | % 'path'
return $DropboxPath
}
The line above is taken from: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Spizzi.Profile/1.0.0/Content/Functions%5CProfile%5CInstall-ProfileEnvironment.ps1
Note that it doesn't check if you've got a Dropbox business account, or if you have both. It just uses the personal one.
You can then use this base Dropbox folder to build your final path, for example:
$targetPath = Join-Path -Path (GetDropBoxPathFromInfoJson) -ChildPath 'RootDropboxFolder\Subfolder1\Subfolder2'
if (-not (Test-Path -Path $targetPath)) { throw "Path '$targetPath' not found!" }
--
Alternative way is using the host.db file, as shown on this page:
http://bradinscoe.tumblr.com/post/75819881755/get-dropbox-path-in-powershell
$base64path = gc $env:appdata\Dropbox\host.db | select -index 1 # -index 1 is the 2nd line in the file
$dropboxPath = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($base64path)) # convert from base64 to ascii
I have windows domain network, i have about 3000 hosts in there. I would like to just check the info which of those hosts having specified technical user account in their local admin groups. I am not that great at power shell, though I know the base things.
I belive that I have to make a list of all hosts across several subnets I have and then run a script that will try to log on those hosts with looking account credentials.
What could be the best solution?
There is a very detailed post on TechNet about listing all computers in domain.
And here's the WMI query part (PowerShell, $aComputerList is a list of computer names):
foreach ($sComputerName in $aComputerList) {
$sUserPattern = 'Win32_UserAccount.Domain="domainname",Name="username"'
$sGroupPattern = 'Win32_Group.Domain="{0}",Name="Administrators"' -f $sComputerName
$oResult = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $sComputerName -Class Win32_GroupUser | `
Where-Object {
($_.groupcomponent -match $sGroupPattern) -and `
($_.partcomponent -match $sUserPattern)
}
[Bool]$oResult
}
The hard part is that some computers probably won't be reachable (if they're turned off for instance). So you'll need to run your script several times and remove computers from the list as you get responses from them.