Can you please help me where to add credentials (all windows servers have same credentials) in this script to puch scripts
Point the script to a text file with a list of computers
$Computers = "C:\File Copy\Source Server\ComputerList.txt"
Sets the variable for the source file location
$Source = "C:\File Copy\prod.csv"
Sets the variable for the file destination
$Destination = "File copy\Servers"
Get the content of $computers and copy Source to Destination
Get-Content $Computers | ForEach-Object {Copy-Item $Source -Destination (Join-Path "\\$_\c`$\" $Destination)
Apologies in advance i am not an expert on powershell so dont know much can you explain a bit
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Firstly I do apologise if this isn't the correct forum to be posting this question and if this isn't the place to be asking can anyone direct me to a new person forum?
Secondly you'll soon discover that I really don't know much about PowerShell or Visual Studio but I'm learning... I'm sure the Powershell script your going to see could be better but it works.
So my issue was with a system that output .txt files onto 2 PC's LH & RH these .txt files were output with different names as it was using 3 different products.
We then needed these files to be filtered by product and copied to a network drives while also being archived and deleted from the original folder.. Oh and this needed to be done real time.
So my Powershell script I've been using is the following
$folder = 'Target Folder'
$timeout = 1000
$filesystemwatcher = new-object system.IO.filesystemwatcher $folder
write-host "Monitoring... $folder
Transfering..."
while ($true) {
$result = $FileSystemWatcher.WaitForChanged('all', $timeout)
if ($result.timeout -eq $false)
{
write-warning ('file {0} : {1}' -f $result.changetype, $result.name)
}
$targetdirectory = "Target folder"
$sourcedirectory = "export folder"
if (-not(Test-Path -path $targetdirectory)) {
New-Item $targetdirectory -Type Directory}
Copy-Item -Path $sourcedirectory\"*.txt" -Destination $targetdirectory
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path export folder -Filter "*.txt" -Recurse
foreach($File in $Files)
{
if ($File.name -like "1*.txt")
{
Move-Item -Path $File.FullName "1 folder"
}
elseif ($File.name -like "2*.txt")
{
Move-Item -Path $File.FullName "2 folder"
}
elseif ($File.name -like "3*.txt")
{
Move-Item -Path $File.FullName "3 folder"
}
}
}
}
Now this script gets the files moved and works but its a Powershell script and its running 24/7 365 days a year sometimes the script had stopped sometimes the script has been messed with its just not reliable enough.
So I want to turn it into a application via Visual Studio.
Is it possible? remember i have never used Visual Studio before (Been trying it for a few hours learnt some basics)
Has anyone done anything similar to this before/ is there any guide anyone can think of that would suit my needs more?
I'm looking for the application to have the following
A status screen ie what files it has found and where it has moved them to
A setting option to be able to set.. amount of filter string/save paths... change source & export/archive paths etc
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Being new I don't know what to search for to get guides on my needs
Cheers
I am trying to copy configuration files for an Active X controller to all user profiles on remote computers and I am running into problems. I have tried several variations of the code to no avail, my most recent, simplified code is shown below which is generating a path format not supported error:
$From = "C:\Interactive" $To = "C:\Users\$user\appdata\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Downloaded Program Files" ForEach ($user in (Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Exclude Public)){Copy-Item -Path $From -Destination $To}
I assume there is an argument I am missing or some sort of syntax but I cannot find it. I plan on deploying this script using PS App Deploy Toolkit through SCCM when it is working (Group Policy is not currently a viable solution for me at this time)
I have spent my day trying to find a working script and I have come up empty. I used to use Set-ActiveSetup Stub ExePath but that seems to not be working any longer.
Well I found a way that works for me. I am including how I went about it, ignore the part with the DLL registration-
$Source = "C:\Temp\Downloaded Program Files"
$Destination = "C:\users\*"
$Items = Get-ChildItem -Path $Destination
foreach ($Item in $Items)
{
Write-Verbose "List of folders: $item" -Verbose ##added for visibility when I was testing
Copy-Item $Source -Destination "$item\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" -Force -Recurse
$CKIDLL = "`"$item\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Downloaded Program Files\CKInteractiveDriver.dll`""
Start-Process -Filepath 'regsvr32.exe' -Args "/s $CKIDLL"
}
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
Using this command I am able to get the latest updated folder in Unix
ls -t1 | head -1
But how can I get the same in FTP server from Windows?
I want to get the name of the latest updated folder at particular path of FTP server. Could any one please help?
There's no easy way to do this with Windows shell commands.
You can:
Use ftp.exe to execute ls /path c:\local\path\listing.txt to save a directory listing to a text file.
Exit ftp.exe.
Parse the listing and find the latest files. Not an easy task for Windows shell commands.
It would be a way easier with a PowerShell script.
You can use FtpWebRequest class. Though it does not have an easy way to retrieve structured directory listing either. It offers only ListDirectoryDetails and GetDateTimestamp methods.
See Retrieving creation date of file (FTP).
Or use a 3rd-party library for the task.
For example with WinSCP .NET assembly you can do:
param (
$sessionUrl = "ftp://user:mypassword#example.com/",
$remotePath = "/path"
)
# Load WinSCP .NET assembly
Add-Type -Path "WinSCPnet.dll"
# Setup session options
$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions
$sessionOptions.ParseUrl($sessionUrl)
# Connect
$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session
$session.Open($sessionOptions)
# Get list of files in the directory
$directoryInfo = $session.ListDirectory($remotePath)
# Select the most recent file
$latest =
$directoryInfo.Files |
Where-Object { -Not $_.IsDirectory } |
Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending |
Select-Object -First 1
# Any file at all?
if ($latest -eq $Null)
{
Write-Host "No file found"
}
else
{
Write-Host "The latest file is $latest"
}
See full example Downloading the most recent file.
(I'm the author of WinSCP)
Is it possible to copy from the Source location only New folders that have been added.
I have a Source location that is updated with folders every 5 minutes. The PS1 script will run every 5 minutes and copy all the folders to the destination location.
The issue im having is - It's copying over everything, i only want it to match up what has already been copied over Prior and copy over only newly added folders, Instead of copying everything again that is already there. Is this possible?
Also if possible once the copying of only Recently added folders, can the script then email out completion of this with what is has done?
So far i have the following :
Copy-Item -Recurse \\192.168.1.37\d$\Transactions\* -Destination D:\UK_Copy\Transactions_Bk -Force –Verbose
You could create a script that just loops. Something like:
$Source = "\\192.168.1.37\d$\Transactions\"
$Destination = "D:\UK_Copy\Transactions_Bk"
$LastScan = Get-ChildItem $Destination -recurse
While(1 -lt 2){
$NewScan = Get-ChildItem $Source -recurse
Compare-Object $NewScan -DifferenceObject $LastScan -Passthru | Copy-Item -Destination ($_.DirectoryName -replace [regex]::escape($source),$Destination) -force
$LastScan = $NewScan
Start-Sleep 300
}
That will get a listing of files in the destination, then look for files in the source that are new, or have changed compared to the destination and copy those over. Then it sets that scan as the last known listing to compare to, sleeps for 5 minutes, and loops again looking for files that are new or updated since the last scan.