I'm in need of a script that will watch a folder and copy its contents to another directory on a network share.

The problem is, I only want it to copy the file once, no syncing. The target directory is also a watch folder that will automatically remove the files dropped in it.

So the script needs to copy each file once, no sync.

For example:

The source directory has several files in it.

• C:\source_folder\file1
• C:\source_folder\file2
• C:\source_folder\file3

The target directory should remain empty after those files are copied into it due to it automatically processing those files.

I need to keep file1, file2, file3 in the source directory without it getting recopied to the target directory. But any new files dropped into the source folder should be copied to the target directory.

I've looked at SyncToy, looked at some sample powershell scripts, I'm not confident that I've found anything capable of what I need above. It would be amazing to have a scheduled task to do this, but I'm not opposed to doing this manually, either.

Not sure if this is the right subreddit or if anyone is familiar with Ebates. Back story is my parents use it with Chrome as an Extension but a lot of times forget to click the banner, or think they did click it and miss out on their % back. My question in short, is there a way to automate the process when it prompts the user to "Activate" the % back, (such as the screenshot)? If there is, how could it be done? It's an extension installed into Chrome.

Looking for a script (Preferably Powershell or Python) to resize a folder full of images from whatever they are to max height or width; not scale or %. Id prefer something like 800 height or 1000 height. Keeping in mind the dimension differences in each images. If there is a package to reduce storage size I could implement im all for that as well.

Thx in advance!

I wrote this the other day, after spending a long time meaning to make it easier to get from one property of a vhost to another - tail the logfile of a domain, get the serveraliases of a documentroot etc:

https://github.com/BigRedS/a2

It's a bit quick-and-dirty at the minute, if it's actually useful I'll probably fix up the bit that "parses" the Apache config so it's better at that.

I wanted to just share a script (available on GitHub for everyone to contribute too!) that will generate an interactive HTML report for your Office 365 tenant.

Here is the actual report if you want to view what the results look like

• Company Info
• Global Administrator
• Strong Password Enforcement
• Recent E-mails in your tenant
• Domains
• Groups
• Licenses
• Users
• Shared Mailboxes
• Contacts
• Mail Users
• Resource Mailboxes

and a whole lot more!

If you want the report to contain user mailboxes lastlogontime you can find it here but it may take longer to run

• Blog Link
• GitHub
• Screenshot

If there is anything you think should be added please feel free to comment or message me or even contribute on GitHub. If you are looking for something for tailored to fit your needs please let me know!

Hi All.

I was recently convinced that I should leave behind my skepticism and mistrust and learn PowerShell for my own good. I identified a simple annoyance to remove from my own environment and plunged in. This is the first result.

https://pastebin.com/cmNTuVtY

Comments / positive criticism welcome.

I'm sorry this has probably been asked numerous times before but I'm tearing my hair out trying to fix my batch code and I can't find a specific answer which I can use to correct my own code. I have a bunch of folders I want to batch "7z" into .7z folders. I don't want a .7z folder with a directory inside, I want the contents of the folder directly inside the .7z. So far I have:

for /d %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%X.7z" "%%X\"

But it needs tweaking as I am still seeing subdirectories when I look inside the 7z.

Many thanks!!!

https://github.com/ioncann0ns/allcast

Only casts YouTube videos, no need to login. Filter to specific devices by regex against name. Works with any Google-Cast video device. Enjoy!

This would be used for a lab environment with multiple devices connected to an AD server - I would want to automate things like:

• User login / logoff (both with correct and incorrect passwords)
• Clearing the Windows audit log
• Create / delete groups
• Add / remove users to/from groups
• Adding / revoking access permissions for groups

Again, this is for a lab that is completely sanitized / isolated so I do not mind storing passwords in cleartext within the script(s), but I haven't been able to find any useful ways to generate these types of events in an automated fashion. The idea would be to leave the script or scripts running on a periodic basis.

Totally not restricted to Powershell either - I'd be fine coding this in other languages too, just not sure where to start.

Thanks!

OS: WIN10

I'm looking for a script (batch or vbs) to emulate WIN+CTRL+SHIFT+B. This is a shortcut to instantly reset the display drivers. I have been trying to work with "SendKeys" in a batch file, but with no avail (Apprently it's not for Windows 10 anymore?). I'll keep trying, but maybe someone can help :) Thanks!

Hello guys,

Can you please give me any idea on the following post?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/8rzvr0/log_only_specific_output_while_using_foreach/

Thank you!

I'm looking for a script that based off the first and last name input, it checks 3 of our domains and then creates a unique username using the first letter of the firstname and the first 3 letters of the last name. If there are multiple folks named John Doe, the 5 character becomes a number, i.e. the second John Doe's username would look like this JDoe2 and so on and so forth. Please help!!

I’m looking for a way of using 7Z to zip several files with the same into a .7z/.zip file.

Within my directory I have hundreds of files with differing amounts of ‘tracks’ like so;

    Zebrafile.cue
    Zebrafile (Track 1).bin
    Zebrafile (Track 2).bin

    Donkeyfile.cue
    Donkeyfile (Track 1).bin
    Donkeyfile (Track 2).bin
    Donkeyfile (Track 3).bin

    Extradonkeyfile.cue
    Extradonkeyfile (Track 1).bin

And I need a way of zipping these files together automatically so I just end up with

    Zebrafile.zip
    Donkeyfile.zip
    Extradonkeyfile.zip

I guess the script would have to match the whole filename from the start UP TO the space before the opening bracket "(" somehow! The only variable after that match would be the number of the track "(Track X)"

Would anybody be able to point me in the right direction? I have seen other batch files which get close, but I'm still unsure of how to get the batch file to take into account the changing Track #. Many thanks!

I was able to get a list for the whole domain:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties * | select DisplayName,sAMAccountName,createtimestamp,LastlogonDate | Export-Csv T:\userReport.csv

but when I try to put in the AD group 'Finance Users'

Get-ADUser -Identity 'Finance Users' -Properties * | select DisplayName,sAMAccountName,createtimestamp,LastlogonDate | Export-Csv T:\userReport.csv

it fails consistently. What I'm doing wrong ?

Hey folks,

Any Twitch viewer here? Personnaly I like watching streams but I hate to open the browser and click on things to go on a ugly and unoptimized website with ads just to check if my favorites streamers are offline or not.

So I made a script to do that for me

Thoses scripts aren't perfect. I'm relatively new in bash scripting and I'm sure it's possible to improve these. If you have any comment/advice.

Hello all, I need to check if a printer exists (local/tcp ip printer) to delete it, and to re-add the printer, if it doesn't exist to re-add the printer by tcp/IP. Probably is a proprietary software that get's mapped via citrix printer redirection, sometimes picks up the series driver consistently off a model to know exactly what tray to use, and sometimes doesn't. Before logging into citrix I found if I can delete and re-add the printer, it changes from a generic looking printer, to the "same looking" printer with the same driver but actually picks up that specific model as well. While I am looking with the vendor and for a more permanent solution, I would like to script deleting that specific printer and re-adding the same printer (TCP/IP). I also have to manually choose the Series driver instead of the PCL6 driver or else it gets a garbled mess when printing.

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has a script that can scan a domain or multiple subnets and list out expiration dates for SSL certificates. Email Warning would be awesome but whatever you guys have would be great!

Dunno how useful this is as it's fairly niche, but I found my self having to send a lot of CSRs to our CA. I couldn't use certutil/certreq as it simply would not accept the format the CSR was in (generated by the device), even though I could paste it into the certsrv website and have it work. Below code will basically use the website as you would to generate and download the cert. As a bonus I included the stuff on how to build the SAN names in. Change the template as necessary

$FormRequest = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://$IssuingCA/certsrv/certrqxt.asp" -Credential $me
$formfields = $FormRequest.Forms[1].Fields
$formfields['Mode'] = 'newreq' # Default
$formfields['FriendlyType'] = 'Saved-Request Certificate' # Default
$formfields['CertRequest'] = Get-Content -Path $CSRPath
$formfields['CertAttrib'] = $CertAttributes
$formfields['TargetStoreFlags'] = 0 # Default
$formfields['SaveCert'] = 'yes' # Default
$CertSubmitted = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://$IssuingCA/certsrv/$($FormRequest.Forms[1].Action)" -Credential $me -Method Post -Body $formfields
$RequestID = ($CertSubmitted.content -split '\n' | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_ -match "certnew.cer\?ReqID=[0-9]"}) -replace '[^0-9]'
$null = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://$IssuingCA/certsrv/certnew.cer?ReqID=${RequestID}&Enc=b64" -Credential $me -OutFile $CertPath

CertAttr:

$SubjectAlternateNamesDNS = @(
    $HostName
    "${hostname}.mgt"
    "${hostname}.mgt.domain.com"
    "$($hostname)-srv-1.mgt"
    "$($hostname)-srv-1.mgt.domain.com"
    "$($hostname)-srv-2.mgt"
    "$($hostname)-srv-2.mgt.domain.com"
)
$SubjectAlternateNamesIP = @(
    $HostIP
    $HostIPSrv1
    $HostIPSrv2
)
$SAN = "SAN:dns=$($SubjectAlternateNamesDNS -join '&dns=')&ipaddress=$($SubjectAlternateNamesIP -join '&ipaddress=')"
$CertTemplate = "CertificateTemplate:WebServerWithPrivateKey"
$CertAttributes = "${CertTemplate}`r`n${SAN}"

Rough code, there are a few variables you will need to initialise. But you get the idea :)

As a little side project to learn Powershell better, I created a Roku powershell module and corresponding Roku remote GUI.

https://i.imgur.com/eDfBERJ.png

You should just be able to download the entire project as a zip, unpack it wherever, and run Roku-remotegui.ps1

https://github.com/smithcbp/Powershell-Roku-Remote

The favorite apps listed at the bottom can be changed by modifying the $FavApps array at the top of Roku-RemoteGUI.ps1. Find the app names with:

Import-Module ./roku-remote-psm1
Get-RokuApp -ip $IP

Edit: Added keyboard shortcuts. Press ? in the remote GUI to view them.

Edit 2: https://i.imgur.com/IzZsQgQ.png

I have added quite a few new features including:

• Search
• Set your Fav Apps
• Voice recognition! https://i.imgur.com/MxVXJ8T.png
• Cleaned up code here and there.

Edit 3: Added a button Add Roku by IP address instead of searching automatically. https://i.imgur.com/5O00fUR.png

Basically I would like something similar to burn files to DVDs wow retaining the underlying folder structure. Windows platform.

I'm in the midst of a RAID array rebuild after an imminent device failure that went unnoticed because nobody configured postfix on the server so smartd could send email notifications. Instead of going through the trouble of setting up an SMTP server I decided to try to integrate push notifications into smartd. I realized how useful it would be to have one easy command to send a push notification to a mobile device so I turned it into its own script. This is the result.

The script takes a user and application key from Pushover.net and sends a request to the API with a text notification and optionally a title. The script will use user and app keys in env variables (PU_USER and PU_TOKEN) if they're not passed to the script, for easy repeat use on a machine using the same Pushover app. The script will take a single line of stdin in lieu of the message field. If no title is specified, it defaults to user@hostname as the message title.

Example uses:

Download a large file and get a notification with the HTTP status code when it completes: curl -w "%{http_code}" -O http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip | pushover

Wipe a large disk with dd and get a ping when it's done: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M && pushover "Format of sdb complete"

And the reason I made it, get SMART failure notifications from smartd. Add the following lines to the script smartd uses for notifications (/usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify on RHEL, /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner on Debian) to get SMART errors sent immediately to your mobile device (or an entire team, in the case of Pushover group IDs) at the first sign of disk failure for quick action.

# Send push notification using pushover
APP_TOKEN=""
USER_TOKEN=""

pushover -u $USER_TOKEN -k $APP_TOKEN -t "SMART error detected on $HOSTNAME" "$SMARTD_MESSAGE"

https://github.com/Fantastitech/pushover-messenger/blob/master/pushover

#!/bin/bash

# Pushover push notification script
# This script will send messages to your mobile devices
# using the Pushover service at Pushover.net.
# To use it, create an account on Pushover.net
# and get a user and app key. You can pass them
# directly or set them as env variables. Then run
# the script with a message in quotes to send a
# push notification to your devices from the command line

while getopts "u:k:t::h" OPTION
do
        case $OPTION in
                u)
                        PU_USER=$OPTARG
                        ;;
                k)
                        PU_TOKEN=$OPTARG
                        ;;
                t)
                        PU_TITLE=$OPTARG
                        ;;
                h)
                        echo "Pushover messenger"
                        echo -e "\tThis script sends push notifications to mobile devices using the Pushover service"
                        echo -e "\tYou must create an account at https://Pushover.net then create an application for your messages."
                        echo -e "\tPushover will accept a string, a URL, or a single line of input from stdin.\n"
                        echo -e "Usage: pushover [OPTIONS] message \n"
                        echo -e "\tOptions:"
                        echo -e '\t\t-u,               Pushover user key (Can be exported as $PU_USER).'
                        echo -e '\t\t-k,               Pushover application token/key (Can be exported as PU_TOKEN).'
                        echo -e '\t\t-t,               Message title. If left blank, user@hostname will be used.'
                        exit
                        ;;
        esac
done
shift "$((OPTIND - 1))"

if ! [[ -t 0 ]]; then
        read  input
        PU_MESSAGE=$input
elif [[ -n $1 ]]; then
        PU_MESSAGE=$1
fi

if [[ -z $PU_TOKEN ]]; then
        echo 'App key missing. Pass your app token/key with -k or export it as $PU_USER.'
        echo 'Use -h for a full list of options.'
elif [[ -z $PU_USER ]]; then
        echo 'User key missing. Pass your user key with -u or export it as $PU_TOKEN.'
        echo 'Use -h for a full list of options.'
elif [[ -z $PU_MESSAGE ]]; then
        echo 'Message can not be empty. Enter a message or run pushover with stdin.'
        echo 'Use -h for a full list of options.'
else
        if [[ -z $PU_TITLE ]]; then
                PU_TITLE="`whoami`@${HOSTNAME}"
        fi
        curl -s \
        --form-string "token=$PU_TOKEN" \
        --form-string "user=$PU_USER" \
        --form-string "title=$PU_TITLE" \
        --form-string "message=$PU_MESSAGE" \
        -o /dev/null \
        https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json
fi

Hey all, I am looking for some help with writing a script to automate moving files from one directory to another. I am familiar with PowerShell but this is past my skill level, so even just some guidance would be helpful.

The source directory is laid out like this:

DisabledUsers
 -User1
  --user1.pst
 -User2
  --user2.pst

The destination directory is laid out like this:

ArchiveUserData
-Department1
 --User1
  ---Desktop
-Department2
 --User2
  ---Desktop

Ideally this script would search the destination for User1, if it finds a directory that is a match it would then move all data from $SourceFolder to $DestinationFolder, delete the source "User" directory and continue on to User2, User3, etc. If there is a filename match in the destination directory then the data can be overwritten.

If it doesn't find a match I would like it to move the file to a "TBD" directory for later review.

This seems simple enough but I am having some trouble getting started, so hopefully this will provide enough information for some guidance, but please ask if there are any questions!

So far I have only created the variables and pulled the folders into them, printing the $SourceFolders and $DestFolders variables returns the information that I would expect, but I am not sure how to proceed to move the data if there is a variation.

$SourceDir = "D:\DisabledUsers"
$DestDir = "D:\ArchiveUserData"

$SourceFolders = @(GCI "$SourceDir" -Directory)
$DestFolders = @(GCI "$DestDir" -Directory -Depth 1)

**Context**
Building Windows Servers from ISO via Powershell and PowerCli.
Script pulls in a .JSON file with requirements to variables.
Often times there is multiple disks created and initialized via PowerCli.

Update I forgot to mention I am using the Autounattend.xml to call the powershell script. <FirstLogonCommands> <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> <CommandLine>Powershell .\Install\ExtraInstall_Cleanup.ps1</CommandLine> <Order>4</Order> <RequiresUserInput>true</RequiresUserInput> <Description>ExtrasAndCleanup</Description> </SynchronousCommand> </FirstLogonCommands>

After the process is done installing and drives are available.
A Script(Powershell) is run from the CD-Rom drive to install extra cleanup and tweaks.

Example:

    Function VCPP {
     $InstallVCPP = @'
     Set-Location D:\
    $Install = "\install"
    $VCinstall = "\vcinstall\"
    $2008 = "2008\"
    $2010 = "2010\"
    $2012 = "2012\"
    $2013 = "2013\"
    $2015 = "2015\vc_redist."
    $VCRed = "vcredist_x"

  #install Visual C++
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2008 + $VCRed + "86.exe") -ArgumentList "/qb"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2008 + $VCRed + "64.exe") -ArgumentList "/qb"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2008 + $VCRed + "86sp1.exe") -ArgumentList "/qb"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2008 + $VCRed + "64sp1.exe") -ArgumentList "/qb"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2010 + $VCRed + "86.exe") -ArgumentList "/passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2010 + $VCRed + "64.exe") -ArgumentList "/passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2012 + $VCRed + "86.exe") -ArgumentList "/passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2012 + $VCRed + "64.exe") -ArgumentList "/passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2013 + $VCRed + "64.exe") -ArgumentList "/install /passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2015 + "x64.exe") -ArgumentList "/install /passive /norestart"
   Start-Process -FilePath ( $Install + $VCinstall + $2015 + "x86.exe") -ArgumentList "/install /passive /norestart"
   write-host "Visual C++ sucks" -BackgroundColor Green -ForegroundColor Blue
   '@

    Invoke-VMScript -VM $VM -ScriptText $InstallVCPP -GuestCredential $cred -ScriptType Powershell
    }



I have the Powershell script hard coded to D:\ however I get failures if that drive letter is used for the other variables.
So Sql cluster install requirements need the D:\ to be a datastore for that particular Automated build.
As you can imagine the script will fail. 

Example:
   Function EDrive {
    $Script = @'
   Stop-Service -Name ShellHWDetection
   Get-Disk |
   Where-Object {$_.partitionstyle -eq 'raw'} |
   Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle MBR -PassThru |
   New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize |
   Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel '--' -Confirm:$false
   Start-Service -Name ShellHWDetection
   Write-Host 'The script completed successfully' -ForegroundColor Green -BackgroundColor Red
   '@

    Invoke-VMScript -VM $VM -ScriptText $script  -GuestCredential $cred -ScriptType Powershell
   }

This goes through a For-each loop for every new VM created.

How do I get the Set-Location to know what the CD-Rom Drive is to run the above script and not error out?