I am trying to run this command on cmd:
wmic:root\cli>/node:IPAddress product get name, version, vendor, installdate
IPAddress can be replaced with whatever address or hostname is desired.
The command does not give me any errors, however, it gives me installdate in MMMMYYDD form (for example, 20170801 instead of something simple like 01-Aug-2017 or 2017/08/01). I have tried to look for solutions online, but they're usually talking about system installations instead of product installations.
I know that installdate is a string, so this is more a question of how should I convert this string into a date. I tried using '+%Y%m%d' after the installdate, but it gave me an error: Invalid GET Expression.
If you can use PowerShell, it is not too difficult. You can control the format you want in the ToString method.
Get-CimInstance -ClassName CIM_Product |
Select-Object -Property #{n='Name';e={$_.Name}}, #{n='Date';e={([datetime]::ParseExact($_.InstallDate,'yyyyMMdd', $null)).ToString('dd-MMM-yyyy')}}
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So my task is to write a PS script, that outputs the location of a database file. The location of the file is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Mailbox\Mailbox database Name\Mailbox database Name.edb
I figured I can get the name of my Exchange database with
Get-MailboxDatabase | fl Name
which has the output:
Mailbox Database 0161713049
which is the name of the db but there is a bunch of invisible characters before and after the actual name.
So my question is, how could I get rid of these invisible characters? I want to concat a string to make it look like this:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 0161713049\Mailbox Database 0161713049.edb
I would need this code to work on servers with completely different database names too, so simply removing the unwanted characters from the start with .Remove() may help, but since I don't know for sure the length of the name of the database, I can't remove the characters at the end.
Also I can't get rid of the feeling that there is a much simpler way to get the location of my .edb file.
Powershell treats almost all outputs as an object with properties in hashtable format like #{Name=MYEXCHDB}. When you just want a property value as a string instead, you must expand it like #AdminOfThings suggests:
Get-MailboxDatabase | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
To concatenate the name into a string:
$myString = "C:\path\to\$(Get-MailboxDatabase | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name)"
And as #mathias-r-jessen suggests, the path to the database is another property you can get directly:
Get-MailboxDatabase | Select-Object -ExpandProperty EdbFilePath | Select-Object -ExpandProperty PathName
I'm exporting an AD report via power shell using the code below.
$Get-ADUser -Filter 'enabled -eq $true' -SearchBase "OU=Staff,OU=Users,OU=OSA,DC=domian,DC=org" -properties mail, employeeID | select employeeID, mail, ObjectGUID | Export-CSV "C:\Reports\ADExports\Students.csv" -notypeinformation
It outputs the csv file and everything looks fine except, the 'Data type' of all columns are set to 'Short Text'.
I require the Employee ID column type to be 'Numbers'. Is it possible to export a csv with custom field type.
I hope this make sense.
Thanks in advance.
CSVs are plain text and do not contain type information. However, you can use the following module, which provides an Export-Excel cmdlet. This cmdlet takes various Excel parameters, including a -NumberFormat.
$x | Export-Excel -Numberformat 'Number' -Path 'test.xlsx' #This worked for me.
You will probably have to play around with it a little depending on your exact use case. Good luck!
ok guys, I'm going to assume that you cannot export a csv via powershell with custom data types.
However, I found a way around my issue. I've converted the data type when importing the csv in to access and managed to solve my issue.
If anyone's interested you can find the exact issue and solution here - Joining Two Tables with Different Data types MS ACCESS - 'type mismatch in expression' error
Thank you for bring the 'ImportExcel' module to my attention. Now i know there's module available for this and you can do quite a bit on excel manipulation.
Thank you all for your comments/answers.
Thanks.
So the below is where I'm at so far:
import-module activedirectory
$domain = "ourdomain"
Get-ADUser -Filter {enabled -eq $true} -Properties whenCreated,EmailAddress,CanonicalName |
select-object Name,EmailAddress,CanonicalName,whenCreated | export-csv C:\Data\test.csv
Unfortunately, when I run the above I get dates in two different formats in the CSV, e.g.:
01/01/2017
1/01/2017 8:35:56 PM
The issue this poses is that there isn't really a clean way to sort them. Excel's formatting doesn't change either of these formats to be more like the other, both because of the inclusion of time in one and not the other, and because the time-inclusive format doesn't use trailing zeroes in the single digit numbers, but the time-exclusive format does.
We have an existing script that captures users using the LastLogonTimestamp attribute that does this correctly by changing the bottom line to the following:
select-object Name,EmailAddress,CanonicalName,#{Name="Timestamp"; Expression={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.whenCreated).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd_hh:mm:ss')}}
For some reason this expression runs properly when we query the LastLogonTimestamp attribute, but when we run this version querying the whenCreated attribute, we get an entirely blank column underneath the Timestamp header.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about PowerShell itself, and my colleague who had found the original script for the LastLogonTimestamp just found it online and adapted it as minimally as possible to have it work for us, so I don't know if something in this line would work properly with one of these attributes and not the other. It seems strange to me though that two attributes using dates in the same program would store them in different formats though, so I'm not convinced that's it.
In any case, any help anyone can offer to help us get a uniform date format in the output of this script would be greatly appreciated - it needn't have the time included if it's easier to do away with it, though if they're equally easy we may as well keep it.
whencreated is already a [DateTime]. Notice the difference between the properties when you run something like this:
Get-ADUser TestUser -Properties lastlogon,whenCreated | select lastlogon,whenCreated | fl
(Get-ADUser TestUser -Properties lastlogon).lastlogon | gm
(Get-ADUser TestUser -Properties whenCreated).whenCreated | gm
This means that you don't have to convert to a DateTime before running the toString() method.
select-object #{Name="Timestamp"; Expression={$_.whenCreated.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd_hh:mm:ss')}}
I'm actually writing a node script that detect if a specific USB is plugged, then it copy it content to Desktop. This is for Windows principally. To do this I manually check if 'E:\' path exists , 'F:\' , etc...
But I need to be sure that devices are the ones that I need. They got specific names, for example:
MTR12345 or MTR23RR5 or MTRTGX23.
And I need to know theses names. I searched for differents nodejs and powershell solutions but no ones fit my needs.
I need to get the name of the device that is mounted at E:\ . I'm totally new to PowerShell and NodeJS as well.
How can I do this ? Thanks for your help.
Sounds like you are just looking for the volume names. The WMI class Win32_logicaldisk would return that for mounted devices. Assuming it was populated of course. In it's simplest form:
Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk | Where-Object{$_.VolumeName -eq "MyUSBKey"}
You have some specific examples and a regex query that you are trying to use to narrow down the results. So if you want to match a regex query:
Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk |
Where-Object{Where-Object{$_.VolumeName -match "MTR[A-Za-z0-9]+"}} |
Select -Expand DeviceID
You could even simplify that if you wanted. Just match volumes that start with "MTR". Not as perfect as the other one but just as simple.
Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk |
Where-Object{Where-Object{$_.VolumeName -match "^MTR"}} |
Select -Expand DeviceID
I'm trying to create a script that will format the output of w32tm.exe /monitor and display in a table the server name, NTP offset, and RefID.
I'm a little unaware of how to go about getting the output from an executable file to format it and was wondering if someone here could help me. Right now I'm trying this:
$executable = w32tm.exe /monitor
$executable | Format-Table -View "Server Name", "NTP offset", "RefID"
How can I manage to get the executable to be formatted in a table to display those specific parts of the exe?
Hi I also needed to do this before I found a function someone made to do this have a look I am sure you can change it to suit your needs or just use it as is .
ps-function
Article on how it works