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re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Scripting Microsoft Security Essentials

Ed Wilson — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:51:38 GMT

@Dean look back at the article above. I am calling the command line: MPCMDRUN.EXE to see all it can do, use this MPCMDRUN.EXE /? to see the help. Note, this is not in your path by default, so you will need to go to the directory it installs.

For checking when it ran, also see above where I query the appropriate events from the event log.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Scripting Microsoft Security Essentials

dean — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:23 GMT

Is there a way to query the status of Security Essentials from the command line or powershell? I've got Security Essentials running on computers in a lab (a mix of XP, 7 x32, and 7 x64). I'd like to create a report to show each of these four items for each computer in the lab:

1) Real time protection status (e.g. On)

2) Virus and spyware definitions (e.g. Up to date)

3) Last scan (e.g. 5/16/2013)

4) Next scheduled scan (e.g. 5/23/2013)

Thanks in advance for any help!

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Open a File Dialog Box with Windows PowerShell?

deadlydog — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:33 GMT

Thanks for this. Like others have mentioned I had to add $OpenFileDialog.ShowHelp = $true to get it to work properly. I've added this to my list of powershell functions for getting input from the user via a GUI (blog.danskingdom.com/powershell-multi-line-input-box-dialog-open-file-dialog-folder-browser-dialog-input-box-and-message-box).

re: Change Virtual Machine Network Configuration with PowerShell

jrv — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:16:38 GMT

Clarification:

Works same on Windows 8.

Windows Server 2012 runs virtual on Windows 8.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Receive All Windows PowerShell Jobs?

Fabio Tramacere — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:21:37 GMT

I have adapted your script for a zip operation and it works perfectly !

Thx

$ZipJob = Start-Job -ScriptBlock {

if (-not (test-path "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe"))

{throw "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe needed"}

set-alias sz "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe"

$FolderPath = "C:\LPS\Logs\CAS-Server"

sz a -t7z "C:\LPS\Logs\Test.zip" $FolderPath

}

$complete = $false

while (-not $complete)

{

$ZipJobProgress= $ZipJob | ?{$_.State -match 'Running'}

if (-not $ZipJobProgress){"Zip operation completed";$complete=$true}

}

re: Use PowerShell to Copy Files and Folders to a New Location

jrv — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:33:34 GMT

@snarf -

You know that is not really true. The link you posted seems to prove that.

If we use the \\?\<drive>\<path> method ther is no issue.

re: Use PowerShell to Copy Files and Folders to a New Location

Snarf — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:30:43 GMT

@Lionel, Microsoft doesn't really support long file names and paths. They've just hacked Windows so it feels like it does to the average user. blogs.msdn.com/.../long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx

re: How Can I Get a List of All the Users Whose Passwords Never Expire?

jrv — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:51:19 GMT

LDAP searches the Path specified:

objCommand.CommandText = _

"<LDAP://ou=someou,dc=fabrikam,dc=com>;" &

re: How Can I Get a List of All the Users Whose Passwords Never Expire?

Nanda — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:25:45 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for all, is it possible to get the password expiry Yes\No for the users who are in one particular OU.

thanks

Nanda

re: PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Show Screensaver Info for Logged-on User

jrv — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:10:45 GMT

Sorry - my paste didn't paste:

Get-Wmiobject win32_desktop -filter "name like '%$env:USERNAME'"