re: Parsing an AuditPol.exe Report with Windows PowerShell 2.0

Pronichkin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:57:42 GMT

> I like to use the Windows PowerShell console to do this. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I opened an actual command prompt.

Oh, I wish life always was that easy! Unfortunately, some apps behave weirdly when running from PowerShell.

Here's a quick example. Ok, so you talked about LiveMeetng? Try to run this in PowerShell:

.\msiexec.exe /a "C:\New folder\LMConsole.msi" targetdir="C:\New folder (2)"

(Don't worry, it's not going to install anything. The /a command actually “extracts” the contents of the MSI into a folder of your choice. Yes, you could take pretty any MSI for this exercise. But please use paths with spaces!).

See? It doesn't pass correct syntax to msiexec for some reaon! Even

cmd /c msiexec.exe /a "C:\New folder\LMConsole.msi" targetdir="C:\New folder (2)"

will not work.

But if you call exactly the same line from native cmd it works like a charm.

re: Parsing an AuditPol.exe Report with Windows PowerShell 2.0

Windows PowerShell — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:47:40 GMT

Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, Scripting Guys