Comments on: Why I no longer hate writing documentation…

By: yurivku

yurivku — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:13:35 +0000

Hi, in Excel 2010 it works only if add:
$culture = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]“en-US”
$oldCulture = [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = $culture
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture

just before Excel calling.
Thanks for script

By: stan

stan — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:53:32 +0000

using powershell 2.
created a simple script to output the computer names and descriptions.
Trying to output from a specific OU to a spreadsheet and format the two fields: name and description with no luck so far.
here’s the script:
$strFilter = “computer”

$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry

$objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$objSearcher.SearchRoot = “LDAP://servername/OU=laptops,ou=city,DC=domain,DC=com”
$objSearcher.SearchScope = “subTree”
$objSearcher.PageSize = 1000

$objSearcher.Filter = “(objectCategory=$strFilter)”
$colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll()

foreach ($i in $colResults)
{
$objComputer = $i.GetDirectoryEntry()
Get-WMIObject Win32_BIOS -computername $objComputer.Name,$objComputer.Description
}

Help would be appreciated. thanks.

By: Menno

Menno — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:51:47 +0000

To optimize the scan, I added a check to skip non-responding computers (e.g. linux machines, computers turned off, and unupdated AD records). Scanning of our network is a lot faster now.

Function WMILookup {
foreach ($StrComputer in $colComputers){
$GenItems1 = gwmi Win32_ComputerSystem -Comp $StrComputer
***********
if(!$GenItems1){
Write-Host “$StrComputer not found”
continue
}
***********

Thanks for the script! I also love your tutorials, especially the real-world examples. Very well written!

Menno

By: Bengt

Bengt — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:29:29 +0000

I forgot to mention that i tried Jamey Westmoreland textversion provided in this thread. It resulted in me being posted to save the textfile numerous times as specified in the script but there were never any textfiles saved.
I also tried editing the script to use OpenOffice Calc instead (it’s installed next to Office 2010 Beta on my Vista-machine) but I was never able to “wake” Calc through the script.

Regards
/Bengt

By: Bengt

Bengt — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:11:36 +0000

I’m a beginner when it comes to scripting and likewise in Powershell.
I would love to get this script working but i have only ended up with a blank excel, not even a worksheet.
I have tried it in two setups.
In both setups I ran it on local machine.

1.Vista Business SP2 Office 2010 Beta
2.XP SP3 Office 2003
Vista is fysical, XP is virtual(would have liked it to be the other way around).

I checked to see if all COM and WMI services were running – ok.

In Vista I allowed powershell in Firewall.
In XP I disabled firewall.

In Office2010 Beta i set folder, and subfolder of powershell-exe to be trusted.

Starting to suspect it could relate to some module missing in powershell or something else missing.

I have complete faith this is a wonderful script. But since you guru’s have been working with scrips so long I suspect this script does not work since I and other don’t meet the pre-requisites.
Is there anyway to find out pre-requisites, dependencies..

Thank you for shareing all you’re knowledge

Best Regards
/Bengt

By: Bman

Bman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:22:35 +0000

This looks great – however when choosing option 1 for all domain computers only one machine shows up. No errors pop up but in the debug window I see the following:

“Which computer resources would you like in the report?”
Undetermined
Undetermined

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

By: Brzeski

Brzeski — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:50:26 +0000

Can someone recomend a good book on PowerShell, for a beginner

By: Brzeski

Brzeski — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:45:30 +0000

Hi, How do I change this script to output to notepad, we do not have Excel?
Thanks

By: TS

TS — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:39 +0000

This script is great but i am new to powershell and need the uptime of the servers added to this script, how to do that????

By: Psihais

Psihais — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:23:15 +0000

can someone send me final version of this script, I cannot configure it to run with excel 2007.
matiss(dot)baltalksnis@gmail.com