Writing Registry Key Default Values

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

 

If you need to set the default value for a Registry Key, you can  use either of these approaches:

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Somekey -Name ‘(Default)’ -Value MyValue

Or, you can just do this:

Set-Item -Path HKCU:\Software\Somekey -Value MyValue

 

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Asking for Credentials

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

When you write functions that accept credentials as parameters, add a transformation attribute! This way, the user can either submit a credential object (for example, a credential supplied from Get-Credential), or simply a user name as string. The transformation attribute will then convert this string automagically into a credential and ask for a password.

function do-something {

param(

[System.Management.Automation.Credential()]

$Credential

)

'$Credential now holds a valid credential object'

$Credential

}

When you run do-something without parameters, it will automatically invoke the credentials dialog.

How to List Registry Hives

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

Use the provider name instead of a drive name when you need to get a list of all Registry Hives:

Dir Registry::

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aman

My PowerShell Story: PowerShell and I

 

hi,

Thanks to http://www.powershellmagazine.com they just upload my powershell story yesterday.

you can read the complete story here:  http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2011/12/12/powershell-and-i/

thanks

aman

Print All PDF Files in Folders using PowerShell

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

Try this one-liner if you need to print out all PDF documents you have stored in one folder:

Dir c:\myfolder\*.pdf | Foreach-Object { Start-Process -FilePath $_.FullName – Verb Print }

 

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Determining Service Start Modes using PowerShell

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

 

By using WMI, you can enumerate the start mode that you want your services to use. To get a list of all services, try this:

Get-WMIObject Win32_Service | Select-Object Name, StartMode

If you want to find out the start mode of one specific service, try this instead:

([wmi]'Win32_Service.Name="Spooler"').StartMode

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Change Service Start Mode using PowerShell

 

PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com:

 

You can use WMI like this if you want to change a service start mode:

([wmi]'Win32_Service.Name="Spooler"').ChangeStartMode('Automatic').ReturnValue
([wmi]'Win32_Service.Name="Spooler"').ChangeStartMode('Manual').ReturnValue

Note that a return value of 0 indicates success. 

You will need Administrator privileges to change the start mode.

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“Enable or Disable” Network adapters using Powershell.

 

Hi,

In our IT environment we don’t give  “admin” rights to the normal users and they can’t enable/disable, install/un-install anything.

Today one of our users was having some problem with Wi-FI and to troubleshoot it i need to “enable” and “disable” Wi-Fi network adapter few times, but to enable or disable the network adapter i required to insert the “Administrator” username and password every time {remember my user don’t have admin privileges}.

This make me mad, i Inserted the username and password approx 10 times {somehow the problem was not resolved and with every change i need to disable and re-enable the wi-fi}, and I also don't want to login as administrator  to the system. Then i thought there must be a PowerShell way to do this and after few minutes of R&D i found the solution of my problem.

Problem:

user don’t have admin privileges to enable/disable any network adapters, so while troubleshooting if you need to enable or disable the network adapter it always ask for Administrator account to do the task.

 

 

Solution :

Run PowerShell as Administrator First

Search for PowerShell and then Right click and choose “Run as administrator”

When PowerShell runs as Administrator, the PS path changed to “C:\widows\System32” and in title bar you can see the “Administrator” is written.

We will be using  WMI to enable and disable the network adapters.

I do remember that the WMI class for network adapter is start with win32_Network but i forget the full name of the class. lets search it first

  1: Get-WmiObject -List | where  { $_.Name -like "win32_network*"}

in above command we are listing all class in WMI and choosing those to display which starts with Win32_Network

It shows the all classes those are start with Win32_Network , the class which we need is Win32_NetworkAdapter

ok, lets query the Win32_NetworkAdapter class

  1: Get-WmiObject -Class win32_NetworkAdapter

and you see it shows the list of all network adapter installed in the system.

 

lets filter it more and choose only Name of Adapter to display

  1: Get-WmiObject -Class win32_NetworkAdapter | select name

we piped the command further to Select-Object cmdlet and choose only to display name of the Network adpaters

Currently I am interested in enable/disable my Wi-Fi network Card. the Name of the  my Wi-Fi network adapter is “Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN”

Now I will select only my “Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN” network adapter using where-object cmdlet and in $_.Name i am searching for that Name is Like something “ultimate-n”

  1: get-WmiObject win32_networkadapter |where { $_.name -like "*ultimate-n*"}

Now it showing only one Network Adapter and its showing the network adapter which i want to disable/enable. Our command is working fine till now.

Now I am going to put the above command in to a variable $wifi.

  1: $wifi = get-WmiObject win32_networkadapter |where { $_.name -like "*ultimate-n*"}

and lets also test the variable too.

All working fine ….

now pipe the $wifi to get-member cmdlet and check what the methods do we have

  1: $wifi | Get-Member -MemberType Method

NetworkAdapter has 4 methods but we are interested in only 2 for now, the enable and disable method.

To disable a Network adapter we need to use disable()

To enable a Network adapter we need to use enable()

lets try :)

first Disable it

$wifi.disable()

working

not enable it

  1: $wifi.enable()

it enabled :)

Now we can enable/disable network adapters number of times without inserting “Administrator” username and password again and again.

I hope it save someone's time :)

Thanks

Aman Dhally