Post your Fav Powershell Scripts

[The_Observer]

So i have been pushing myself to get into more powershell. Anyone here got some good powershell scripts for everyday use. Maybe we can get a nice collection to pin here in NeoWin.

[+rdlenk Subscriber²]

I tend to use this a lot:

start-process "http://technet.microsoft.com/library"

/joke

 

A great tool that I use a lot for application deployments though SCCM or simple network shares is the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit on CodePlex. Highly recommend it if you are doing application deployments or just about any PowerShell script that needs a simple UI for end-users.

[Praetor]

PS is fantastic, you can do anything with it...

...anything....

[J_R_G]

function sudo ([string]$file, [string]$arguments) {
$psi = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo $file;
$psi.Arguments = $arguments;
$psi.Verb = "runas";
$psi.WorkingDirectory = get-location;
[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($psi);
}

Usage: sudo app.exe

 

My prompt function:

$global:wmilocalcomputer = get-WMIObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computer "."
$global:lastboottime=[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($wmilocalcomputer.lastbootuptime)
$global:originaltitle = [console]::title
 
function global:prompt 
{
$up=$(get-date)-$lastboottime
 
$upstr="$([datetime]::now.toshorttimestring()) $([datetime]::now.toshortdatestring()) up $($up.days) days, $($up.hours) hours, $($up.minutes) minutes"
 
$dir = $pwd.path
 
$homedir = $env:userprofile
 
if ($homedir -ne "" -and $dir.toupper().startswith($homedir.toupper()))
{
$dir=$dir.remove(0,$homedir.length).insert(0,'~')
}
 
if ([console]::title.length -ne 0) {
[console]::title = "$global:originaltitle ? $env:username@$($env:computername.tolower())?$dir ? $upstr" }
 
write-host "$env:username" -nonewline 
write-host "@" -nonewline
write-host "$($env:computername.tolower())" -nonewline
write-host "?" -nonewline
write-host "$dir" -nonewline
write-host "?" -nonewline
return " `b"
}

Puts the up-time in the powershell window title and makes my prompt look like: jgentile@v8?~\Documents\WindowsPowerShell?

Both work best when put in "C:\Users\[username]\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1"

http://poshcode.org also has many great scripts.

[TPreston]

Replace "this pc" with computername.domain.local
 

$objIPProperties = [system.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties]::GetIPGlobalProperties()
if ($objIPProperties.DomainName -eq $null) {
$SystemName = ?{0}? -f $objIPProperties.HostName
}
else {
$SystemName = ?{0}.{1}? -f $objIPProperties.HostName, $objIPProperties.DomainName
}
Set-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" -Value $SystemName -Type string

[+John Teacake MVC]

Cool! I am just getting into Powershell too. I have posted a few on my blog. The Scripting Guys from Microsoft have some really good ones occasionally.