App Attach – Create Shortcut
To create a shortcut to a mounted VHD app, app attach app, set target file to explorer.exe and arguments to shell:AppsFolder\AdobeAcrobat2020_1nrb0vh0kd882!ACROBAT
Category: Scripting
Acrobat 2020 – App Attach Testing and Troubleshooting
Unregister Package (unload app) Remove-AppxPackage AdobeAcrobat2020_20.1.30002.0_x64__1nrb0vh0kd882 Register Package (load app) Add-AppxPackage -Path ‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AdobeAcrobat2020_20.1.30002.0_x64__1nrb0vh0kd882\AppxManifest.xml’ -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register Launch App start shell:AppsFolder\AdobeAcrobat2020_1nrb0vh0kd882!ACROBAT Create Desktop Shortcut explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\AdobeAcrobat2020_1nrb0vh0kd882!ACROBAT Notes Element Not Found Check the Access Control Entry for each user; look for corrupted entries. Resets ACE (Remove Corrupted Entries) icacls “C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AdobeAcrobat2020_20.1.30002.0_x64__1nrb0vh0kd882” /c Read More …
Azure – PowerShell – Add User into Local Administrators Group
On an Azure AD machine, acquiring the user’s UPN is required to add a user into the local administrators group. To obtain the UPN, you will first need the user SID. And, the caveat to all of this, is that those values must be returned in the System Account security context, meaning…the normal (Current User) Read More …
Azure – Batch – Add User into Local Administrators Group
On an Azure AD machine, acquiring the user’s UPN is required to add a user into the local administrators group. To obtain the UPN, you will first need the user SID. And, the caveat to all of this, is that those values must be returned in the System Account security context, meaning…the normal (Current User) Read More …
PowerShell – Time Zone Examples
Notes Get-Date [System.TimeZoneInfo]::GetSystemTimeZones()
PowerShell – List BIOS Information
Output Notes win32_bios class Get-Wmiobject Write-Host ForEach
PowerShell – Scheduled Shutdown
Notes New-ScheduledTaskAction New-ScheduledTaskTrigger Register-ScheduledTask shutdown -f -s -t 60 -c “MESSAGE HERE”
Windows – Rename Computer
PowerShell $(gwmi win32_computersystem).Rename(“PC-NewName”) Rename-Computer -NewName PC-NewName -Restart Invoke-command -computer PC-OldName -script {rename-computer PC-NewName; restart-computer} Commands WMIC ComputerSystem where Name=”PC-NewName” call Rename Name=NewName netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:PC-NewName /userd:domain\adminaccount /passwordd:password /reboot:10 Notes Rename-Computer Invoke-Command Netdom.exe WMIC.exe Get-WmiObject (gwmi)
PowerShell – Create and Import Self-Signed Certificate
Notes Clear-Host Import-Module New-Object New-SelfSignedCertificate Start-Transcript X509Store Class
PowerShell – Add ISE Support for PowerShell 7
This is how you add an option to switch to PS7 (and back to PS5) to the ISE Menu. #1 Open PowerShell ISE #2 Run: $PSVersionTable Check PS Version #3 Copy/Paste/Run #4 Click Add-ons > ‘Switch to PowerShell 7’ #5 Run: $PSVersionTable Check PS Version Snapshot