RE: PS script help - SOLVED. ID10T error
Dave Lum
…if you remove the trailing spaces from the lines in the TXT file it magically works…
Dave
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $content = Get-Content -Path "C:\Automate\Reports\IISAppPools.txt"
$content[0].gettype()
IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True True String System.Object
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From what you’re saying, I would think there was something wrong with the string—except that it seems to be failing for you at Set-ItemProperty while succeeding at Stop-WebAppPool. And if it works when you hard-code the variable, it can’t be what prepends it on the path for Set-ItemProperty.
So a wild guess. What do you get from the following?
$content = Get-Content -Path "C:\Automate\Reports\IISAppPools.txt"
$content[0].gettype()
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This is what I have so far, but I get Cannot find path 'IIS:\AppPools\MyAppPool1 because it does not exist. If I remove the foreach parts and run the script replacing the $inputs line with $appPoolName = "MyAppPool1", it works.
$inputs
=
Get-Content
-Path
"C:\Automate\Reports\IISAppPools.txt"
$username = "DOMAIN\ACCOUNT"
foreach ($appPoolName in $inputs) {
# Process each line here
Write-Output "Processing: $appPoolName"
Stop-WebAppPool -Name $appPoolName
Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
# Apply the custom identity credentials
Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\AppPools\$appPoolName" -Name processModel -Value @{
identityType = 3;
userName = $username;
}
Start-WebAppPool -Name $appPoolName
}
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You know that “Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools” returns all appPools (including their name)?
(I understand that you might still just want to update certain appPools – just askin’)
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I am looking to use PowerShell to change IIS pool identities. I have 20 app pools and I’d like the $appPoolName part be able to cycle thorough values in a TXT file
so the credentials get applied to whatever app pool names I have in the TXT file. The Application Pool names aren’t consistent enough for me to just use a filter on the name so a TXT file is the more reliable route here.
$appPoolName
=
"AppPool_1"
$username = "DOMAIN\ACCOUNT$"
# Apply the custom identity credentials
Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\AppPools\$appPoolName" -Name processModel -Value @{
identityType = 3;
userName = $username;
}
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Wright, John M
Trailing whitespace is evil. One day Powershell will get updated with a -RemoveInvisibleThings parameter.
Solodow, Damien
Most likely caused by the format-table -autosize 😊
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…if you remove the trailing spaces from the lines in the TXT file it magically works…
Solodow, Damien
Or use the .trim() method on the strings. 😊
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Dave Lum
Yep. It’s how I am really good and fine-tuning things. My coworkers like many of my processes but mainly it’s really just years of “I did stupid shit an learned from it. Sometimes”
“Hey, why do your PS scripts that send email all have the name of the script and the server name that sent them?”
“Oh, no reason…”
Dave