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Comment on Try/Catch/Finally by Niklas Goude

Niklas Goude — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:55 +0000

Remove-Item somepath.exe -ErrorAction Stop

Comment on MOSS 2007 Script Collection by Des

Des — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:49:14 +0000

Hi Niklas, I wondered if you’d ever tried to change the value of the NoCrawl property on a SP List from $true to $false using PowerShell in a MOSS 2007 Document Library? I’ve been trying it and haven’t been able to acheive it… I attach an extract of my code below

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
$doclib = $web.Lists[$list]
$doclib.NoCrawl = $false
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()

This runs without error or exception, but has no effect on the value of NoCrawl. I tried adding $doclib.Update() immediately after setting the value of $doclib.NoCrawl, but that results in an exception as below…

Exception calling “Update” with “0″ argument(s): “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”

Any suggestions?

Comment on Insert a Page Break in a Word Document using PowerShell by Siva

Siva — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:35:24 +0000

Hi,

I am getting the following error, when I tried to replace a string using the above code. I am trying a replace a variable with value ( which has around 20 lines). Any suggestion. Could you please let me what is the above code ?(.Net or VBA etc)

PS C:\> C:\local\Powershell\File1.ps1
Exception calling “Execute” with “11″ argument(s): “String parameter too long.”
At C:\local\Powershell\File1.ps1:24 char:25
+ $Selection.Find.Execute <<<

Comment on Drop Down menu using Windows.Forms by eric

eric — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:54:29 +0000

Ok, can you read from an item from a drop down, that the user typed in?
For example, if I have your list of options, and they type in a new one, can I get that info?

Comment on Migrate From Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Using PowerShell by Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:19:21 +0000

Hey,

First I’d like to thank you for all the work you’ve done. Great job with these scripts, they are really helpful.
That being said, I was wondering if you will do the scripts for the Windows 2008 R2 part?
I could really use them as I’m currently on a projet very similar to your scenario.

Any answer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Chris

Comment on Replacing text in Word documents through PowerShell by Siva

Siva — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:13:15 +0000

I am getting the following error when I tried to replace a string. Basically I am trying to replace a string with a value( it has 15 to 20 lines of statements)

Exception calling “Execute” with “11″ argument(s): “String parameter too long.”
At C:\local\powershell\File1.ps1:24 char:25
+ $Selection.Find.Execute <<<< (
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation

Comment on Adding Ou Structure using Powershell by M P

M P — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:09:10 +0000

This isto pretty stalrr, but if youthat are still trying to figure it out. You added an extra $ in front of ou=Department while setting it initially. Here is the corrected line.

$Department = $NewOU2.Create(“OrganizationalUnit”, “ou=Department”)

Comment on PowerShell & SCCM – Packages by NickolajA

NickolajA — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:44:17 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying to follow this guide to change the description of a package. When I’m supposed to commit the changes by typing ‘$pkgAdobe.Put()’ I get the following error:

Method invocation failed because [Selected.System.Management.ManagementObject] doesn’t contain a method named ‘Put’

Any idea why?

Regards,
NickolajA

Comment on MOSS 2007 Script Collection by Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:59:26 +0000

Hi Niklas! Thanks a lot for this great work.
I have some error after executing Get-SPList function. It return the number of items in a list and bellow the number is the error. It seems it doesn’t matter on anything but just wanted to ask if it can be resolved.

PS C:\> $SPList = Get-SPList -url http://project/PWA/TestSite -List Test2; $SPList.ItemCount; $SPList.Dispose()

2
[Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList] doesn’t contain method called “Dispose”
$SPList.Dispose <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (Dispose:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

Comment on Try/Catch/Finally by Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:29:44 +0000

I have used try/catch before without any issues, so I am not sure what is going on here…

Try{

remove-item \\$name\c$\windows\temp\filename.exe}

Catch {Write “Not able to access files on $name”}

It always throws an error for the remove-item and it never catches it…. Am I missing something simple?