Category: Powershell

I had to run a powershell module that I found remotely to remove some pinned applications in Windows 7. I also wanted it to run remotely, and not have to log on to each PC to do so. To kick off a powershell script, I had to add this to a command file:

REM KICK OFF POWERSHELL STUFF
xcopy "\\domain.com\software\Non-Licensed\scripts\kiosk\Set-PinnedApplications.psm1" C:\temp\
powershell "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted"
powershell \\domain.com\software\Non-Licensed\scripts\kiosk\Remove_Taskbar_Shortcuts.ps1

The .ps1 file leads to this:

Import-Module C:\temp\Set-PinnedApplications.psm1
Set-PinnedApplication -Action UnPinFromTaskBar -FilePath "C:\Users\kiosk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Internet Explorer.lnk"
Set-PinnedApplication -Action UnPinFromTaskBar -FilePath "C:\Users\kiosk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Windows Explorer.lnk"
Set-PinnedApplication -Action UnPinFromTaskBar -FilePath "C:\Users\kiosk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Windows Media Player.lnk"

So it allows me to remove the pinned applications. If you want to view the module (Set-PinnedApplications.psm1) I used off technet it is here:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/b66434f1-4b3f-4a94-8dc3-e406eb30b750
You would just copy that content into: Set-PinnedApplications.psm1

I wanted to update the UPN or User Principal Names in our AD, as we had a couple thousand users that had been in our AD for over 10 years, in the NT days. So they were created without UPN’s.

This will print out the list of users and output it to a file so you can review who will be changed. We did not want to change the admin users so I added a notlike clause.

get-aduser -Filter * -SearchBase ‘CN=Users,dc=vivithemage,dc=com’ | where {($_.userprincipalname -eq $null) -and ($_.name -notlike “*admin*”)} | format-table samaccountname,givenname,surname | Out-File c:\test\UPN-prechange2.txt

Reviewed the list, looked good, so I can now run this to make the blanket change, while manually specifying the domain name:

get-aduser -Filter * -SearchBase ‘CN=Users,dc=vivithemage,dc=com’ | where {($_.userprincipalname -eq $null) -and ($_.name -notlike “*admin*”)} | foreach { Set-ADUser $_ -UserPrincipalName (“{0}@{1}” -f $_.name,”vivithemage.com”)}

Lots of help from this article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/08/13/add-user-principal-names-in-active-directory-via-powershell.aspx
and ss64.com