Thursday, January 17, 2013

Running a powershell script as a Scheduled Task

I found this link to run a powershell script using the Task Scheduler.

http://techhead.co/using-task-scheduler-to-run-a-powershell-script/

To create a simple task to copy a directory from one location to another.Open task scheduler and click Create Basic task.Give the name as Copy task. You can specify and select whether you want to run the task only when you login or keep it running whether a user logs in or not. Once that is done then click the Actions tab and click new. Let the Action be as Start a program. In the Settings text box enter this.

%windir%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

And in the Add arguments enter this after replacing the script path.

–Noninteractive –Noprofile –Command "&{Path to your Script}"

Open notepad and edit the Script file. Enter these lines and save it.

copy-item c:\yourfolderpath -destination c:\destinationpath -recurse

You can start the task and check if the copy is happening. Check the folder permissions and don't add any spaces in the directory names if your copy is not working.

Monday, October 8, 2012

IE9 32-bit crashing.

My internet explorer started crashing one day. And this error was logged in the applicaiton log.

Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 9.0.8112.16450, time stamp: 0x503723f6

Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000

Exception code: 0xc00000fd

Fault offset: 0x739ae2d4

Faulting process id: 0x4ac

Faulting application start time: 0x01cda5cf238949d0

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Faulting module path: unknown

Report Id: 617f9fb0-11c2-11e2-b050-002713b3ec0b

After lot of surfing and reading through blogs. I stumbled on this solution myself. I was comparing the registry keys from my machine and another one which had IE-9 installed. I found that this key was different.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UnattendBackup\ActiveSetup\Home_Page]. On my machine it was set to an intranet site of our organization.I changed that to http://www.google.com. The internet explorer started working again. On the first launch it still went to the intranet default site. But was not crashing anymore.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

SCOM 2007 authoring console crash

When i was checking the rules on my console.I had set the scope to all objects and since then it kept on crashing on me. It would load the other views but never the authoring console.Followed this link http://blog.tyang.org/2010/07/06/scom-console-crashes/

And this gave me a fair idea of what could be happening.My scom zone had many management packs loaded. By many i mean many, more that 500.So I just checked this reg key on another zone and the classes that were scoped in that. This console had only the root management server scoped. I copied the reg key from this RMS and imported on the problematic one. Woo hoo!! My console was not crashing anymore and it opened at the RMS scope here too. Here is the reg key.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Console\Navigation\MonitoringConfigNavSettings] "SelectedViewNodeId"="91aaa624-bebf-21db-858c-76d50a6a8d99" "ScopedClasses"="1a9387f0-6fe5-5527-a2cb-73f2f6be6bc7" "AuthoringSpaceViewedFirstTime"=dword:00000000 "UseDefaultScoping"=dword:00000000