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Category Archives: COM
Finding special folders
Windows has a number of special folders. These can be accessed either directly through the file system – for example the Documents special folder is C:\<user>\Richard\Documents or through code. But how do you go about finding special folders. The easiest … Continue reading
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WMF 5.0 COM applications
One change in WMF 5.0 that I hadn’t got round to testing was the speed up in COM based operations. COM – Component Object Model – was the Microsoft programming model before .NET. Its old but still around – the … Continue reading
Posted in COM, Office 2013, PowerShell v5, WMFv5
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Create a calendar item
Continuing the occasional look at Outlook automation its time to see how we create a calendar item function new-calendaritem { param ( [string]$mailbox, [datetime]$start, [datetime]$end, [string]$subject, [string]$location, [string]$body ) $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $folder = get-mailfolders | where {$_.Path … Continue reading
Posted in COM, Networking, Outlook, PowerShell V2
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Controlling Firewall Rules
I decide that for this module I wanted some functions that control specific rule that I could be working with often e.g. Enable/Disable WMI rules and then I want a generic function for everything else. Lets start with some specifics. … Continue reading
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Firewall rules (OK)
The really important thing about our firewall is the rules that are configured. function get-rule { [CmdletBinding()] param () BEGIN{}#begin PROCESS{ $fw = New-Object -ComObject HNetCfg.FwPolicy2 $fw.Rules | foreach { $profiles = @() $ruleprofile = $_.Profiles @(1,2,4, 1073741824) | foreach … Continue reading
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Windows firewall
I normally leave the Windows firewall enabled in my test environment. It ensures I don’t forget it when testing. My recent session for the TechEd:Australia PowerShell conference involved me disabling various firewall rules on the subject machine to set up … Continue reading
Posted in COM, Firewall, PowerShell V2
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Outlook Connector & mail folder item count
On my home laptop I use Live Mail to aggregate my hotmail accounts. On my travelling netbook I decided to try the Outlook Connector http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA010222518.aspx This add in enables you to access hotmail accounts from Outlook & because I’m using … Continue reading
Posted in COM, Office 2010, PowerShell V2, Windows 7
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IE history to CSV
Back in April last year I wrote a post about viewing IE history http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2010/04/13/ie-history.aspx I had a comment left asking how this could be put into a CSV file We’ll start by turning the script into an advanced function that … Continue reading
Posted in COM, PowerShell V2
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Windows Updates: remote machines
My main blog is now at http://msmvps.com/blogs/RichardSiddaway/Default.aspx but I also maintain https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/ as a mirror and in case I want the two to diverge at some point. My recent posts on accessing Windows updates – especially when testing for … Continue reading
Posted in COM, PowerShell V2
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Windows updates: 4 tidy up get-update
Looking at the get-update function we created earlier I wanted to tidy it up a bit. 001002003004005006007008009010011012013014015016017018019020021022023024025026027028029030031032033 function get-update {[CmdletBinding()] param ( [switch]$hidden ) PROCESS{ $session = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session$searcher = $session.CreateUpdateSearcher() # 0 = false & 1 = trueif ($hidden){ $result = $searcher.Search(“IsInstalled=0 and Type=’Software’ and ISHidden=1” )}else { $result = $searcher.Search(“IsInstalled=0 and Type=’Software’ and ISHidden=0” )} if ($result.Updates.Count -gt 0){ $result.Updates | select Title, IsHidden, IsDownloaded, IsMandatory, IsUninstallable, RebootRequired, Description}else { Write-Host ” No updates available”} }#process … Continue reading
Posted in COM, IT Security, PowerShell V2
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