PowerShell

It's fairly simple to create a Windows user account with Powershell. Are there any reasons why this cannot be done with Pulseway via Powershell scripting?

I feel like I am missing something simple here. I cannot get any PS scripts or commands to execute on client machines from the Pulseway Dashboard. I began by making some simple cache clearing scripts I need to run daily/weekly, and quickly realized those as well as many scripts from my predecessor in the Dashboard were simply not working (folders marked for deletion were still present). In testing, I am now trying to run something as simple as "Restart-Computer" and when ran from the Dashboard (Systems > SystemName > Scripts) it shows as if it ran successfully, but the machine does not reboot. Of course running this command in a non elevated PS prompt directly on th…

My current RMM (the one I'm trying to migrate from) allows me to install both .exe and .MSI's without a UAC prompt. It seems to run in the background. Even with UAC turned on, however, with Pulseway I'm unable to run scripts (with either system or local admin account) without turning off UAC completely. What am I missing?

Is there a way to prompt when a script is ran for input? Like say I make a script that changes the name of the computer, is it possible to make pulseway prompt for what you want the new system name to be? If I could figure this out it would be huge.

I'm trying to start an application that will start via PS script. I create pulseway script using Windows Powershell to run this command but I can't get the application to start. $env:Path += "C:\Program Files (x86)\NetDocuments\ndOffice\ndOffice.exe" & "C:\Program Files (x86)\NetDocuments\ndOffice\ndOffice.exe" However if I go to the remote computer, open Windows Powershell and run these commands the application opens as desired. All my other scripts I have work on this computer, so I'm executing it correctly. Please advise. Greg

Update 3rd Party applications eg, adobe, quickbooks, zoom, etc

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This post assumes you are already managing bitlocker in some capacity (feel free to read through my guide on how I am managing bitlocker with Pulseway custom fields here.). The use cases for this script are a bit niche. This script will remove the tpm as a valid key protector for the c:\ drive of a workstation. Two common use cases for when you may wish to do this: 1. In the event a laptop is stolen. - We have it setup where we can add stolen devices to a scope.. Devices that come online in this scope will kick off a workflow which includes the blow script. While in theory you shouldn't need to do this if the attacker doesn't know the password to the devic…

It was requested I post this so hopefully someone else in the community can benefit. Until we are able to deploy Bitdefender from within Pulseway, this is the next best thing. I wrote this again, for my clientele who generally are PS 3.0 + so some small adjustments may be needed if you are attempting to run this on PS 2.0. This will download and silently install Bitdefender. All you need to edit is the $BitdefenderURL and possibly the $BaseURL depending. When you log into GravityZone and make a package and go to get install links, the base URL in your portal will always be the same followed by the remaining part of the URL which can change based on the package. …

Not really sure if anything like this has been posted before. I've seen a couple posts about removing services or stopping the monitoring of Automatic services. What I couldn't seem to find in Pulseway was an easy way to take say an inventory of services on machine, and easily convert specific ones to being monitored. Ideally having the agent inventory all services on the machines and then giving us a way to select which ones we want to monitor through the web portal would be ideal. Currently we have to log into the actual computer and do it from within the Pulseway Manager desktop app. Not ideal when you need to monitor specific services across a larger group. …

A number of folks have requested the ability to manage bitlocker with Pulseway, so I thought I would share how I am doing this with Powershell scripts and Pulseway's custom fields feature. First, you will need to create a custom fields in Pulseway (Automation Tab --> Custom Fields). This fields should be a text variable that has the system context. I personally have 3, BitlockerKey, Protection Status (On/Off), and BitLockerVolumeStatus. BitlockerKey is probably the one most people will care about. . After Configuring the Custom fields, you will then need to create your PowerShell script. Notice you have inputs and outputs. You will want to click New f…

I've been experimenting with a scheduled task to restart some machines based on scope and I've had mixed success. Some machines in the scope restart as scheduled some don't. My powershell skills are limited so right now the pulseway script that I created to do restarts just has the powershell command Restart-Computer. Should there be more?

I want to start a program after rebooting and used this script, but it's not working. When I run it local in powershell it works. Someone who can help me? pushd "\\fax-dataserver\IT\WVL\04. Software\IT_Monitor\IT_Monitor_live\" & '.\IT Monitor.exe' popd

What do folks consider best-practice for this? I need to push out a very small app, but PW has no file storage which seems like a HUGE roadblock.

I'm trying to run just a simple wusa /uninstall /kb:5000802 script in a task but the task just hangs forever and never makes progress on the machines. I don't have too much experience running any type of scripting through an RMM so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking fo a script that I can deploy where Pulseway can check to see if a specific local admin account has been created. If not have it create it. With that local admin account, there is a rotating password, which is recorded in a report per computer.

We do not use IPv6 in our current environment, so to help with security, we disable it on the network adapters. The below script is what we run when an asset registers with Pulseway. Disable-NetAdapterBinding -Name "*" -ComponentID ms_tcpip6

For our client security audits, and PEN testing events, we are required to disable NetBIOS on the network adapters. The below script is what we run when an asset registers with Pulseway. $key = "HKLM:SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NetBT\Parameters\Interfaces" Get-ChildItem $key | foreach { Set-ItemProperty -Path "$key\$($_.pschildname)" -Name NetbiosOptions -Value 2 -Verbose}

I am looking to create an automated pop up message via powershell to alert users in a certain scope. Example: Systems will be under going maintenance, please ensure you leave the system on. However, I noticed due to powershell being in 'session 0' it won't show the pop up box for the user. How can I get around this or does anybody have another method? Side note: I did notice you can send group messages via Pulseway Group section, but I don't think I could automate that?

I've written a script that retrieves the application name, publisher and version from the registry entries located in "HKLM:\Software\MMSOFT Design\PC Monitor\InstalledApplicationsSnapshot". How can I make sure the software versions listed in this location are updated to the latest version of the applications installed? Is there a way to force update these records? For example, I have a mismatch in a system that the PW web dashboard is reporting Citrix Files being at version 20.9.1.0 (which is correct as of the last 24 hours), and the local registry entry for this application under the PC Monitor\InstalledApplicationsSnapshot is still reporting the previous version 20.…

I've implemented a script that retrieves and stores the Windows Build Version number to a custom field in the system overview. It works fine on MOST systems. However, there are a small number systems that are unable to run the script. The error message displayed includes: Start-Process : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified. I used the "Insert Output Variable Code" in the script and verified that it includes the inserted text "Start-Process -FilePath "$env:PWY_HOME\CLI.exe" -ArgumentList ("setVariable .....". For some reason, a few systems do not seem to have the environment variable PWY_HOME set. It ap…

Not my work, I took code form two locations and put them together to fit my needs, change the path to the path to your folder, change the filter to the file type to filter by, add as a script, run it, and then open your Last Executions to see the contents of the file. I was needing to check status of a log file on a server every so often, the log file name would change daily and be time stamped, this solved it for me. $dir = "C:\data\Sync_Reports" $filter="*.txt" $latest = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir -Filter $filter | Sort-Object LastAccessTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 $latest.name Get-Content $dir"\"$latest

I want to start a project, ADD-Printer via power shell, anyone want to help? Or you doing it alrady?

Great for onboarding new station, you can grab any other short cuts such as to shared rive, or network folders, the users C drive or the my documents folder as well, I just did the office apps. #By eDcisions $Officepath = (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Winword.exe\Path") $WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell $Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$Home\Desktop\Excel.lnk") $Shortcut.TargetPath = "$Officepath\Excel.exe" $Shortcut.Save() $WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell $Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$Home\Desktop\Outlook…

Ok this guy will display the users mapped drive of the user thats logged into the pc as well as the status of the drive, disconnected, Ok, ect... Nice if you's setting up another pc remotely and you want to see what the shared drives on another users pc were so you can match them. #by eDecisions $Taskname = "netuse" $lastlogon = (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\LastLoggedOnUser") SCHTASKS /CREATE /sc ONCE /st 00:00 /TN $Taskname /RU $lastlogon /TR "c:\maplist.bat" start-sleep -s 1 New-Item c:\maplist.bat -ItemType "file" Set-Content c:\maplist.bat 'net use…