Roland,
I would recommend changing your approach to solve for this. You can
kind-sorta pass objects from one PowerShell Runspace to another by
serializing and then deserializing the objects. Rather than use an array to
represent the 1) Group, 2) Role, 3) Scope, I would recommend using a custom
PowerShell object (aka. [PSCustomObject]), which is easily created through a
HashTable. You can create an array of those objects, and then serialize them
to disk, similar to the following example:
################
# Script #1
################
# 1. Create empty array to hold ConfigMgr roles
$CM_Roles = @();
# 2. Add custom object to Array for FullAdministrators
$CM_Roles += [PSCustomObject]@{
GroupName = 'CM_Global_Administration';
Role = 'FullAdministrator';
Scope = 'ALL';
};
# 3. Add custom object to Array for ApplicationAdministrators
$CM_Roles += [PSCustomObject]@{
GroupName = 'CM_Global_Packagers';
Role = 'ApplicationAdministrator';
Scope = 'ALL';
};
# 4. Persist the objects to disk
Export-Clixml -Path "$Home\ConfigMgr Roles.xml" -InputObject $CM_Roles;
################
# Script #2
################
# 5. Import the persisted objects
$CM_Roles = Import-Clixml -Path "$Home\ConfigMgr Roles.xml";
# 6. Do stuff here
foreach ($Role in $CM_Roles) {
Write-Host -Object ('Adding group ({0}) to role ({1}) with scope ({2})'
-f $Role.GroupName, $Role.Role, $Role.Scope);
}
Cheers,
Trevor Sullivan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mssms] OT: Powershell pass array help
Really? Powershell is not that almighty after all :)
That can't be true in general.
I do that already, but without any additional separators and especially no
blanks.
This would work:
$CM_Roles =
@("CM_Global_Administration","FullAdministrator","ALL","CM_Global_Packagers"
,"ApplicationAdministrator","ALL")
Every entry is an array entry then:
CM_Global_Administration
FullAdministrator
ALL
CM_Global_Packagers
ApplicationAdministrator
ALL
But as soon as there is a blank in there I get this again.
$CM_Roles = @("CM_Global_Administration","Full
Administrator","ALL","CM_Global_Packagers","Application
Administrator","ALL")
CM_Global_Administration
Full
Administrator
ALL
CM_Global_Packagers
Application
Administrator
ALL
I'd like to use this:
$CM_Roles = @("CM_Global_Administration,Full
Administrator,ALL","CM_Global_Packagers,Application Administrator,ALL")
Why aren't the commas and the blanks put into single array entry just as a
string?
"CM_Global_Administration,Full Administrator,ALL"
"CM_Global_Packagers,Application Administrator,ALL"
-R
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan
Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2013 14:14
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] OT: Powershell pass array help
Roland,
You can't pass a .NET [Object] from one PowerShell session to another (not
without some advanced hacking, anyway). To make this work, you'll probably
have to -join or [String]::Join() the array values together into a single,
contiguous string, pass the entire string as a single parameter to the
secondary script, and then -Split or [String].Split() the String into an
array again.
Cheers,
Trevor Sullivan
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:52 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] OT: Powershell pass array help
Not completely off-topic, trying to use CM12 cmdlets.
I have an array:
$CM_Roles = @("'CM_Global_Administration','Full
Administrator','ALL'";"'CM_Global_Packagers','Application
Administrator','ALL'")
Two entries, separated with ";" and each one separated with ","
This works fine: foreach ($x in $CM_Roles) {$x}
'CM_Global_Administration','Full Administrator','ALL'
'CM_Global_Packagers','Application Administrator','ALL'
I have the single quotes and can use split to get another array:
foreach ($x in $CM_Roles) {$x -split ","}
'CM_Global_Administration'
'Full Administrator'
'ALL'
'CM_Global_Packagers'
'Application Administrator'
'ALL'
All good. Still with quotes.
But I need to pass the array to another ps-script, namely an x86 like that:
&"$env:SystemRoot\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"
".\CM_Assign_Security.ps1" @cm_roles
But the script with this in it:
Foreach ($x in $args) {$x}
only returns the values without the single quotes or ',':
CM_Global_Administration Full Administrator ALL
CM_Global_Packagers Application Administrator ALL
I've also tried like a million variations, like with param() in the script.
Then I only get one array entry back.
For sure someone knows how to do that? And it is probably trivial, but
google wasn't helping.
Those examples never had to use quotes.
-R
