Looks interesting. I check it out tomorrow.
Thanks for putting that much work in it ! -Roland From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2013 18:21 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] OT: Powershell pass array help 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 J 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]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2013 14:14 To: [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]] On Behalf Of Roland Janus Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:52 AM To: [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
