Thanks Keith. I really like what you are doing here with the random generated password. I just wish I had the knowledge to completely understand what you were doing and how to implement it ... something to work towards.
Thanks again to everyone .... I have the script working great thanks to everyone's help. My manager is the Global Ops Manager and now he is asking me to find a way to run it on about 50 servers worldwide so the other MDT admins don't have to log onto each server just to add one line. Still working my way thru that one .... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Keith Garner Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:40 AM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [scripting] RE: bat file will only run one time PowerShell: First you will need a function to write to an INI file: https://github.com/keithga/DeploySharedLibrary/blob/master/DeployShared/Windows/Set-PrivateProfileString.ps1 Next you will need a function to write to your Bootstrap or CustomSettings.ini file: https://github.com/keithga/DeploySharedLibrary/blob/master/DeployShared/MDT/Set-MDTCustomSettings.ps1 Additionally, what about a function to randomly generate a password: https://github.com/keithga/DeploySharedLibrary/blob/master/DeployShared/Windows/New-UserPassword.ps1 Now tie it all together. Here is an example of a script I wrote. I wanted to create a boot.iso image that could connect to a MDT deploymentShare using a non-interactive account on the local machine. (an account that you can't log into, and is not a member of any group, the only thing it can do is allow you to connect to the deployment share). The script will generate a random password string, set MDTUser with that password, and then place that password within the bootstrap.ini file, finally updating the deployment share to include that password. When the ISO image was created, we would reset all the values. https://github.com/keithga/DeployShared/blob/master/Hydrate/ShareOperations/2%20-%20Create%20Boot%20Images%20(test).MDT.PS1 Additionally, in your code below, there is no "next" statement to close out the for each loop. -k From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Landry Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:15 AM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [scripting] bat file will only run one time Hi All, I will admit up front, my script write abilities are slim. I have this script that I found to insert a new line of text into an .ini file and it works perfectly .... But for just one time. During my testing I removed the inserted line and text and then reran the script. Only this time it didn't do anything. Nothing got inserted. After rerunning this a dozen times or so I can't figure out why. I tried this on a Windows 10 and a Windows 7 system with same behavior. It ran only once on each system. set objWS = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Set fsob=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strNewLine = "AdminPassword=@dm1n1$trat0r!" strFileName = "C:\test\script\CustomSettings.ini" ' for example c:\textfile.txt Const FOR_READING = 1 Const FOR_WRITING = 2 strCheckForString = UCase("SkipAdminPassword=YES") Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_READING) strContents = objTS.ReadAll objTS.Close arrLines = Split(strContents, vbNewLine) Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_WRITING) For Each strLine In arrLines If (Left(UCase(LTrim(strLine)),Len(strCheckForString)) = strCheckForString) Then objTS.WriteLine strLine objTS.WriteLine strNewLine else objTS.WriteLine strLine End If Can anyone explain this to me? What needs to be changed? Thanks in advance Dave L.
