Why I Love PowerShell (Yeah, I’m a bit Weird)

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Hey Y’all,

Note: This is a long post so if you’re not into Powershell or Programming you may just want to skip it. I’ll understand.

I was messing around with PowerShell tonight trying to get the settings for Windows Update and I got to fooling around with powershell trying to compress code so I didn’t have to do so much repetitive typing.

I started out with this to retrieve 3 registry key values.

Code:

Clear-Host


$RegPath = "Registry::HKLMSOFTWAREPolicies" +
                  "MicrosoftWindowsWindowsUpdate"
$RegKey  = "ExcludeWUDriversinQualityUpdate"


$GIPArgs = 
  @{Path = "$RegPath"
    Name = "$RegKey"
    EA   = "Stop"}


Try {


   $SVArgs = @{Name  = $($($GIPArgs).Name) 
               Value = $(Get-ItemProperty @GIPArgs).$($($GIPArgs).Name)}
   Set-Variable @SVArgs


   "$($($GIPArgs).Name) set to: $ExcludeDrivers"
}
Catch { "$($($GIPArgs).Name) Not Found!" }


$RegPath = "Registry::HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoft" +
                  "WindowsWindowsUpdateAU"
$RegKey  = "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"


$GIPArgs = 
  @{Path = "$RegPath"
    Name = "$RegKey"
    EA   = "Stop"}


Try {


   $SVArgs = @{Name  = $($($GIPArgs).Name) 
               Value = $(Get-ItemProperty @GIPArgs).$($($GIPArgs).Name)}
   Set-Variable @SVArgs


   "$($($GIPArgs).Name) set to: $NoReboot"
}
Catch { "$($($GIPArgs).Name) Not Found!" }


$GIPArgs.Name = "AUOptions"


Try {


   $SVArgs = @{Name  = $($($GIPArgs).Name) 
               Value = $(Get-ItemProperty @GIPArgs).$($($GIPArgs).Name)}
   Set-Variable @SVArgs


   "$($($GIPArgs).Name) set to: $AUOptions"
}
Catch { "$($($GIPArgs).Name) Not Found!" }

Note some of the code is there due to my desire to maintain code lines
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Ain’t PowerShell a BLAST?

Consider this my Holiday Gift to all my Geeky Friends @ the Lounge!

HTH :cheers:

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