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Hey community, I have developed a function to detect if the system is currently connected via VPN. I want to make sure that it is able to reliably detect VPN connections in other environments as well....
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Function ConvertTo-LargestByteSize { <# .SYSNOPSIS Converts a size in bytes to its upper most value. .DESCRIPTION Converts a size in bytes to its upper most value. .PARAMETER Size The size in bytes...
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Hi all For better user experience, I display the popup "Show-InstallationWelcome" only if there is a process launched..... If the process not launch, toolkit blocks the process until the install be...
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Have you tried using this parameter: .PARAMETER AllowDeferCloseAppsEnables an optional defer button to allow the user to defer the installation only if there are running applications that need to be...
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Hello I'll have to look at the documentation more carefully.... Sorry :-( We use this command line but we had the same issue. Show-InstallationWelcome -CloseApps "notepad" -BlockExecution...
View ArticleNew Post: copy folder incl. permissions from fileshare to program files
If you need it, use RoboCopy with /SecFix (see http://yakupkorkmaz.info/?p=12) If I was the TK Devs though, I would not make it part of the the TK. Usually you want the file to INHERIT the perms of the...
View ArticleNew Post: If statement to check for an installed application then uninstall...
I am trying to look at some of the examples and code to figure out how I can first do a check during the pre-installation stage to see if an app is installed, and if so to uninstall it. Then I need to...
View ArticleNew Post: If statement to check for an installed application then uninstall...
This is what I have done for Jave and Adobe in the past. Java Example below. Because you are uninstalling an application that was installed via MSI, this should work with your...
View ArticleNew Post: If statement to check for an installed application then uninstall...
There is also a Remove-MSIApplications function in the toolkit that may work for you. See the documentation for additional help with that. I have not used it so I can't offer my experiences.
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It would be useful to see your Deploy-Application.ps1 script to better understand why you are getting this error.
View ArticleNew Post: Command line arguments for Deploy-Application.EXE
I'm wondering if there is any syntax to apply command line arguments to Deploy-Application.EXE? I would like to pass variables into powershell to run the install in different ways. A couple examples of...
View ArticleNew Post: If statement to check for an installed application then uninstall...
Thanks for the help Paul. I will test it and report back. I did try the Remove-MSIApplications, but for whatever reason it will not uninstall this application. I then decided to build an uninstaller...
View ArticleNew Post: I just want to say THANK YOU!
Since I have moved to using this toolkit for all my installs I have found adjusting the installations are much quicker and smoother. A lot of times I needed to close apps or uninstall old version and...
View ArticleNew Post: Test-VPNConnection Function: Need help testing to see if it works...
<# .SYNOPSIS Check to see if there is an active VPN connection. .DESCRIPTION Check to see if there is an active VPN connection by using the Win32_NetworkAdapter and the...
View ArticleNew Post: Change the deploy mode to interactive only if file is in use
Hi I am wanting to deploy a Java update to machines. The issue I have is that if IE is open, the installation will not complete properly. Long story short, installing at log on and log off via SCCM are...
View ArticleNew Post: Change the deploy mode to interactive only if file is in use
It looks like -AllowDeferColseApps does what I need. G
View ArticleNew Post: Toolkit User Interface - Web UI
Check this project out. I think this might be able to do what you want: https://webpsconsole.codeplex.com/ For a commercial product with more features, check out: PowerGUI Pro MobileShell
View ArticleNew Post: copy folder incl. permissions from fileshare to program files
Also, check out this interesting project that has created a clone of RoboCopy in PowerShell: https://robopowercopy.codeplex.com/
View ArticleNew Post: Toolkit User Interface - Web UI
Browsing projects on CodePlex. Here is another projects that seems like it can do what you want: https://psadmin.codeplex.com/
View ArticleNew Post: I just want to say THANK YOU!
Hi, thanks for the great feedback, always good to hear. For the issue you mentioned in your recent review can you post more details here so we can...
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