What I'm trying tp acomplish is to create 2 different list , computers on (or with a service running) and those that are off.  Then from the list that is on  I want to change the local admin password.

I have test the password change portion of this script and seem to work fine.  I can not get the sorting to work.  the If serverice is running does not work and the esle do not put the computer name in the file.  If I change the $_.Name to a word , the word does go into the file.


any help or suggestions would be great.


$Computers = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"

$NewPass = Read-Host "Enter New Password"

Get-QADComputer $Computers | ForEach-Object {add-content -path List.txt -value $_.Name}

Get-content List.txt | foreach { get-Service -computer $_ -name netlogon }

$status=get-content List.txt | foreach { get-Service -computer $_ -name netlogon } | Select-Object status
if ($status -eq "Running") {add-content -path Online.txt -value good}
else {add-content -path Offline.txt -value $_.name}

foreach ($Computer in get-content Online.txt)
{
$admin=[adsi]("WinNT://" + $computer + "/administrator, user")
$admin.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", $NewPass )
}

 

$_ is the current object in the pipeline, but your if statement is not part of a pipeline, so it has no value.

We could trim this down a bit..

$Computers = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"

$NewPass = Read-Host "Enter New Password"

Get-QADComputer $Computers | get-Service -name netlogon | foreach-object {
if ($_.status -eq 'Running')
{ $_.name | out-file -path online.txt -append }
else
{ $_.name | out-file -path offline.txt -append }
}

foreach ($Computer in get-content Online.txt)
{
$admin=[adsi]("WinNT://" + $computer + "/administrator, user")
$admin.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", $NewPass )
}

Thanks for the help Steven! I'm getting a little closer to the solution.

The pipe from "Get-QADComputer $Computers" was throwing out some errors and the " out-file -path " did aswell.

I believe the -path was do to the fact I did not state a path, rather I used the root folder.

This is what I have now

Get-Content list.txt |foreach {get-Service -ComputerName $_ -name netlogon} | foreach-object {
if ($_.status -eq 'Running')
{ $_.name | out-file online.txt -append }
else
{ $_.name | out-file offline.txt -append }
}


The loop seems to be working well, but I'm still haveing problem with the IF/ELSE part:

If the PC is off it will throw out an error instead of the ELSE statment to create the offline.txt. That is no big deal because I can compair the list.txt and online.txt to create a the offline.txt.

The second issue is with the online.txt. What does get inputed is just word "netlogon" (one line for each computer), but no computer name.

Any suggestion on getting the computer name instead of netlogon. It really does't matter how the list is made aslong as I have to list of computers that are on.

I would use a custom object to track the name of the server through the pipelin. Couple of possible options, depending on which version of Powershell -

Version 1

Get-Content list.txt             
    ForEach-Object {            
        $result = New-Object Object | Select-Object Name, Status            
        $result.Name = $_            
        $result.Status = (Get-Service -ComputerName $result.Name -Name 'netlogon').Status            
        $result            
    } |             
    foreach-object {             
        if ($_.status -eq 'Running')             
        { $_.Name | out-file online.txt -append }             
        else             
        { $_.Name | out-file offline.txt -append }             
    }

Version 2 - which offers the nice New-Object syntax

Get-Content list.txt             
    ForEach-Object {            
        New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
            Name = $_            
            Status = (Get-Service -ComputerName $_ -Name 'netlogon').Status            
            }            
    } |             
    foreach-object {             
        if ($_.status -eq 'Running')             
        { $_.Name | out-file online.txt -append }             
        else             
        { $_.Name | out-file offline.txt -append }             
    }

Last note.. if you want to control how those errors show for machines that are not reachable, check out the -ErrorAction common parameter

Here, this should work and is cleaner (no transfering information via files!).

$Computers = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"

$NewPass = Read-Host "Enter New Password"

[String[]]$online = @()
[String[]]$offline = @()

Get-QADComputer $Computers | Get-Service -Name "netlogon" -ComputerName {$_.Name} | ForEach-Object {
if ($_.Status -eq 'Running')
{ $online += $_.MachineName }
else
{ $offline += $_.MachineName }
}

foreach ($Computer in $online)
{
$admin=[adsi]("WinNT://$computer/administrator, user")
$admin.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", $NewPass )
}

Thanks for all your help.... You guys and this community rock!

this is what I ended up with:

add-PSSnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement

$Computers = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"

$NewPass = Read-Host "Enter New Password"

[String[]]$online = @()
[String[]]$offline = @()

$list=Get-QADComputer $Computers

Get-QADComputer $Computers | Get-Service -Name "netlogon" -ComputerName {$_.Name} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue| ForEach-Object {

if ($_.Status -eq 'Running')
{ $online += $_.MachineName }
else
{ $offline += $_.MachineName }
}

foreach ($Computer in $online)
{
$admin=[adsi]("WinNT://$computer/administrator, user")
$admin.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", $NewPass )
}
Compare-Object $list $online |Select-Object inputobject | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders > Still_To_Do.txt

"The Follow Computer's Password is Now Changed:"
$online


Because I needed a list of computers that did not get their password changed and the error from them being off did not pass the machine name to the ELSE statment I decided to use a Compair-Object to make my list. This way at a later time I can try just the PC's that were previously off.

Again Thanks