$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$env:PUBLIC\Desktop\Logoff.lnk")
$Shortcut.TargetPath = "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe"
$Shortcut.Arguments = "/l"
$Shortcut.IconLocation = "C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,44"
$Shortcut.Save()
Put the following code snippet into the top of your bat file. PowerShell is required.
"%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
powershell -Command "Start-Process -Verb RunAs -FilePath '%0' -ArgumentList '%*'"
exit /b
)In the sample bellow the PowerShell script will append a service into RemoteAccessCheckExemptionList in registry. It also checks whether the value already exists there or not.
$subkey = 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\SCM'
$value = 'RemoteAccessCheckExemptionList'
$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $server)
$key = $reg.OpenSubKey($subkey, $true)
$list = $key.GetValue($value)
if ($list -notcontains 'MyServiceName') {
$list += 'MyServiceName'
}
$key.SetValue($value, [string[]]$list, 'MultiString')Quick test to find out whether you setup the SMTP server correctly.
Send-MailMessage -SMTPServer localhost -To example@example.com -From example@example.com -Subject "Test" -Body "Test"
If you need to remove X days old folders from a command line here is a short PowerShell command which will take care of it.
PowerShell -Command "& Get-ChildItem "%1" | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.LastWriteTime -le [System.DateTime]::Now.AddDays(-%2)} | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force"
Just replace %1 with a base folder and %2 with number of days.