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Run multiple Powershell commands after each other
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I want toGet-mailbox -identity "User1" | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\user1.pst
Get-mailbox -identity "User2" | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\user2.pst
And so on up until User80. Rather than me sitting at the keyboard doing one, waiting for it to complete, then another, is there a way to compile these so I can place them in an Excel file (for example) and just run them as one batch in Powershell?
Secondly, instead of the above, is there way a to run the following:
Get-content c:\userlist | Get-mailbox | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\<username>.pst
I want toGet-mailbox -identity "User1" | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\user1.pst
Get-mailbox -identity "User2" | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\user2.pst
And so on up until User80. Rather than me sitting at the keyboard doing one, waiting for it to complete, then another, is there a way to compile these so I can place them in an Excel file (for example) and just run them as one batch in Powershell?
Secondly, instead of the above, is there way a to run the following:
Get-content c:\userlist | Get-mailbox | Export-Mailbox -IncludeFolders "\Sent Items" -SubjectKeywords "Joke666" -StartDate "05/11/2011" -RecipientKeywords john.doe@domain.com -pathtoPST c:\<username>.pst
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$ always starts a variable name. $_ has a special meaning of "current object", when used in foreach-object. foreach-object performs the action (script) following it for each object given - which is the mailbox object. $_.name is the users name, hence.
$($_...) is a very special means in PS to concatenate strings with variable contents. It looks strange, but does nothing else then fill in the username into the path string.
$($_...) is a very special means in PS to concatenate strings with variable contents. It looks strange, but does nothing else then fill in the username into the path string.
Maybe
-pathtoPST "c:\" + $_.name + ".pst"
is easier to understand for you.
-pathtoPST "c:\" + $_.name + ".pst"
is easier to understand for you.
Let's say you have a string variable:
You can include the value of that variable in longer texts without contatenation with the quotationmarks:
This will return:
This is the value of my variable: apple
You can also get properties in quotationmarks:
This will return:
This is the length of my string in my variable: 5
Without the extra $() you would get:
This is the length of my string in my variable: apple.length
If you want to use the $ sign literally, you can escape it by the 'backtick' character:
This will return:
This is the length of my $a variable: 5
$a = "apple"
You can include the value of that variable in longer texts without contatenation with the quotationmarks:
"This is the value of my variable: $a"
This will return:
This is the value of my variable: apple
You can also get properties in quotationmarks:
"This is the length of my string in my variable: $($a.length)"
This will return:
This is the length of my string in my variable: 5
Without the extra $() you would get:
This is the length of my string in my variable: apple.length
If you want to use the $ sign literally, you can escape it by the 'backtick' character:
"This is the length of my `$a variable: $($a.length)"
This will return:
This is the length of my $a variable: 5
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For my own knowledge, could you explain the above for me? What I am most confused about is the $ symbol and what it actually means!