powershell script how to add test network drive is present

Testing something exists first is easy enough:

if (Test-Path J:) {

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Adding that would mean it never really runs though.

Perhaps we can make it wait for the drive:

do {
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
} until (Test-Path J:)

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The rest of the script follows exactly as it is now.

It would be simple to add a wait timeout as well should you need to. Otherwise that little loop will run until the user logs off again.

$Timeout = 30
$i = 0
do {
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
   $i++
} until ((Test-Path J:) -or ($i * 5) -ge $Timeout)

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Chris

hello chris, so what i use just this:

do {
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
} until (Test-Path J:)

That would be a good start, yes.

Adding it in makes the whole thing into this:

# Wait for J to be mapped
do {
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
} until (Test-Path J:)

$Source = "j:\Appdata\Test\test1"
# One last check to make sure the source is available
if (Test-Path $Source) {
    $Destination = "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\ROAMING\Test\test1"

    # Ensure we have exactlty the right case for source or it'll break the substitution operations below, Replace is case sensitive.
    $Source = (Get-Item $Source).FullName
    Get-ChildItem $Source -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object {
        # Create an intermediate object denoting the source and destination for each file
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            SourcePath      = $_.FullName
            SourceWriteTime = $_.LastWriteTime
            DestinationPath = Join-Path $Destination $_.FullName.Replace($Source, '')
        }
    } | Where-Object {
        -not (Test-Path $_.DestinationPath) -or
        $_.SourceWriteTime -gt (Get-Item $_.DestinationPath).LastWriteTime
    } | ForEach-Object {
        $ParentDirectory = Split-Path $_.DestinationPath -Parent

        if (-not (Test-Path $ParentDirectory)) {
            $null = New-Item $ParentDirectory -ItemType Directory
        }

        Copy-Item $_.SourcePath $_.DestinationPath -Force
    }
}

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Chris

hello chris,

the script not work when user open session and i dont now why

but script work when user execute it manually

Is it running through group policy? I wonder if that's killing it. Let's have some simple logging. I'll make it write a log file to $env:TEMP as PowerShell.log, which will be "C:\Users\<Someone>\AppData\Local\Temp" depending a bit on the operating system.

$LogFile = "$env:Temp\PowerShell.log"

"Started $(Get-Date)" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

# Wait for J to be mapped
do {
   "Waiting for the J: drive to map" | Out-File $LogFile -Append
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
} until (Test-Path J:)

"Testing for existence of $Source" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

$Source = "j:\Appdata\Test\test1"
# One last check to make sure the source is available
if (Test-Path $Source) {
    "Source exists, starting copy process" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

    $Destination = "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\ROAMING\Test\test1"

    # Ensure we have exactlty the right case for source or it'll break the substitution operations below, Replace is case sensitive.
    $Source = (Get-Item $Source).FullName
    Get-ChildItem $Source -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object {
        # Create an intermediate object denoting the source and destination for each file
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            SourcePath      = $_.FullName
            SourceWriteTime = $_.LastWriteTime
            DestinationPath = Join-Path $Destination $_.FullName.Replace($Source, '')
        }
    } | Where-Object {
        -not (Test-Path $_.DestinationPath) -or
        $_.SourceWriteTime -gt (Get-Item $_.DestinationPath).LastWriteTime
    } | ForEach-Object {
        $ParentDirectory = Split-Path $_.DestinationPath -Parent

        if (-not (Test-Path $ParentDirectory)) {
            "Creating folder $ParentDirectory" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

            $null = New-Item $ParentDirectory -ItemType Directory
        }

        "Copying $($_.SourcePath) to $($_.DestinationPath)" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

        Copy-Item $_.SourcePath $_.DestinationPath -Force
    }
}

"Complete" | Out-File $LogFile -Append

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Chris

yes its a gpo

Ah well, give the logging version a try. If it creates the log file it'll be interesting to see how far it got.

Chris

this script not work for windows 7 machine seems to work only on windows 8

its like the last time :)

$env:Temp not work i think

i have change it to c:\temp

script manually work but with gpo nothing happen and no log file

we have an other gpo with other logon script may be this is the problem?

I don't think so, but I'm not sure to be honest, it's been a while (quite a lot of years) since I've played around with it.

The other script is also PowerShell? That is, it's not a general problem running PS scripts at logon is it?

Chris

no because the other script for close windows session work

Hmm that's a pain.

We could try starting a transcript log in there, but if it won't even attempt to write to the log file I doubt it'll do any good.

Chris

i have disable all other gpo and now it work so the problem came from other gpo and its ok i will found other way.

thanks for help Chris..

Oh good :) Well as long as that's the problem :)

Chris

ah now i need to remove log part rom script