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If it is 2008 R2 you could just updated powershell.<br><a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21016.how-to-install-windows-powershell-4-0.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">How to Install Windows PowerShell 4.0 - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki (microsoft.com)</a>&nbsp;<br>or you would need to do something like this to run that command remotely.<br>(i just used e: as I didn't know the local path based on your post) (requires firewall to allow connection and WinRM service to be running)&nbsp;<br><pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43283972-1"><span>$Cim = New-CimSession ServerName -Credential (get-credential) Get-SmbOpenFile -CimSession $Cim | where-object { $_.Path -like 'E:\shared\work file\*' }</span>
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I get the following error.<br>New-CimSession : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Get-SmbOpenFile'.<br><br>My 2008 R2 server has powershell 5.1. &nbsp;I have tried it from there and have been told by multiple people that get-smbopenfile will not run on a 2008 server. Regardless of the powershell version. &nbsp;I'm not sure if thats what causing the above error trying to run it on the remote server that is 2008.<br><br><br>
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try the following (think the new line was the actual issue)<br><pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43283999-1"><span>$Cim = New-CimSession ServerName -Credential (get-credential) </span>
<span>Get-SmbOpenFile -CimSession $Cim | where-object { $_.Path -like 'E:\shared\work file\*' }</span>
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Looks like its getting closer. Now i get the following<br><br>Get-SmbOpenFile : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The CIM namespace ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/SMB<br>is invalid.<br>At line:1 char:1<br>+ Get-SmbOpenFile -CimSession $Cim | where-object { $_.Path -like 'd:\s ...<br>+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; + CategoryInfo &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;: ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_SMBOpenFile:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_SMBOpenFile) [Get-SmbOpenFile],<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;CimException<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80338000,Get-SmbOpenFile<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; + PSComputerName &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;:datasrv
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Based on the error looks like it just doesn't have the namespace.<br>Not sure how to add that on 2008. I tested the command against a 2012 server but didn't have a 2008 to test against.<br><br>I did some searching and found this article which uses the net file and net session to do similar.<br><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29209972/monitor-shared-file-access-using-powershell" rel="ugc">windows server 2008 r2 - Monitor shared file access using PowerShell - Stack Overflow</a>&nbsp;<br><br>
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Thanks for all your help on this. &nbsp;OK so i moved the files to a Windows 2019 server. &nbsp;Your get-smbopnefile commands work now. Thank you. My next step is to get them to close. &nbsp;I add Close-SmbOpenFile -Force &nbsp;to the end of the line. It seems to work because then i run the get-smbopenfile the file no longer shows as open. But when i go to my workstation, the file is still open. &nbsp;Any thoughts?<br><br>
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I'm trying to use get-smbopenfile to look at open files on a remote server then be able to close them. Example DATASERVER is running Server 2008 so I can't run get-smbopenfile on that. &nbsp;I want to run it on another server called server1 that it can run on.<br>I want to see what files are open at location \\dataserver\shared\work files.<br>Then I want to close all files at that location every night around 7:00pm.
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I'm trying to use get-smbopenfile to look at open files on a remote server then be able to close them. Example DATASERVER is running Server 2008 so I can't run get-smbopenfile on that.  I want to run it on another server called server1 that it can run on.
I want to see what files are open at location \\dataserver\shared\work files.
Then I want to close all files at that location every night around 7:00pm.

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