fantastic, thank you very much

Thanks Matt,

Helping myself, how do I find a given object’s additional properties, if not with Get-Member?

was a typo, thanks, corrected, but I see I was using Set-ADUser not Set-ADComputer (!)

I revised with this: $creds = Get-Credential
Import-Csv .servers.csv | % {Get-ADComputer -Server corp.com -Credential $creds -Identity $_.server -properties servicePrincipalName |
Set-ADComputer -Clear servicePrincipalName}

..and it works. Thanks for looking.

I didn’t have to set any additional parameters of the above script as when I checked this  morning after the long weekend, my scheduled backup is completing successfully.

The Month of Lunches book doesn’t go into any further detail about how this is occurring and I’m curious, even though I closed my PS Session console last week after setting the…[Read more]

Right again…

PS C:> $WBPolicy | Format-List *

Schedule : {8/31/2018 8:00:00 AM, 8/31/2018 12:00:00 PM, 8/31/2018 2:28:00 PM, 8/31/2018 4:00:00 PM…}
BackupTargets : {10.131.64.14_DCBackups}
VolumesToBackup : {Local disk (C:)}
FilesSpecsToBackup :
FilesSpecsToExclude :
ComponentsToBackup :
BMR…[Read more]

It wasn’t but I added my account to that BuiltIn group. Same issue. But what’s strange is:

1. I’m already a domain admin
2. The share permission is Everyone > full control
3. The file permissions are:
   1. System – full control
   2. my account – full control

yet, the error persists:Set-WBPolicy : The credentials entered are either incorrect or do not…[Read more]

extending to the Scheduled portion of the exercise, yet another unexpected permissions issue, on the remote share

Set-WBSchedule -Policy $wbpolicy -Schedule 08:00,12:00,16:00,20:00
Set-WBPolicy -Policy $wbpolicy

Set-WBPolicy : The credentials entered are either incorrect or do not have write permissions to the remote shared folder. Please…[Read more]

Yes! -NetworkPath was the way to my share.

PS C:> $backupLocation

Label :
WBDisk :
WBVolume :
Path : 10.131.64.14_DCBackups
TargetType : Network
InheritAcl : True
PreserveExistingBackup : False

PS C:> Start-WBBackup -Policy $wbpolicy
Creating a shadow…[Read more]

That make sense thanks, so I disconnetced the former mapped R: drive in cmd prompt console, then successfully re-mapped R: using New-PSDrive -Name R -PSProvider FileSystem -Root 10.131.64.14_DCBackups

…was able to switch to it R: PS R:>

..but still get same error when attmepting to set the variable: $backupLocation = New-WBBackupTarget…[Read more]

L-Bo, yep got it thanks again for the additional clarification.

Rob,

In your second example, you have

$setUserParams = @{

Department = $_.Department

}

..but you already had it defined in the $newUserParams array. Not sure why it would need here.

thanks L-Bo that’s clearer.

So, during this part of the pipeline approach Import-Csv .SVCAccounts_test.csv …on the other side of the pipeline (not including the calculated property) will automatically see the comma delimited properties that I have, and then set those in the New-User statement?

I don’t actually have to define each and every…[Read more]

L-Bo, I’m trying ton understand your premise. you say most parameters of New-ADUser accept pipeline input (assuming this includes all of the one I’ll be needing) but then you state your one-liner would most likely work because the (same?) parameters do not accept pipeline input?

Sorry, I lost your reasoning.

Very clean approach Rob, thank you.