Powershell Question
Hi, I am very new to powershell just starting the beginners course. What i am trying to do is install a program through SCCM however the program is profile dependant for the serial number.
What i am thinking of doing is create a text file with the serial number and i want to run a powershell script to read that serial number the first time someone logs on to the computer. I need it to only run once.
Any help would be greatly appreicated.
Thanks,
Craig
You could use the Get-Content cmdlet to read from a text file. Is the file local or in a shared location?
Get-Content will read the entire file, and each line will be a member of an array. For example if you had the following in c:\test.txt:
Hello World
Serial Number
You could run the following $fileData = Get-Content "C:\test.txt"
$fileData[0] would return "Hello World"
$fileData[1] would return "Serial Number"
To run a script the first time a user logs on only, you will need to modify the default user profile that gets copied when a new user logs on. There is a good set of instructions here:
Let me know if you need help creating the script or modifying the default profile.
I hope all is well. To build on what @Mike-Rodrick walked you through with PowerShell, there are several ways to do this in SCCM, depending on how involved you want to get.
One thing you can do is use a TASK SEQUENCE to specify that something, or several somethings happen at a certain point in a process.... You can take a look at what is called a Custom Task Sequence here if you want to investigate this approach further:
In addition, you could just create a scheduled task in the Windows O/S itself to accomplish the same thing and have it run once at login.
Hope that gives you some additional ideas to consider.
Cheers,
Adam
