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Rising Flight 3,751 Reputation points
2024-04-24T05:05:14.7+00:00

Hi all i want to execute the below syntax on few servers and i have created a collection and added the Servers to it. When i execute manually from powershell i get the output but i want to export that output to a text file under c:\windows\Temp folder. In SCCM from scripts i want to execute the below syntax but i am not sure how to export the output to a text file. please guide me.

New-Item 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -ItemType File -Value '{ image_name: "NONE", sharing_account: "NONE", viaGI: "NO" }'; Set-ItemProperty -Path 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true

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  1. Jing Zhou 2,240 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-04-24T08:52:48.9433333+00:00

    Hello,

    Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

    We suggest that you try using PowerShell's output redirection to export the command's output to a text file. In your script, you can add the>operator at the end of each command and specify the file path to save the output. For example:

    Powershell

    New Item 'C: \ Windows \ System32 \ config \ imageconfig' - ImageType File Value '{imagename: "NONE", sharingaaccount: "NONE", viaGI: "NO"}'>'C: \ Windows \ Temp-output. txt' Set itemProperty - Path 'C: \ Windows \ System32 \ config \ imageconfig' - Name IsReadOnly - Value $true>>'C: \ Windows \ Temp.output. txt'

    In this example, the>operator is used to overwrite the output file, and the>>operator is used to append the output to the end of the file. You can choose one as needed.

    In the SCCM script, you can directly embed the above commands into the script and specify the output file path as a location that the SCCM client can access. For example:

    Powershell

    New Item 'C: \ Windows \ System32 \ config \ imageconfig' - ImageType File Value '{imagename: "NONE", sharingaaccount: "NONE", viaGI: "NO"}'>'C: \ Windows \ Temp-output. txt' Set itemProperty - Path 'C: \ Windows \ System32 \ config \ imageconfig' - Name IsReadOnly - Value $true>>'C: \ Windows \ Temp.output. txt'

    This will execute the script on the SCCM client's computer and save the output to the specified text file.

    Hope this answer can help you well.

    Best regards，

    Jill Zhou

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  2. Rising Flight 3,751 Reputation points
    2024-04-24T15:19:32.2+00:00

    From SCCM when i deploy the below syntax using scripts on a collection. on the servers i see blank file(imageconfig-op.txt) in the path C:\Windows\temp.

    New-Item 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -ItemType File -Value '{ image_name: "NONE", sharing_account: "NONE", viaGI: "NO" }'>'C:\Windows\Temp\imageconfig-op.txt'; Set-ItemProperty -Path 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true>>'C:\Windows\Temp\imageconfig-op.txt'
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  3. Rich Matheisen 45,091 Reputation points
    2024-04-24T18:49:01.1133333+00:00

    Rewriting your script a little bit (just to separate the data from the process):

    $val = '{ image_name: "NONE", sharing_account: "NONE", viaGI: "NO" }'
$filepath = 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig'
$target = 'c:\windows\temp\imageconfig'

New-Item $filepath -ItemType File -Value $val
Set-ItemProperty -Path $filepath -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true
Copy-Item $filepath -Destination $target -Force

    There's no error handling in that script and you don't say whether or not you're using a ErrorAction different to the default "Continue".

    I'd suspect you may have had a problem with the copying of the file using Copy-Item because the file name lacks a suffix and looks like a directory name, The -Force will "fix" that.

  4. Plamen Peev 0 Reputation points
    2024-04-30T19:56:44.52+00:00

    Hi @Rising Flight , just pipe the output of New-Item command to Out-File like so:

    New-Item 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -ItemType File -Value '{ image_name: "NONE", sharing_account: "NONE", viaGI: "NO" }' | Out-File "C:\Windows\Temp\output.txt" -Append; Set-ItemProperty -Path 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig' -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true

    Here is a little more structured version, easier in case you want to change the paths at some point:

    $FilePath = 'C:\Windows\System32\config\imageconfig'
$OutFile = "C:\Windows\Temp\output.txt"
$Content = '{ image_name: "NONE", sharing_account: "NONE", viaGI: "NO" }'

New-Item $FilePath -ItemType File -Value $Content | Out-File $OutFile -Append
Set-ItemProperty -Path $FilePath -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true