PowerShell - Yet another Sysinternals download script

Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:10:33 +0000

Today I completed the Microsoft Virtual Academy Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start course. If you haven’t looked at it yet, I realy recommend you do so, lots of good stuff there. So for the purpose of applying some of the stuff I’ve learned there regarding the use of -Whatif and -verbose messages i wrote the below script which downloads the sysinternals tools.

<#
.Synopsis
 Download Sysinternals Tools
.DESCRIPTION
 Download the Sysinternals tools from live.sysinternals.com to the local machine
.NOTES
 version 1.0
.EXAMPLE
 Get-Sysinternals -Path C:\Data|sysinternals
.EXAMPLE
 Get-Sysinternals.ps1 -Path C:\Data\Sysinternals -Whatif -verbose
#>

[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,ParameterSetName="Directory",
 HelpMessage= 'The local download folder')]
[String]$Directory
)

Begin
 {
 Write-Verbose "Starting Sysinternals Tool download"
 $url="http://live.sysinternals.com/tools/"

 if ((Test-path -path $Directory) -eq $False)
 {
 Write-Verbose "Creating Directory $Directory"
 if ($PScmdlet.ShouldProcess("Creating folder $Directory","",""))
 {New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $Directory}
 } 

 $siuri = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -EA SilentlyContinue
 if ($siuri.BaseResponse.StatusCode -eq "OK")
 {
 $sfiles = $siuri.Links | Where-Object {$_.href -ne '/'} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty innerText
 }
 Else
 {
 Write-Verbose "Unable to reach $url"
 Exit 1
 } 
 }

Process
 {
 ForEach ($st in $sfiles)
 {
 $downloadfile = $url+$st
 #Write-Verbose -Message "Downloading $downloadfile to $Directory\$st"
 if ($PScmdlet.ShouldProcess("Downloading now $downloadfile to $Directory\$st","",""))
 {Start-BitsTransfer -Description "SysinternalsDownload - $st" -Source $downloadfile -Destination "$Directory\$st"}
 }
 }

End
 {
 Write-Verbose "Download complete"
 }

Organize your desktop

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:32:55 +0000

Sysinternals published a new nice utility called Desktops. Not that this is something we haven’t seen before, but like all the tools from sysinternals it’s all nicely packaged into one executable.

It’s definitely worth a try. Thanks Tobi for the hint :-)

Live Sysinternals

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:18:00 +0000

For those that need quick access to the famous sysinternals tools, direct access to the executables is now available through: http://live.sysinternals.com/

On Microsoft Technet, the tools can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

https://web.archive.org/web/20080513070655/http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

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PowerShell - Yet another Sysinternals download script

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