Group Policy

Files in DFSRoots folder using storage

John Walls January 11, 2024 No Comments

Bit of a weird one today. We recently migrated some data to OneDrive and as a result the corresponding DFS Namespace Folder was no longer required, so I deleted it thinking that will prevent it being accessed. The folder was still shared, but at a different path than the namespace…. Read more »

List MSI paths from Software Installation Policies

Administrator November 15, 2016 No Comments

Hey, We have 1000’s of MSI’s assigned through group policy and often need to work with the file paths in PowerShell, here’s a function that returns the file path of the MSI from the Software Installation GPO.

Function Get-MSIPath
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param   (
                [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,position=0)]
                $Policy,
                [Parameter(Mandatory=$False)]
                $Domain = (Get-ADDomainController).Name
            )

    $DC = Get-ADDomainController -DomainName $Domain -Discover
    $DN = (Get-ADDomain -Server $DC).DistinguishedName
    $GP    = Get-GPO -Name $Policy -Domain $Domain -Server $DC 
    $ADobj = Get-ADObject -filter "Name -ne 'Packages'" -Server $DC -SearchBase "CN=Packages,CN=Class Store,CN=Machine,CN={$($GP.ID.Guid)},CN=Policies,CN=System,$DN" -ErrorAction Stop -SearchScope Subtree -Properties msiFileList,displayName
    Return $ADobj.MSIFileList
}

Function Get-MSIPath

{

[CmdletBinding()]

Param (

[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,position=0)]

$Policy,

[Parameter(Mandatory=$False)]

$Domain = (Get-ADDomainController).Name

)

$DC = Get-ADDomainController -DomainName $Domain -Discover

$DN = (Get-ADDomain -Server $DC).DistinguishedName

$GP = Get-GPO -Name $Policy -Domain $Domain -Server $DC

$ADobj = Get-ADObject -filter "Name -ne 'Packages'" -Server $DC -SearchBase "CN=Packages,CN=Class Store,CN=Machine,CN={$($GP.ID.Guid)},CN=Policies,CN=System,$DN" -ErrorAction Stop -SearchScope Subtree -Properties msiFileList,displayName

Return $ADobj.MSIFileList

}

This function will return the MSI path and MST path. It will… Read more »