Agreed. There are some more well known folks that make these videos and I feel like they just joke and never get to the meat of what we need, immediately. This gentleman rocks at training!!!
This really is an exceptional video. I have been trying to catch on to how to work with errors and I believe I finally have it!!! Thanks so much - seriously, keep making videos!!!!
This is tremendously helpful. As a student who is used to buying Udemy courses this free course it's the rough equivalent of finding a wallet full of cash on the middle of the road. Great job :)
Hello, techThoughts Thank you for your tutorial first. I have a question that can we use the powershell to maniplate the website for automatic purpose (like login an user account, and then download something in a webpage).
Hello, I just transferred my script to Powershell version 2 on a windows server, however it is somehow not recognizing the objects Exception.Message from variable $Error, would you be able to advice? Checking on format-list and Get-Member though, it should be listed
So good knowledge in general, however I do not recommend changing the -erroraction to stop because as you said, that defeats the entire purpose of Powershell, you don't want your program to stop because of one thing it didnt find. Your are better off -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue and then capture that if statement on the object and handle the output based if the object actually returned or not. # PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue example Clear-Host $SrvName = "Printer Spooler" $Service = Get-Service -display $SrvName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if (-Not $Service) {$SrvName + " is NOT installed check the name."} else {$SrvName + " is installed." $SrvName + "'s status is: " + $service.Status } which is better because it lets you actually handle the error as you want, if it is a foreach loop, you can do a continue and it will skip the object and go to the next one in the loop. Finally, you can set your preference for -ErrorAction by setting this variable in your script (the default is continue - which will give an error on the screen but will continue the script). You can change that to stop or SilentlyContinue. $ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
how to catch errors in CSV if we are checking lst reboot time of remote servers by using: Get-CimInstance -classname win32_operatingsystem -property * -computername $servers -ErrorAction Stop | select csname,lastBootupTime,Caption | Out-File $log
hey, thanks for creating great videos, they are very easy to understand. as far as I have understood the default -erroraction in Continue, but for below code its sop, could you please have a look. try{ $a = 1/0 $a Get-Process } catch{ Write-Warning "This is a warning " }
When more basic errors (non-cmdlet) like math operations, syntax, and others are wrapped in a try/catch this tells PowerShell to switch the behavior of those errors to stop. It will then go to the catch. Your $a = 1/0 is a math operation error in a try/catch, so the behavior will be stop. If that same operation were outside of the try/catch it would be continue.
Insane, it was easier to found how to catch and output error on terminal than actually printing the process in the terminal. I hate powershell, the docs are garbage.
Probably the clearest and most concise tutorial I've seen on Powershell. Who is this guy?
Agreed. There are some more well known folks that make these videos and I feel like they just joke and never get to the meat of what we need, immediately. This gentleman rocks at training!!!
2 Years later and this was still perfect! made it simple to understand, and exactly what i needed. Thank you.
We can say that it was an exceptional tutorial
These videos are pure gold. Thank you!
One of the best resources for 'Exception Handling in PowerShell'.
Thanks a lot!
This really is an exceptional video. I have been trying to catch on to how to work with errors and I believe I finally have it!!! Thanks so much - seriously, keep making videos!!!!
This is tremendously helpful. As a student who is used to buying Udemy courses this free course it's the rough equivalent of finding a wallet full of cash on the middle of the road. Great job :)
"It's a steal"
Very good flow and clear explanations! Excellent!
6:44 Line number 20. What is the use of semicolon there? is it kind of terminating character for an expression like in c/c++?
Thanks a lot for your effort and sharing the knowledge for free!
Very helpful, thank you for your deep and knowledgeable explanations.
Really well explained
This is exactly what I needed answers for, and more. You are awesome! Thank you.
Excellent series, will you be doing more?
Absolutely! Stay tuned!
Great Explanation! Thank you for the excellent class
Glad it was helpful!
Hello, techThoughts
Thank you for your tutorial first.
I have a question that can we use the powershell to maniplate the website for automatic purpose (like login an user account, and then download something in a webpage).
Yes, check out Selenium: github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell
excellent..clearly explained...
Great Video!
Thanks! Very useful.
Hello, I just transferred my script to Powershell version 2 on a windows server, however it is somehow not recognizing the objects Exception.Message from variable $Error, would you be able to advice? Checking on format-list and Get-Member though, it should be listed
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial :)
I subscribed
Hi, could you tell me how to written error codes
Could some elaborate a bit on why inputting '1/0' changed the array stored as 0?
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Thank you so much 😀
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So good knowledge in general, however I do not recommend changing the -erroraction to stop because as you said, that defeats the entire purpose of Powershell, you don't want your program to stop because of one thing it didnt find.
Your are better off -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue and then capture that if statement on the object and handle the output based if the object actually returned or not.
# PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue example
Clear-Host
$SrvName = "Printer Spooler"
$Service = Get-Service -display $SrvName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-Not $Service) {$SrvName + " is NOT installed check the name."}
else {$SrvName + " is installed."
$SrvName + "'s status is: " + $service.Status }
which is better because it lets you actually handle the error as you want, if it is a foreach loop, you can do a continue and it will skip the object and go to the next one in the loop.
Finally, you can set your preference for -ErrorAction by setting this variable in your script (the default is continue - which will give an error on the screen but will continue the script). You can change that to stop or SilentlyContinue.
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
Very good
how to catch errors in CSV if we are checking lst reboot time of remote servers by using:
Get-CimInstance -classname win32_operatingsystem -property * -computername $servers -ErrorAction Stop | select csname,lastBootupTime,Caption | Out-File $log
hey,
thanks for creating great videos, they are very easy to understand.
as far as I have understood the default -erroraction in Continue, but for below code its sop, could you please have a look.
try{
$a = 1/0
$a
Get-Process
}
catch{
Write-Warning "This is a warning
"
}
When more basic errors (non-cmdlet) like math operations, syntax, and others are wrapped in a try/catch this tells PowerShell to switch the behavior of those errors to stop. It will then go to the catch. Your $a = 1/0 is a math operation error in a try/catch, so the behavior will be stop. If that same operation were outside of the try/catch it would be continue.
Insane, it was easier to found how to catch and output error on terminal than actually printing the process in the terminal.
I hate powershell, the docs are garbage.
These videos are pure gold. Thank you!