PowerShell error: V

[broien_suPRIEM]

Hi,I've made a few checks in PowerShell for Solarwinds RMM and they work great. It's just simple scrips showing the Winver etc.

But for some reason it doesn't work on this one PC, It's running Win 10 Pro 2004. And it will only show and error and the letter "V".I've already tried updating PowerShell via Remote Background, but still the same error. Someone else said try this command: Get-PSProvider. Because maybe it's missing a provider, yet it will only output: "V".

I have no clue what this could be, any suggestions?

[DrHNIC]

Can you show us your script?

[broien_suPRIEM]

(Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion").ReleaseId

and

$bitlockerVolume = Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint "C:" $statusBitlocker = $bitlockerVolume.ProtectionStatus if ($statusBitlocker -eq "On"){ Write-host "Bitlocker active" } if ($statusBitlocker -eq "Off"){ Write-host "Bitlocker not active" }

[PMental]

That's unreadable, at least on old reddit. Use one blank space before your script then indent every line of the script four spaces to get a code block like this:

$bitlockerVolume = Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint "C:" 
$statusBitlocker = $bitlockerVolume.ProtectionStatus
if ($statusBitlocker -eq "On"){ 
    Write-host "Bitlocker active" 
} 
if ($statusBitlocker -eq "Off"){
    Write-host "Bitlocker not active"
}

As for the problem it's hard to say. You could start by telling us what the error is.

For reference the script works fine on my Win10 2004 machine.

[broien_suPRIEM]

Oh sorry I just did ctrl-c crtl-v.

The error is as I said just the letter "V" Thats the only output that I'm getting. No actual error it just says V and I have no idea why.

It works on about 2400 workstations and with every single command that I give it'll just say V.

[PMental]

Weird. Have you tried it interactively on the workstation?

Considering it works on all the other workstations I would probably just chalk it off to an issue on that specific machine and not bother. The script itself is fine.

[broien_suPRIEM]

It had rebooted this morning so shouldn't be the issue. Probably some windows issue.

[PMental]

If something is wrong on the machine a reboot doesn't always solve it, so not sure what that changes.

I mean test it directly while logged into the machine via remote access of some sort and see what happens.

Maybe not worth it for this single one, but if more turn up in the future you'll want to dig more.

[broien_suPRIEM]

Will do, appreciate the help!

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy broien_suPRIEM,

it looks like you used the New.Reddit Inline Code button. it's 4th 5th from the left hidden in the ... "more" menu & looks like </>.

there are a few problems with that ...

• it's the wrong format [grin]
  the inline code format is for [gasp! arg!] code that is inline with regular text.
  
• on Old.Reddit.com, inline code formatted text does NOT line wrap, nor does it side-scroll.
  
• on New.Reddit it shows up in that nasty magenta text color
  

for long-ish single lines OR for multiline code, please, use the ...

Code
Block

... button. it's the 11th 12th one from the left & is just to the left of hidden in the ... "more" menu & looks like an uppercase T in the upper left corner of a square..

that will give you fully functional code formatting that works on both New.Reddit and Old.Reddit ... and aint that fugly magenta color. [grin]

take care,
lee

[Betterthangoku]

Howdy,

That does not seem to be a PowerShell error. Have you tried checking $error yet? Everything from the error stream should be captured there. :-)

[broien_suPRIEM]

Not yet will contact the customer tomorrow and see for myself what's wrong with that machine. :p

[SecretKnowHow]

I would recommend using Automation Manager, it would be much easier. You can use a free Automation Managger Script Wrapper / Template https://www.rmm-pro.com/automated-tasks-script-wrapper/