Powershell Log File

I've searched for script or functions to create a log file from a script I run each night. The main script just sets variables and then calls other scripts (18 of them). The last script sends me an email with various information and at times
I've failed to get the email and without having some kind of log file, I'm not sure how to figure out what when wrong. Is there a simple way to create a log file? It could be overwritten each night as the only time it would be viewed is if something
when wrong.
Thanks,
Kevin

See this script for logging.
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Since we do not want to change the logging behavior of SharePoint (unless it is really necessary), I'd like to know if there is something wrong with my code? Is there some parameter I can use to suspend logging for this script? There must be something I'm
doing horribly wrong :(
Thanks in advance!
(If anything I posted is unclear please let me know since English isn't my first language)
EDIT: There is nothing productive happening on that farm. There is a web application for the MySites and one for a publishing portal (without any significant content).

It's because MS did a poor job on the SharePoint object model. You shouldn't need to call a 'dispose' method on any object in .Net, the garbage collector should automatically identify a no-longer required object and remove it. Unfortunately, and there might
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Hello everyone,
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Read a log file on a specific application server (say its hostname is server21)
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Display the text “Users on Server21 =
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Thanks for the tip. The powershell grid widget is pretty powerful. However it will take me quite some time and effort to write a PS script which can extract the exact info I need from that application's log file. I was hoping SCOM's own log parsing
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By the way, yes, we can create a MP and have only one server in it. We can use the (free)
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http://www.silect.com/static/mpauthor/MP_Author_Creating_a_New_Single_Server_Application_MP.mp4
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I am using log4net library to create log files.
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Hello,
I'd ask the logfornet people: http://logging.apache.org/log4net/
Or search on codeproject - there may be some tutorials that would help you.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/140911/log-net-Tutorial
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/14819/How-to-use-log-net
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Capturing log files from multiple .ps1 scripts called from within a .bat file

I am trying to invoke multiple instances of a powershell script and capture individual log files from each of them. I can start the multiple instances by calling 'start powershell' several times, but am unable to capture logging. If I use 'call powershell'
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Batch files are sequential by design (batch up a bunch of statements and execute them). Call doesn't run in a different process, so when you use it the batch file waits for it to exit. From CALL:
Calls one batch program from another without stopping the parent batch program
I was hoping for the documentation to say the batch file waits for CALL to return, but this is as close as it gets.
Start(.exe), "Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command". The reason it runs in parallel is once it starts the target application start.exe ends and the batch file continues. It has no idea about the powershell.exe process
that you kicked off. Because of this reason, you can't pipe the output.
Update: I was wrong, you can totally redirect the output of what you run with start.exe.
How about instead of running a batch file you run a PowerShell script? You can run script blocks or call individual scripts in parallel with the
Start-Job cmdlet.
You can monitor the jobs and when they complete, pipe them to
Receive-Job to see their output.
For example:
$sb = {
Write-Output "Hello"
Sleep -seconds 10
Write-Output "Goodbye"
Start-Job -Scriptblock $sb
Start-Job -Scriptblock $sb
Here's a script that runs the scriptblock $sb. The script block outputs the text "Hello", waits for 10 seconds, and then outputs the text "Goodbye"
Then it starts two jobs (in this case I'm running the same script block)
When you run this you receive this for output:
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>> Write-Output "Hello"
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>> Write-Output "Goodbye"
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PS>
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You can see the jobs with
Get-Job:
PS> Get-Job
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1 Job1 Running True localhost ...
3 Job3 Running True localhost ...
OK, that's great. But we need to know when the job's done. The Job's Status property will tell us this (we're looking for a status of "Completed"), we can build a loop and check:
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Now at this point we could pipe the jobs to Receive-Job:
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Hello
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But as you can see it's not obvious which script is which. In your real scripts you could include some identifiers to distinguish them.
Another way would be to grab the output of each job one at a time:
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Write-Output "Hello A"
Sleep -Seconds 10
Write-Output "Goodbye A"
$b_sb = {
Write-Output "Hello B"
Sleep -Seconds 5
Write-Output "Goodbye B"
$job = Start-Job -Scriptblock $a_sb
$a_log = $job.Name
$job = Start-Job -Scriptblock $b_sb
$b_log = $job.Name
$Completed = $false
while (!$Completed) {
$jobs = Get-Job | where {$_.State.ToString() -ne "Completed"}
if ($jobs -eq $null) {
$Completed=$true
else {
Write-Output "Waiting for $($jobs.Count) jobs"
sleep -s 1
Get-Job | where {$_.Name -eq $a_log} | Receive-Job | Out-File .\a.log
Get-Job | where {$_.Name -eq $b_log} | Receive-Job | Out-File .\b.log
If you check out the folder you'll see the log files, and they contain the script contents:
PS> dir *.log
Directory: C:\Users\jwarren
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
-a--- 1/15/2014 7:53 PM 42 a.log
-a--- 1/15/2014 7:53 PM 42 b.log
PS> Get-Content .\a.log
Hello A
Goodbye A
PS> Get-Content .\b.log
Hello B
Goodbye B
PS>
The trouble though is you won't get a log file until the job has completed. If you use your log files to monitor progress this may not be suitable.
Jason Warren
@jaspnwarren
jasonwarren.ca
habaneroconsulting.com/Insights

Log file in project online

Hallo,
I Need crate a log file which will contain all transactions made by project online users.
how can i do that.

Hello,
It depends what level of detail you are after? You could exact the Project Server queue log each day if you using the APIs, you could create a console app that runs on a windows schedule task and uses the PSI to exact the queue details. An simple example
of this for on-premise using PowerShell and the PSI can be seen below:
https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/projectserver-2010-2007-high-level-audit-export-via-powershell-msproject-ps2010-epm/
You would just need to probably move this to a console app and get the authentication working for Project Online and the PSI - all doable.
Alternatively if you wanted more details than what goes via the queue services, you could create you own remote event receivers for Project Online to capture the details.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767690(v=office.15).aspx#pj15_WhatsNew_Events
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee767687(v=office.15).aspx#pj15_Architecture_EventHandlers
Paul
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MVP | Downloads

Most efficient way to consume log files

Hello everyone,
I've been absent from the forums for awhile but I'm back at it now...
I have a question about the most efficient way to consume log files. I read in Powershell in action, by Bruce Payette that using a switch statement with a regex worked pretty well, that being said I haven't tried it yet. Select-string is working pretty
well for me but I have about 10 different entry types that I need to search logs for every 5 minutes and I'm scanning about 15 GB of logs at every interval. Anyway, if anyone has information about how to do something like that as quickly as possible
I'd appreciate it.
1. piping log files that meet my criteria to select-string
- This seems to work well but I don't like searching the same files over and over again
2. running logs through get-content and then building a filter statement
- This is ok but it seems to use up a fair bit of memory
3. Some other approach that I haven't thought of yet.
Anyway, I know this is a relatively nebulous question, sorry about that. I'm hoping that someone on here knows a really good way to find strings in logs files quickly.
Hope that helps! Jason

You can sometimes squeeze out more speed at the expense of memory usage, but filters are pretty fast. I don't see a benefit to holding the whole file in memory, in this case.
As I mentioned earlier, though, C# code will usually blow PowerShell away in terms of execution time. Here's a rewrite of what I just did (just for the INI Section pattern, to keep the post size down):
$string = @'
#Comment Line
[Ini-Style Section Line]
Key = Value Line
192.168.0.1 localhost
Some line that doesn't match anything.
Set-Content -Path .\test.txt -Value $string
Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
public interface ILineParser
object ParseLine(string line);
public class IniSection
public string Section;
public class IniSectionParser : ILineParser
public object ParseLine(string line)
object o = null;
Match match = Regex.Match(line, @"^\s*\[([^\]]+)\]\s*$");
if (match.Success)
o = new IniSection() { Section = match.Groups[1].Value };
return o;
public class LogParser
public static IEnumerable ParseFile(string fileName, ILineParser[] lineParsers)
using (StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(fileName))
string line;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
foreach (ILineParser parser in lineParsers)
object result = parser.ParseLine(line);
if (result != null)
yield return result;
$parsers = @(
New-Object IniSectionParser
$results = [LogParser]::ParseFile("$pwd\test.txt", $parsers)
$results
Instead of defining separate classes for each type of line and output object, you could probably do something more generic with delegates (similar to how I used ScriptBlock.Invoke() in the PowerShell example), but it might sacrifice some speed to do so.

Get Total DB size , Total DB free space , Total Data & Log File Sizes and Total Data & Log File free Sizes from a list of server

how to get SQL server Total DB size , Total DB free space , Total Data & Log File Sizes and Total Data & Log File free Sizes from a list of server

Hi Shivanq,
To get a list of databases, their sizes and the space available in each on the local SQL instance.
dir SQLSERVER:\SQL\localhost\default\databases | Select Name, Size, SpaceAvailable | ft -auto
This article is also helpful for you to get DB and Log File size information:
Checking Database Space With PowerShell
I hope this helps.

How to tail log files from particular string

Hello,
We would like to tail several log files "live" in powershell for particular string. We have tried to use "get-content" command but without luck because everytime as a result we received only results from one file. I assume that it was
caused by "-wait" parameter. If there is any other way to tail multiple files ?
Our sample script below
dir d:\test\*.txt -include *.txt | Get-Content -Wait | select-string "windows" |ForEach-Object {Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source "Application error" -EntryType information -EventId 999 -Message $_}
Any help will be appreciated.
Mac

Because we want to capture particular string from that files. Application writes some string time to time and when the string appears we want to catch it and send an eventy to application log, after it our Nagios system will raise alarm.
Mac
Alright, this is my answer, but I think you won't like it.
Run this PowerShell code in PowerShell ISE:
$file1='C:\Temp\TFile1.txt'
'' > $file1
$file2='C:\Temp\TFile2.txt'
'' > $file2
$special='windowswodniw'
$exit='exit'
$sb1={
gc $using:file1 -Wait | %{
if($_-eq$using:exit){
exit
}else{
sls $using:special -InputObject $_ -SimpleMatch
} | %{
Write-Host '(1) found special string: ' $_
$sb2={
gc $using:file2 -Wait | %{
if($_-eq$using:exit){
exit
}else{
sls $using:special -InputObject $_ -SimpleMatch
} | %{
Write-Host '(2) found special string: ' $_
sajb $sb1
sajb $sb2
In this code, $file1 and 2 are the files being waited for.
As I understood you, you care only for the special string, which is in the variable $special.
All other variables, will be discarded.
Also, whenever a string equals to $exit is written to the file, the start job corresponding to that file will be terminated, automatically! (simple, right?)
In the example above, I use only 2 files (being watched) but you can extend it, easily, to any number (as long as you understand the code).
If you are following my instructions, at this point you have PowerShell ISE running, with 2 background jobs,
waiting for data being inputed to $file1 and 2.
Now, it's time to send data to $file1 and 2.
Start PowerShell Console to send data to those files.
From its command line, execute these commands:
$file1 = 'C:\Temp\TFile1.txt'
$file2='C:\Temp\TFile2.txt'
$exit='exit'
Notice that $file1 and 2 are exactly the same as those defined in P
OWERSHELL ISE, and that I've defined the string that will terminate the background jobs.
Command these commands in PowerShell Console:
'more' >> $file1
'less' >> $file1
'more' >> $file2
'less' >> $file2
These commands will provoke no consequences, because these strings will be discarded (they do not contain the special string).
Now, command these commands in PowerShell Console:
'windowswodniw' >> $file1
'1 windowswodniw 2' >> $file1
'more windowswodniw less' >> $file1
'windowswodniw' >> $file2
'1 windowswodniw 2' >> $file2
'more windowswodniw less' >> $file2
All these will be caugth by the (my) code, because they contain the special
string.
Now, let's finish the background jobs with these commands:
$exit >> $file1
$exit >> $file2
The test I'm explaining, now is DONE, TERMINATED, FINISHED, COMPLETED, ...
Time to get back to PowerShell ISE.
You'll notice that it printed out this (right at the beginning):
Id Name PSJobTypeName State HasMoreData Location Command
1 Job1 BackgroundJob Running True localhost ...
2 Job2 BackgroundJob Running True localhost ...
At PowerShell ISE's console, type this:
gjb
And you'll see the ouput like:
Id Name PSJobTypeName State HasMoreData Location Command
1 Job1 BackgroundJob Completed True localhost ...
2 Job2 BackgroundJob Completed True localhost ...
( They are completed! )
Which means the background jobs are completed.
See the background jobs' outputs, commanding this:
gjb | rcjb
The output, will be something like this:
(1) found special string: windowswodniw
(1) found special string: 1 windowswodniw 2
(1) found special string: more windowswodniw less
(2) found special string: windowswodniw
(2) found special string: 1 windowswodniw 2
(2) found special string: more windowswodniw less
I hope you are able to understand all this (the rubbishell coders, surely, are not).
In my examples, the strings caught are written to host's console, but you can change it to do anything you want.
P.S.: I'm using PowerShell, but I'm pretty sure you can use older PowerShell ( version 3 ). Anything less, is not PowerShell anymore. We can call it RubbiShell.

Log files and RSconfig file is not creatd after Reinstall the SSRS part?

HI guyz,
I have problem with my Subscription to send the emails using SMTP ,to resollving that i have uninstall and install the SSRS part
after install the SSRS part i have not found any RSConfig file and Logfiles,Here i have made one change that is after unisntall the SSRS i have changed the Report server folder name to ReportServer_old ,After that i have I have installed the SSRS part
now i will not getting any Logfiels and RSconfig file also,
And now also i am not able to send the emails using Subscription
I have facing this issue still long time back,
The error which am getting here is ,
transport server Failed to send emails
I have done all the config settings properly ,There is nothing wrong in Config settgs.Guys pls help me out for this
Note; Uisng powershell script i have sending the mails using the SMTP server ,But in ssrs it is not working
Can you pls any one update this
Thanks!

Hi Yichinnari,
I have checked that your issue can be cause by you haven't uninstall the SSRS correctly, you mentioned that you just rename the ReportServer folder, this may cause the issue. You can backup this folder to some other path and then remove all the folder related
to the SSRS.
Please find details information below about how to do a Completely uninstall of SSRS.Recommendations
for Uninstalling & Installing Reporting Services
How to uninstall Reporting Services on SQL 2008 R2?
You mentioned that the error "Failure sending mail: The transport failed to connect to the server" when schedule the subscription still exists although you have done all the settings in the configuration file.
Please first make sure you have successfully reinstall the SSRS and the proper SMTP server is successfully configured and specified.
Then do some configuration in the Reporting Service configuration manager like below:
Finally, configure the rsreortserver.config file correctly.
More details information about the configuration:
How to: Configure a Report Server for E-mail Delivery (Reporting Services Configuration)
If you still got the same error message, please try to provide more details error message in the log files which path is like :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\LogFiles
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Vicky Liu
Vicky Liu
TechNet Community Support

An error occurred while applying SQL script for the feature BackendStore. For details, see the log file

Hello
i got this error in step2
Error: An error occurred while applying SQL script for the feature BackendStore. For details, see the log file 'C:\Users\administrator.RCC\AppData\Local\Temp\2\Create-BackendStore-lync.rcc.local_rtc-[2013_09_23][09_05_16].log'
here is full summary
> Bootstrap-CsComputer
Logging status to: C:\Users\administrator.RCC\AppData\Local\Temp\2\BootstrapFull-[2013_09_23][12_17_37].html
Checking prerequisites for bootstrapper...
Checking prerequisite WMIEnabled...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoBootstrapperOnBranchOfficeAppliance...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedOS...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoOtherVersionInstalled...prerequisite satisfied.
Host name: lync.rcc.local
Disabling unused roles...
Executing PowerShell command: Disable-CSComputer -Confirm:$false -Verbose -Report "C:\Users\administrator.RCC\AppData\Local\Temp\2\Disable-CSComputer-[2013_09_23][12_17_46].html"
Checking prerequisites for roles...
Checking prerequisite SupportedOS...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedOSNoDC...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedSqlRtcLocal...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite WMIEnabled...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoOtherVersionInstalled...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite PowerShell...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite WindowsIdentityFoundation...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedServerOS...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoUnsupportedWinFab...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedSqlLyncLocal...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedSqlRtc...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite IIS...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite IIS7Features...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite ASPNet...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite KB2646886Installed...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite BranchCacheBlock...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite WCF...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite WindowsMediaFoundation...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlInstanceRtcLocal...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite VCredist...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlNativeClient...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlClrTypes...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlSharedManagementObjects...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite UcmaRedist...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite WinFab...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MicrosoftIdentityExtensions...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlInstanceLyncLocal...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SqlInstanceRtc...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite RewriteModule...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SpeechPlatformRuntime...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_ca-ES_Herena...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_da-DK_Helle...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_de-DE_Hedda...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_en-AU_Hayley...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_en-CA_Heather...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_en-GB_Hazel...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_en-IN_Heera...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_en-US_Helen...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_es-ES_Helena...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_es-MX_Hilda...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_fi-FI_Heidi...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_fr-CA_Harmonie...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_fr-FR_Hortense...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_it-IT_Lucia...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_ja-JP_Haruka...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_ko-KR_Heami...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_nb-NO_Hulda...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_nl-NL_Hanna...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_pl-PL_Paulina...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_pt-BR_Heloisa...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_pt-PT_Helia...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_ru-RU_Elena...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_sv-SE_Hedvig...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_zh-CN_HuiHui...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_zh-HK_HunYee...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_TTS_zh-TW_HanHan...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_ca-ES_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_da-DK_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_de-DE_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_en-AU_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_en-CA_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_en-GB_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_en-IN_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_en-US_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_es-ES_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_es-MX_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_fi-FI_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_fr-CA_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_fr-FR_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_it-IT_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_ja-JP_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_ko-KR_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_nb-NO_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_nl-NL_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_pl-PL_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_pt-BR_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_pt-PT_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_ru-RU_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_sv-SE_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_zh-CN_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_zh-HK_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite MSSpeech_SR_zh-TW_TELE...prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite UcmaWorkflowRuntime...prerequisite satisfied.
Installing any collocated databases...
Executing PowerShell command: Install-CSDatabase -Confirm:$false -Verbose -LocalDatabases -Report "C:\Users\administrator.RCC\AppData\Local\Temp\2\Install-CSDatabase-[2013_09_23][12_17_52].html"
An error occurred while applying SQL script for the feature BackendStore. For details, see the log file 'C:\Users\administrator.RCC\AppData\Local\Temp\2\Create-BackendStore-lync.rcc.local_rtc-[2013_09_23][12_17_54].log'
what should i do?
Please help me

Hi,
The issue may be related to disk read and write cache. Here is a similar case for your reference:
http://blog.kloud.com.au/2013/07/15/publish-lync-2013-with-2012-r2-preview-web-application-proxy/
Note: Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. The sites are not controlled by Microsoft. Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. Please make
sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any suggestions from the above link.
Kent Huang
TechNet Community Support

Robocopy unicode output jibberish log file

When I use the unicode option for a log file or even redirect unicode output from robocopy then try to open the resuting file in notepad.exe or whatever, it just looks like jibberish. How can I make this work or when will Microsoft fix it? Since Microsoft put that option in there, one supposes that it works with something. What is the expected usage for this option?
Yes, I have file names with non-ASCII characters and I want to be able to view them correctly. Without unicode support robocopy just converts such characters into a '?'. It does, however, actually copy the file over correctly, thankfully. I have tried running robocopy from PowerShell and from cmd /u. Neither makes any difference. Also, one odd thing is that if I use the /unicode switch, the output to screen does properly show the non-ASCII characters, except that it doesn't show all of them, such as the oe ligature used in French 'œ'. That was just converted into an 'o' (not even an oe as is usually the case). Again, it does properly make a copy of the file. This just makes it not quite possible to search log results.
Let's see if this post has those non-ASCII characters transmuted when this gets posted even though everything looks fine as I type it. âéèïöùœ☺♥♪

When I use the unicode option for a log file or even redirect unicode output from robocopy then try to open the resuting file in notepad.exe or whatever, it just looks like jibberish. How can I make this work or when will Microsoft fix it? Since Microsoft put that option in there, one supposes that it works with something. What is the expected usage for this option?
Yes, I have file names with non-ASCII characters and I want to be able to view them correctly. Without unicode support robocopy just converts such characters into a '?'. It does, however, actually copy the file over correctly, thankfully. I have tried running robocopy from PowerShell and from cmd /u. Neither makes any difference. Also, one odd thing is that if I use the /unicode switch, the output to screen does properly show the non-ASCII characters, except that it doesn't show all of them, such as the oe ligature used in French 'œ'. That was just converted into an 'o' (not even an oe as is usually the case). Again, it does properly make a copy of the file. This just makes it not quite possible to search log results.
Let's see if this post has those non-ASCII characters transmuted when this gets posted even though everything looks fine as I type it. âéèïöùœ☺♥♪
Uses /UNILOG:logfile instead of /LOG:logfile

Listing log file in dd_mm_yy.txt format

Hi everyone,
I want to list log files whose names are changing daily in command line. Like that;
C:\log\dd_mm_yy.txt
"dd_mm_yy.txt" is changing daily. What kind of a definition I must use in Windows command prompt to list the log file ? Could you please help me about how can I solve that problem?
Best Regards
Murat

In linux command line similarly I can use below command, but in Windows I couldnt do
ls -d /usr/local/logs/*error*.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
set /?
look at string manipulation
also:
echo %date%
We will eventually break you Unix guys of your old bad habits. In Windows we actually have all of those things. In Unix you only have some of them.
Don't feel bad. PowerShell is almost ready to run on all versions of Linux.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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