PowerShell logon script with function parameters

Hi,
I've made file, something.ps1, that has to functions: Set-Something and Remove-Something. Unless necessary I will not explain what they do (though the names should provide the gist of it).
These functions can be run successfully with the commands.
Set-Something -Path "C:\Path\To\Somtehing"Remove-Something -Path "C:\Path\To\Somtehing"
I'm trying to implement these as logon and logof in GPO. What i set for example in logon is:
Tab: PowerShell
Name: "C:\Scripts\something.ps1"
Parameters: "Set-Something -Path 'C:\Path\To\Something'"
This does not work. Why?
PS: I can get it to work with adding the following to the end of the script, and run it without parameters at login.
Set-Something -Path 'C:\Path\To\Something'
But that isn't what I'm trying to do, because that means I will have to create one script for logon and one for logoff. I wish I want to run the same script, but different functions at logon and logoff.

Hi,
Check the following points,
- Check the availability of your PowerShell scripts in the netlogon share - \\Server\NETLOGON
- Check whether the GPO is linked to the OU containing users, because GPO with logon script need to assigned for scope with users, where as GPO with startup script need to be assigned for scope with computers.
- To confirm whether GPO settings are applied - run gpresult from command prompt.
- To force the GPO settings - run gpupdate /force from command prompt.
- Then logoff and login again to check the status.
Regards,
Gopi
JiJi
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-Matt
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Other than the specific commandlets of "Update-AutomaticPool -pool_id -datastorePaths", this is PowerShell script, right?
I'm not looking for support for the functions themselves. But VMware only gives these scripts as individual functions.
I want to stack their functions one after another in a script, and use text files with lists of data, instead of specifying them one at a time to the script.
Function 1 as supplied by VMware
Define a PowerShell function to add a datastore to an automatic pool.
# AddDatastoreToAutomaticPool
# Parameters
# $Pool Pool ID of pool to be updated.
# $Datastore Full path to datastore to be added.
function AddDatastoreToAutomaticPool
{ param ($Pool, $Datastore)
$PoolSettings = (Get-Pool -pool_id $Pool)
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Function 2 as supplied by VMware
Define a PowerShell function to add a datastore to an automatic pool.
# AddDatastoreToAutomaticPool
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# $Pool Pool ID of pool to be updated.
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function AddDatastoreToAutomaticPool
{ param ($Pool, $Datastore)
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I'm just looking for advise as to weather I'm approaching this from the right angle.
In my original post I made an attempt at pasting them together, then editing the parameter lines to use a text file instead of supplying an individual entry on the cmd line with the script. I think I did it right, but I'm not sure if the way these
functions are written, that they will parse through each of the text files.
Thanks,
-Matt
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Hi Flanjman,
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Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Windows Powershell" and configure the "Turn on script execution" setting, and choose "Allow local script and remote signed scripts"
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I am trying to call a graphical calculation view with input parameters from a script based calculation view as below but getting syntax error:
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Hello,
I have a question about functions with in-parameters. In the HR schema, I need to get the minimum salary of the job_id that is mentioned as an in-parameter.
this is what I am thinking but I dont know if it's correct or not or what should I do next!
create or replace function get_minimum_salary (i_job_id in varchar2)
return number
as
begin
SELECT min_salary INTO min_sal
FROM jobs
where job_id = get_minimum_salary(xy);
RETURN i_job_id;
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EDIT
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Is it possible to add that if the i_job_id which is the in type parameter does not have a minimum salary then use the following function to register an error:
create or replace procedure insert_error (i_error_code in number,
i_error_message in varchar2)
as
begin
insert into error_table (error_user, error_date, error_code, error_message)
values (user,sysdate,i_error_code,i_error_message);
end insert_error;
This function is basically to say that an error has occured and to register that error, at the same time I need to print out the error using the dbms_out.put_line.
Any ideas of how to do that?
Thanks again
Edited by: Latvian83 on Jun 1, 2011 5:14 AM

HI
I have made little bit changes in ur code. try this
create or replace function get_minimum_salary (i_job_id in varchar2)
return number
as
v_Min_sal jobs.salary%type=0;---- Variable declaration
begin
SELECT min_salary INTO v_ min_sal
FROM jobs
where job_id = i_job_id;
RETURN v_Min_sal;
end get_minimum_salary;
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