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edwio
edwio

Reputation: 333

search for a specific value name and its associated datakey in the registry with powershell

i'm trying to search any value name in the registry (HKLM:\Cluster\Resources) that match = VirtualServerName. and output his associated datakey to an array.

For Example:

      Name            Type     Data
VirtualServerName    REG_SZ   SQLDEP05

But i couldn't find the right switch for a recurring search with the Get-ItemProperty command.

so ive tried using the Get-ChileItem insted:

$Reg = "HKLM:\Cluster\Resources\"
Get-ChildItem -recurse "$Reg" | Select-Object -Property VirtualServerName -ExcludeProperty $exclude | ForEach-Object { $_.PSObject.Properties.Value }

Which works only when im using the .Name option in the $_.PSObject.Properties switch.

But when i'm trying to get the value of VirtualServerName, .Value:

$Reg = "HKLM:\Cluster\Resources\"
Get-ChildItem -recurse "$Reg" | Select-Object -Property VirtualServerName -ExcludeProperty $exclude | ForEach-Object { $_.PSObject.Properties.Value }

i don't get any output.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 452

Answers (1)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174435

Use Where-Object to test if a value name exists under a specific key with the GetValueNames() method:

$Keys = Get-ChildItem -Path $Reg -Recurse |Where-Object {$_.GetValueNames() -contains 'VirtualServerName'}

Now that you've got the relevant key(s), you can grab the value data with Get-ItemProperty:

$Keys |Get-ItemProperty VirtualServerName

or the GetValue() method:

$Keys |ForEach-Object {
  $_.GetValue('VirtualServerName')
}

Upvotes: 2

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