I think most of you have a set of various PowerCLI Scripts that runs automatically day by day. Have you ever checked if your older scripts contain some deprecated commands? Here is a handy way to check …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
If you read the Change Log from PowerCLI here<\/a> you find some deprecated or even deleted commands. So that is the reason why you should check from time to time your daily running scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the last VMworld 2018 in Barcelona, I spoke to Kyle Ruddy<\/a> after the Session “DEV3504BE<\/a>” about a way to check on deprecated commands. I hope to get a list from him soon but in the meantime I looked at a easy way to check the content of a Script folder against a JSON-File. And this was much easier than I thought \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n All we need is a JSON File filled and a few lines of PowerShell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The JSON File could look like this: To check your usage of deprecated or deleted commands you could use this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The output tells you in which file and line you used one of those commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think most of you have a set of various PowerCLI Scripts that runs automatically day by day. Have you ever checked if your older scripts contain some deprecated commands? Here is a handy way to check …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powercli","tag-powercli"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n\n\n\n{\n \"deprecatedcmd\": [\n \"Get-DrmInfo\",\n \"Get-OrgNetwork\",\n\t\"Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface\",\n\t\"Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface\",\n\t\"Get-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"New-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"Remove-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"Get-VMHostPatch\",\n\t\"Test-VsanStoragePerformance\"\n ],\n \"delcmd\": [\n \"Get-DrmInfo\",\n \"Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface\",\n\t\"Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface\",\n\t\"Get-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"New-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"Remove-VMGuestRoute\",\n\t\"New-CustomField\",\n\t\"Remove-CustomField\",\n\t\"Set-CustomField\"\n ]\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n$uri = \"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/old-cmds.json\"\n$path = \"C:\\scripts\"\n\nInvoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri | Select -ExpandProperty deprecatedcmd\nInvoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri | Select -ExpandProperty delcmd\n\n$deprecatedcmd = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri | Select -ExpandProperty deprecatedcmd\n$delcmd = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri | Select -ExpandProperty delcmd\n\nGet-ChildItem -recurse -Path $path| Select-String -pattern $deprecatedcmd | select Path,LineNumber,Line\n\nGet-ChildItem -recurse -Path $path| Select-String -pattern $delcmd | select Path,LineNumber,Line<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nPS C:\\Users\\xyz> \nGet-ChildItem -recurse -Path $path| Select-String -pattern $deprecatedcmd | select Path,LineNumber,Line\nPath LineNumber Line \n---- ---------- ---- \nC:\\scripts\\temp\\Test-Deprecated-CMD.ps1 50 Get-DrmInfo<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"