Powershell cannot read xml file

[saidei]

Hi

 

Powershell is creating group policy report in utf-16 and script is giving me following error message.

 

| Cannot find drive. A drive with the name '

Get-Content: C:\Temp\Script\NotattachedGroupPolicy4.ps1:12

 

Powershell version is PowerShell 7.4.3

I have enabled Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support in windows 11

 

 

Script is

 

 

$unlinkedGPOs = @()

$GPNames = get-gpo -all | select-object DisplayName 

foreach ( $GPName in $GPNames)
{



$GPReport= Get-GPOReport -Name $GPName.DisplayName -Encoding utf8 -ReportType Xml 
[xml]$gpoXml = Get-Content $GPReport
$linknode = $gpoXml.GPO.LinksTo
$linknode
}

 

Can anyone advise how to resolve this issue

 

Thanks in advance

[David44]

The issue is with the Get-Content cmdlet. I don't think you need it. You already have the XML stored in $GPReport. When you use Get-Content and pass $GPReport to it, it's treating the XML you give it as a path and giving you an error about not finding a file at that path. Does this do what you need?

 

$GPNames = get-gpo -all | select-object DisplayName
foreach ($GPName in $GPNames)
{
   $GPReport = Get-GPOReport -Name $GPName.DisplayName -ReportType Xml
   $linknode = ([xml]$GPReport).gpo.LinksTo    $linknode
}

 

 

EDIT: I also removed -Encoding utf8 from Get-GPOReport because I think it was a red herring.

Edited July 8, 2024 by David44

[saidei]

thank you it is giving me the result now.

I will update the script tonight and post here