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SimonAllison
Iron Contributor
Jul 05, 2018

Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo - A quicker way...

Hi All   Just a Tip from me to make it easier  (if you got other ways, let me know, would be interested)      Starting to deploy via Autopilot but first grabbing the information - so I am using ...
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SimonAllison
Iron Contributor
May 17, 2022

your code is missing the slashes : (Copy and paste issue?) 

example:
-OutputFile %~dp0compHash.csv -append
My script:
-OutputFile %~d0\computers.csv -append

It should output the computer name , hope this helps

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davewilliamson
Copper Contributor
May 18, 2022
So thanks for your reply Simon, I have tried this before but it stops the hash recovery and creates a blank .csv with the title of computers.csv. Thanks for your help though, its not a massive problem it just would have been nice to have the title as either the serial or computer name.
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    mdmcq5
    Copper Contributor
    May 24, 2022

    davewilliamson I've found that HP systems don't like  %~dp0compHash.csv but if I use "compHash.csv it works.  Dell doesn't have any issues running  %~dp0compHash.csv

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      SimonAllison
      Iron Contributor
      May 24, 2022
      Thanks mdmcq5 and @davidwilliamson for your input, yes I was originally ran on Dell, if I had a HP Laptop to hand I would have found the issue, so are you saying here just using compHash.csv works for both types of device? I dont have a system to test on to try it, thanks in advance
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        mdmcq5
        Copper Contributor
        May 24, 2022

        SimonAllison this code didn't work for me on HP:

        PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command %~dp0Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 -ComputerName $env:computername -OutputFile %~dp0compHash.csv -append

         

        so I just removed all the %~dp0 references, I also don't think either could define ComputerName $env:computername.  I ran the below w/out any issues on both Dell and HP

        PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 - -OutputFile compHash.csv -append

        But for non-OOBE boxes, there's a new CIM error being thrown:
        Get-CimInstance : A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code.
        At D:\Autopilot\Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1:209 char:23
        ... evDetail = (Get-CimInstance -CimSession $session -Namespace root/cimv

        the error is due to new KB5013942 or         KB5011831

        Once the KB(s) is uninstalled, the code runs. For me on W10 21H2 it was KB5013942. I have no idea if MS knows their update caused an issue or if there's a fix in the pipeline.

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