Debugging windows scripts

Viewed k times. Vhaerun Vhaerun Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Source: Batch File Help workmad3: answer has more good tips for working with the echo command. Eric Schoonover Eric Schoonover I guess those are my only options.

I'm using the trial version since a few hours. Here is my first humble opinion: On one side, it indeed allows debugging. It deverves a try. Myobis Myobis 1, 14 14 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. This should probably be a comment — KyleMit. KyleMit can you please explain why? I actually did mean probably , in that it could go either way. But it's kind of a lmgtfy answer. From the help center answer section: Always quote the most relevant part of an important link.

Without the link, this answer dissolves, which, again, is probably fine, but typically this type of ad-hoc suggestion of an un-tested, proprietary software would generally fit best in a comment.

Feel free to leave it as well. They've lost that domain and presumably have gone out of business. The following script is an example of how to remove all breakpoints from the Console Pane by using the Remove-PSBreakpoint cmdlet. Disabling a breakpoint does not remove it. It turns it off until it is enabled. To disable a specific line breakpoint, right-click the line where you want to disable a breakpoint, and then click Disable Breakpoint.

Or, click the line where you want to disable a breakpoint, and press F9 or, on the Debug menu, click Disable Breakpoint. Disabling a breakpoint does not remove it; it turns it off until it is enabled. To disable all breakpoints in the current session, on the Debug menu, click Disable all Breakpoints. The following script is an example of how you can disable all breakpoints from the Console Pane by using the Disable-PSBreakpoint cmdlet.

To enable a specific breakpoint, right-click the line where you want to enable a breakpoint, and then click Enable Breakpoint. Or, click the line where you want to enable a breakpoint, and then press F9 or, on the Debug menu, click Enable Breakpoint.

The following script is an example of how you can enable specific breakpoints from the Console Pane by using the Enable-PSBreakpoint cmdlet. To enable all breakpoints defined in the current session, on the Debug menu, click Enable all Breakpoints.

The following script is an example of how you can enable all breakpoints from the Console Pane by using the Enable-PSBreakpoint cmdlet. Before you start debugging, you must set one or more breakpoints. You cannot set a breakpoint unless the script that you want to debug is saved. After you start debugging, you cannot edit a script until you stop debugging.

A script that has one or more breakpoints set is automatically saved before it is run. The script runs until it encounters the first breakpoint.

It pauses operation there and highlights the line on which it paused. This causes the script to continue running to the next breakpoint or to the end of the script if no further breakpoints are encountered. This is what I am struggling with - why does this parameter successfully create a log file on only some machines, even though the script itself is running on all machines?

Alternatively, do you have any suggestions as to a better way to troubleshoot specific issues with the script - not whether the script is running at all. You meaned that the parameters only worked on some clients, right? It would be helpful if you could help to collect the following information:.

I can confirm that the script is definitely running on clients where the log file is not created. I know this because I have the script updating a text file with the date and time. Therefore, I can boot the machine, and check this text file - if it has updated with the current date and time, then I know the script and therefore the GPO is definitely running. I don't believe that this has anything to do with the GPO not being applied to the client s.

Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. We should use Set-PSBreakpoint CmdLet with Script parameter pointing to the script file and Variable parameter with the name of the variable and we need to choose Mode like in example:.

If we list again all breakpoints set so far we will see all the types of breakpoints: line , command , and variable. This is a very interesting option that might be useful in some special circumstances for example when some variable reaches certain value to activate the breakpoint and debug the code.

Only when CallCounter function is used the breakpoint is hit. Here is a breakpoint message wrote to the host and hit of breakpoint after variable reached a certain value. NOTE : After all breakpoints have been disabled the highlights color has changed from red into light blue in Script Pane so we can see visually that breakpoints are disabled.

NOTE : After all breakpoints have been enabled again the highlights color has changed from light blue back into red in Script Pane so we can see visually that breakpoints are enabled again. NOTE : We can even visually see that breakpoint id 1 is disabled light blue and breakpoint id 0 is enabled red.

Look at the value for the Enabled column and Ids 1 and 3. It should be false and that means disabled breakpoint. Here is a cool example that sets breakpoint first and saves the breakpoint as variable and then use that variable to pass thru to CmdLet to disable the breakpoint and then to re-enable the same breakpoint.

Consider disabling the breakpoints before removing them since removing is destructive action and demands from you to set again breakpoints while disabling is the non-destructive and only thing to do is to enable it again in order to continue using the same breakpoint. Now when we know the Ids of breakpoints we can enable, disable, or remove breakpoints by their Ids. Removal is a destructive command so be careful running it. Verbose Common Parameter is not directly debugging but it can help us showing the workflow of our code execution.

Personally I use the execution of CmdLet with Verbose when I need assistance where I need to put and turn on the breakpoints in the code. Hey Everyone! I hope that this article you read today has taken you from a place of frustration to a place of joy coding!

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