This will go down as one of my more devious posts.
This week my PowerShell class seemed to be having from with my Out-Voice code that I published last year. One of them asked me if PowerShell could say good morning, afternoon, evening to you. Well, Of course it can. Since we were about to learn about IF statements, I turned this into an exercise.
To get this to work, you need to accomplish 3 tasks. First, you need to create the script. Second, you need to set up a GPO to launch the script. Third, set up a GPO to disable the 5 minutes delay in launching user logon scripts in Windows 8.1.
Step 1: Set up the script.
You need to make my Out-Voice code available to PowerShell by downloading the code and placing it at the beginning of the logon script. This will make it available to the local system. In the same script, copy the code below after the Out-Voice code. Take a moment to look at the help file for Out-Voice. You can set a female voice if you prefer.
| 1 2 3 4 | $Hour = (Get-Date).Hour If ($Hour -lt 12) {"Good Morning $($Env:UserName)" | Out-Voice} ElseIf ($Hour -gt 16) {"Good Eventing $($Env:UserName)" | Out-Voice} Else {"Good Afternoon $($Env:UserName)" | Out-Voice}
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Line 1 gets the current hour of the day.
Line 2 will greet the user with “Good Morning” if it is before 12 noon
Line 3 will greet the user with “Good Evening” if it is 5 PM or later
Line 4 will greet with “Good Afternoon: if ether of the other two conditions fail.
Save this script to \\YourDomain.com\SYSVOL\YourDomain.com\Scripts\Greeting.ps1 The YourDomain.com is what ever your domain name is.
Step 2: Creating the GPO for the login script.
In this example, we are assuming that the user account(s) that you are scoping this GPO to is stored in an Organization Unit at the root of your domain called UserObjects.
In the Group Policy Management Console right click UserObjects OU and click Create a GPO in the Domain, and Link it here…
Give the GPO a name and click OK.
Right click the GPO that you just created and click Edit.
Navigate to User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Scripts (Logon/Logoff)
Double click Logon
Click the PowerShell Scripts tab.
Click Add.
Click Browse
Browse to the location in SYSVOL that you stored your script. Select the script and click Open.
Click OK
In the drop down box for For this GPO, run scripts in the following order and select Run Windows PowerShell scripts first.
Click OK
Exit out of Group Policy Management Editor
Step 3: Created the GPO to allow login scripts to execute right away. (This step is only required for Windows 8.1 clients)
In this example, we are assuming that the computer account(s) that you are scoping this GPO to is stored in an Organization Unit at the root of your domain called Clients.
In the Group Policy Management Console right click UserObjects OU and click Create a GPO in the Domain, and Link it here…
Give the GPO a name and click OK.
Right click the GPO that you just created and click Edit.
Navigate to Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy.
Open the settings for Configure Logon Script Delay
Select Enabled
Set the number of minutes to 0.
Click OK.
Exit out of Group Policy Management Editor
Now wait. Normal Active Directory replication must occur, the clients must refresh their GPOs, and the users must login. If your clients or users do not receive the GPOs, perform your standard troubleshooting methodology for Group Policy.
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