Nick's questions

Environment:

I have a workstation on our primary domain. We have a primary WSUS Server that is the upstream server of 8 different testing domains. The Primary WSUS server is not part of any domain. Routing is configured between my workstation and the Primary WSUS server. I can RDP to the Primary WSUS sever without any problem. The router is configured to forward any any between my workstation and the Primary WSUS server. This WSUS server cannot be part of a domain due to external requirements (I can't change them) on the lab I work in. The version of WSUS is WSUS 3.0 SP 2

What I want to do:

I need to connect to the WSUS server with the WSUS Admin console from my local workstation. The end goal is to connect via Powershell and manage with that. I also need to take what I do here and port it to the 8 test domains so I can manage those WSUS servers. The routing is all in place so I can talk to the servers, it's just connecting to the WSUS console that is causing problems.

The problem:

I cannot get my workstation to connect to the WSUS Console.

I get one of the following errors depending on the setup.

1st error:

Cannot connect to 'WSUS'. You do not have the permissions required to access this WSUS server.
To connect to the server you must be a member of the WSUS Administrators or WSUS Reporters security groups

I also get the warning 7012 from the event log that says the same thing.

2nd error:

Cannot connect to 'WSUS'. The server may be using another port or different Secure Sockets Layer setting.

What I have tried:

So far I have configured IIS for Anonymous Authentication on both the WSUS Administration and ApiRemoting30 using an account will call WSUS_User. With this in place, I get the 1st error. When I do this though, the local WSUS Console cannot be used either.

Reverting back to only Windows Authentication allows the local console to work, but the remote console now give the 2nd error.

I have confirmed the port, and that there is no SSL in use (which is a policy that is pushed from above, that I cannot effect).

I have placed WSUS_User in the groups mentioned above, but it still does not connect.
I made sure WSUS_User has full access on C:\Program Files\Update Services and C:\Program Files\Update Services\WebServices

I am not very familiar with the workings of WSUS or IIS, and have gone as far as I can figure out on my own. Googling these errors all take me to the same steps about Anonymous Authentication and configuring permissions on folders.

I have a function that I know will throw an error. This error is expected, but when it's thrown I want to end the function. I have a Trap section in my script, and I have used both the Return and the Break commands, but they don't do what I want. I have the trap statement both in the Begin {} and the Process {} sections. I am using the command Get-WmiObject, and I have the -ErrorAction set to stop. A sample of the code and their responses are below.

First Example w/ return:

Function Test {
Param {"Some Parameters"}
Begin {"Some beginning stuff"}
process {
    Trap
    {
        Add-Content $($SomeFile) $($ComputerName + "is Not There")
        return
    } #End Trap
    Get-WmiObject Win32_NTLogEvent `
        -ComputerName $ComputerName `
        -Credential $Cred - `
        -ErrorAction Stop
    }#End Process
End {"Some ending things"}
} #End Function

This one simply keeps going on, without exiting the function.

Second Example w/ break:

Function Test {
Param {"Some Parameters"}
Begin {"Some beginning stuff"}
process {
    Trap
    {
        Add-Content $($SomeFile) $($ComputerName + "is Not There")
        Break
    } #End Trap
    Get-WmiObject Win32_NTLogEvent `
        -ComputerName $ComputerName `
        -Credential $Cred - `
        -ErrorAction Stop
    }#End Process
End {"Some ending things"}
} #End Function

This one exits the entire script.

I have looked around, but I can't find anything specific to exiting just a function. There is a lot more going on in the function, including another Get-WmiObject command. I want it to exit the function if the first Get-WmiObject can't contact the computer. I can't use a ping test, because many of the servers block ICMP.

I am trying to use the switch command to select something out of an array. The array can change sizes depending on information from another spread sheet.

For example:

C:\> $Test = A
C:\> $ListA
    Item_One       Item_Two
    --------       --------
    A              1
    B              2
    C              3

I want to create a switch that will return the corresponding value of Item_Two when $Test is checked against $ListA.Item_One. The problem I am having is, $ListA can change the number of values depending on the situation. The switch statement I was thinking was something like this:

switch ($Test)
{
    $ListA.Item_One {write-host $ListA.Item_two}
    default {"Not found"}
}

When I run this code, it just ends up on the default, I can't get it to trigger off the $ListA.Item_One section. Is there a way to do this, or how else can I do what I'm trying to do? I know I can use a for-each loop, but I looking to see if there were other ways. I could imagine if the list got to large, it would take a long time to sift through. Right now the list is only 5-10 items, but it could grow to over 40+ within a year.

Edit: I am populating the list through a .csv:

$listA = Import C:\File.csv