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Wiki  >  TechNet Articles  >  How to Use PowerShell to Backup all Resource Control Display Configuration (RCDC) Objects

How to Use PowerShell to Backup all Resource Control Display Configuration (RCDC) Objects

How to Use PowerShell to Backup all Resource Control Display Configuration (RCDC) Objects

FIM ScriptBox Item

Summary

The objective of this script is to create a backup of all ObjectVisualizationConfiguration objects as XML that are exported by FIM Automation cmdlets.
Each Resource Control Display Configuration (RCDC) object is saved in a separate file and the name of the the file is the object's identifier.

The script takes one optional parameter: ConfigurationBackupPath.
ConfigurationBackupPath is the path to a customer backup folder.
The default is: C:\FIMBackup\ResourceControlDisplayConfiguration\

The script verifies whether the following three prerequisites are satisfied before processing the script code:

  1.  The script must be run by a user with administrative rights.
  2.  The script must be run on a computer running the FIM service.
  3.  The script must be run by a user that has write permissions to ConfigurationBackupPath.

If any of these conditions are not satisfied, the script stops and an error is displayed.

Script Code

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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
# Script to back all the Resource Control Display Configuration Objects
# This script is intended to be run before upgrade to FIM 2010 R2
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Script Parameter Declarations
param
(
    # Data Warehouse machine name
    [parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
    [String]$ConfigurationBackupPath = "C:\FIMBackup"
)
# End Script parameter declarations
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Script constant declarations

Set-Variable -Name constantFIMPowerShellSnapInName -Option Constant -Value "FIMAutomation" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Set-Variable -Name constantRCDCFolderName -Option Constant -Value "ResourceControlDisplayConfiguration" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Set-Variable -Name constantRCDCObjectFilter -Option Constant -Value "/ObjectVisualizationConfiguration" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Set-Variable -Name constantLineSeperator -Option Constant -Value "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

# End Script constant declarations
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Function definitions

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Checks to see if the user running the script is an
# administrative user
#--------------------------------------------------------------
function In-Administrator-Mode
{
    # check that current user is in administrators group.
    try
    {
        # get the current user who is executing the script.
        $currentUser =  [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
        $windowsPrincipal = New-Object System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal($CurrentUser)
        
        # Is the user in the Admin grooup.
        return $windowsPrincipal.IsInRole("Administrators")
    }
    catch
    {
        Write-Error $_
        return $false
    }
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Checks to see if the FIMAutomation is installed.
#--------------------------------------------------------------
function Is-FIM-Powershell-SnapIn-Registered
{
    try
    {
        # get registry key value
        Add-PSSnapin -Name $constantFIMPowerShellSnapInName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue            
        return $true
    }
    catch
    {
        Write-Error $_      
        return $false
    }
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Writes an informational message to the Console
# $message : message text to be written to the console
#--------------------------------------------------------------
function Write-Informational-Message([String]$message)
{
    Write-Host $message -ForegroundColor "green"
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Writes an error message to the Console
# $message : message text to be written to the console
#--------------------------------------------------------------
function Write-Error-Message([String]$message)
{
    Write-Host $message -ForegroundColor "red"
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Saves the RCDC objects to files
# $rcdcs : List of objects to be saved
# $filePath : Path to save the files at.
#--------------------------------------------------------------
function Save-RCDC-Objects([Object[]]$rcdcs, [String]$filePath)
{       
    foreach($rcdc in $rcdcs)
    {        
        $fileName = $rcdc.ResourceManagementObject.ObjectIdentifier.Substring(9) + ".xml"
        $fullPath = Join-Path -Path $filePath -ChildPath $fileName
        ConvertFrom-FIMResource $rcdc -File $fullPath               
    }
}

# End Function declarations
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Main Script Logic

try
{
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Resource Control Display Configuration backup script."
    Write-Informational-Message "This script will back up all resource control display configuration objects."
 

    # Check to see if the script is being run by an administrative user

    $inAdminMode = In-Administrator-Mode  
    if ($inAdminMode -ne $true)
    {
        Write-Error-Message "This script is not being run by an administrator. Please re-run script as an administrative user"
        EXIT
    }

    # check to see if the FIM powershell snapin is installed
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Starting Pre-Requisite checks before script execution"
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Pre-Requisite check #1"
    Write-Informational-Message "Checking to see if FIM commandlets are installed"
    
    $isFIMPSSnapinInstalled = Is-FIM-Powershell-SnapIn-Registered
    
    if($isFIMPSSnapinInstalled -eq $false)
    {
        Write-Error-Message "FIM commandlets are not installed on this machine. Please run the script on a machine where FIM service is installed."
        Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
        EXIT
    }
    Write-Informational-Message "FIM commandlets are installed on local machine"

    # check to see if the configuration back-up path is valid
    Write-Informational-Message "Pre-Requisite Check #2"
    Write-Informational-Message "Checking to see if the configuration backup folder path is valid"

    if((Test-Path $ConfigurationBackupPath -PathType container)  -ne $true)
    {
        Write-Informational-Message "Configuration Backup directory does not exist. Creating the directory"   
        New-Item $ConfigurationBackupPath -type directory | out-null
        Write-Informational-Message "Configuration Backup directory created"
    }

    Write-Informational-Message "All Pre-Requisite checks passed."
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator

    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Setting up folders to backup the configuration settings"
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator

    # check to see if the RCDC folder is already present. If not, create it.
    $rcdcPath = Join-Path -Path $ConfigurationBackupPath -ChildPath $constantRCDCFolderName
    $saveMessage = "The configuration settings will be saved at : " + $rcdcPath
    Write-Host $saveMessage -foregroundcolor "yellow"
    
    if((Test-Path $rcdcPath -PathType container) -eq $true)
    {
        Write-Informational-Message "The specified directory is already present"
    
        if((Get-ChildItem $rcdcPath) -ne $null)
        {
            Write-Informational-Message "There is already a saved back-up in this directory"
            Write-Informational-Message "Please save the contents in another directory before re-running this script"
            Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
            EXIT
        }   
    }
    else
    {
        Write-Informational-Message "Creating the resource control display configuration backup directory"
        New-Item $rcdcPath -type directory | out-null
        Write-Informational-Message "Created the resource control display configuration backup directory"
    }
    
    # get all the rcdc objects from the FIM Service store.
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Gathering all resource control display configuration objects"
    $rcdcObjects = Export-FIMConfig -CustomConfig $constantRCDCObjectFilter 
    $resultMessage = "Found " + $rcdcObjects.Count + " objects"
    Write-Informational-Message $resultMessage
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    
    # Write them out to files as XML
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
    Write-Informational-Message "Saving all the resource control display configuration objects"
    Save-RCDC-Objects $rcdcObjects $rcdcPath
    Write-Informational-Message "Successfully saved all the resource control display configuration objects"
    Write-Host $constantLineSeperator
}
catch [Exception]
{
    Write-Error-Message "Script execution failed with the following exception message"
    Write-Host $_.Exception.ToString()
}

# End Script code
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

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