Retrieving VM Settings in Power Shell

[BobNiaan]

Basically, I want my script to be able to check for a particular setting, in this case "isolation.tools.copy.disable", whether it exist in each VM or not. And after checking, it would want to retrive/store the VM without the setting and add a new one. If setting exist, it would then continue and check on the existing setting value . So, here's my 'try' on achieving it however it doesn't seem to work at all. any help would be appreciated. Here the code:

#Check for console copy

Write-Host "`nCheck for Console Copy`n" -ForegroundColor Gray

$copytool = Get-VM | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name "isolation.tools.copy.disable" | Select Entity, Name, Value

$setting = Get-VM | Get-AdvancedSetting

$vmcount = (Get-VM | Measure).Count

#Check if setting exist

for ($y = 0;$y -lt $vmcount; $y++){

     if ($setting[$y].Name -ne "isolation.tools.copy.disable"){

     $name = $setting[$y].Entity

     Write-Host "'isolation.tools.copy.disable' in $name is not Found!"

}

#check if existing setting value

else { ...... <this part is fine>

[LucD]

Try something like this

$settingName = 'isolation.tools.copy.disable'

Get-VM | %{

    if(Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $_ -Name $settingName){

        Write-Host "'isolation.tools.copy.disable' in $($_.Name) is Found!"

    }

    else{

        Write-Host "'isolation.tools.copy.disable' in $($_.Name) is not Found!"

    }

}