SMA Tool Troubleshooting

SMA – Migrating SMA Runbooks (SMART Toolkit) Annoying Confirmation

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To migrate SMA runbooks from one environment to another you probably want to use SMA Runbook Toolkit to export and import the runbooks and assets, you can find the download here. This toolkit is a collection of PowerShell scripts which are few years old but still work perfectly with SMA 2016. After you downloaded the toolkit and extracted it, there is e.g. the SMART\Import and Export Tool\SMART-IE-GUI.ps1 to export and import your runbooks with a PowerShell GUI…

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…and the GUI looks like this…

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One problem you might encounter is, that you would have to confirm the execution of a child script Import-SMARunbookfromXMLorPS1.ps1 for each script you want to import…

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…to circumvent this annoying step, you need to unblock the files in PowerShell. How can you do it? Well you just need to get all files in the SMART directory and use Unblock-File cmdlet to unblock the script….

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…after this step the import runs without interruption. This problem happens not only to the SMART tools, but also could happen to any other module you download from an external source.

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