Vista - Alternate Data Streams on files

Anyone have and idea if its possible and how to do this in Powershell?

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..NET doesn't seem to have any managed support for accessing ADS so I would expect that Powershell lacks support as well. There are win32 api's that allow access... but you'd likely need a third party dll to use that from Powershell.

You could creatively use some command line commands that support ADS to *read* the contents of a stream. I'm sure variations of this could be adapted for writing... but nothing in native powershell.

PS C:\Downloads> cmd /c "dir /r"
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of C:\Downloads

01/08/2007 11:09 PM <DIR> .
01/08/2007 11:09 PM <DIR> ..
12/22/2006 11:08 PM 23,510,720 dotnetfx_v2.0.exe
26 dotnetfx_v2.0.exe:Zone.Identifier:$DATA

PS C:\Downloads> $r = cmd /c "more < dotnetfx_v2.0.exe:Zone.Identifier:$DATA"
PS C:\Downloads> $r
[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3

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"Brandon Shell" <tshell.mask@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ekkPVaCNHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Anyone have and idea if its possible and how to do this in Powershell?
>
> --
>
> Brandon Shell
> ---------------
> Stop by my blog some time
> http://mybsinfo.blogspot.com/
> ----------------------------------
>

Hi Brandon

> Anyone have and idea if its possible and how to do this in Powershell?

A few month ago dreeschkind posted this one:

http://groups.google.de/group/micros...697a0aba7ab9ec

hth

Max

Thanks... That was what I was looking for... I knew it had been discussed,
but my searches as well as google let me down

"Maximilian Hänel" <ngSpam@smjh.de> wrote in message
news:eXX$5tDNHHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Brandon
>
>> Anyone have and idea if its possible and how to do this in Powershell?
>
> A few month ago dreeschkind posted this one:
>
> http://groups.google.de/group/micros...697a0aba7ab9ec
>
> hth
>
> Max

I'm using the library i mentioned in the former thread,

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("c:\powershell\ntfs.dll")

and I have the following in my typedata, I use for unblocking files, I still
have this on my "to blog" list

<Type>
<Name>System.IO.FileSystemInfo</Name>
<Members>
<ScriptMethod>
<Name>Block</Name>
<Script>
$FS = new NTFS.FileStreams($this.fullname)
$fs.add('Zone.Identifier')
$stream = $fs.Item('Zone.Identifier').open()

$sw = [System.IO.streamwriter]$stream
$Sw.writeline('[ZoneTransfer]')
$sw.writeline('ZoneID=4')
$sw.close()

$stream.close()
</Script>
</ScriptMethod>
<ScriptMethod>
<Name>UnBlock</Name>
<Script>
$FS = new NTFS.FileStreams($this.fullname)
$fs['Zone.Identifier'].delete()
</Script>
</ScriptMethod>
<ScriptMethod>
<Name>GetFileStreams</Name>
<Script>
$FS = new NTFS.FileStreams($this.fullname)
$fs
</Script>
</ScriptMethod>

Greetings /\/\o\/\/

"Brandon Shell" <tshell@mask.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks... That was what I was looking for... I knew it had been discussed,
> but my searches as well as google let me down
>
> "Maximilian Hänel" <ngSpam@smjh.de> wrote in message
> news:eXX$5tDNHHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Brandon
>>
>>> Anyone have and idea if its possible and how to do this in Powershell?
>>
>> A few month ago dreeschkind posted this one:
>>
>> http://groups.google.de/group/micros...697a0aba7ab9ec
>>
>> hth
>>
>> Max
>