This is just a quick article on how to search for exe’s recursively in a specific path and add them to an RES Workspace Manager building block to be imported back in.

I needed to do this recently as the customer in question had an application that lived on a network share and after 14+ years of development in this style, everyone was afraid to move it!

Steps to use this script:

• Export an existing building block for the application you wish to authorize
• Ensure the exported building block has at least one authorized file
• Modify the $import and $exportbuildingblockpath
• Modify the $exedirpath to be the path you wish to search recursively for exe’s.

$importBuildingBlockPath = 'H:\path\bb.xml'
$exportBuildingBlockPath = 'h:\path\export.xml'
 
$alreadyauth=@()
$ExeForAuth=@()
$exedirpath = "\\servername\Share\APPS"
 
 
Get-ChildItem -Recurse $dirpath | ?{!($_.psiscontainer) -and $_.Extension -like ".exe"}  | %{
    $ExeForAuth+=$_.fullname.ToLower()
}
 
 
[xml]$bb = Get-Content $importBuildingBlockPath
 
 
$bb.respowerfuse.buildingblock.application.appguard.authorizedfiles.authfile | %{
    $alreadyauth+=$_.authorizedfile.tolower()
}
 
 
Compare-Object $alreadyauth $ExeForAuth | ? {$_.SideIndicator -eq "=>"} | % {
    $newnode=$bb.respowerfuse.buildingblock.application.appguard.authorizedfiles.authfile[0].Clone()
    $newnode.authorizedfile=$_.inputobject.tostring()                                                                                     
    $newnode.description="Auto Appended item via script"                                                                                        
    $newnode.process="*"                                                                                          
    $newnode.learningmode="no"                                                                                               
    $newnode.enabled="yes"   
    $bb.respowerfuse.buildingblock.application.appguard.authorizedfiles.AppendChild($newnode)
}
 
$bb.save($exportBuildingBlockPath)