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<p>It's baked right in to CMD.exe, and they've provided no PowerShell alternative, so if you're pushing at the PowerShell layer, you could use something like this. Yes, the /S /Q syntax on the second function looks odd, but it achieves the desired behavior
of only taking out the link.</p>
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<div>function New-Symlink<br>
{<br>
[CmdletBinding()]<br>
param([string]$Link, [string]$Target);<br>
Start-Process-Custom -FilePath "cmd.exe" -ArgumentList "/C mklink /D `"$Link`" `"$Target`"";<br>
}<br>
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function Remove-Symlink<br>
{<br>
[CmdletBinding()]<br>
param([string]$Link);<br>
Start-Process-Custom -FilePath "cmd.exe" -ArgumentList "/C rmdir /S /Q `"$Link`"";<br>
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<p>Also relevant for those trying to automate (or at least script) their Oracle Java installs on Windows is a way to programatically check the Oracle License Agreement:</p>
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<div>function Get-OracleDownload<br>
{<br>
param([URI]$URI, [string]$OutFile);<br>
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$session = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WebRequestSession;<br>
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$oracle_cookie = New-Object System.Net.Cookie ;<br>
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$oracle_cookie.Name = "oraclelicense";<br>
$oracle_cookie.Value = "accept-securebackup-cookie";<br>
$oracle_cookie.Domain = ".oracle.com";<br>
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$session.Cookies.Add($oracle_cookie);<br>
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Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URI -WebSession $session -TimeoutSec 900 -OutFile $OutFile -ErrorAction Stop;<br>
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return $OutFile;<br>
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<p>Michael<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of Cantor, Scott <cantor.2@osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 2, 2016 3:59:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Windows server and Oracle Java updates</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 12/2/16, 4:57 PM, "users on behalf of Dave Bartholomew" <users-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of Dave.Bartholomew@csueastbay.edu> wrote:<br>
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>> to expect people to maintain a symlinked folder to the "latest" jre/jdk<br>
>> and use that explicitly.<br>
> Yes, I would do that too - if I were still running on Linux...<br>
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Windows supports symlinks too.<br>
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-- Scott<br>
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