Monthly Archives: July 2009

Backup-MessengerContacts

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Dalle

Live Messenger is a stable service, but I have been started writing on some Backup functions for Social Networks and I think Live Messenger is a Social Network. This is a very small function and I got the how to … Continue reading →

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Get-CertUtilVersion

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dalle

I’m working on some tools with a friend of mine and the tools need certutil with SCRoots. SCRoots are there from the certutil version shipped with Vista. With certutil version number 6.0.xxxx. function Get-CertUtilVersion { ######################################################################## # Function: Get CertUtil … Continue reading →

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Get-OSVersion

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Dalle

This is my Get-OSVersion function.   function Get-OSVersion { ######################################################################## # Function: Get Operating System Version # Version: 1.0 # Updated: 2009-07-28 # Code By: Fredrik "Dalle" Wall, Riverpoint AB (fredrik[dot]wall[at]riverpoint[dot]se) ######################################################################## $osver = Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem $osver = $osver.version.substring(0,3) switch … Continue reading →

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My Internet IP information

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Dalle

This will be my first post in a long series of posts, screencasts and other things related to PowerShell and .net forms with one of my favorite tools, Primal Forms (Community Version). I love this tool because of that It’s … Continue reading →

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Clean-Temp function

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Dalle

I’m working on some functions that can help when working with installation and MSI files. This one is the first one. function Clean-Temp { $myTemp = "$Env:temp" get-Childitem $myTemp | remove-Item -recurse -force } This function deletes everything in the … Continue reading →

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Get-MyInternetIP and Get-MyInternetCity

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Dalle

  Two very simple function that’s get my IP address and City on the internet. Function Get-MyInternetIP { if ($WebClient -eq $null) {$Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient } $url="http://ip-address.domaintools.com/myip.xml" $myInternetIP=([xml]($WebClient.DownloadString($url))).dnstools.ip_address $myInternetIP } Function Get-MyInternetCity { if ($WebClient -eq $null) {$Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient } $url="http://ip-address.domaintools.com/myip.xml" … Continue reading →

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How to Backup Twitter Friends with PowerShell and Excel Automatically

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dalle

This script is an updated version of the How to Backup Twitter Friends with PowerShell and Excel post earlier today. In this version I use the out-Excel function by The Pathological Scripter. [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(”System.Web") | Out-Null $userName = "username" $password = … Continue reading →

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How to backup Twitter Friends using PowerShell and Excel

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Dalle

Twitter have been cleaning out spamers and some ordinary users got cleaned too. It can be hard to know wish Twitter Friends you had yesterday and whish you got today. From now on I will use a PowerShell script that … Continue reading →

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Molntjänster och säkerhet (In Swedish)

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Dalle

Det pratas mycket om säkerhet och molntjänster på bloggar, i artiklar och på twitter just nu. Man kan få uppfattningen när man skummar detta att själva molntjänst grejen är osäker. Att det skulle vara själva molntjänst fenomenet som är osäkert … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Dalle

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). You will find the blog post from the Windows 7 team here. And the blog post from the Windows Server 2008 R2 team here. At the Virtualization … Continue reading →

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