Category Archives: PowerShell

PowerShell + Working with applications–custom view

Programs and features will not give you much information about an application. But if we take my post from yesterday and modify it then we can get this. It’s just a oneliner: Get-WmiObject win32_product | Select-Object -Property Name, Vendor, Version, … Continue reading

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Cool PowerShell stuff in the summer

I’m currently working on lots of PowerShell stuff after an half of year at a customer. And I want to share some nice stuff to you. Some stuff will be nice to have and some stuff will not be.But maybe … Continue reading

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Get-SNames

This is the updated version of my old LName function. I changed the name to Get-SNames instead of Get-LNames because ofthat I know that the correct name is not Last Name and It should be Surname instead. I use It … Continue reading

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Get-FNames

Back in 2009 I wrote a Function that took peoples first names from a source in Sweden.It was top 1000 names here in Sweden. I use It in my create AD lab script and in a couple of other scripts … Continue reading

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The TPM Status tool

I wrote this tool for my friend DXter a year ago or so.He did an presentation on bitlocker and wanted a tool that showsTPM Information from inside Windows and with an GUI. Now It’s a new year and I have … Continue reading

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Get-PingStatus

Over at 2009 I wrote a ping status function. The function can now be downloaded from the Script Center Repository at Microsoft.http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-PingStatus-Function-e375fec3 I use It in my own scripts and just updated It so I hope others can use It … Continue reading

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Turn on and off the old menu in Windows 8 the PowerShell way

More and more people are talking about turning of the new menu in Windows 8.The Start thing or the Metro. Both in Windows 8 Server and the Windows 8 client. My friend Mikael Nyström wrote how to do this with … Continue reading

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Windows 8 and PowerShell day 2

This is my day two with Windows 8 and PowerShell v3. I’m currently testing Windows 8 and PowerShell including most ofthe stuff I came across in Windows 8. Tweet@rama, nice but not as nice as Tweetdeck Cool integration with Start… … Continue reading

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Windows 8 and PowerShell

    The Windows 8 Developer Preview is released.It can be found at http://dev.windows.com If you want to test it in an Virtual Environment VMWare Workstation 7.x won’t work.But in Oracle Virtual Box it works fine! I installed It because … Continue reading

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First look at the new PowerShell FB Module

I saw this module earlier today and I have been looking for something like this for a while so I have been playing around with It for for an hour or so. You can download It here. Install it with … Continue reading

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