This is the updated version of my old LName function.

I changed the name to Get-SNames instead of Get-LNames because of
that I know that the correct name is not Last Name and It should be Surname instead.

I use It in my create AD lab script and in a couple of other scripts when I
need “real” peoples name.

My thought have been to update It so that I can use names from other countries
as well.

So I came up with an updated version of the function that can create
a list from USA and It can also create a list from Sweden, as It could
before.

The Swedish list is taken from The Gothenburg University

The US list is taken from mongabay.com’s name site

I have done some changes to the Swedish list as well.
The list is now sorted and saved as UTF-8. The UTF-8 part is for viewing and using names that contains Swedish letters å ä and ö.

The function can be downloaded from here.

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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 when I need “real” peoples name.

My thought have been to update It so that I can use names from other countries as well.
So I came up with an updated version of the function that can create a list from USA and It can also create a list from Sweden, as I could before.

The names from USA comes from Social Security Online.

The Swedish names come from the Gothenburg University.

When you run the function you need to have internet access!

The function can be downloaded from here.

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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 too.

.EXAMPLE
    Get-PingStatus server01
.EXAMPLE
    if (Get-PingStatus server01) { Write-Host “I’m up!” }
.EXAMPLE
    if (!(Get-PingStatus server01)) { Write-Host “I’m not up!” }

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I’m working on lots of Active Directory functions at the moment.
For a larger Active Directory script.

And one of the functions will get the computer type in clear text.

What does this have to do with Active Directory management do
ask your self right now

Lots of, do I say!

If you need your computers to be named like sitenamecomputertype0001
then this function will do a lot for you.

Just do like this:

 $compType = Get-ComputerType -computerName $computerName
 $compType = $compType.substring(0,1)

And you got an D a M or a W.

The function can be found here.

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I have been away from my computer for a couple of days.
And I have been thinking about my code and now are
these functions updated.

Clean-Temp

I have tweaked the code.
No need for the same code twice

And I have added help for PowerShell 2.0.

When the function are loaded.
Try to write Get-Help Clean-Temp –detailed

Get-DotNetInfo

Uses the default browser instead of Internet Explorer.

And I have added help for PowerShell 2.0.

When the function are loaded.
Try to write Get-Help Get-DotNetInfo –detailed

More updates will be posted soon…

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I uploaded my first script to Microsoft’s Script Center.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/c5158ed5-5b82-4243-9654-9106f7ca6663

It was my Get-DotNetInfo function.

I like the repository and that you can add comments.

Please rate my function and write a comment.
Good or bad!

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I made this function back in 2007.
But I did only published It in Swedish then. This function helps me a lot when I’m working
with PowerShell and Dot Net classes.

When I have the Dot Net Class that I want
to use but not much information. Then I just
call this function with the Dot Net Class
and IE opens with the information.

# Get-DotNetInfo Function
# By Fredrik Wall, fredrik@poweradmin.se
# http://www.poweradmin.se/blog
#
# Created: 2007-09-13
# Last modified: 2009-12-18
# Tested on: Windows XP, Windows Vista,
# Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
# Revision history:
# 2009-12-18 ADD: Function information
# Example of calling the function:
# Get-DotNetInfo System.Net.Webclient

Function Get-DotNetInfo {
  param([string]$dotnet="")
  $objIE = New-Object -Com Internetexplorer.Application
  $url = "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/" + $dotnet
  $objIE.Navigate($url)
  $objIE.Visible=$true
}

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I wrote a script some years back in VBScript that made
Active Directory Users with “Real Swedish” names.

It’s took Firstname from one text file and Lastname from
another text file, randomly. And made random Passwords as well.

So instead of getting users like “user0001” and “user998” I got
”Anders Svensson” and “Lena Persson”. Prettys nice.

The bad part about the VBScript was that It took 10-15 min to clean
the textfiles first.

I’m a computer geek and I do lots of labs with AD so I wanted to
make a similar thing with PowerShell.

After some work I have made 2 functions that will get two
lists of common First and Last names from The Gothenburg University.

The first function are:

function getFNames {
# Get a list of Swedish Firstnames from Gothenburg University
param ($fNameFile)
if(!(test-path -path $fNameFile)){
    if ($WebClient -eq $null) {$Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient  }
    $url="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/statistik/lbfnamn.phtml"

    $fNames = $WebClient.DownloadString($url)  -replace "[0-9]","" -replace "<td>",""

-replace "<tr>","" -replace "</td>","" -replace "</tr>","" -replace "<b>",""

-replace "</b>","" -replace "<td class=""le"">","" -replace "<table>",""

-replace "</table>","" -replace "<br />","" -replace "<hr />",""

-replace "<body>","" -replace "</body>","" -replace "<html>",""

-replace "</html>","" -replace "<table width=""%""><td width=""%"">",""

-replace "<td class=""lastupd"">Senaste ändring <b class=""date"">  okt  av lbtekn@svenska.gu.se</a>.",""

-replace "<!doctype html public ""-//wc//dtd html . transitional//en"">",""

-replace "<head>","" -replace "</head>","" -replace "<h>","" -replace "</h>",""

-replace "<title>","" -replace "</title>","" -replace "<tr class=""headrow"">",""

-replace "   <meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text/html; charset=iso—"">",""

-replace "   <link rel=""STYLESHEET"" href=""/css/statistik.css"" type=""text/css"">",""

-replace "Vanliga förnamn, ordnade efter frekvens.",""

-replace "       Rang   Pojknamn           Frekvens   Rang   Flicknamn          Frekvens",""

-replace "\s{3,}", " "

    $fNames = $fNames -split (" ")

    foreach ($fName in $fNames) {
        $fName | Out-File $fNameFile -append
    }
    }
}

You will call It like this:$fNameFile = "c:\scripts\fname.txt"getFNames $fNameFile

or simply

getFNames 'c:\scripts\fname.txt'

First of all It will look for the file with all the first names.
If It can’t find It, It will download It from the server at
Gothenburg University and clean It.

Now You Got a text file with lots of names (1000).

And the other function are:

function getLNames {
# Get a list of Swedish Lastnames from Gothenburg University
param ($lNameFile)
if(!(test-path -path $lNameFile)){
    if ($WebClient -eq $null) {$Global:WebClient=new-object System.Net.WebClient  }
    $url="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/statistik/lbenamn.phtml"

    $lNames = $WebClient.DownloadString($url)  -replace "[0-9]","" -replace "<td>",""

-replace "<tr>","" -replace "</td>","" -replace "</tr>","" -replace "<b>",""

-replace "</b>","" -replace "<td class=""le"">","" -replace "<table>",""

-replace "</table>","" -replace "<br />","" -replace "<hr />","" -replace "<body>",""

-replace "</body>","" -replace "<html>","" -replace "</html>",""

-replace "<table width=""%""><td width=""%"">",""

-replace "<td class=""lastupd"">Senaste ändring <b class=""date"">  okt  av lbtekn@svenska.gu.se</a>.",""

-replace "<!doctype html public ""-//wc//dtd html . transitional//en"">",""

-replace "<head>","" -replace "</head>","" -replace "<h>","" -replace "</h>",""

-replace "<title>","" -replace "</title>","" -replace "<tr class=""headrow"">",""

-replace "   <meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text/html; charset=iso—"">",""

-replace "   <link rel=""STYLESHEET"" href=""/css/statistik.css"" type=""text/css"">",""

-replace "Vanliga förnamn, ordnade efter frekvens.",""

-replace "       Rang   Pojknamn           Frekvens   Rang   Flicknamn          Frekvens",""

-replace "\s{3,}", " "

-replace " efternamn,frekvensordning Vanliga efternamn, i frekvensordning Rang Namn Frekvens ",""

    $lNames = $lNames -split (" ")

    foreach ($lName in $lNames) {
        $lName | Out-File $lNameFile -append
    }
    }
}

And this one will give you the same as the other function.

You will call It like this:$lNameFile = "c:\scripts\lname.txt"getLNames $lNameFile

or simply

getLNames 'c:\scripts\lname.txt'

Now you got 1000 first names and 1000 last names to make random names of.

    $firstName = Get-Content $fNameFile | Get-Random -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    $lastName = Get-Content $lNameFile | Get-Random -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$firstName + “ “ + $lastName

I will post more of my script tommorow. This was todays function gift from me

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It’s soon Christmas and the first snow has landed
here in Stockholm.

So I have decided to do a Christmas special.
I know, my friend DXter does a Geek special
for Christmas. My Christmas special will be a
PowerShell function special.

I will post a function/day until Christmas eve.
And I will also give all of my readers a special gift
on Christmas eve…

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This is a small but effective function.

It will delete most of the stuff in your temp dir.

Use with close option to close all open programs

before you clean the temp dir. It will not delete

open/locked files.

The function can also be downloaded from the Download section.
http://poweradmin.se/blog/download

# Clean Temp Function
# By Fredrik Wall, fredrik@poweradmin.se
# http://www.poweradmin.se/blog
#
# Last modified: 2009-12-14
# Tested on: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
# Revision history:
# 2009-12-14    ADD: -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#                ADD: Close option
# Example of calling the function:
# Clean-Temp
# Clean-Temp 'Close'
#
function Clean-Temp {
    param($status)
    if ($status -eq 'close') {
        # Some programs that often uses temp dir for temp files
        process iexplore* | kill
        process outlook* | kill
        process word* | kill
        process excel* | kill
        process msn* | kill

        $myTemp = "$Env:temp"
        Get-Childitem $myTemp | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        $myTemp = $null
    }
    else  {
        $myTemp = "$Env:temp"
        Get-Childitem $myTemp | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        $myTemp = $null
    }
}

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