This has been tested against PowerShell 1.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003

##
# A csv Files report is created but you are unable to load it as a csv File due to irregular  formatting of the report.
# this will serve as a good example of string manipulation.
#
# Issues with csv file
# remove top 6 lines, header information not required.
# headers contain , but are not quoted, so you now have more columns than data
# trailing , stop PowerShell loading csv as you can not have a blank header
# the data is includes a % sign.  this then stop it being a number when imported into SQL / Excel
#———————————————————–
#
#
$tmpfile    = “temp.csv”
$mydat        = (get-date ((get-date).adddays(-1))-uformat “%Y%m%d”)    # get yesterdays date in the correct format
$filter        = [regex] “^Daily-View.*$mydat[0-9]{6}.csv$”            # Use regex to find today’s file
$csvfile    = Get-ChildItem -Path “c:Joetest*.csv” | Where-Object {$_.Name -match $filter} # return 1 filename

#              use PowerShell to drop the first 6 lines of unwanted text at the beginning of the file
#
$csvContent = get-content $csvfile

$csvContent | select -last ($csvContent.count -6) | Out-File $tmpfile

#             replace “, %”   with  ” %” 
#
$csvContent = “”
$csvContent = get-content $tmpfile
$csvContent[0] = $csvContent[0].replace(“, %”,” %”)

#             remove trailing , on header line
#
$csvContent[0] = $csvContent[0].substring(0,($csvContent[0].length)-1)     # remove the last char on the line

#             remove all the “%” signs from the data  ( but not the header) 
#
$counter = 0
foreach ($line in $csvContent)
{
    if ($counter -ne 0)     # skip the header line
    {
    $csvContent[$counter] =$csvContent[$counter].replace(“%”,”")
    }
$counter++
}

#            output the plain txt file
#
$csvContent | out-file $tmpfile

#             now you can import the file as a csv with no errors
#
$csvdata = import-csv $tmpfile
$csvdata

#        ————————————–
#         now you can do stuff with the data here
#        ————————————–

#         Remove old temp file
#
if (test-path $tmpfile)
    {
        remove-item -path $tmpfile -force
    }

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“Failed to open the hard disk”

“Cannot register the hard disk ‘testdisk2.vdi’ with UUID {UUID} because a disk  ‘Testdisk1.vdi’ with {UUID} already exists in the media registry””

The solution is to use the command line tool to clone the drive as follows:

open a command window (start > Run > cmd)

cd C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox             (move to the program files folder)

VBoxManage.exe clonevdi “testdisk1.vdi” “f:VirtualBoxtestdisk2.vdi”

This will clone the drive to the new file and location which you can then use. This will need to be done for each subsequent copy.

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0x8007232B – DNS name does not exist

then you remember to set the proxy settings.. you open internet explorer and change the proxy settings , you can now browse the internet,   and try activation again

but this time it still fails… that’s not supposed to happen, as you can access the web.  (also phone activation completely failed at this point too.)

This time it fails with code 0x8004FE2F

You find other blogs  on the internet, which suggest that its your proxy settings that have not been set,  and they are right but what they don’t tell you is specifically its Internet Explorer (64 bit) you need to set the proxy for. I had inadvertently set the IE (32 bit) settings previously.

Happy installations.

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