{"id":6405,"date":"2016-05-20T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T19:03:30","slug":"short-takes-deleting-bit-ly-bitlinks-backing-restoring-sticky-notes-accessing-cmdlets-installing-azure-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/short-takes-deleting-bit-ly-bitlinks-backing-restoring-sticky-notes-accessing-cmdlets-installing-azure-powershell.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: deleting bit.ly Bitlinks; backing up and restoring Sticky Notes; accessing cmdlets after installing Azure PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another collection of short notes to add to my digital memory…<\/p>\n

Deleting bit.ly links<\/h3>\n

Every now and again, I spot some spam links in my Twitter feed – usually prefixed [delicious]. That suggests to me that there is an issue in Delicious<\/a> or in Twitterfeed<\/a> (the increasingly unreliable service I use to read certain RSS feeds and tweet on my behalf) and, despite password resets (passwords are so insecure) it still happens.<\/p>\n

A few days ago I spotted some of these spam links still in my bit.ly links (the link shortener behind my mwil.it links<\/a>,\u00a0who also own Twitterfeed) and I wanted to permanently remove them.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, according to the “how do I delete a Bitlink<\/a>” bit.ly knowledge base article – you can’t.<\/p>\n

Where does Windows store Sticky Notes?<\/h3>\n

Last Friday (the\u00a013th) I wrote\u00a0about saving my work before my PC was rebuilt<\/a>…<\/p>\n

One thing I forgot about was the plethora of Sticky Notes on my desktop so, today, I was searching for advice on where to find them (in my backup) so I could restore.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Sticky Notes are stored in user profiles, under %appdata%\\Microsoft\\Sticky Notes, in a file called StickyNotes.snt<\/a>. Be aware though, that the folder is not created until the Sticky Notes application has been run at least once. Restoring\u00a0my old notes was as easy as:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Run the Sticky Notes desktop application in Windows.<\/li>\n
  2. Close Sticky Notes.<\/li>\n
  3. Overwrite the StickyNotes.snt file with a previous copy.<\/li>\n
  4. Re-open Sticky Notes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Azure PowerShell installation requires a restart (or explicit loading of modules)<\/h3>\n

    This week has involved\u00a0a fair amount of restoring tools\/settings to a rebuilt PC (did I mention that mine died in a heap last Friday? If only the hardware and software were supplied by the same vendor – oh they are!). After installing the Azure PowerShell package from the SCCM Software Center, I found that cmdlets returned errors like:<\/p>\n

    Get-AzureRmResource : The term ‘Get-AzureRmResource’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.<\/em><\/p>\n

    After some RTFMing<\/a>, I found this:<\/p>\n

    This can be corrected by restarting the machine or importing the cmdlets from C:\\Program Files\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules\\Azure\\XXXX\\ as following (where XXXX is the version of PowerShell installed[)]: import-module \"C:\\Program Files\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules\\Azure\\XXXX\\azure.psd1\" import-module \"C:\\Program Files\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules\\Azure\\XXXX\\expressroute\\expressroute.psd1\"<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Another collection of short notes to add to my digital memory… Deleting bit.ly links Every now and again, I spot some spam links in my Twitter feed – usually prefixed [delicious]. 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