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function Start-RunspaceJob {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    It runs a command on a timer, so it can abort the command if the timeout expires.
    It can also run the command as a different user.
    It allows the end-user to pass input parameters to the command.
.EXAMPLE
    Start-RunspaceJob -Scriptblock {
        $p1 = ' ' * 9 ; $p2 = ' ' * 18
        Write-Verbose "$p1 1 [V] Will do A" -Verbose

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function Get-AmazonApiOperation {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Show the relevant AWS API Operation for a given PowerShell command
.DESCRIPTION
    This function comes handy when writing permissions for IAM roles.
    Because you need to know the actions (as-in API operations) that you want to allow in the IAM policy.
.EXAMPLE
    Get-Command -Noun EC2Tag | Get-AmazonApiOperation

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function Test-PasswordComplexity {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    It checks if a password meets the minimum required password complexity
.EXAMPLE
    Test-PasswordComplexity -Password 123asdASD -MinComplex 2 -MinLength 6 -MinUpper 2 -MinLower 2 -MinDigits 2 -MinSpecial 2
    
    Returns True. Because the password is more than 6 characters long. It is actually 9 characters long.
    And it has more than 2 different character types. Namely it has lower, upper and numbers which are 3 different types.
    And out of those character types is has the minimum number of characters required for each type.

PanosGreg

function Split-ByGroup {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    It will split an array into chunks and return a number of arrays based on a group size
.EXAMPLE
    # first create a sample array (I'm using the RNG class here to do that)
    $ArraySize = 160
    $Array     = [byte[]]::new($ArraySize)
    $rng       = [Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator]::Create()
    $rng.GetBytes($Array)

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function Disable-WingetPinning {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    It disables the Certificate Pinning option in WinGet for the MS Store source.
    This is usually required when there is a firewall on your network that inspects SSL traffic,
    where you might get an error 0x8a15005e back from WinGet, as it cannot access the msstore endpoint URL.
.DESCRIPTION
    If you are behind a firewall that inspects SSL traffic,
    that means it decrypts & re-encrypts traffic on the fly in order to inspect it.

PanosGreg

# How to make a custom type sortable

# There are 2 ways to make a type sortable
#
# 1) you can inherit from the IComparable interface [System.IComparable]
#    where you will compare based on a predefined property of the object
#    and you need to implement the CompareTo() method
#
# 2) you can create a custom Comparer type that will inherit from the IComparer interface [System.Collections.Generic.IComparer[T]]

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# change this Enum with your actual accounts and their IDs
enum NewRelicAccountName {
    NRAcc1 = 300000
    NRAcc2 = 400000
    NRAcc3 = 500000
    NRAcc4 = 600000
}

function Get-NRMonitor {

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function Get-DurationText {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Get the elapsed duration as a string, in a number of different formats
.EXAMPLE
    Get-DurationText -Duration ([timespan]::FromDays(2))
    2d 0hr
#>
[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Timespan')]
[OutputType([string])]

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# I wrote these notes in Sep-2024

# AES 128 and 256 bits
# Without using .NET Streams


## Initial Input
[string]$PlainText = 'this is a test message'
[string]$Password  = 'SampleSecret'

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function Get-ArgumentCompleter {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Get the argument completers that are registered in the current session (if any)
.EXAMPLE
    Import-Module PowerShellGet
    Get-ArgumentCompleter

    shows the argument completers that are registered from the PowerShellGet module
.EXAMPLE