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chrisbrownie / foreachas.ps1

Created August 10, 2017 05:19

Allows the pipeline'd "foreach" to be assigned a value other than $_

	function foreachas {

	Param(
	[char]$as,
	[ScriptBlock]$sb
	)

	PROCESS {
	Set-Variable -Name $as -Value $_
	Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock $sb

chrisbrownie / Convert-PublicFoldertoPst.ps1

Last active September 12, 2017 06:28

	Param(
	[String]$Path
	)

	$pfShortName = ($Path -replace "^\\\\[A-Za-z0-0@\-_. ]*\\All Public Folders\\","").Replace("\","_")

	$FilePath = Join-Path -Path (Get-Location) -ChildPath "$pfShortName.pst"

	$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
	$namespace = $Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

chrisbrownie / Install-WindowsDriversFromFolder.ps1

Created September 19, 2017 06:54

Installs Windows drivers from a folder

	Get-ChildItem "C:\mydrivers\" -Recurse -Filter "*.inf" \|
	ForEach-Object { PNPUtil.exe /add-driver $_.FullName /install }

chrisbrownie / CopyFileIntoPowerShellSession.ps1

Created October 10, 2017 22:59

Used in blog post: Copying files to a server using PowerShell Sessions

	$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName MyServer
	Copy-Item -Path "C:\myfile.txt" -Target "C:\SomeServerFolder" -ToSession $session

chrisbrownie / DownloadAllPhotos.ps1

Created October 24, 2017 10:06

	$AllUsers = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited

	$AllUsers \| % {
	$_.UserPrincipalName
	$PhotoData = $null
	$PhotoData = Get-UserPhoto -Identity $_.UserPrincipalNAme -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	if ($PhotoData) {
	[io.file]::WriteAllBytes("$pwd\$($_.UserPrincipalName).jpg",$Photodata.PictureData)
	}
	}

chrisbrownie / GenerateDocFxToc.ps1

Created November 5, 2017 22:05

DocFx TOC generator

	$articleRoot = "articles"

	$tocFileTypes = @("md")

	function CreateTocForFolder {
	Param(
	[String]$Path
	)

	# First, create a toc for child folders

chrisbrownie / GetExchangeGroupMemberships.ps1

Created November 29, 2017 00:59

Returns the membership of all Exchange Online Distribution Groups

	$allDistributionGroups = Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize unlimited
	$allGroupMemberships = $allDistributionGroups \| ForEach-Object {
	$thisGroup = $_
	Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $thisGroup.Identity \|
	Select-Object `
	@{Name="GroupIdentity";Expression={$thisGroup.primarySmtpAddress}},
	@{Name="MemberAddress";Expression={$_.PrimarySmtpAddress}}
	}

chrisbrownie / Get-MsolServicePlans.ps1

Last active December 7, 2017 02:28

Returns a list of each sku and the service plans associated. For creating LicenseOption objects with New-MsolLicenseOptions

	foreach ($sku in (Get-MsolAccountSku) ) {
	foreach ($sp in $sku.ServiceStatus) {
	New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{"AccountSkuId"=$sku.AccountSkuId;"ServicePlan"=$sp.ServicePlan.ServiceName}
	}
	}

chrisbrownie / Connect-ExopsSession.ps1

Last active December 11, 2017 22:35

Automatically discovers newest EXOPS module in the user's profile

	function UpdateImplicitRemotingHandler {

	$modules = Get-Module tmp_*

	foreach ($module in $modules)
	{
	[bool]$moduleProcessed = $false
	[string] $moduleUrl = $module.Description
	[int] $queryStringIndex = $moduleUrl.IndexOf("?")

chrisbrownie / Get-HappyHourDeals.ps1

Last active January 11, 2018 05:27

	$HHUrl = "http://happyhour.virginaustralia.com/sale-on"

	$page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $HHUrl

	$flightDivs = $page.ParsedHtml.body.getElementsByClassName('card-flight')

	foreach ($flightDiv in $flightDivs) {

	New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
	"From" = $flightDiv.getElementsByTagName("h3")[0].innerText.Split("`n")[0].Trim() -replace '\ to', ''

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