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Create Credentials

This is from the PsCustom Object - Hitchikers GUID(e) to Automation

https://pscustomobject.github.io/powershell/howto/PowerShell-Create-Credential-Object/

$SecureStringPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'supersecretPassword' -AsPlainText -Force

[pscredential]$credObject = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($userName, $SecureStringPassword)

Credit: Mark Kraus
Website: https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com

Collection Type Guidance

When to use what

Use Arrays if you know the element types and have a fixed length and/or known-up-front collection size that will not change.
Use ArrayList if you have an unkown collection size with either unknown or mixed type elements.
Use a Generic List when know the type of the elements but not the size of the collection.
Use a HashTable if you are going to do key based lookups on a collection and don't know the object type of the elements.
Use a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> you are going to do key based lookups on a collection and you know the type of the elements.
Use a HashSet when you know the type of elements and just want unique values and quick lookups and assignmnets.

	function Get-HResultMessage {
	[cmdletbinding()]
	param(
	[parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
	[int]$HResult
	)
	$Result = [ComponentModel.Win32Exception]::new($HResult)
	if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -le 5) {
	@{
	Data = $Result.Data

	function Test-Port
	{
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Tests TCP ports and returns a True/False result (boolean)

	.DESCRIPTION
	Uses a TCP net connection client specifying a timeout to allow the user to test specific ports, and
	to specify a timeout.

	# Copyright: (c) 2020, Jordan Borean (@jborean93) <jborean93@gmail.com>
	# MIT License (see LICENSE or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

	Function Invoke-WithImpersonation {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Invoke a scriptblock as another user.

	.DESCRIPTION
	Invoke a scriptblock and run it in the context of another user as supplied by -Credential.

	function Get-QwinstaInfo {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Gets QWinsta information as objects
	.DESCRIPTION
	Parses qwinsta.exe output for a given computer and outputs it as objects
	.EXAMPLE
	PS C:\> Get-QwinstaInfo -ComputerName Server1

	SessionName : services

	function Get-QuserInfo {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Gets QUser information as objects
	.DESCRIPTION
	Parses quser.exe output for a given computer and outputs it as objects
	.EXAMPLE
	PS C:\> Get-QuserInfo -ComputerName Server1

	UserName : user2

	function New-ShortCut
	{
	<#
	.DESCRIPTION
	The script uses the ComObject WshShell to create a shortcut,
	When the shortcut is created, the ComObject is disposed of.

	.SYNOPSIS
	Creates a new shortcut

	Function New-TempPassword {
	param(
	[parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName, ValueFromPipeline)]
	[ValidateScript({ $_ -ge 8 })]
	[int32]$PasswordLength = 20,

	[parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
	[int32]$MinimumNonAlphaNumericCharacters = 1,

	[parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]

	function Update-VMHardware
	{
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	A script to programmatically upgrade the vm hardware level
	.DESCRIPTION
	The script uses powercli to programmatically schedule the hardware upgrade to the specified hardware level.
	It presumes that the user is already connected to the vSphere server hosting the vm's to upgprade, and it automatically creates a snapshot of the VM before scheduling the upgrade.

	.EXAMPLE