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Security

Expand Shortened URLs

# Create Web Request Object $request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url) # Make it think we are using Edge on Windows 10. Required for some shorteners. $request.UserAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246' # Get the expanded URL $request.GetResponse().ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri
Matthew Dowst
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PerformanceSystems

Determine if Hyper-Threading is enabled

Function Check-HyperThreading($ComputerName){ # Get the Processor information for the computer $Proc = Get-WMIObject Win32_Processor -ComputerName $ComputerName # Determine if hyper-threading is enabled $CPUCount = @($Proc).count $NumberOfLogicalProcessors = $($Proc | measure-object -Property NumberOfLogicalProcessors -sum).Sum $NumberOfCores = $($Proc | measure-object -Property NumberOfCores -sum).Sum # Output the results as a PS object [pscustomobject]@{ Computer = $ComputerName CPUCount = $CPUCount NumberOfLogicalProcessors = $NumberOfLogicalProcessors NumberOfCores...
Matthew Dowst
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RegexStrings

Find IPv6 Address in String

[Regex]::Matches($string, '(([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){7,7}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,7}:|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,5}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,2}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,4}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,3}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,3}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,2}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:((:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,6})|:((:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(:[0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]{1,}|::(ffff(:0{1,4}){0,1}:){0,1}((25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])\.){3,3}(25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,4}:((25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])\.){3,3}(25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9]))').Value
Matthew Dowst
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