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scriptingstudio / ConvertEventLogRecord.ps1

Last active February 26, 2025 05:21

Yet Another Windows Event Log Record Expander

	function Convert-EventLogRecord {
	[cmdletbinding()]
	[alias('clr','Format-EventLogRecord')]
	param (
	[Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory,ValueFromPipeline)]
	[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
	[alias('logrecord','events')]
	[System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord[]]$InputObject
	)

scriptingstudio / Use-Culture.ps1

Last active March 16, 2025 08:45

Culture-aware command wrapper

	function Use-Culture {
	param (
	[System.Globalization.CultureInfo]$culture = (throw "USAGE: Use-Culture -Culture culture -Script {scriptblock}"),
	[ScriptBlock]$script = (throw "USAGE: Use-Culture -Culture culture -Script {scriptblock}")
	)
	$OldCulture = [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture
	trap {
	[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $OldCulture
	}
	[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture

scriptingstudio / Convert-Object.ps1

Created February 10, 2025 18:25

Array transformation function

	<#
	Inspired by Doug Finke's map function
	https://dfinke.github.io/search%20engines/2024/11/13/Introducing-a-Custom-map-Function-in-PowerShell-for-Functional-Programming.html
	#>
	function Convert-Object {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[alias('map')]
	param (
	[Parameter(Mandatory)]
	$func,

scriptingstudio / nicteam.ps1

Created September 15, 2024 15:11

NIC Team default macaddress setter

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	NIC Team default macaddress setter.
	.DESCRIPTION
	When using DHCP reservation for NIC teaming in Windows Server there is no way of determining which member interface becomes primary at boot. Because it is impossible to determine this, we do not know which member's MAC address will be used by the team. This makes DHCP troublesome.
	#>
	param (
	[alias('name')][string]$teamname,
	[string]$macaddress,
	[alias('apply')][switch]$run

scriptingstudio / rmvmware.ps1

Last active February 17, 2025 10:51

Yet Another VMware Tools Remover

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	VMware Tools Remover

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script will automatically rip out all VMware Tools registry entries,
	files, drivers, DLLs, and services for Windows 7-11, 2008-2022.

	Features:
	- View/Action modes

scriptingstudio / compress-range.ps1

Last active January 25, 2025 21:26

Simple numerical series compressor

	function compress-range ([int[]]$inputobject, [switch]$sort, [switch]$unique) {
	if (-not $inputobject.count) {return}
	$first = $true
	$range = $inputobject[0],$inputobject[0]
	$param = @{}
	if ($unique) {$param['unique'] = $true}
	$sb = if ($sort) {{$inputobject \| Sort-Object @param}} else {{$inputobject}}
	foreach ($e in (.$sb)) {
	$diff = [math]::Abs($e - $range[1])
	if ($diff -eq 1) {$range[1]++}

scriptingstudio / readpdf.ps1

Last active February 23, 2024 05:56

Simple PDF Reader

	# https://www.nuget.org/packages/itextsharp/ (5.5.13.3)
	# https://github.com/itext/itextsharp/releases/tag/5.5.13
	Add-Type -Path "$psscriptroot\itextsharp.dll" # 5.5.13 and lower have no dependencies

	function Read-Pdf {
	[CmdLetBinding(DefaultParameterSetName="Path")]
	param (
	[Parameter(ParameterSetName="Path", Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName, Position=0)]
	[alias('fullname')][string[]]$path,
	[Parameter(ParameterSetName="Instance", Position=0)]

scriptingstudio / Join-String.ps1

Last active December 23, 2024 19:22

A missing Windows PowerShell function.

	function Join-String {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]$Inputobject,
	[string]$Property, [string]$Separator='',
	[string]$OutputPrefix, [string]$OutputSuffix,
	[switch]$SingleQuote, [switch]$DouleQuote,
	[string]$FormatString
	)
	begin {

scriptingstudio / ExcelQuery.ps1

Last active August 27, 2023 18:32

A simple way to get Excel content without Excel installed

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Reads data from Excel file into PowerShell object.

	.DESCRIPTION
	Uses OLEDB provider to execute a SQL statement against a XLSX file to read data. This cmdlet assumes a file path will be passed in and treating all results as text.
	Features:
	* Can read entire workbook
	* Can get workbook sheet names
	* Parameterized query

scriptingstudio / psquser.ps1

Last active August 1, 2023 10:54

quser.exe PowerShell wrapper

	function PSQUser {
	param (
	[alias('inputobject','server','srv','ipaddress')]
	[string[]]$computerName = 'localhost'
	)

	$quserPattern = @(
	'(?<UserName>>?\S+)'
	'(?<SessionName>(\w+)?)'
	'(?<Id>\d+)'