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October 28, 2016Oct 28, 201610/28/16Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to split a string by using a string instead of just a character.
I am trying to split the string “this is my amazing string” on the pattern “my” by using “this is my amazing string”.split(“my”) but it’s giving me a bunch of garbled stuff back.
October 28, 2016Oct 28, 201610/28/16Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell.
Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy! this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner),
October 25, 2016Oct 25, 201610/25/16SUMMARY: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson announces November 14, 2016 as date for PowerShell 10th anniversary celebration
Can you believe that PowerShell is nearly 10 years old (that is a long time in ‘internet time’)? On November 14, 2016 we will celebrate the occasion with a day-long event that will run from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon (PST).
October 21, 2016Oct 21, 201610/21/16Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to split a string without losing the character you split on.
I’m splitting this file name some file.txt into its name and extension by going “some file.txt” –split “.”. It’s giving me some file and txt,
October 21, 2016Oct 21, 201610/21/16Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell.
Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy! this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner),
October 17, 2016Oct 17, 201610/17/16Summary: Speed up the connection to Exchange by importing only the cmdlets that you need.
Is there a way to speed up the initial PowerShell connection to Exchange?
Yes, of course! With a little modification to Import-PSSession, we can speed up the connection.
October 14, 2016Oct 14, 201610/14/16Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how use regex to detect if a string is a valid Active Directory user name.
The invalid characters for an Active Directory user name are /\[:;|=,+*?<>]\ and “. How do I tell if a string is a valid Active Directory user name?
October 14, 2016Oct 14, 201610/14/16Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell.
Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy! this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner),
October 7, 2016Oct 7, 201610/7/16Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to use regex to detect if a string is a phone number.
I have an array like $phoneornot = @(‘780-123-4567’, ‘780 321 6548’, ‘notme’, ‘this is 2 num’), and I need to know which array items are phone numbers.
October 7, 2016Oct 7, 201610/7/16Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell.
Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy! this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner),
