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I am TechNet Gallery Years Old, Part III

Well, it is time for Part III of this series of posts. If you did not read the first one, or the second one, I would recommend starting with those. And now, it is time to cover the final four entries.

8. I love how the 1 to 100 game turned out. It is on the PowerShell Gallery and more information can be found on the post I wrote about it here, including what you need to know to get it on your computer. Here is an old screen capture of some gameplay. Just because it is the 1 to 100 game, does not mean you cannot choose your own numbers. This is the 1 to 3 game.

9. “Convert Alphanumeric String to the NATO Phonetic Alphabet Equivalent”

This script does not come with its own post, however, it was mentioned in this post about my Convert-TextToSpeech function. Essentially, it did exactly what this quote says from the post: “It takes a string made up of numbers and letters and writes it out in the Nato phonetic alphabet.” Since it does not have its own post to read, head straight to the GitHub Gist if you are interested. I have opted to take it for a spin this evening and included an image, too. You cannot tell, but including the Speak parameter will ensure the computer says the results out loud.

10. “Check Email Address Domain Against the Top-Level Domain (TLD) List from IANA”

Uh, this one was already covered in Part II. Weird it is on the list twice. That said, there were two different TechNet Gallery URLs. I attempted to use archive.org and the second of the two URLs was gone, gone. That means that what I wrote was 100% accurate: it must have been deleted. Either way, visit Part II if you want to learn more about this script, and you might.

11. “Map Drive to Drive Letter Using the Win32_DiskDrive Interface Type Property”

We have made it; it is the last one. This script does not have its own post here, but you can get the code from its Gist. The most I remember, at the moment, is that it was written for someone that may have needed help finding the drive letter of a USB drive — it has been a while. I may be totally wrong, but the person it was written for was appreciative. And really, it was kind of a monumental moment in my PowerShell community career. It was the first time I wrote something for someone else out there on the Internet. I am thinking that it may have been the beginning of my desire to learn and write about PowerShell here at tommymaynard.com.

I am TechNet Gallery Years Old, Part II

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It is time for Part II of this series of posts. If you did not read the first one, I would recommend you start there and cover the first four posts, which are crossed out below. Additionally, you will pick up some additional information about this project. Time to cover the next three.

5.”Specify and Create Multiple Credential Objects”

This was a fun project and like most of these TechNet Gallery scripts/modules, I took the opportunity to write about them on my site, too. I wrote about this one twice (Part I | Part II), as I added a new feature between those. The GitHub Gist link to the newest version is included on both parts — images too!

6. “Check Email Address Domain Against the Top-Level Domain (TLD) List from IANA”

It turns out I did not write a post to go along with this script — that may be a first. First off, you can get a hold of this script by visiting this GitHub Gist. And second, let me tell you a little about this script… right after I reeducate myself about it. Turns out this is very old. Its purpose was to determine whether or not the domain (.com in the below instance), is a valid Top-Level Domain (TLD) or not.

Beyond returning that, it downloads a file from IANA, which it checks the domain against, can provide a bit more information using the MoreInfo parameter, and can pump out the variables it uses in the function using the ShowVars parameter. The Days parameter is used to determine whether the function should use the current file from IANA or download a new one. Neat ideas, but the function is showing its age.

7. “TMConsole Module”

This one was a big deal. It made its way to the PowerShell Gallery and as of today, it is practically 50 downloads away from 3,000. My goal was to add ForeGround and Background colors to Write-Output like Write-Host has always had. And, the best part, it actually worked. You can read more about it here, as well as obtain the information needed to download it. Let’s push it past 3,000 downloads! And, it is really using Write-Output! Written for Windows PowerShell and works in PowerShell. Here is an image from today.

And now, there is a Part III!

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I did not know it when I started, but it turns out, this is Part I.

Up until just recently, I had a section on my website called “TechNet Gallery.” It was right up there between “Contents” and “About.” I have an image of what it contained below. There was some pretty great stuff in there, but it was time for that section to be removed. With that, it is now time for the links to be updated, so people can find these scripts and modules again. The TechNet Gallery links no longer work. It has been a while since I have looked these over, but the links will likely be a combination of GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery. Check the content below the image for information about the first four entries. The others will be highlighted in additional, related posts.

1. “Get Synonyms for Approved and Unapproved Verbs”

I have always loved this script. I even used it yesterday, prior to knowing I would start piecing this post together. If there is a verb you want to use for your cmdlet or function, but it is not approved, this function will look for verb synonyms and tell you if they are approved or not. Here’s a quick image (because it is just beautiful).

While the 1.3 version is available in a GitHub Gist, the newest version — 1.4 — was written and uploaded to the PowerShell Gallery. You can either use that link or use PowerShellGet to download it using the PowerShell below. I have written about this script before, so you can read more here: https://tommymaynard.com/get-tmverbsynonym-1-4-2017/.

Install-Script -Name Get-TMVerbSynonym

2. “Active Directory User Lookup Form”

This was “my first, hand-coded PowerShell form using Windows Forms.” While it was available on the TechNet Gallery for download, that link no longer works. Here is the 2015 post, and here is an updated link to the GitHub Gist. I always love doing a forms project and am grateful it made its way into .NET (core).

3. “Find DNS Servers Being Used by DHCP Scopes”

This script was written as a solution to a post on the TechNet Forums. I did not read that whole thread, but I can offer you the link to the Gist if this is helpful or interesting. Oh, one other thing, I apparently wrote about the script here on my own site, as well. All the way back in 2015!

4. “Measure Command with Multiple Commands, Repetitions, Calculated Averages”

There is no way I did not write about this one. I loved this script and to this very day, I still think it should be implemented in PowerShell by the PowerShell Team. Perhaps I will add it as a discussion in GitHub in the future. I do not think that was a thing back in 2017. Here is my post about it now!

Measure-Command can only measure one command and only one time per command invocation. This changed that. It allowed a user to measure multiple commands multiple times. It could even calculate the average time for a command to complete. I think its Command parameter accepted a string, so that should probably be changed to a ScriptBlock.

Here is an old image that accompanies the above link to the article on my site — click it to enlarge it. And here, is a link to the code in a Gist.

There is more to cover, but we will put that on hold for a moment. I will be back with a continuation of these soon. And once I am, the below text will link to Part II of this series!

Part II