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PowerShell regex crash course – Part 4 of 5

October 21, 2016 Oct 21, 2016 10/21/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: 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), or posting on my blog, ...

Speed up remote PowerShell connection to Exchange

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Speed up the connection to Exchange by importing only the cmdlets that you need. (image) Is there a way to speed up the initial PowerShell connection to Exchange? (image) Yes, of course! With a little modification to Import-PSSession, we can speed up the connection. Normally, you would connect to Exchange 2010/2013/2016 like this...

PowerTip: How to detect a valid Active Directory user name using regular expressions

October 14, 2016 Oct 14, 2016 10/14/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how use regex to detect if a string is a valid Active Directory user name. (image) 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? (image) You can treat this array of characters as a...

PowerShell regex crash course – Part 3 of 5

October 14, 2016 Oct 14, 2016 10/14/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: 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), or posting on my blog, ...

PowerTip: How to detect phone numbers using regular expressions

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to use regex to detect if a string is a phone number. (image) I have an array like , and I need to know which array items are phone numbers. How can I do this? (image) You can compare each item in the array with all its non-digit characters removed and see if that ...

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