Show-MessageBox.ps1

1. <#
2. .SYNOPSIS
3.     This script displays a message box and then processes it
4. .DESCRIPTION
5.     This script firsts creates a wscript.shell object and
6.     invokes the popup method to display a message. The script
7.     then processes the response to the geroup (timeout, yes, no).
8. .NOTES
9.     File Name : Show-MessageBox.ps1
10.     Author : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk
11.     Requires : PowerShell Version 2.0
12. .LINK
13.     This script posted to:
14.         http://www.pshscripts.blogspot.com
15.     MSDN sample posted tot:
16.         http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x83z1d9f%28VS.84%29.aspx
17. .EXAMPLE
18.     Left as an exercise to the reader!
19. #>
21. # Create the shell object
22. $WshShell = New-Object -Com Wscript.Shell
24. # Call the Popup method with a 7 second timeout.
25. $Btn = $WshShell.Popup("Do you feel alright?", 7, "Question:", 0x4 + 0x20)
27. # Process the response
28. switch ($Btn) {
29. # Yes button pressed.
30. 6 {"Glad to hear you feel alright."}
31. # No button pressed.
32. 7 {"Hope you're feeling better soon."}
33. # Timed out.
34. -1 {"Is there anybody out there?"}
35. }

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Get-PortAndProtocolFromUrl.ps1

1. <# 
2. .SYNOPSIS 
3.     This script strips out a port and protocol number from a URL  
4. .DESCRIPTION 
5.     This script creates a regular expression reged then uses it to  
6.     match against the URL to get the protocol and port. This is a 
7.     re-write of the MSDN sample. 
8. .NOTES 
9.     File Name  : Get-PortAndProtocolFromUrl.ps1 
10.     Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk 
11.     Requires   : PowerShell Version 2.0 
12. .LINK 
13.     This script posted to: 
14.         http://www.pshscripts.blogspot.com 
15.     MSDN sample posted to: 
16.         http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/63ew9az0.aspx 
17. .EXAMPLE 
18.     PowerShell> .\Get-PortAndProtocolFromUrl.ps1 
19.     Port    : http 
20.     Protocol: 8080    
21. #> 
22.  
23. # Set URL 
24. $url = "http://www.contoso.com:8080/letters/readme.html" 
25.  
26. # Create Regex, then match against the URL 
27. $r = new-object System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex "^(?<proto>\w+)://[^/]+?:(?<port>\d+)?/" 
28. $m = $r.Match($url) 
29.  
30. # Print results 
31. if ($m.Success) { 
32.    "Port    : {0}" -f $M.groups["proto"].value 
33.    "Protocol: {0}" -f $M.groups["port"].value 
34. } 
35.            

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Confirm-ValidEmailAddress.ps1

1. <# 
2. .SYNOPSIS 
3.     This script validates email addresses based on 
4.     MSFT published Regular Expression. This is a  
5.     re-write with PowerShell of an existing bit of  
6.     MSDN sample code  
7. .DESCRIPTION 
8.     This script first creates a function to validate 
9.     an email address. It uses a large regex that is 
10.     documented at the MSDN page noted below. The script 
11.     then creates an array of email addreses and then 
12.     validates them against the function and displays 
13.     the results. 
14. .NOTES 
15.     File Name  : Confirm-ValidEmailAddress.ps1 
16.     Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk 
17.     Requires   : PowerShell Version 2.0 
18. .LINK 
19.     This script posted to: 
20.         http://pshscripts.blogspot.com/2011/12/confirm-validemailaddressps1.html 
21.     MSDN sample posted to: 
22.         http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/01escwtf.aspx  
23. .EXAMPLE 
24.     Valid: david.jones@proseware.com 
25.     Valid: d.j@server1.proseware.com 
26.     Valid: jones@ms1.proseware.com 
27.     Invalid: j.@server1.proseware.com 
28.     Invalid: j@proseware.com9 
29.     Valid: js#internal@proseware.com 
30.     Valid: j_9@[129.126.118.1] 
31.     Invalid: j..s@proseware.com 
32.     Invalid: js*@proseware.com 
33.     Invalid: js@proseware..com 
34.     Invalid: js@proseware.com9 
35.     Valid: j.s@server1.proseware.com 
36.     Valid: tfl@psp.co.uk 
37.     Valid: cuddly.penguin@cookham.net 
38. #> 
39.  
40. Function IsValidEmail   { 
41. Param ([string] $In) 
42. # Returns true if In is in valid e-mail format. 
43. [system.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::IsMatch($In,  
44.               "^(?("")(""[^""]+?""@)|(([0-9a-zA-Z]((\.(?!\.))|[-!#\$%&'\*\+/=\?\^`\{\}\|~\w])*)(?<=[0-9a-zA-Z])@))" +  
45.               "(?(\[)(\[(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\])|(([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}))$");  
46. } # End of IsValidEmail 
47.     
48. [string[]] $emailAddresses = "david.jones@proseware.com", "d.j@server1.proseware.com",  
49.                             "jones@ms1.proseware.com", "j.@server1.proseware.com",  
50.                             "j@proseware.com9", "js#internal@proseware.com",  
51.                             "j_9@[129.126.118.1]", "j..s@proseware.com",  
52.                             "js*@proseware.com", "js@proseware..com",  
53.                             "js@proseware.com9", "j.s@server1.proseware.com", 
54.                             "tfl@psp.co.uk", "cuddly.penguin@cookham.net"  
55.                              
56. ForEach ($emailAddress in $emailAddresses)    { 
57.   if (IsValidEmail($emailAddress)) { 
58.        "Valid: {0}" -f $emailAddress 
59.        } 
60.   else { 
61.         "Invalid: {0}" -f $emailAddress 
62.        }     
63. }                                         

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