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Powershell: Export a Excel Worksheet as csv file

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with a few lines Powershell code it is possible to export a Excel Workbook as a csv file.
Define your excel list

$sExcelFile="D:\temp\ExcelFile.xlsx"
$sCSVFile="D:\temp\list.csv"

Open Excel using DCOM
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Windows: Equivalent to linux time command

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the time command in Windows gets or sets the system time. If you need an equivalent to the linux time command – which measure the execution time of a given command – you can use the powershell commandlet Measure-Command. Limitation is that only the time can measure how long the command execution runs, not splited into user, system and realtime.
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Powershell: List members of an Active Directory Group

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here are the code snippets to list all members of an Active Directory Group.

Some constants

# Define LDAP search root, the Global catalog of the domain
$sLDAPSearchRoot="LDAP://yourDomain.com:3268"
# The Groupname to looking for
$sGroupName="USR_GRP_IN_AD"

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Windows: Convert formatted text in clipboard to plain text

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when you often have to copy some text between HTML/Browser pages, browser based content management systems, Office Documents and terminal emulators you know the problem: Text from browsers and office documents also contains format attributes like font size, fonts etc. which causes an unexpected layout or format.

For example, if you copy a text from LibreOffice to wordpress(Yes of course, you could paste the testĀ  into wordpress by using the “paste plain text” toolbar buttons. But this is one step more and I prefer Ctrl V Ctrl C for copy and paste).
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Powershell: A text based menu

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a long time ago I wrote a Menu function for quickly choose predefined options in a script. An example

Source the menu.ps1 in your script and callĀ  fShowMenu. This will show the menu. The function needs 2 parameters:
Parameter 1: The menu title as string
Parameter 2: A hashtable with the Menuentries. The key of an Menuitem is returned by the function the corresponding value is shown at the menu.

# Source the file
. .\menu.ps1
# Call Menu funtion
fShowMenu "Choose your favorite Band" @{"sl"="Slayer";"me"="Metallica";"ex"="Exodus";"an"="Anthrax"}
A text based Powershell Menu
A text based Powershell Menu

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