The Techy Boy

Here is a quick code snippet to Add a Node in XML from from the XPath, the following PowerShell function will search for the node hierarchy, if it does not exist then it will create it. function   CheckForXMLNode  {      param  (          $File , # File Path of XML to search the node          $NodePath     )      $nodes  =  $NodePath  -split  "/"      $path  =  "//Configuration"      # My Sample Node Path is like this # //Configuration/Farm/CustomParent/CustomChild      foreach  ( $node   in   $nodes ) {          if  ( ( $node  -ne  "" ) -and ( $node  -ne  "Configuration" ) ) {   ...

function GetRandomPassword { $ strSrc = ' 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$^&(){}[],. ' $ max = $ strSrc.Length $ strPass = '' for ($ i = 0 ; $ i -lt 20 ; $ i += 1 ) { $ index = Get-Random - Minimum 0 - Maximum $ max $ c = $ strSrc [$ index ] $ strPass += $ c } return $ strPass } create the above function in your powershell profile and you can generate random password at anytime. Happy Coding!!

If you want to save credentials in a file and later want to use it in a script here is the trick. You can use  PowerShell's built-in XML serialization (Clixml): #1. Get The Credentials $cred = Get-Credentails #2. Save the Credentails as a file $cred | Export-CliXml "MyFileName.xml" #3. Read the Credentials back from file $myCred = Import-CliXml "<Path>/MyFileName.xml"

I came into a requirement where I had to separate a DOS batch file and move all the variable and user specific setting into a separate file. So here is the solution: I created a new INI config file and declared my available in it. MyINIFile.ini UserName=MyUserName Datapath=C:\data ServerName=MyServer Here is how I am calling the INI file inside the batch file. MyBatchFile.bat FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=^=" %%A IN (MyINIFile.ini) DO (SET %%A=%%B ) ECHO %Datapath% ECHO %ServerName%