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using namespace System.Management.Automation
using namespace System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates

function ConvertTo-X509Certificate {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Convert a Base64 encoded certificate (with header and footer) to an X509Certificate object.
    .DESCRIPTION
        ConvertTo-X509Certificate reads a Base64 encoded certificate string or file and converts it to an X509Certificate object.
    .EXAMPLE

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function Get-TaskStartDate {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Get a start date from a string expression.

    .DESCRIPTION
        Finds the start date from a string expression.

    .EXAMPLE
        Get-TaskStartDate -Day '1st Monday'

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function Test-RpcPort {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Enumerates and tests connectivity to the RPC ports on the target server.
    .DESCRIPTION
        Enumerates and tests connectivity to the RPC ports on the target server.
        
        Rebuilt from https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Test-RPC-Testing-RPC-4396fcda
    #>

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function Split-DistinguishedName {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Split a distinguishedName into named pieces.

    .DESCRIPTION
        Split a distinguishedName into Name, ParentDN, ParentName, and DomainComponent.

    .EXAMPLE
        Split-DistinguishedName 'OU=somewhere,DC=domain,DC=com'

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function Get-ADAttributeAlias {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Gets the names of the aliased attributes from the ActiveDirectory module.

    .DESCRIPTION
        Users reflection to discover the names of the attribute aliases available to filters.
    

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using module ActiveDirectory
using namespace System.Reflection

function Convert-ADFilter {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Converts PowerShell-style filters used by the AD module into LDAP filters.

    .DESCRIPTION
        Convert-ADFilter uses the QueryParser from the AD module to convert PowerShell-style filters into LDAP

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function Export-EventLog {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Export an event log to a saved event log file.

    .DESCRIPTION
        Export an event log, and it's messages, to a named event log file.

    .EXAMPLE
        Get-WinEvent -ListLog Application | Export-EventLog

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function Invoke-NativeCommand {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Invoke a native command (.exe) as a new process.
        
    .DESCRIPTION
        Invoke-NativeCommand executes an arbitrary executable as a new process. Both the standard
        and error output streams are redirected.
        
        Error out is written as a single non-terminating error. ErrorAction can be used to raise

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function Update-RegistryFile {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Updates a registry file.
    .DESCRIPTION
        Line break and certain characters will not import from standard registry files (even if export works).

        This function replaces any entry with line breaks with a hex value representing the string.
    #>

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function Send-Syslog {
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline)]
        [String]$Message,

        [String]$LogLevel = 'Information',

        [Parameter(Mandatory)]
        [IPAddress]$IPAddress,