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See youtube below for easy install instruction (just copy and paste oneliner in Powershell) and demo tour of Text-to-speech with Cortana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3rIyxtpEFY

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This is a super SIMPLE example of how to create a very basic powershell webserver

# Http Server
$http = [System.Net.HttpListener]::new() 

# Hostname and port to listen on
$http.Prefixes.Add("http://localhost:8080/")

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# installation
Install-Module PSCognitiveService -Force -Scope CurrentUser -Verbose
Import-Module PSCognitiveService -Force -Verbose

# create AzureRM Cognitive Service subscription
New-CognitiveServiceAccount -AccountType Face -ResourceGroupName RG1 -Location southeastasia -SKUName F0 -Verbose | Out-Null
New-CognitiveServiceAccount -AccountType ComputerVision -ResourceGroupName RG1 -Location southeastasia -SKUName F0 -Verbose | Out-Null
# create AzureRM Cognitive Service subscription when you're unsure of resource groups, price tier and location
New-CognitiveServiceAccount -AccountType Bing.Search.v7 -Verbose

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function Debug-Error {
	[OutputType([void])]
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param
	()

	$action = {
		if ($_ -and ($stacktrace -notmatch '^\s*at System\.Management\.Automation\.ExceptionHandlingOps\.CheckActionPreference') -and ($stacktrace -notmatch '^\s*at System\.Management\.Automation\.MshCommandRuntime\.ThrowTerminatingError\(ErrorRecord errorRecord\)\s*$')) {
			break
		}

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# encoding the URL
[System.Web.HTTPUtility]::UrlEncode("https://RidiCurious.com")

# decoding the URL
[System.Web.HTTPUtility]::UrlDecode("https%3a%2f%2fRidiCurious.com")

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$data = Invoke-WebRequest https://www.sqlshack.com/top-50-powershell-bloggers-of-2018/
$data.Links.Where({ $_.href -like "*http*" -and 
                    $_.href -notlike "*twitter*" -and 
                    $_.href -notlike "*sql*" -and
                    $_.href -notlike "*creativecomm*" -and
                    $_.href -notlike "*microsoft*"
                }) | Select-Object href -Unique -ExpandProperty href

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# define a set
$x = [System.Collections.Generic.HashSet[string]]::new()
'python'.ToCharArray().foreach({[void]$x.add($_)})

$y = [System.Collections.Generic.HashSet[string]]::new()
'powershell'.ToCharArray().foreach({[void$y.add($_)})

$x.ExceptWith($y) # All the elements in x but not in y
# union
$x.UnionWith($y) # Unique elements in x or y or both

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# Create an Internet Explorer object
$ie = New-Object -ComObject 'internetExplorer.Application'
$ie.Visible= $true # Make it visible

# Open all websites
$ie.Navigate("www.linkedin.com") 

# Navigate2() function to open in new tab in the same IE window

$ie.Navigate2("www.facebook.com",0x1000)   

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# Function to enable telnet-ing from [Local/Remote] Source location, which requires credentials for remote source machine
# This Function is a wrapper around Function PSTelnet to add remote source telnet-ing feature
Function Test-Port
{

[cmdletbinding()]
Param
(
    [Parameter(Position=0)] $Source = $(Hostname),
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)] $Destination,

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Test-Port -Source '127.0.0.1' -Destination '10.196.11.206','10.196.11.206','10.196.11.206','123.234.234.3' `
                      -Port 3389,20, 21 -Verbose | ft -AutoSize
                      #-Iterate | Export-Csv portstatus.csv -NoTypeInformation

#Test-PortConnectivity '127.0.0.1' 'dc1' 57766 -Protocol UDP -Iterate
#Test-PortConnectivity 'localhost' 'dc2' 51753 -Protocol UDP
#Test-PortConnectivity -Source $EUCAS -Destination $EUMBX -Port 135 -Iterate
#Test-PortConnectivity -Source 'localhost' -Destination '127.0.0.1' -Port 135 -Iterate -protocol TCP

Function Test-Port