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## Commonly used PSADT env variables
$envCommonDesktop           # C:\Users\Public\Desktop
$envCommonStartMenuPrograms # C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
$envProgramFiles            # C:\Program Files
$envProgramFilesX86         # C:\Program Files (x86)
$envProgramData             # c:\ProgramData
$envUserDesktop             # c:\Users\{user currently logged in}\Desktop
$envUserStartMenuPrograms   # c:\Users\{user currently logged in}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
$envSystemDrive             # c:
$envWinDir                  # c:\windows

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Working with ansible-vault

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I've been using a lot of Ansible lately and while almost everything has been great, finding a clean way to implement ansible-vault wasn't immediately apparent.

What I decided on was the following: put your secret information into a vars file, reference that vars file from your task, and encrypt the whole vars file using ansible-vault encrypt.

Let's use an example: You're writing an Ansible role and want to encrypt the spoiler for the movie Aliens.

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[WinEventLog://Security]
disabled = 0
start_from = oldest
current_only = 0
evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1
checkpointInterval = 5
blacklist1 = EventCode="4662" Message="Object Type:(?!\s*groupPolicyContainer)"
blacklist2 = EventCode="566" Message="Object Type:(?!\s*groupPolicyContainer)"
blacklist3 = EventCode="4688" Message="New Process Name:\s*(?i)(?:[C-F]:\\Program Files\\Splunk(?:UniversalForwarder)?\\bin\\(?:btool|splunkd|splunk|splunk\-(?:MonitorNoHandle|admon|netmon|perfmon|powershell|regmon|winevtlog|winhostinfo|winprintmon|wmi|optimize))\.exe)"
blacklist4 = EventCode="4689" Message="Process Name:\s*(?i)(?:[C-F]:\\Program Files\\Splunk(?:UniversalForwarder)?\\bin\\(?:btool|splunkd|splunk|splunk\-(?:MonitorNoHandle|admon|netmon|perfmon|powershell|regmon|winevtlog|winhostinfo|winprintmon|wmi|optimize))\.exe)"

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$path = 'D:\Games\Blizzard\World of Warcraft\_classic_\Interface\AddOns\ISBoxer\ISBoxer.toc'

$data = Get-Content $path

$properties = @{}

$pattern = '## (?<propertyName>[^:]*): (?<propertyValue>.*)'

foreach($line in $data)
{

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Function snapshot() {
    param(
        [String]$Path,
        [String]$Access,
        [String]$BackupName
    )
    Write-Debug "Backing up $Path to $BackupName..."
    #Create VSS Snapshot
    $shadowCopy = (Get-WmiObject -List Win32_ShadowCopy).Create([System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectoryRoot($Path).ToString(), $Access)