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Creates a new password of specified length
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Get-NewPassword.ps1
#Creates a new password of specified length using characters within the random character set
function Get-NewPassword ([int32]$PasswordLength) {
if (!$PasswordLength) { $PasswordLength = 42 }
[string]$CharacterSet = 'abcdefghijklmnoprstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMONPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$%^&*()[]{},.<>/?'
$RandomChar = 1..$PasswordLength | ForEach-Object { Get-Random -Maximum $CharacterSet.length }
$ofs = ""
[string]$CharacterSet[$RandomChar]
}
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