powershell-4.0

Sometimes in my PowerShell scripts, I need access to a specific DLL, using Add-Type -AssemblyName . However, the DLLs I need aren't always on the machine or in the GAC. For instance, I might want a quick script that uses Dapper to query a database. In these cases, I have been literally copying the DLLs along with the ps1 file. I was wondering if this was common/a good idea and whether there was an existing extension that would load up NuGet packages, store then in a global or local folder and call Add-Type -AssemblyName automatically. It'd be a lot like using npm or pip in Node.js or Python,

I'm not expert in powershell but looking to write function in powershell to read section of lines from Cisco IOS configuration loaded in as text file in powershell. there will be multiple sections with different names, each section have parent line with child section as below in configuration. "interface" section have names, "object" section have names and "object-group" section have names to filter them or search. so how to write function to get each section of lines and than parse further to get IPs from that section. IOS Configuration Example: interface GigabitEthernet0/0 description XXX

I am working on a side project and to make it easier for managment since almost all of out server names are 15 charactors long I started to look for an RDP managment option but none that I liked; so I started to write one and I am down to only one issue, what do I do to manage if the user types not enough for a search so two servers will match the Query. I think I will have to put it in an array and then let them select the server they meant. Here is what I have so far function Connect-RDP { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] $ComputerName, [System.Management.Automation.Credential()]