PowerShell Random Password Function
Generating a password with PowerShell is relatively easy if you leverage a particular method of .Net, System.Web.Security.Membership.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web
[System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(8,2)
Simple and to the point. But below is a pretty good function to do something similar, if you are curious about string operations with PowerShell.
function Get-RandomPassword($length)
{
$length-=1
$lower = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
$upper = $lower.ToUpper()
$number = 0..9
$special='~!@#$%^&*()_+|}{[]\'
$chars = "$lower$special$upper".ToCharArray()
$pass = Get-Random -InputObject $chars -Count $length
$digit = Get-Random -InputObject $number
(-join $pass).insert((Get-Random $length),$digit)
}
# example
Get-RandomPassword -Length 20
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