Get Automated First Level Support Response

Here is a fun function to provide you with a good first level support response in case everyone is off for Christmas:

#requires -Version 3

function Get-FirstLevelSupportResponse
{
  $url = 'http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl'
  $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
  $page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -UseBasicParsing
  $pattern = '(?s)<br><font size\s?=\s?"\+2">(.+)</font'

  if ($page.Content -match $pattern)
  {
    $matches[1]
  }
}

You do need Internet access for this script to work.

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