Finding the template of a certificate

I’m trying to find a nice “clean” way of displaying the template name used in the creation of a certificate in PowerShell. That information is currently in an OID, which makes the output a bit frustrating for me. Quick example below:

$Certificate = get-childitem cert:\LocalMachine\My\THUMPRINTHERE
$Template = ($Certificate.extensions | where-object{$_.oid.FriendlyName -match "Certificate Template Information"}).format(0).split(",")[0]

So this gives me an “almost there” output string of this: “Template=Lab Web Server(long OID in here)”. I’d like the output of the string to be simply “Lab Web Server”. no a better way to clean this data up?

EDIT: I found a way to do it that feels a little messy:

$template.trimstart("Template=").split("(")[0]

Not sure if there’s a cleaner way to handle this…

Google ‘The string’s the thing’

foreach($cert in $certs){

[pscustomobject]@{
Template = $cert.extensions.Format(1)[0].split(‘(’)[0] -replace “template=”
Subject = $cert.subject
}

}

Your way would work too. When you’re dealing with output like this it’s not pretty.

($cert.extensions.Format(0) -replace “(.+)?=(.+)((.+)?”, ‘$2’)[0]