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always felt like magic. I could cast a charm simply by typing a few characters on a keyboard. Naturally, my magic skills went from batch files to VBScript to PowerShell. Throughout it all, I've also had an internal decision tree regarding automation. Over the years, I've seen IT pros new to scripting and automation needlessly struggle. Often it is due to a deficiency in their decision tree. Today, I thought I'd help you nurture yours.

configure authentication to Azure resources. With these tools available, your next step is to expand your runbook's reach outside of Azure to on-premises resources. Azure Automation makes this possible with Hybrid Worker Groups. In this guide, you will learn how

front end, and PowerShell, the Graph API, and Azure Runbooks as the back-end.

flexible is an Azure Automation account.

the post you're looking for; maybe another time.

teaches us about DSC and shares details of the DSCWorkshop project, which is a great way to go about learning more about DSC in a hands-on manner. We also learned about Cattle vs. Pets and how that applies to your servers. You can hear all of this, plus more in this companion episode to our first AutomatedLab episode.

Azure Automation Disclaimer: This post can be seen as satire. There are probably better ways, but because we were so limited with the customer at the time, we opted for a hobby approach: 'Maintenance mode the creative way'. What if... ... Continue reading How to create a maintenance mode in Azure Automation

Clixml is, or what it means, nor am I going to explain exactly why this issue is happening (mainly because I don't have a clear answer for you). I'll give you the solution and a possible way to make this easier for you.

Non solution aware flows can now be restored via PowerShell but in this video I demonstrate how you can turn a PowerShell script into an Azure RunBook, which in turn can be called from Power Automate and Power Apps.

RunAs account because it doesn't require certificate/secret renewal. Therefore it is maintenance-free.

run scripts for various jobs.

even easier with the new portal integration. This video picks up where the previous video left off and goes over the steps to install applications and modify the base OS using PowerShell. We start with the requirements of using silent installation for the software deployment, and then go over how to use inline PowerShell commands and PowerShell scripts to customize the image. The result is a custom Windows 10 multi-user image ready for deployment.

three learnings that might be of interest to others. Debugging, cost, and tracking the use of Azure Automation PowerShell might not interest everyone, but they've certainly helped me to understand how the platform works.

with managed identities. I don't have any issue with the proposal because managed identities are more secure and a better overall solution. It would have been nice if Microsoft had communicated the change more broadly. I guess if you were in the know, you found out about this development, but maybe the average Microsoft 365 tenant administrator might have struggled to discover what's happening.

including Classic Run As accounts, will be retired so you will need to migrate your runbooks to managed identities for authentication.

community book, "Modern IT Automation with PowerShell." We start off by talking about Constrained Language Mode, which Michael knows a lot about. We then move on to the four pillars of PowerShell Security, followed by a brief break from the technical talk to chat about food, as we like to do. We then move on to talking about how Michael became a Microsoft MVP. We also learned about the origins of this book, the journey to get it published, and how this is a textbook by the community for the community. All this, and more, on this episode of the PowerShell Podcast!

again in the future.

local or domain account configured. They needed this report because they are switching to more strict Group Policies and they needed to know what user accounts should have the "Log on as a batch job"

onboard Azure management services such as Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, and many others. One of the integrations is with Azure Automation Hybrid Worker. This allows you to run Azure Automation PowerShell or Phyton runbooks on-premises directly on .

PowerShell Gallery. Release 1.1.4 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module is the result of considerable effort by myself and Sean McGovern. Release 1.1.4's numerous updates comprise changes to cmdlets to account for changes to IdentityNow API authentication, four new cmdlets, cmdlet updates for API changes, bug-fixes and documentation updates..

in creating scheduled tasks with PowerShell. I find it handy when developing thing in my lab to keep the script in GitHub, and call it remotely. You can also easily modify the script to copy the script local ... Read more

effortlessly tracking their outputs while dynamically updating the same line with the latest information stream from each script block.

some of the modernized cmdlets available in the Teams PowerShell module. Not everything worked as smoothly as we'd like, but like most PowerShell scenarios, there's usually a workaround available to get the job done. It just needs to be found.

web site. The challenges are designed for individuals to do on their own to build up their PowerShell scripting skills. A few weeks ago, a challenge was posted to create a network monitoring tool using PowerShell and the Write-Progress cmdlet. I thought I'd share my notes on the challenge and some of the code I came up with.

Managed DNS services. This has caused us to look for a different solution. Of course, I immediately thought of Azure, with an Azure DNS hosted zone.

inside networks managed by a Windows DHCP server. The process is pr etty straight forward - Add a vendor class, add the option, and set it to the correct IP address. Unfortunately, that of course means a lot of clicking in the DHCP console on each Windows Server he manages....

templates (WIP). It has capabilities to insert appropriate Azure Icons depending upon the type of the Azure Resource you have in your Resource Group, like Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Subnet etc.

and what we'll cover. It can do POST requests, handle pagination, handle multipart/form-data, and it can pass in multiple headers if required. Don't forget about authentication and credentials; it can handle those, as well.

on a remote computer. You can use this cmdlet to check the response and...

IP-Adresses to hosts. In this article I will show you how to configure a DHCP Server with a [...]

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give you a good insight into traffic from the systems to the local network or internet. You can do this with DNS auditing on your Windows server or in your local Pihole server, but that's not always available

tested. In this case, the new servers were not deployed in that specific network yet. But... We did want to test the connections before deploying the servers 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how to create listening ports on a machine in order to test the connection from another network using netcat on Linux or portqry on Windows.

been around mostly in the Linux world for many years but more recently in Windows 10. But the scripting language PowerShell can accomplish similar tasks that curl can. Is PowerShell a good alternative to curl? What are the differences? Let's find out!

Wireless (WiFi) and/or VPN. This was a decent sized environment, about 50K clients, with hardware models from both HP, Dell, and Lenovo. The existing code I had did not work across all the hardware, so I reached out to the ConfigMgr community, and got some great tips...

monitor the utilization of DHCP scopes. While Microsoft provides System Center Operations Manager and necessary management packs to monitor all aspects of DHCP servers including monitoring of DHCP scopes, the System Center suite is very expensive and it requires a considerable amount of time to implement all of its components just to enable monitoring of a few servers. In this article, we learn how we can use simple PowerShell commands and a PowerShell script to check the utilization of DHCP scopes on multiple DHCP servers.

access tools that are installed on a computer, and list the possible access URLs; that way he could easily document which access methods are open and audit them once in a while to see if he...

specified target (website or IP address) and providing real-time updates on successful responses and timeouts.

PowerShell. This report will give you one location to see all of your DHCP scope statistics across all of your Windows DHCP servers. It will dynamically pull the DHCP servers and associated DHCP scopes within your Active Directory domain. This report will help you keep an eye on the usage of all of your DHCP scopes so you can prevent scopes from filling up. With this PowerShell script there is no need to import a list of DHCP servers or hard code them in a variable. I recommend setting this up as a recurring scheduled task so that the report runs without the need for manual intervention.

what destination for Microsoft services like Exchange Online, Teams, Endpoint Manager, and so on. Microsoft publishes this on their website but in the blog post, I would like to show you a nice way of outputting

most basic tasks you're expected to do as an administrator. This guide will teach you how to use PowerShell to get and set the IP address.

method that doesn't mean I have to open up a web browser and visit a website, I wrote a small Powershell module to allow me to get the information.

closely simulate a .Net client application. It also provides easy access to the Windows Certificate store for client certificate authentication.

you have a new server on which you want to deploy DHCP, just run the PowerShell command:

to organizational networks. Singular purpose devices made available through the Internet of Things (IoT) offering has increased network complexity even further with the ease of adding said devices to the network and sometimes without the knowledge of a system administrator. Hence the following received question: "How do I ensure all the appropriate ports are closed with all these devices being added to my network?"

this is the case also for all wireless networks with (SSID and Passphrase) that our OS stores and use to connect automatically.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with files remotely via SFTP and dig into some of the different PowerShell SFTP modules you can use.

that you need to manually create, edit, or remove various types of DNS records. Or to even add various DNS tasks to automation scripts. It is at times like this that using PowerShell for DNS records is the way to go.

non-standard xml. So that part is messy to say the least.

Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM) consists of segregating subnets into smaller segments, allowing network engineers to divide an IP address space into a hierarchy of subnets of different sizes, making it possible to create very different host subnets without account. waste a large number of addresses. This in turn can be a pretty annoying task, especially when it needs to be done several times, so I decided to do a powershell module to just tell you how many hosts I need in a given segment and it will tell me what the addressing is.

for SSH authentication.

interact with Email.

started popping up. Errors that didn't really point to a security problem.

Firewall with Advanced Security from the PowerShell command line. We'll look at how to...

course. I would like to share it here.

would like to share this script here on my website.

and/or your team know PowerShell and, perhaps, already have some PowerShell scripts to manage web services, using PowerShell to monitor uptime may be a good option.

all the moving parts of our systems and applications and create a big picture of the health of the whole environment. Before going down the rabbit hole of complicated monitoring tools and techniques let's start with define a that monitoring can be subjective and on a case-by-case can be very basic or detailed and can let you choose a specific tool or strategy. There is no one-size-fits-all. This week I needed to implement a custom check to monitor the network load/usage on any Windows OS and instead of looking for a third-party tool and deploying maybe another agent on servers I wrote a Powershell script to perform this activity.

clients don't notice downtime when a failover or load balancing action occurs. It makes everything smooth and fluent for clients and users of our systems. The only problem with this is that sometimes a failover occurs and you don't notice. Great for users, not so great for administrators; if a server crashes in the woods, did it really crash at all? To make sure we always get notified about these situations we use the following script via our RMM system.

?? This time we're tackling three issues in one; We're going to monitor traffic usage to see if a connection isn't saturated. We're also going to check if the NIC speed is correct and we're going to check if the connection is metered and if it is alert on it.

demonstrated during the conference. The presenters showed a method of checking if your O365 domain was being Typosquated. The tool can be found here. The presenters made a Python tool, and I figured to create an alternative in PowerShell.

macOS, Linux, and Windows.

an eye on your network and send you an email when a new host is discovered. NetNeighbor Watch is done completely in PowerShell. The results are very similar to those of arpwatch. NetNeighbor Watch is for anyone that wants more visibility into the wireless or wired devices on their network. We will also setup a weekly email report with all of the known hosts on your network. In this post, I will walk you through the entire process of setting this up from scratch on a Raspberry Pi, lets get started!

iPerf with the help of PowerShell.

different places that this damn protocol needs to be killed depending on the OS. It's still a work in progress (needs testing and error handling) but in case it's useful feel free to use it

effortlessly. A comprehensive guide for efficient network management.

can create such a QR code with PowerShell without any 3rd party tools? No? [.]

on Windows machines. The script overcomes the issue of localization that arises when parsing the output of the 'netsh.exe' command.

show you a few examples of how you can ping multiple computers.

Ping, Hostsentries, NICs.. Every test returns a PSCustomObject instead of a Strings.

to them in real time. That means you can decide what request data to explore and what response data to send on the fly!

understand exactly what you have configured. Therefore, Sean McAvinue has created a PowerShell Script to control and report External Domains.

multiple platforms, including Windows. However, there is an alternative, the PowerShell Resolve-DnsName cmdlet, which can also check proprietary Microsoft protocols for name resolution, such as NetBIOS or LLMNR.

public-submitted issue for PoShDynDnsApi.

because of that I use mxtoolbox.com a lot for querying of MX, SPF, DMARC and DKIM records. Wouldn't it be convenient to get a simple overview of those records in a PowerShell function? This blogpost will show you how

simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,...

Assuming file not modified since download, here's PowerShell to do it

TeamViewer client.

IP-Addresses. Nice to know those in secure environments where not everything is allowed to go onto the internet, but how can you test if they are accessible? This blog post will show how to test most of these services using PowerShell.

generally down for everyone else, too. PowerShell can ask a web service to check web site availability for you. Here is a simple wrapper function.

PortQRY.exe

running: Set-TlsConfiguration -EnableSecure -DisableInsecure Fortunately it IS that simple with the new PowerShell module TlsConfig

come from and if they are internal or external, PowerShell developers can use online web-based geolocation services. It's important not to overuse the services because you could be throttled.

slots managed by the Ubiquiti UISP software running on my VPS in Docker. In this blog post, I will show you a few examples of how to query it using PowerShell.

content associated with the wave of everything AI that we are currently in.

ecosystem. It?s designed to be followed in order, with each exercise introducing the basic concepts. If you complete all of the exercises you should be well on your way to understanding how you can use Bolt and Bolt Tasks to help manage your infrastructure.

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into Chocolatey. Stephen is a support engineer for Chocolatey and active PowerShell community member.

treat. In this article, you're going to learn all about the ubiquitous package management tool called Chocolatey. Whether you're building a DevOps pipeline, attempting to automate software deployments or an individual user wanted to speed up software installations, this article is for you.

handy when using Jobs and Threads) Enjoy!

you?re going to learn how to start from scratch; downloading, installing and understanding how PowerCLI can help you get more done.

disposal and have helped me a lot! You can install it using the Microsoft Store method, it will be updated like that too, but for your management server, it's nice to have an installer that works without the Microsoft Store 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way to install or update your SysInternals Suite.

install-free option, Jupyter Notebooks, Kata hands-on training, VisualStudio 2019 and VSCode integration – even my favorite PowerShell!

pretty sure it was due to permissions. But that didn't stop me from writing something to monitor them! The script loops through all scheduled tasks and if it finds Tasks that haven't run in a day and aren't disabled, it will log it to a array, and then send off a email HTML Chart with relevant information.

the latest updates to the modules for Horizon, vSAN, and HCX.

install it on the server/machine you wish you execute the PowerShell command. COMMAND Below is the PowerShell command to power on/off the server.

(Disclaimer: As with all code besure to review everything in it before running it in your local environment. I am just adding this because this is my first time linking to vcloud-lab and this project contains more than just PowerShell. However, I have reviewed the code and did not see anything unexpected, but don't just take my word for it. I'm certainly not a JavaScript expert.)

PowerShell Core v6 so there is no longer a need to use the JSON.Net libraries.

with PowerShell and the selected text.

support and more.

The goal is to utilize the toolkit in a more consistent and easier to uddate manner

here.

built-in PowerShell ISE is usually there for you on Windows, but there's a nice PowerShell module that you can use called PSEdit. In this blog post, I will show you how to use that as an alternative to VSCode.

bookauthority.org.

GitHub. Some tasks would include:

correctly. Our goal is to make it easier to install software on Windows. We also recently released tab completion in PowerShell, and a feature toggle.

your scripting to the next level and begin to think of your scripts as tools.

a bunch of buttons, and finally receive the information you were trying to retrieve on an AWS service? Perhaps the metadata on an EC2 instance? Now you can do it all automatically!

update, deletions of such resources or on a schedule. They are used to audit resources for compliance with some defined policy. They don't prevent you from deploying in-compliant resources as this is the realm of service control policies.

supporting some EC2 in the cloud testing some new AWS features and services and I found my self locked out and released this machine was not domain joined but I couldn't login. With the windows PowerShell cmdlets swirlingContinue reading "AWS EC2 powerShell tips"

called from just about anywhere in AWS (or outside for that matter). Even better lambdas don't require a server to run, this means that you only pay for the compute that you actually use. Don't worry the first 1M hits per month are free. Let's dive in and see how we can start using our existing PowerShell skills to start building lambdas.

shop but, like most enterprises these days, they have some apps and business units which use AWS. As I documented what I already knew and researched what I didn't, I was (once again) blown away by the capabilities of this massive cloud-scale network file system....

PowerShell scripting environment. This repository is meant to be used as a way to collect feedback from users of the AWS Tools for PowerShell modules. You are invited to create GitHub issues to report bugs or make feature requests.

PowerShell scripting environment.

from existing AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. This is particularly useful for creating point-in-time backups or disaster recovery. I mostly use the script to quickly clone an EC2 instance for testing or troubleshooting.

REST API endpoints? Although functional, interacting with AWS services through the REST API endpoints can be complex. What is the way out? AWS PowerShell Tools is the solution!

written in PowerShell to process events. Using this runtime, you can run native PowerShell code in Lambda without having to compile code, which simplifies deployment and testing. You can also now view PowerShell code in the AWS Management Console, and have more control over function output and logging.

version if an outdated version is detected.

Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an EC2 instance. In this post, I will be explaining how you can promptly launch an EC2 instance using the AMI.

PowerShell modules. Checkout out the blog post for more information.

to get anything working.

major language except for PowerShell. If you're interested in publishing AWS Lambda functions, by using a PowerShell container image, add your voice to this GitHub issue report. One of the AWS developers has responded and expressed interest in prioritizing, but we need to show interest / demand for this feature.

lots of help writing .Net end user functions for Lambda. By end user, I mean things that are part of an application system, like kicking off Glue jobs, working with Redshift and so on.

Office 365 audit reports will be helpful to identify security events, monitor user activities, track file sharing, investigate forensic events, etc. Most admins prefer PowerShell over [.]

thoughts? I was going to do every 2 weeks, but not sure if that is too quick. Big update as I'm s...

manager when creating a new user. Also added a feature so that when you use the parameter -UseDevelope...

"deleted" SharePoint sites the recycle bin. The reason for it is you can't mass delete SharePoint sites from the GUI and sometimes you create SharePoint sites that aren't in your Excel workbook and this just makes it easier.

announcement that you can no longer create new Free 365 Dev Tenants. I'm really hoping they revert that decision, or make the Dev Tenant even better. I honestly don't think it's a money grab, but more for security. If it is toot easy to create a temp tenant it is a great tool for bad actors. I'll leave it at that for now, and will probably do a bigger blog post on it in the future.

customers start using these new cmdlets right away.

- managing multiple admins is no small feat. Microsoft 365 administrators hold significant responsibilities like getting users on board, handling passwords, overseeing various

and beautiful) and forget to add an alert to indicate when a license SKU is running low? I have not seen any feature within Office 365 that sends one a notification when a tenant license SKU is low.

PC's using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. This mini series should help you get started with automating

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course just one part of the new beta Secure Score module. The next one is actually the more fun part; applying the correct security settings to a tenant.

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SDK. We didn't have one to hand, so we wrote a new script to illustrate the principles of how to process license assignments for a set of user accounts (which don't necessarily have to come from a CSV file). We even included some error handling!

in Office365. He found that when he went to the new Settings Pane for Modern Authentication he could change settings specifically to block older clients.

managed identity. The module has several parameters:

Code, just as you wish. Please start with the following steps to begin the deployment (the Hashtags are comments):

administrators; it is a critical task to do! While our primary concern is safeguarding our data with these policies, it's equally important

Microsoft 365 PowerShell and use ISV products instead. It's a silly position to argue. PowerShell is an important automation tool for administrators that can't be replaced by any ISV product. ISV products have their place and fill many gaps, but arguing to dump PowerShell and use ISV products instead just can't be justified.

created by applications in the directories of Office 365 tenants. The accounts are created through Azure B2B collaboration (by applications that generate invitations to join Office 365 Groups, like Teams and Planner) or SharePoint sharing invitations for documents or folders. It's one thing to invite people outside your tenant to collaborate; it's a horse of a different color to manage the resulting guest accounts.

document which mobile devices exist in a O365 tenant and put them into IT-Glue as configurations. I figured I'd help him real quick and blog about it.

lot more questions about documenting Secure Score with the Secure Application model.

can cause (image) damage to an organization. The PowerShell script DomainHealthChecker.ps1 checks the SPF, DKIM and DMARC record of one or more email domains and gives advice if necessary.

Skype for Business Online PowerShell. To connect to this service, you need to download and install the latest SkypeOnlineConnector module and create a remote PowerShell session to the service.

in today's world of highly sought after cloud management skills. With expert guidance, IT pros will learn how to leverage the muscle of PowerShell to automate many advanced administrative tasks not otherwise accessible in the Office 365 Admin Center. You will discover how to unlock configuration options and automate tasks in order to free up valuable time and resources.

The new edition of the book is available HERE and is a Nov 2022 Edition! Go get your copy now, or if you are a subscriber (THANK YOU!) you can download an update to your subscription. The next update should...

organization. Let's spend some time to learn some default use cases lot of exchange admins have to do. In this article I'm showing a various combination of different PowerShell cmdlets, with special focus in the new Exchange Online cmdlets. You can do a much more crazy stuff, but I want to show some basics.

in Exchange Online management using EXO V2 Module. Today, we are delighted to announce general availability of this feature along with the support for macOS.

key component of the zero-trust model. However, setting them up incorrectly can have serious consequences, like unintentionally compromising your entire Microsoft 365 security.

reducing help desk reliance in the organization. However, before users can utilize SSPR, admins must enable self-service password reset, and users must register their authentication methods.

different admin roles for each administration purpose will help the company to track, monitor, and support the people and resources that belong to the company.

faster and better method of managing Exchange Online via PowerShell - It just has some downsides right now for most Microsoft Partners.

requires some PowerShell to figure out the answer with some human-friendly results. The outcome is a script that analyzes sensitivity label policies to find where a user gets their labels from. It's another example of how useful PowerShell can be.

creations can lead to severe consequences, such as data breaches and compromises in sensitive information. Admins play a critical role in safeguarding organizational data by [...]

and 'Send On Behalf.'

enabled or not.

your users have what is needed to keep the business running. Whether you assign licenses directly or you use Group Based Licensing

redeemed? Here is a quick example PowerShell cmdlet using MS Graph API to enumerate them by creation date and either delete or disable them as you wish

However, they were only available from each individual service such as Teams, OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint and Yammer. If you wanted a holistic view you needed to query each of the services API's and collate the responses for each identity. In August 2020 Microsoft added the ability to get M365 User Usage Reports to the BETA Microsoft Graph API. This means you can now use the Microsoft Graph Reports API to get a Microsoft 365 Individual User Usage Report with PowerShell rather than using the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal and the reports functionality there.

primary licensing as you need at one time. Currently, the Microsoft Dev Environment only allows 25 lice...

products) and your script fails because it does not find the newly created object. Yeah that's a big issue especially in the wonderful cloud, and if you want to automate tasks. So I invested some time to script this issue, which is not really difficult. It may help others during scripting.

are not. If you want to hide all the groups used by Teams, here's how to do the job with PowerShell

some caveats such as not removing Exchange Online licenses. Organizations might want to do this to save money on Microsoft 365 license fees while an account is temporarily unused. Removal of Exchange Online licenses can result in the loss of a mailbox, and you don't want that to happen if you're disabling accounts just because someone is on a long-term sabbatical or other leave of absence.

accounts, but by combining data from multiple sources we can write a script to generate a report showing details of user password settings and MFA status.

automation script has gone awry that decided to "clean up" your Office 365 tenant unintentionally. In that case, you've got some mailbox restoration to do! Why pay big money for expensive software when you can do it for free using some knowledge and a little PowerShell?

only retrieved the first 200 workspaces. I hadn't realized that the Get-SPOContainer cmdlet supported an odd form of pagination to retrieve workspace data. In any case, I figured out how to page top find all available workspaces and updated the script. It's just another example of oddness in the SharePoint Online PowerShell module

tasks such as managing servers, endpoints or processes, more streamlined and efficient. However, since the proliferation of cloud technology, we’re now facing a new challenge, managing and automating the cloud environment.

reporting of shared mailbox quotas. The old script used just Exchange Online PowerShell. This versions mixes Exchange Online and the Graph SDK and throws in some certificate-based authentication to boot to allow the script to send email from something other than the signed-in account.. It all comes together, using chunks of code from other scripts to speed up writing. It's the PowerShell way...

deletion of OneDrive documents found in the searches. While you can remove email using a content search action, Office 365 doesn't includ e a method to cleanup OneDrive documents found by content searches....

modules (all with their own kinks) are used. However, PowerShell is very approachable and it's surprising what you can do with just a couple of lines of code. Working examples are great learning tools to help PowerShell newcomers (and maybe experienced coders) come up with solutions to problems. A couple of years ago, we created the Office 365 for IT Pros GitHub repository. Since then, we've been populating the repository with PowerShell scripts created to illustrate new features or to demonstrate how to approach solving an administrative problem in an Office 365 tenant. The repository currently holds a collection of 81 scripts.

single-sign-on, a search fix, and some additional "proxy" cmdlets that can be used as examples for making more "friendly" ones.

have our own approach. This article lays out a simple three-step method to write scripts to interact with Microsoft 365 objects.

which is designed to gather key data to consider during the migration planning process.

use with Exchange Online PowerShell V2. This feature provides customers the ability to run non-interactive scripts using Modern Authentication. This feature requires version 2.0.3-Preview or later of the EXO PowerShell V2 module, available via PowerShellGallery.

are curious on changes that come with the new module version. In the world of continuous change, it is hard to keep track of these changes as new cmdlets or parameters get added to support new features, and some get removed as they become obsolete. So, how to discover what those changes are after updating to the latest module?

of alerting policies. The first getting alerts for M365 or Azure P1/P2 users via the Graph API, these alerts are pretty cool as you can see if users are connecting from tor nodes/VPN nodes, or from stuff like malware linked IPs. Monitoring these alerts actively via your RMM helps you in making sure that users are as safe as they can be.

client had some leavers in the company and not notify us as the administrators, or that the client had some very inactive users that don't really need to be licensed or could be converted to a shared mailbox for example.

user, and if the OST size is nearing it's maximum size, as a bonus I'm also giving you the option of alerting on active PST files. The offline mode is just a handy gizmo to notify users that they might've misclicked - It still happens to our users from time to time.

their Exchange Online Environment. So, I have listed the top 15 useful PowerShell cmdlets for admins to manage their Exchange mailboxes efficiently.

Export-MsIdAppConsentGrantReport cmdlet to generate a report of OAuth app permissions. Allied with the ImportExcel module, the cmdlet can produce a very nice workbook containing lots of information about permissions held by the apps in a tenant. But even better, you can export the data to PowerShell and use it in your scripts.

some strange mails. So I had a look at the O365 security and clompliance center. After searching some reports I found out, that every E-Mail four users receive was redirected to a GMAIL address. The report also said that it was done with some inboxrules (the user never set up). Here some screenshots from the Azure Security Center and Compliance Center.

properties in the?Export-MailboxDiagnosticLogs?cmdlet. The properties record different kinds of mailbox activity and I included a script to generate a report based on the properties. The output is a CSV file that can be opened in Excel or imported in Power BI. All is well.

PowerShell for Office 365.

time to manage. However, in order to achieve these benefits in a shared system, Microsoft has to make certain changes so that their systems are more efficient and cost effective, something they can then pass on to...

arrays. The Send-MgUserMail is a great graph cmdlet to send Emails using the Graph API endpoint, this post is fully explained in the Send-MgUserMail BodyParameter Explained. But going through these hashtables is a challenge, and its more complicated.

days to 365 days. This isn't anything big or complicated to do. It's an everyday task really. But I was wondering, how short can I make the PowerShell script to do this for all meeting rooms?

methods.

explains how to use PowerShell to remove licenses from accounts when an equivalent service plan is available from another license. It's the kind of fix-up operation that tenant administrators need to do on an ongoing basis.

explains how to use PowerShell to remove licenses from accounts when an equivalent service plan is available from another license. It's the kind of fix-up operation that tenant administrators need to do on an ongoing basis.

usually involved some gyrations. Then Microsoft updated the Get-SPOSite cmdlet with the IncludePersonalSite switch and things became easier. For instance, a reader asked if it was possible to generate a report listing all the OneDrive for Business sites in a tenant with the storage allocated and used for each site. No problem, we thought, as we scanned the internet to see if people had already solved the problem. As it happens, several example scripts are available, but we ended up writing our own because it was possible to simplify the code . We also store the output in a CSV file as it's a very flexible format for reporting or further analysis (like importing into Power BI).

information using Entra ID portal, PowerShell, and Graph API Explorer. Although restricted from making changes, non-admins can still explore user information, group details, device details, etc.

to run the report on users who have access to the site / list / library and all sub-sites or sub-items. If you have a pretty complex structure of sites / lists and permissions you wouldn't like to spend all your time by manually going and checking permission. Also, if you don't have any reporting tools like ShareGate - PowerShell would be the best option here.

provide credentials....

administrative tasks within Microsoft 365. Among the recent factors causing me to consider using Graph APIs with PowerShell are:

joining an Office 365 tenant forced me to think about the best solution. The issue isn't finding a script to do the job because there's plenty of scripts published in places like the TechNet Gallery

opportune time to change that with the availability of tools and functions that are now available. In this article, we focus on how to use PowerShell to manage Microsoft 365. In addition, we consider how to use cloud services to manage PowerShell code, testing, security controls, and more.

identity and service principals. Lots of demos including service principals with secrets and certificates with PowerShell. Concepts apply to AZ CLI as well.

organization. Currently PowerShell users do not have a unified experience for accessing all of Microsoft Graph. This session introduces our preview Microsoft Graph PowerShell module generated from Microsoft Graph metadata using the same technology the Azure team is using to build their management PowerShell modules. Come learn how you can quickly use this to do ad-hoc interrogation of Microsoft Graph data and also build scripts that can perform unattended processes on your organization's data.

PowerShell module was published PowerShellGallery.com. With the latest update, users can now create comprehensive documentation in Markdown format, complete with an intuitive table of contents. This feature has been highly anticipated and requested by Read more

However, that doesn't mean the two can't work together. In this article we explore how to use Exchange Online PowerShell with Azure Automation while waiting for Microsoft to deliver a full solution.

365. There are potentially numerous mailboxes that aren't used and those won't be migrated to Office 365 because there's no sense in paying for licensing for them. How do you determine what mailboxes are in use?

if you want to know which domains are sending most mail, you need to do some work. In this article, we cover how to use cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to create reports about user mail activity over time and the traffic sent by different domains.

your Exchange Online resources in Azure Cloud Shell.

when you need to keep track of specific information for each...

vCenter console.

system security and performance. UEFI, with its advanced features like faster boot times and Secure Boot, ensures a robust and secure operating environment. Secure Boot, in particular, plays a crucial role by allowing only signed software to run, thus protecting systems against unauthorized firmware and drivers.

scripts with this wonderful community.

PowerCLI 12.4. The PowerCLI 12.4 is a very significant update with regards to how you will work with the REST APIs. Until now, we have had two major vSphere API bindings available for PowerCLI, and these are-

network cards (vmkernel + vmnic): Adding another interface (vmkernel to vMotion)...

As virtualization environments grow, it becomes crucial to monitor and optimize resource allocation to prevent overcommitment, ensuring the smooth operation of virtual machines. In this blog post, we'll explore a PowerCLI script designed to check the Cluster Overcommitment Ratio

expert levels. Learn essential tips and tricks today!

in the cluster. Continue reading at https://angrysysops.com/2021/08/12/powercli-enable-disable-ssh-and-lockdown-mode/ | Angry Admin

issue with VIBs.

focused on using...

module in PowerShell. This becomes necessary when the conventional PowerCLI module for tagging VMs fails, as was the case for me.

credentials, and run it. Works around an issue that limits PowerShell script length to 8K because VMware run powershell.exe via cmd.exe.

being the command line experience using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. In this blog post we are going to have a look at 6 tips & tricks for managing your Microsoft Azure resources using the command line with Azure

many network security groups (NSG) in Azure.

without requiring sensitive information such as secrets, credentials, and certificates to be handled. Microsoft Entra ID manages these identities, enabling applications to obtain tokens for authentication. In this post, I will provide an example that illustrates how to use system and user-assigned managed identities with PowerShell.

Experienced PowerShell users will find the right cmdlet and parameter to achieve their goal but this can be more complicated for casual users.

support (yet). The Az PowerShell module is now the recommended PowerShell module for interacting with Azure.

deploying the AGIC and I figured this is something folks will need to deploy over and over so it makes sense to make it a little easier to do.

introduced. Since about a month, this new option for PowerShell has gone into public preview and it is really a great new feature, that can help a lot with your template development. In this post, I want to show you how you can use ARM Template what-if deployment, how it can be integrated in a Azure DevOps pipeline and what this means for my PowerShell module ARMHelper.

errors. Use PowerShell to find users with a profile path in your AD!

script can be used to help provide an automated method which can encrypt your OS and Data disks as well as automatically creating a Key Vault if one does not exist including the Access Policy configuration.

security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.

on-premises or Azure VMs to the fully-managed PaaS database service Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. In this post you will see how to create PowerShell scripts that automate migration to Managed Instance using Azure PowerShell and DbaTools.

PowerShell, Windows commands, and Azure management solutions for Windows Server on-premises. At the Windows Server Summit 2024, I had the chance to deliver a session with Ryan Willis Product Manager for Azure Arc and we went through different automation options ...

resources depending on the resource in question and the pricing tier used. A common scenario where you might want to restrict traffic is with an API flow where you may want some of your resources to ... Continue reading Automate Public IP Address Change Notifications for Azure Services ?

three part series.

you do that is through tracking resource usage with an Azure usage report. In this article, you?ll learn how to create a PowerShell script to easily query resource usage across all of your Azure resources by date.

keeping Azure organized is managing role assignments. Over time, you might end up with unused or "Unknown" role assignments, which can make management more challenging and potentially introduce security risks.

Managed DNS services. This has caused us to look for a different solution. Of course, I immediately thought of Azure, with an Azure DNS hosted zone.

it creates a dependency on a specific workstation and isn't as secure as you might like. Running Microsoft 365 PowerShell scripts in Azure Automation is a much better idea. It's time to dump the Task Scheduler!

great feature like AI-powered PowerShell module called Az Predictor Module (Azure PowerShell Predictions), which does what the name says, predict PowerShell commands. Now with az next, the team also brought a similar feature to the Azure CLI. The team's goal with az next is to guide users through their scenarios or sequence of jobs-to-be-done in tool, so that they could remain focused and avoid unnecessary external documentation searches.

you to predict your Azure PowerShell command!

includes: PowerShell support for Server Migration with Azure Migrate is now generally available, Updates to managing user authentication methods, New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available, Microsoft announces the redesign of the Microsoft account Security page, QnA Maker introduces deep learning and as always our Microsoft Learn Module of the Week.

Azure. However, there's a secret that not many people know... you can manage your on-prem resources with Azure Arc.

Server. This allows you to onboard your Windows Server through a graphical wizard. With the wizard, you can easily onboard your Windows Server machine to Azure Arc. The wizard takes care of the following steps for you: verifying ...

PowerShell script.

Security License (ESU)

never again have to write a nested or linked template.

developing custom interfaces to trigger automation tasks. Based on the Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) Free plan.

services. However, Microsoft is deprecating Azure Automation Run As accounts in favor of using a managed identity. In this tutorial, you will learn what exactly is a managed identity, how to authenticate to Azure using the managed identity in a PowerShell [...]

with HTML table and CSV attachment. Features include:

configuration with PowerShell DSC.

The rich command set of Azure CLI expands capabilities of runbooks even further, allowing you to reap combined benefits of both, for automating and streamlining management of Azure resources. Azure Automation runbooks target orchestration on a wide array of resources such as Virtual Machines, Arc-enabled Servers, Databases, Storage, Azure Active Directory, and much more, along with complex workflows involving multiple resources.

use of an Azure PowerShell script.

Standard SKU.

This script allows you to verify the status of blobs listed in a given file, determine whether they are in an 'Archive' state, and provides visibility on their rehydration status.

have a look at how you can run your Azure Cloud Shell in the Windows Terminal. Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

Azure and Azure DevOps from your pipelines for deploying Terraform configurations. Workload Identity federation To follow along with this tutorial, you will need: To follow along with more code examples, check out this GitHub repository:JeffBrownTech/azure-devops-terraform-oidc-examples What is Workload Identity federation?

how to create HTTP triggered functions written in PowerShell!

Azure Functions

certifications, migration, help to understand basic concepts.) related to Microsoft cloud technologies (Azure, Azure AD, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Teams, Power Platform and so on)

updates in the Network and EventGrid modules, read more: s://t.co/Jxv01aCglT

documentation but is not available in Cloud Shell?

both? This lesson presents a comprehensive comparison of the two primary scripting languages in the Azure cloud.

along the way. See how to use the resource graph to efficiently get information about your resources in Azure.

of specific cmdlets for those operations or services. This is where the Invoke-AzRestMethod cmdlet comes into play, which allows PowerShell scripts to communicate with Azure services by sending HTTP requests to Azure's REST API. It acts as a bridge between PowerShell and Azure services that still need to be integrated with cmdlets.

subscriptions that have one or more Azure virtual network service endpoints assigned.

their powershell automation to their teams. And it’s free!

templates (WIP). It has capabilities to insert appropriate Azure Icons depending upon the type of the Azure Resource you have in your Resource Group, like Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Subnet etc.

operate in; making a Discord bot is hardT. I've made some scripts for my own usage that integrate with Discord bots, but they've always been for my own use only.

PowerShell commands necessary for Azure administrators as well as required to pass the Azure Administrator certification exams from Microsoft AZ-104

solutions for cloud operations for Windows Server through Azure Arc.

Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials. In this blog post we are going to have a look at how you can connect this AKS Edge Essentials cluster to Microsoft Azure using Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, and how ...

Stop or Restart an Azure VM.

have written an extensive blog post about this subject before, which I encourage you to read if you have never created this connection before. I want to focus on how you can create a secure GitHub webhook to trigger an Azure PowerShell Function. We will make use of a secret that we will store in Azure Key vault.

using PowerShell? Check out this post by Aresh Sarakari on how you can do just that.

clusters, you want to use service principals for automated authentication during the onboarding process for Azure Arc resources. Microsoft provides you with an option in the Azure portal to create that service principal. When you use this, you can set .

in a specified subscription.

types (block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs) available on Azure storage accounts. Storage accounts on Azure support three types of blobs, each of which is used for a different purpose. Therefore, it's important to determine the type of blob you need when you create it, as it is not possible to change the type once the blob is created. The supported blob types are as follows.

Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022, for testing purposes with Azure PowerShell.

at companies, the resource type is mentioned in the name of the resource. To save space, an abbreviation is used.

flexible is an Azure Automation account.

a pipeline build.

service, including Microsoft. With Microsoft's Azure Functions, you can create function apps that support many languages, including Azure PowerShell.

protect Key Vault items when deleted by accident. When deleted you are able to restore that item through the portal or PowerShell. But what if someone has deleted the Key Vault itself with all the items and softdeleted items included. There is no option to restore a Key Vault. In this article I will describe a way how to backup and restore a Key Vault when deleted.

transfer data (data migration) from and to Azure storage. It is designed for high performance transfers and can be deployed on both Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Linux systems, but also on macOS.

a free download from Microsoft (version 5.6.2019) and includes icons for almost all Azure services and Microsoft cloud related technologies currently available.

running? I will show you three ways to do that in this blog post.

Prior to this date you will need to migrate all your agent-based hybrid workers to the extension-bas...

specific recommendations which may not be relevant to you. By navigating to the ASC's default initiative in the Azure Policy blade, you can disable a recommendation:

- Find-AutomationRunAsAccounts.ps1

I found there wasn't a whole lot out there, and what was there wasn't quite what fit our needs. So I created my own function, Get-AzWebJobStatus,

for a customer. For me these scenario's always go into scripting or templates. That means for every change I want to be redeploy the environment and see if everything is still working. For that I need random names. You could pick a name, add a number and up the number for every new deployment but, where's the fun in that?

remediated in all your Azure subscriptions with PowerShell.

authentication necessary.

Azure Portal shows

all of your Azure subscriptions to optimize cost...

covering the introduction to Azure Automation, creating automation runbooks, dealing with assets, testing and publishing runbooks.

Power Automate to integrated PowerShell into your Flows and never leave the Microsoft Cloud!

PowerShell. This is using the PowerShell SDK running on a machine that's not in Azure.

I even went so far as to ask an Azure Product Manager but still didn't receive a clear answer. What I did find out is that Microsoft maintains an Azure services directory on their Azure products website. I figured that was a good place to start looking and while the website is informative, it didn't provide a count of the service offerings. Manually counting them wouldn't be an efficient or accurate way of accomplishing the task of determining how many services are offered so I decided to use PowerShell for the task.

script.

interesting to provide to all users, who are already familiar with it, a method to export all keys, certs and secrets stored in it once via Powershell.

Azure PowerShell. These cmdlets, introduced in the Az PowerShell module version 9, are used to configure your global settings for Azure PowerShell.

IoT Hub is used to connect, manage, and monitor billions of IoT devices. It securely connects the devices to develop IoT applications. IoT Hub is a flexible cloud platform service that supports multiple protocols and open-source SDKs.

there can be one or more data centers. Azure Availability Zone is made out of one or more datacentres in the same Azure region, which have independent power, hardware, networking, and cooling. All Zone redundant service will replicate data and application across Availability Zone for high resilience. Each Azure region contains a minimum of three Azure Availability Zones.

Azure environment but also my on-premises environment. I find Azure automation to be a great solution for managing and running your automation, instead of having them run on a server with scheduled tasks.

Microsoft Docs, the Azure Mobile App or shell.azure.com

PowerShell.

handy this feature is to manage Azure virtual machines (VMs). In this blog post, we are going to have a look at how you can run scripts against multiple Azure virtual machines (VMs) by using PowerShell and the Invoke-AzVMRunCommand feature.

developing scripts in Azure to send emails, know that there is no native email service available to you.

cases we've been asked to record our presentations. Storage has quickly become an issue and so I have been investigating ways to transfer the recorded presentations to the cloud. Now the transfer can take place via GUI however automating the transfer might be needed in future. Luckily uploading files to Azure Storage via PowerShell is an option.

RunAs account because it doesn't require certificate/secret renewal. Therefore it is maintenance-free.

CLI. Two of the most popular ways to automate Azure workloads are always presented separately. Why? Azure CLI and PowerShell work well together right out of the box for all Azure services. How can we bring the two automation tools together?

cumbersome to install the Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module in an Automation account.

declarative automation of some of the tasks required to install and configure the Azure File Sync agent on Windows Server.

Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM) consists of segregating subnets into smaller segments, allowing network engineers to divide an IP address space into a hierarchy of subnets of different sizes, making it possible to create very different host subnets without account. waste a large number of addresses. This in turn can be a pretty annoying task, especially when it needs to be done several times, so I decided to do a powershell module to just tell you how many hosts I need in a given segment and it will tell me what the addressing is.

backwards: My journey into PowerShell, alongside Azure.

module will now be released on the first Tuesday of each month. We are releasing an AzPreview PowerShell module that includes all Azure PowerShell modules available and supported by Microsoft.

single-sign-on, a search fix, and some additional "proxy" cmdlets that can be used as examples for making more "friendly" ones.

across any of your AzureContinue Reading

PowerShell global settings using the PowerShell cmdlets Get-AzConfig, Update-AzConfig, Export-AzConfig, Import-AzConfig, and Clear-AzConfig.

a controlled, unified workflow, Azure administrators can define, deploy, enforce, and maintain standardized Azure environments.

Scripts written for the AzureRM cmdlets won’t automatically work with the new module. To make the transition easier, Az offers tools to allow you to run your existing scripts using AzureRM. No migration to a new command set is ever convenient, but this article will help you get started on transitioning to the new module.

difficult to stop, and before you know it you could be selling your grandmother just to afford one more month of that delicious compute. Hopefully your circumstances never get that dire, but I've seen plenty of companies entrench themselves into the highly addictive world of automated, scalable infrastructure, but then struggle to understand the often-astronomical monthly bill.

in a lot of the communities I frequent but a worry popped up by someone recently; how am I sure that the Azure Application Proxy is always completely functional at my clients? You can monitor the service of course, but that does not mean that the entire connection to Azure is functional.

needed an easy way to manage virtual desktops over many regions. This deployment actually got me thinking about how monitoring the WVD environment should be done.

different resource group or subscription. To do this, you can use the Azure PowerShell module and the Move-AzResource cmdlet. You can find more about the Move-AzResource cmdlet on Microsoft Learn. The Move-AzResource cmdlet moves existing resources to a ...

Az.ContainerRegistry Azure PowerShell module wasn't fully featured. Sometimes, PowerShell users had to take advantage of the Az CLI. We want to allow PowerShell user to be able to fully manage container images. Starting with Az.ContainerRegistry version 2.2.1, we will gradually be rolling out new cmdlets and new parameters. In this release, you can now fully manage (Get-, Remove-, Update-) repositories, manifests, and tags with increased performance.

subscription in Microsoft Defender

erase all the secrets, keys, and certificates in it.

more.

requested this feature be added to Azure Data Studio and it has become the most popular feature request for Notebooks. (Although, I'm sure it only became the most popular after they added copying from the results grid a few months ago )

the tips and techniques you'll learn in this article, you'll be well on your way to scripting your way to automation greatness.

workflows, now supports PowerShell. Common scenarios made possible by Durable Functions include orchestrating the management of complex Azure Resource deployments involving sequential and parallel steps. Long-running workflows are supported, and Durable Functions provides built-in HTTP endpoints for monitoring their progress.

reliable and resilient. More, Blob can be used as a trigger for Azure Functions when you add a file and you can play with different pricing tiers.

information. Why? It brings comfort while giving up security. It's your choice. In this blog post I will show you a walkthrough how to connect to Azure with stored credentials. The credentials are encryptet with a certificate. Let's move on.

generate resource names, fret not! I've been there, and...

updates across hybrid environments. Azure Automation focuses on an infrastructure perspective and allows you to build/deploy resources, handling updates and configuring all type of resources (not only in Azure but also on premise).

Virtual Machines.

runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is a light weight source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

for a while without enforced consistency of your Role Based Access Control, you might want to explore your existing RBAC assignments at scale or query the permissions for a specific user.

In this way, you can create backups, and you can restore files and folders easily whenever needed. In this post, we will be looking at configuring Recovery Services vaults on Azure file shares and restoring deleted files from a backup using PowerShell.

Commands within your VMs using the Azure Portal or the Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI modules....

You can also use those tools in a local container and connect to it using the command line or Visual Studio Code. In this blog post, I will show you how to install everything and connect and use it locally.

Eamon O'Reilly, who's leading the efforts at Microsoft for serverless automation, shows you how to get started.

by configuring a data lifecycle management.

also can encrypt Azure Linux VM by using Azure Key Vault & dm-crypt. In this post, I am going to demonstrate how we can encrypt Azure Linux VM.

hard disks. It falls under physical data security and it prevents data breaches from stolen hard disks (physical & virtual). If it is a Windows machine, we can simply use BitLocker for disk encryption. Also, there are other third-party vendors such as Thales e-Security which provides disk encryption solutions for organizations.

then retrieve them from PowerShell.

specialists get small digestible bites about new technologies, complex scripts, and solutions you could be implementing in your MSP today. I'm fairly anti-tool culture where MSPs get a different tool for each minor inconvenience and focus just on that tool, so I'll be focussed on modern technologies in the Microsoft stack, but also will cover other external tools if they make a big enough difference.

a shared printer via Universal Print

With examples for Azure DevOps pipelines and Github Actions

and GitHub Actions. I mentioned one way to test ARM templates in a pipeline there (the WhatIf module). But there are other options available. And how about testing locally? In this post we will look at different tools that can help you with testing ARM templates.

years. One problem that has brought with it is the high probability of being somewhere with no cell phone data service or poor cell phone data. Couple with my incredibly poor memory, I have often forgotten to turn off servers to save on cost in my dev or test environment until I'm out in the woods. Also, I wanted the ability to use Google Voice as well as Siri in my car or even at home, to turn off, turn on, or check the status of my servers in my Azure tenants. This has even come in handy when I didn't have my phone on me and had to use the wife's phone to turn on or off some servers in my tenant. (I set it to only accept messages from my phone number as well as my wife's so if someone happened to figure out the phone number, they couldn't give any commands anyways - we will get into this later).

on the prerequisite skills and technologies needed to succeed with Azure DevOps as the preferred method for deploying applications into Azure, and is all self-paced.

They're easy to build and allow you get started without needing a degree in programming.... Our speaker, Jeremy Brown, will walk through the basics of serverless apps, build a simple app AND put it online in 45 minutes!

allows for passwords and secrets to be shared among users via Azure AD authentication and policies with the relatively inexpensive Azure Key Vault resource. While communications are always encrypted and stored securely when working with the Azure Key Vault, further security can be utilized to independantly encrypting the passwords before they are transmitted to Azure.

identity and service principals. Lots of demos including service principals with secrets and certificates with PowerShell. Concepts apply to AZ CLI as well.

Azure Blog Storage using Connection String. Recently I was given Connection String, Container name and had to download some files from Azur Blog Storage. After some research and trying Connect-AzAccount, I found that the proper way to go is thru New-AzStorageContext.

Blob storage account using Power Automate Desktop. Power Automate Desktop is a great tool to build automation on your desktop. You can create flows,?interact with everyday tools such as email and excel and work with modern and legacy applications.

Microsoft.Resources/deploymentScripts, users can execute deployment scripts in template deployments and review execution results. These scripts can be used for performing custom steps such as:

many API connections which might be never used later. Those orphan resources could make your resource group a great mess and hard to choose the right API connection in the logic app. So, I wrote the PowerShell Script to help manage API connections in the resource group.

Directory (Azure AD) managed identity (MSI) to authenticate in Azure PowerShell on your on-premises Linux and Windows Server machines. The moment you want to run some automation directly on your servers, you often .

administrator passwords configured on Windows Servers. Before we get started, let us have a quick overview of what Azure Key Vault is.

change the network, change the disk name, etc

can use to organize and control access to your packages. In other words it is a place for storing and sharing packages with controlled access through Azure Dev Ops.

infrastructure visualizations by just typing a PowerShell cmdlet and passing the name of one or more Azure Resource Groups.

Protocol) addresses has been around for years; most Azure resources support it, a Storage account is no different.

exclusively using the Azure portal/dashboard. And since I could do pretty much everything I needed to do directly on the portal, I never bothered with Azure PowerShell or any of the other methods of communicating with Azure.

Following our release cadence, this is the second breaking change release for 2021. Because this release includes updates related to security and the switch to MS Graph, we recommend that you review the release notes before upgrading.

PowerShell.

excel file. I never really got a response with a solution. I finally figured it out and wanted to share.

it was obfuscated. How can I properly make powershell display the contents of a word document without downloading anything?

colours or charts to make the data more friendly, but sometimes we may want to add something else - like a logo or picture and all that can be achieved with PowerShell.

in worksheets. We can import from and export to SQL Excel data using a combination of ImportExcel and dbatools modules.

PowerShell script. Outlook MAPI allows you to directly access the mailbox, list...

and Install-Module -Name ImportExcel.

some headaches as well. The below updates .doc to .docx .xls to .xlsx and .ppt to .pptx, optionally deletes the old files if you un-comment the remove-item lines

O2016 and upgrading to O365 and created an interactive .ps1 script to auto uninstall O2016. Here she is:

files. You don't even need Excel installed. It's super cool!

user, and if the OST size is nearing it's maximum size, as a bonus I'm also giving you the option of alerting on active PST files. The offline mode is just a handy gizmo to notify users that they might've misclicked - It still happens to our users from time to time.

notifications on the taskbar. I got some positive comments and decided to make a module for the taskbar handling part so that anyone can quickly make their tools.

on your system. No need to bother with the cumbersome Excel COM-object. Creating Tables, Pivot Tables, Charts and much more has just become a lot easier. It has recently been updated to run much faster.

and instead shows the following error message "Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The attempt to log on to Microsoft Exchange has failed"

asked how to disable the add-in for some mailboxes. Here's how to do the job using PowerShell to find a set of target mailboxes and then turn off Send to Teams for each mailbox.

personal preference is to always share the slides. Often, especially when I was working for an employer, I'd share a PDF of the file rather than the slides. Some decks had had a LOT of effort put in (some by inhouse graphics guys) and giving those animations away was sub-optimal for IP reasons.

provide credentials....

and set the Office theme using PowerShell as well.

the trace, and apply a data bar

it's extensions, integrated terminal and other features. In this hands-on tutorial, you're going to learn how to use Visual Studio Code by working with a Git repo.

shells that are installed on your system, like the shell for Ubuntu or PowerShell Core 7. Unfortunately, it doesn't detect the Developer Command Prompt and Developer PowerShell for Visual Studio. Luckily, you can add them yourself!

to debug in the console, debug job, background runspaces, and remote processes. We also used some of the advanced debugging features of Visual Studio Code.

For example, you want to convert the following command for

don't see any way to get your good old experience back. However, hidden behind that plain white on blue shell, there is actually a wide range of customization options that help make your life less painful. See below for the most commonly appreciated options.

when I quickly commented and uncommented lines in my PowerShell script in VS Code. This is very easy to do with the built in keyboard shortcuts.

and system administrators. You can use VS Code to edit your PowerShell scripts, configuration...

2022. It was a pre-recorded presentation, so I was able to do final edits to the video before sending it to the conference organizers.

native PowerShell debugger.

for Visual Studio. You can download PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

scripts. We'll look at how to run scripts, set breakpoints and view variables during debugging. We'll also go through the various ways to step through scripts and evaluate variables and expressions with the watch window. Next, we'll learn about advanced breakpoints and how to configure launch.json to configure how to launch scripts.

simultaneously on several servers from several script panes. However, when I write scripts, functions or modules I use VSCode. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, in VSCode there is no builtin feature, nor extension to assist us in signing PowerShell code

extension for VScode.

several year I used to develop PowerShell script into PowerShell ISE. It worked very well, but it looked like "old". Since many years, almost four, I started using Visual Studio Code to edit every kind of files, including PowerShell files. The reason is really simple: Visual Studio Code is more powerful than PowerShell IDE. I show you the reason why.