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May 31, 2019

Announcements!

PowerShell Core v7.0.0-preview.1 (github.com)
Public preview of PowerShell v7 is now live!
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Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating the Citrix Federated Authentication Service with PowerShell (citrix.com)
This blog post will provide a baseline understanding of how FAS automation works and includes

PowerShell code required to build a scalable solution.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Creating Containers with PowerShell For Azure Cosmos DB (sqlshack.com)
Creating Containers with PowerShell For Azure CosmosDB with PowerShell?s Az module
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Step-by-Step Guide: Manage Users using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module (rebeladmin.com)
Check out Eugen’s great step-by-step guide for manage users using Azure Active Directory

PowerShell for Graph module. It provides you everything you need to know to get started, quickly and easily.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Stop and Start Azure VMs using an Office 365?Calendar (msfreaks.wordpress.com)
Check out this awesome solution for Arjan to help you save time and money by using an Office 365

Calendar to control when your VMs should power on and off.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts (azure.microsoft.com)
Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for AzureMonitor metric and log alerts from the Azure updates team
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell for O365 (skillmeup.com)
In this course Liam will educate you on the details you need to know to be able to start writing

PowerShell for Office 365.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

EnphasePS (github.com)
A quick script for querying Enphase solar panel controllers via your local network and quickly

getting Production, Consumption, and Net Usage information.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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May 24, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How to Install and Update PowerShell 6 (thomasmaurer.ch)
This blog post covers how to install and update PowerShell 6 with a single command line.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

HP Driver Packs Download & #ConfigMgr Import (garytown.com)
This script will Allow you to Check and Update your HP Drive Packs that you have CM Legacy Packages
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Logon scripts in?Intune (larsstaal.com)
Lars shows a quick and simple tip on how to get a Logon script like experience with Intune.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PowerShell Universal Dashboard ??? 2.4 Released (ironmansoftware.com)
Cross-platform module for developing websites and REST APIs.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Testing, Testing, 1…2…3: Using Pester for Infrastructure Validation (youtu.be)
This talk will show how to use Pester, the pervasive testing framework for PowerShell, for

validating that your infrastructure is operating how you expect.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

A Glorious Day (i.redd.it)

By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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May 17, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Create folders in OneDrive For Business using PowerShell PnP (veronicageek.com)
If you ever need to pre-provision OneDrive For Business for a better user experience or create

folders/files in advance, Veronique lays out the entire process using PowerShell PnP in this blog post.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Creating Code-Signing Certificates (community.idera.com)
Windows 10 and Server 2016 (and better) ship with an enhanced New-SelfSignedCert cmdlet that finally

can create code-signing certificates. With code-signing certificates, you can digitally sign PowerShell scripts and use the signature to detect when people tamper with your script content.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Find Microsoft Teams teams without an Owner, Teams Admin Center and PowerShell (tomtalks.blog)
Let Tom help you keep your Teams deployment clean by identify any Teams without an owner.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Scripting SQL Server objects with PsDbaTools ??? Beyond default options (claudioessilva.eu)
Let Cl?udio show you some good tips and tricks to get the most out of PsDbaTools.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PowerShell Module For JSON Schema Validation (blog.tyang.org)
Check out Tao?s new module to perform Pester tests for JSON schema validation. It is built on

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

15 Best New PowerShell Books To Read In 2019 (bookauthority.org)
BookAuthority’s list of must read PowerShell books for 2019.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Invoke-Lollercoaster (github.com)
Cause some times you need to ride a rollercoaster.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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May 10, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Finding Performance Bottlenecks (github.com)
Check out the code and slides from Mike’s Finding Performance Bottlenecks with PowerShell

session at this year’s PowerShell Summit.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

OpenSSH Resources for Windows and PowerShell (centinosystems.com)
A great list of resources for everything you need and want to know about using OpenSSH based

PowerShell Remoting

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Tracking down bad password attempts with PowerShell (theposhwolf.com)
Want to know where bad password attempts are coming from before they lock out an account in Active

Directory? Check out Anthony Howell’s walkthrough of a PowerShell function to easily do just that.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Want to Use Exchange Online in Azure Cloud PowerShell? (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Let Michael Bender show you how to access the Exchange Online module easily, and begin working with

your Exchange Online resources in Azure Cloud Shell.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Demo the Scope Pyramid for Functions in Modules (gist.github.com)
Friedrich put together a great little POC to show how the scopes in PowerShell work. Specifically

around how modules see things.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Get-AzServiceStatus (gist.github.com)
Tim Warner wrote a great little script to quickly retrieve global Azure service messages with no

authentication necessary.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Learn PowerShell concepts using Pester! (youtube.com)
Learn how you can use Pester with the help of PSKoans.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell and Python Together (apress.com)
You will learn how to join PowerShell’s robust set of commands and access to the internals of

both the MS Windows desktop and enterprise devices and Python’s rich scripting environment allowing for the rapid development of new tools for investigation, automation, and deep analysis.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Solving the Dark Faction's PowerShell Challenge (ironscripter.us)
Now that this year?s Iron Scripter battle is complete, the Chairman has arranged for a

solution to the Dark Faction?s challenge.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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May 3, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Convert OneDrive to per-machine installation (deploywindows.com)
Learn how to convert OneDrive to per-machine installation with MS Intune and PowerShell and Win32

app

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Event-Driven Serverless Containers with PowerShell Azure Functions and Azure Container Instances (dev.to)
Create your first serverless container using PowerShell and Azure Functions
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to replicate the ISE experience in Visual Studio Code (docs.microsoft.com)
Tyler Leonhardt has created a doc to help bridge the gap between the ISE and the PowerShell

extension for VScode.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Serverless automation using PowerShell in Azure Functions (azure.microsoft.com)
Eamon O’Reilly joins Scott Hanselman to show how PowerShell in Azure Functions makes it

possible for you to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to deliver and maintain services.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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