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August 30, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Add telemetry to your PowerShell module (janhendrikpeters.de)
Ah, telemetry. Very ubiquitous today, telemetry is collected from many software companies, device

vendors and so on. Often telemetry includes PII, personally identifiable information, which of course is a no-go. This post aims to explain how you can responsibly collect telemetry for your PowerShell module to track its usage, version distribution and much more. I will show you the steps you need to take to use Azure ApplicationInsights to collect and Power BI to visualize your telemetry.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Automating Active Directory Jobs with PowerShell Scripts (mcpmag.com)
PowerShell seems to have the ability to automate just about anything. Active Directory (AD) is no

different. By downloading a freely available PowerShell module, an IT admin can manage every facet of AD and build powerful scripts to save time on all kinds of tasks. The best part is that knowledge of LDAP, ADSI and other typically developer-focused terms is not necessary. The PowerShell cmdlets take care of that stuff for you.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Build a PowerShell GUI for your Scripts (adamtheautomator.com)
PowerShell is a command-line tool but did you know it can also be used as a base for graphical

interfaces? Sometimes command-line isn’t the best kind of interface for a particular instance. Building a PowerShell GUI for for your service desk is a great example. This is one of those times when it is more appropriate to build graphical tools instead.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Hyper-V PowerShell Direct (thomasmaurer.ch)
One of the new features of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 is called

PowerShell Direct. PowerShell Direct lets you remotely connect to a Virtual Machine running on a Hyper-V host, without any network connection inside the Virtual Machine. PowerShell Direct uses the Hyper-V VMBus to connect inside the Virtual Machine. This feature is convenient if you need it for automation and configuration for Virtual Machines or if you for example messed up network configuration inside the virtual machine and you don?t have console access.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio (devblogs.microsoft.com)
While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told

us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell!

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The time has come for another update to the Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 is now

available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub!

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az (docs.microsoft.com)
The Az module has feature parity with AzureRM, but uses shorter and more consistent cmdlet names.

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.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell PKI Module – PKI Solutions Inc. (pkisolutions.com)
This module is intended to simplify various PKI and Active Directory Certificate Services management

tasks by using automation with Windows PowerShell. The module provides features and capabilities for managing and configuring Certification Authorities

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches (manning.com)
An effective DBA is an efficient DBA. And if you work with SQL Server, dbatools is a lifesaver. With

over 500 commands, this free and open source PowerShell module has the horsepower to automate just about every task you can imagine?and then some! Written by dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire and dbatools advocate Rob Sewell, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you techniques that will make you more effective?and efficient?than you ever thought possible.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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August 23, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Documenting with PowerShell (cyberdrain.com)
Chapter 1 – Server overview page
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Exit, Throw, Return, Break and Continue. A Round up (jamesone111.wordpress.com)
A great write-up on when and how to use Exit, Throw, Return, Break and Continue in your PowerShell

scripts.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Create an Azure AD App Registration (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s fully managed multi-tenant identity and

access capabilities for app service. More organizations are now harnessing the security capabilities of Azure AD into the apps they create for an additional layer of authentication. This post will cover how to register an app to Azure AD via PowerShell to take advantage of this.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Download and Install PowerCLI (adamtheautomator.com)
The PowerCLI by VMWare is the de-facto way to manage vCenter with PowerShell. In this tutorial,

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

On Windows, PowerShell vs. Bash comparison gets interesting (searchitoperations.techtarget.com)
A breaks down of the differences between Bash and PowerShell for Windows.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell 7 Preview 3 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Cool read from the PowerShell team on the latest preview release
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Recursion in PowerShell (dev.to)
Dealing with complex datasets may seem difficult in PowerShell. These datasets have unpredictable

structures and can’t be parsed easily. This the case when you need to extract all the member of an Active Directory group where member can be users and also groups that contains user and groups ?. It’s also the case with data coming from web services and API.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

SCCM Client Health Monitor Script – imab.dk (imab.dk)
The SCCM Client Health Monitor Script is a Powershell script which fixes common issues related to

SCCM client health.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Setting up PoshBot for Microsoft Teams (thelazyadministrator.com)
PoshBot is a chat bot written in PowerShell and created by DevBlackOps. ?It makes

extensive use of classes introduced in PowerShell 5.0. PowerShell modules are loaded into PoshBot and instantly become available as bot commands.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Test Web Site Availability (community.idera.com)
When a web site is unavailable, often the question is whether it?s you, or whether the web site is

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.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Troubleshooting Powershell and GraphAPI (uc.lawedo.net)
Learn some additional troubleshooting skills for Powershell and GraphAPI with a little help of

Fiddler .

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use Intune Graph API export and import Intune ADMX templates (scconfigmgr.com)
With the Intune ADMX template is now in public preview, let Zeng show you how to import and export

them with PowerShell.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

New Release: PowerCLI 11.4.0 (blogs.vmware.com)
A special pre-VMworld release: PowerCLI 11.4.0 is out and available on the PowerShell Gallery! Get

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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August 16, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Creating a Modern Home Page for the Root Site in a Tenant (sympmarc.com)
Want your SharePointOnline root site to have a modern home page? This PowerShell approach from is

easy to follow and will get you results while we wait for the ability to enable a communication site experience at the root.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Everything you wanted to know about the IF statement (powershellexplained.com)
Like many other languages, PowerShell has statements for conditionally executing code in your

scripts. One of those statements is the?if?statement. Today we will take a deep dive into one of the most fundamental commands in PowerShell.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Find an MSI by the ProductName and Uninstall It (alexandrumarin.com)
Want to uninstall an MSI but don’t know the ProductCode? You can do this with Powershell,

thanks to Alex.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Get a list of security patches installed in the last 90 days (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to get a list of all the security

patches installed in the last three months.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Module Authoring Considerations (docs.microsoft.com)
A module manifest that does not use the following guidelines can have a noticeable impact on general

PowerShell performance even if the module is not used in a session.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Steps To Create Content Type Using Visual Studio And Powershell Programmatically (c-sharpcorner.com)
In this article, you will learn about the steps to create Content Type using Visual Studio and

PowerShell programmatically for Online and On-Prem 2019.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use Docker to run PowerShell in Azure Stack (docs.microsoft.com)
Handy AzureStack tip: use Docker containers to install & run your PowerShell administration

cmdlets.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use PowerShell to change your Office ProPlus theme (cloudappie.nl)
Switching back for Windows was made easy by Lumos, but I also use Office. So it made sense to try

and set the Office theme using PowerShell as well.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AzFuncTFRegistry (github.com)
An Azure Function App written in PowerShell to host a Terraform Registry
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

AzureAutomationFormGenerator (github.com)
Azure Automation Form Generator is already helping tons of people to quickly publish and expose

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Out-GridView Returns (devblogs.microsoft.com)
It?s been almost 3 years since PowerShell Core debuted for Linux and Mac, and as we?ve increased our

cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited to announce that?Out-GridView?is debuting on all Core-supported platforms through the?GraphicalTools Module.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Preview Release of the new AWS Tools for PowerShell (aws.amazon.com)
Exciting times for our AWS PowerShell experience. We have released a preview of our new modularized

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

ChatOps the Easy Way (leanpub.com)
An in-depth guide to implementing ChatOps using PoshBot by the creator of the framework, Brandon

Olin.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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August 9, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

4 Ways to Create PowerShell Objects (ridicurious.com)
PowerShell is object based scripting language and it is good practice to create objects to return,

store and manipulate information instead of text. But are you aware that there are 4 ways to create objects in PowerShell

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Configure Windows 10 Accent Color with Intune and PowerShell (thelazyadministrator.com)
In his last two articles Brad showed you how you can set a computers desktop wallpaper and lock

screen wallpaper without having Enterprise or Education by using a PowerShell script and Intune. Now learn how to configure the Windows accent color to also match your corporate branding.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Find License Status of Windows Servers with Powershell (askme4tech.com)
A new version of the powershell script which identify windows licenses status and created in GUI

using WPF.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How To Find The Recovery Services Vault For an Azure VM With PowerShell (charbelnemnom.com)
in this article Charbel will show you how to quickly find the Recovery Services Vault a VM is a

member of with PowerShell.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Monitor Web Server Uptime with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
There are many different tools to monitor whether a web server is running or not. However, if you

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.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

SCCM Application Packager Script (sccmf12twice.com)
Package Software While You Sleep Using the SCCM Application Packager Script
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Set Corporate Lock Screen Wallpaper with Intune for Non Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education Machines (thelazyadministrator.com)
Do you love corporate synergy, or just like things to look nice? Then check out Brad’s awesome

series on doing so with Intune.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

TheShow Episode?1 (youtube.com)
PowerShell Program Manager Jason Helmick has new PowerShell video series, “TheShow”.

This is not your typical Getting Started with PowerShell type video series. This series is going to focus on the happenings and goings on around PowerShell and beyond.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Introducing the Azure File Sync DSC resource module (powershell.no)
The Azure File Sync DSC resource module contains a couple of DSC resources, which can provide

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

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Kill Elevated Processes.ps1 (github.com)
Inspired by a tweet Guy has written a PowerShell script which will check existing & newly

launched processes & if a browser (configurable) & is elevated then it will be terminated & written to the event log. Script itself must be run elevated, obviously.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell-Lumos (github.com)
A PowerShell module to automate switching between Dark and Light themes in latest Win10. Use

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Bolt Hands-on Lab (bolt.guide)
This repository contains a step-by-step introduction to Bolt and to the Bolt Tasks

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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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

The DSC Book (manning.com)
The DSC Book teaches you everything you need to know to implement DSC today! You?ll learn DSC?s

basic architecture, how to write configurations, and how to author your own DSC resources.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Which team is your organization's GIF champion? (alexholmeset.blog)
Have you ever wondered which team uses the most GIF’s? Now you will know, by using

Alexander’s fun weekend scripting project.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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August 2, 2019

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Announcing docs.microsoft.com/samples (docs.microsoft.com)
Microsoft just announce a new experience on docs.microsoft.com – a unified, company-wide code

samples browser. You can check it out on docs.microsoft.com/samples. With this release, they aim to make it easier for you to discover relevant code examples to get started, no matter what Microsoft product or service you’re using.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

AzureADAssessment (github.com)
Hey AzureAD admins! Do you already know MSCloudIdUtils.psm1? It’s a PowerShell module with

helper functions to gather configuration information of your tenant e.g. logs and reports of licenses, apps (incl. expired secrets).

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Build Docker Container for PowerShell on Raspberry Pi (trevorsullivan.net)
Let Trevor show how you can run PowerShell easily using the RaspberryPi, thanks to Docker.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Extended Intune Documentation Script (wpninjas.ch)
Thomas has updated his already awesome Intune Documentation script. It will now include AutoPilot

configurations, Compliance Policies, Exchange Connector, and may more areas. Check out his blog and Github for the complete list.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to change registry permissions with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Just about every object in Windows can set who and what can access it. The registry is no different.

Since PowerShell ties into the .NET Framework, you can change these restrictions with a script. In this post, you’re going to learn how to change registry permissions with PowerShell using the?Get-Acl?and?Set-Acl?cmdlets.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Transfer File Permissions with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Maintaining file share permissions across servers can be a major challenge but by using PowerShell,

we can automate this process allowing you to go home early.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Powershell: Everything you wanted to know about $null (powershellexplained.com)
The PowerShell?$null?often appears to be simple but it has a lot of nuances. Let?s take a close look

at?$null?so you know what happens when you unexpectedly run into a?$nullvalue.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Returning Data from PowerShell Scripts to be Consumed by Ansible Playbooks (jonathanmedd.net)
Consider the scenario where you have an Ansible playbook which executes some PowerShell code via

win_shell and you wish to consume the PowerShell output later on in the playbook. Well, you’re in luck because Jonathan can show you the quick and easy to way how.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Send Custom Notifications with Intune PowerShell SDK (timmyit.com)
Last week Microsoft released a new feature in Intune where admins now can send custom notifications

to the Company Portal app to Android and iOS devices. If you?re like Timmy (and me) and don?t want to use the Intune Portal more than absoloutly necessary, there is also the option to send notifications using the Intune PowerShell SDK.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Simple PowerShell Wrapper for the Intune Win32 Content Prep Tool (jrudlin.github.io)
Super simple PowerShell script/wrapper for the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe content prep tool to speed up

your Intune packaging pipeline

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

VsCode-PowerShell Prompt to update PowerShell Version (github.com)
Coming in the next version of the PowerShell extension for VSCode…a friendly dialog that helps

you stay up-to-date with PowerShell releases

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure PowerShell Two-Day Deep Dive Virtual Workshop (cloudskills.io)
Mike Pfeiffer, Jeff Hicks, Tim Warner, and Adam Bertram are running an Azure PowerShell Virtual Deep

Dive Workshop starting August 20th. Come hang out with them, learn something new, and get your questions answered!

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

The Azure Superpowers Workshop (github.com)
If you are interested in doing some Azure DevOps training/workshops check out this repo. It focusses

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.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Top 51 PowerShell Examples You Should Learn (sharepointsky.com)
This PowerShell tutorial explains What is Windows PowerShell? What are various tools we can use to

write PowerShell script, What are the advantages of using Windows PowerShell? And also this tutorial contains 51 top useful PowerShell examples with scripts.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

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