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May 29, 2020

Announcements!

Pester 5.0.0 Released (github.com)
Come check out all the new features available in the latest version of Pester.
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

ARM Template what-if deployment (4bes.nl)
Last year at Microsoft Ignite, the private preview of the ARM template what-if option was

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.

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By: Barbara Forbes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Converting Pester V4 to Pester V5 basics (evotec.xyz)
Now that Pester V5 is out, I decided that I need to make sure that my Pester tests for all my

modules keep on running correctly. Some substantial changes in Pester add new features, changing some things, but that also means all the tests that you have defined most likely will need a small push to get it up and running again on Pester V5. Starting this blog post, I wanted to mention that I am by no means an expert on Pester, but I do use it for some time now for most of my projects. I am using basic functionality, but even that basic functionality stops working once you upgrade from PesterV4 to PesterV5, so I thought I would save you some time and give you a small overview of how you can quickly fix it. It works for me, but you may have to find your way to fix things.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Getting Started with OpenSSL and PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Generating SSL certificates can be a daunting task, one filled with frustration and sorrow. But it

doesn't have to be that way! If you are struggling with SSL certificates for your webpages and servers, keep reading.

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By: Bill Kindle submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Classes and Enums (pipehow.tech)
Learn how to write them, and hopefully why!
By: Emanuel Palm submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers (reddit.com)
now removes provisioned packages too: bug or feature?
By: u/Fs00 submitted:Jun 16 2022

So *That’s* What OutBuffer Is For! (toastit.dev)
OutBuffer has been lurking in amongst the common parameters on most cmdlets for years, but I've

never taken the time to ask what it's for.

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By: Josh King submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Announcing Central Management Deployments (chocolatey.org)
We are gearing up for the 3rd release of Chocolatey Central Management (CCM), and this one will

include an amazing feature that many of you may have been waiting for - managing endpoints with a full Chocolatey solution! We are really excited to share with you what Central Management Deployments will offer and how you can get your hands on it!

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By: Chocolatey submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fish-like prompt that autoshrinks your current directory listing (reddit.com)
As a long time fish shell user who recently returned to Windows, I really wanted to recreate the

prompt from the fish shell, so I wrote a little script to do it! It's my first Powershell script, and I'm amazed by how easy it is to script things; it's just like C#!

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By: Thomas Tay submitted:Jun 16 2022

jX509ToOpenSSH (github.com)
PowerShell functions to convert Windows X509Certificate2 objects to OpenSSH public key format to use

for SSH authentication.

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By: jimmy58663 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Layer 2 Host Discovery With Powershell In Under A Second (xkln.net)
Fast LAN scanner, finds hosts on a /24 in under a second, even if the firewall is blocking pings
By: mdjx submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Teams Reporting using PowerShell (o365reports.com)
Recently, Microsoft Teams' usage has been increasing tremendously. This increased the need of

generating reports on Microsoft Teams on daily basis. Most admins and executives want to prepare reports on the number of meetings between users, meeting participants, call times, and more. But Microsoft is yet to provide the cmdlets or API to extract those data from Office 365.

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By: Kathy Cooper submitted:Jun 16 2022

OnedriveMapper 4.00 released (lieben.nu)
With version 4.00 OnedriveMapper now fully supports 'Modern' Authentication
By: Jos Lieben submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Mobile PowerShell Needed? (powershell.city)
I have always wanted to get my mittens on a mobile iteration of the prized management tool.
By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 22, 2020

Announcements!

Windows Package Manager Preview (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are thrilled to announce the Windows Package Manager preview!
By: Demitrius Nelon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal 1.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are incredibly proud to announce the release of Windows Terminal 1.0!
By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Azure ARM template deploymentScripts (yobyot.com)
After you finish reading this post and experimenting with the Azure sample template below, you may

never again have to write a nested or linked template.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Team May 2020 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
A great summary of what the PowerShell team at Microsoft has been up to.
By: Steve Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Powershell in Azure Functions (kareldewinter.com)
In this first part of a multi-series blog, I will explain why and how we should use Azure Functions

and PowerShell together. Next, I will show you how to deploy a PowerShell based Function.

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By: Karel De Winter submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Az.Functions 1.0.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Microsoft Azure PowerShell - Azure Functions service cmdlets for Azure Resource Manager in Windows

PowerShell and PowerShell Core.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Advanced PowerShell Debugging Techniques (youtube.com)
In this video, I show you how to use some advanced PowerShell debugging techniques. We look at how

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.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Automate Azure tasks using scripts with PowerShell (docs.microsoft.com)
Install Azure PowerShell locally and use it to manage Azure resources.
By: Microsoft Learn TV submitted:Jun 16 2022

TheShow:20:E3-VSCode-Enable ISE Mode (youtube.com)
PowerShell 7 is released! Wanna use the latest features AND get the best #PowerShell performance,

but wish it was in the ISE? I got something better for you! VSCode + PowerShell Extension + Enable ISE Mode.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Friday Fun with PowerShell and ANSI (jdhitsolutions.com)
Ever since PowerShell 7 came along, I've been having a lot of fun exploring what I can do with ANSI

color escape sequences. And actually, even in Windows PowerShell you can use them. Although you need to use a different escape character. Run Get-PSReadlineOption to see what I'm talking about.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Mathematics, PowerShell and the Universe (twitter.com)

By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 15, 2020

Announcements!

Free PowerShell weekend! (app.itpro.tv)
On May 16 - 17 , 2020, PowerShell Basics & PowerShell Scripting courses will be part of the free

membership. 40+ hours of free IT training!

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By: IT Pro TV submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.0.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)

By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A PowerShell Network Monitor (jdhitsolutions.com)
I hope you've been trying your hand at the scripting challenges being posted on the Iron Scripter

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.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remote Computer Inventory with PowerShell vNext, 2020 Edition – SignalWarrant.com (signalwarrant.com)
This is the successor to the first inventory script I put together in 2016

(https://www.signalwarrant.com/remote-computer-inventory-powershell/) This version uses the Get-CIMInstance CMDlet to get all the information from the WMI classes as opposed to the WMI CMDlets. I have also added some additional information that I thought was relevant. If you can think of anything else that may be good to add let me know, or submit a Pull Request on Github.

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By: David Hall submitted:Jun 16 2022

Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces (thomasmaurer.ch)
Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces.

Visual Studio Codespaces allows you to do cloud-hosted development for wherever you're working. While the new services support many different programming and scripting languages, it also supports PowerShell. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can write PowerShell code online in a web browser using Visual Studio Codespaces.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell 7 Video Series (devblogs.microsoft.com)
As a part of our PowerShell 7 release, the PowerShell Team put together a series of videos

explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group gatherings, we have decided to make these videos available publicly on the PowerShell Team YouTube channel.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Serverless Event-based Automation with PowerShell & Azure Functions (youtube.com)
Automate and manage your cloud-native, hybrid, and even on-premises resources using PowerShell.

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

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By: Microsoft Mechanics submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

A PowerShell Counting Challenge (ironscripter.us)
It is time for a new PowerShell scripting challenge. Today's challenge is targeted at beginner and

intermediate skill levels, although everyone is welcome to try their hand. To get the most out of the challenge you should do as much of all challenges posted. And really do it. Commit code to a file and not merely in your head. The best learning comes by actually doing. As always, you are encouraged to post links to your work in the comments.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

The face you make when someone says PowerShell is dead. (twitter.com)
Glad I don't know any of those people.
By: BC Security submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 8, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

C# to PowerShell an Introduction (blog.truesec.com)
I, like most C# developers, had heard about PowerShell since it came out. I originally shunned

PowerShell as 'just a scripting language' and assumed it could never do what I could do with a custom C# tool. Over the past year I have learned how very wrong I was. In this article I will try to highlight some information about PowerShell I found useful during my transition.

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By: Tim Davis submitted:Jun 15 2022

Excel Charts from PowerShell data (powershell.city)
Looking to make Reports more sharing friendly? Script Time!!!!
By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jun 15 2022

Get Installed PowerShell Versions (jdhitsolutions.com)
The problem I had was to remotely query a Windows system and determine what versions of PowerShell

were installed. For servers, you can use Get-WindowsFeature to check if PowerShell-V2 is installed. But what about PowerShell Core, PowerShell 7, or even a preview build? My solution was to query the registry.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

OneDrive Known Folders and PowerShell Module Installations (office365itpros.com)
The OneDrive Known Folder Move feature has been around for a couple of years. Basically, this allows

you to redirect common (well-known) folders from your PC to OneDrive so that anything created in Documents, Pictures, and the desktop is automatically saved in your OneDrive for Business account. Generally, everything works well, and I have been very happy. Except until the time came to update the Azure Active Directory preview module from 2.0.2.77 to 2.0.2.89.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Helper Scripts for Windows Terminal (jdhitsolutions.com)
I've spent some time over the last few days getting my Windows Terminal setup in order. Hopefull you

saw my recent post about backing up my settings.json file. I've also put together a few other simple PowerShell scripts that I use to make Windows Terminal even easier to use and manage.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces (thomasmaurer.ch)
Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

A great reminder from skatterbrainzz (twitter.com)
Don't forget (on Windows at least) you can append "| clip" to output statements to go directly to

the clipboard for faster pasting into other things. Ex. "get-process | clip".

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By: skatterbrainzz submitted:Jun 15 2022

A PowerShell Windows Terminal Toolbox (jdhitsolutions.com)
Last week I shared some PowerShell code I had been using to manage different aspects of Windows

Terminal. I also had posted a script to backup my Windows Terminal settings file. With all that code, plus other ideas brewing, it only made sense to bundle everything together into a PowerShell module.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

BridgeConf videos (youtube.com)
If you're looking for the BridgeConf videos they not on the BridgeConf YouTube channel. They are

here.

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By: PNWPSUG submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Get-MomFlowers (reddit.com)
Don't forget Mother's Day is this Sunday. (In the US that is)
By: u/sleightof52 submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 1, 2020

Announcements!

vscode-powershell Release v2020.4.3-preview (github.com)
Come check out what's new with the PowerShell extension for VS Code.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Checking for SQL Server Updates with dbatools (flxsql.com)
For the longest time, I've been checking my SQL Server instances to see what needs patching with

Test-DbaBuild from the dbatools PowerShell module. But the result was always the same - it never returned a Service Pack or Cumulative Update target. I glossed over it because I knew what the right answer was already, but recently I decided that wasn't good enough. We need a reliable report to give to other people.

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By: Andy Levy submitted:Jun 15 2022

Combine Two JSON Files With PowerShell (jonathanmedd.net)
Over the years I've used a few different methods to combine two JSON files using PowerShell, but

today I found a neat way to do it, so thought I would document it here for easy recall next time I need to do it.

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By: Jonathan Medd submitted:Jun 15 2022

Creating Azure DevOps WIKI Pages from within a pipeline – part 1 – Stefan Stranger (stefanstranger.github.io)
Everything you need to know to create really cool documentation directly from an ARM Template during

a pipeline build.

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By: Stefan Stranger submitted:Jun 15 2022

If you want to see all scheduled tasks in a single pane (twitter.com)
Another great sweet and slick tip from Guy.
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell ternary operator tips (itluke.online)
Like you probably know, the PowerShell ternary operator ? : is the equivalent of the If/Then/Else

statement.

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By: Luc Fullenwarth submitted:Jun 15 2022

Teams PowerShell [001] (powershellgeek.com)
I've decided to see what I can do with PowerShell to manage and work with this setup . and blogging

about it! So this will be an entire series on Teams PowerShell - including interlocking aspects like Skype, Azure AD and Exchange PowerShell.

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By: Damian Scoles submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows: Find and eliminate Duplicate Files with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
We are living in a big data world which is both a blessing and a curse. Big data usually means a

huge number of files such as photos and videos and finally a huge amount of storage space. Files are accidentally or deliberately moved from location to location without first considering that these duplicate files consumes more and more storage space. I want to change that with you in this blog post. We will search duplicate files and then move them to a different storage location for further review.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

A simple Health-check / Inventory Dashboard for WVD (v-desktops.com)
So, we thought, why not build a quick healthcheck dashboard using powershell.. and the result is a

powershell based healthcheck and / Or documentation dashboard. Customers may use this to perform their day to day checks before start of business to ensure the WVD availability. and at the same time be able to keep track of their inventory on WVD.

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By: Surendra Dhondale submitted:Jun 15 2022

List all Devices in Device Manager (twitter.com)
Nice, if you need the DeviceHardwareID + want/have to use your webcam as generic usb device in

Citrix.

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By: Thorsten E. submitted:Jun 15 2022

Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell 16.0.20017.12000 (powershellgallery.com)
New SharePoint Online Management Shell version available - April 2020 monthly release

(16.0.20017.12000)

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 15 2022

Never write a batch wrapper again (reddit.com)
The purpose of this post is to share a batch script wrapper for powershell scripts with the goal

that you don't have to reinvent the wheel and write one yourself.

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By: u/TheIncorrigible1 submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

The Anatomy of a PowerShell Command (freecontent.manning.com)
A great abstract from the book "Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches: Linux and macOS Edition" by

Travis Plunk. And a great refresher for those who've been using PowerShell for years.

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By: Travis Plunk submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Building a Network Usage PowerShell Monitor (ironscripter.us)
The Chairman has issued a new PowerShell scripting challenge if you feel you are worthy of accepting

it. These challenges are meant to not only prove your worth as a PowerShell Warrior but to also help educate and hone your skills. You are encouraged to post links to your work and solutions in the comments so that others may learn from your wisdom and experience.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 15 2022

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