deploying Azure Functions Apps for production scenarios using the latest version of PowerShell.

and variables behind. It still leaves $script: scoped variables behind but I am researching how to fix that.

Graph module) comes in two versions. The general availability version is intended for production while the preview version (AzureADPreview) contains the cmdlets from the general availability version plus some new cmdlets under development group. The current version of the AzureADPreview module is 2.0.2.105, released in July.

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.

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

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.

be such a pain in the ****?

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.

has been around for decades and is crucial to any administrators toolbelt. Grep's core is simply the ability to search plain text for a RegEx pattern. Grep can search files in a given directory or streamed input to output matches.

me about, and why the extensions have been useful so far from a PowerShell perspective.

and download as a csv. Then after import downloading, you could import the csv into PowerShell to play with the data. Wouldnt it be better to get these data directly into PowerShell? What if you want only a portion of the data, or want any of the others reports there?

Directory. A good use case is if a director or VP wants to send an email to all of their direct reports, and the direct reports of those direct reports. Another use case would be if you were doing an audit comparing your HR system to what is in Active Directory. What ever the reason might be, you can use this script to get direct reports in active directory using Powershell. Pretty neat!!

group. This talk focused on how to properly setup remoting security and logging options. I talk briefly about how remoting works with some simple examples of what a real-world remoting connection looks like.

was to create PowerShell code that would create nonsense documents, with a goal of creating 10 sample files filled with gibberish.