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Using a concept called Adaptive Cards, Teams allows you to create and customize various cards in Teams via JSON. You could create them by typing up some JSON but it's much more fun to create them with incoming Teams webhooks and a little PowerShell!

off-hand remark about parsing out organizational unit names from a distinguished name. On one hand, this is a pretty simple task, assuming a proper distinguished name from the Active Directory cmdlets. All you really need to do is split the string.

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).

since I "dot" sourced a half dozen files

need to secure that sensitive information! One way to do that is with the PowerShell SecretManagement module. Offering a convenient way for a user to store and retrieve secrets using PowerShell, the SecretManagement module also has the ability to interface with different back-end systems such as Azure KeyStore or KeePass too using an extension vault!

the functions are designed to work with eachother. Functions that gather information on users or computers can be piped into functions that take an action. For instance, you can pipe a function that returns computers that have not logged onto the network for 30 days into a function that disables computer accounts. In a single line of code, you can disable all the inactive computers in active directory. There are a wide variety of functions that perform other tasks like sending magic packets for wake on lan, measuring directory and sub-directory sizes, gathering large files, and other tasks. Every function is fully documented and works with the Get-Help function.

command can be used with almost any app and open the windows app directly:

now possible with PowerShell Core!

due to COVID-19. Now using PowerShell, you can get your registered polling places based on your address, all early voting locations around you, and drop off ballot locations. All of the information is retrieved using Google's Civic Information API.

PowerShell. For basic forms, we suggest using Universal Automation. For advanced forms, we suggest using Universal Dashboard.

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.

convert, let's say 1000 or more? Would you open each documents seperately and click on save? Bad idea. In this blog post I will give you a PowerShell function at hand which enables you to convert multiple documents with a single command. This procedure is called automation ;-). Let's dive in.

luck. In this article, you're going to learn how to manage scheduled tasks using PowerShell.

now, but always in separate functions.

office container have less then 10 % free space

I looked at the UnixCompleters module from the PowerShell Team. It provides tab completion for native Linux commands in PowerShell.

PowerShell. As I mentioned in that article, PowerShell ships with a number of custom views for different types of objects.

kind of strange of relying on a third party closed service to generate and send passwords to clients. You're not 100% in control and often it misses some form of functionality like a password generator or somesuch.

deploy the Secure Defaults centrally, so I figured I would try to help with this.

that I need in a form that I want. Here's a good example. Running Get-Process is simple enough and the output is pretty complete. But one thing that would make it better for me, is that sometimes I want an easy way to see high-memory use properties. Yes, I can pipe Get-Process to Sort-Object and Where-Object. However, in this particular situation, what I really want is to see high-memory usage processes displayed in red. Maybe those that are getting close to my arbitrary limit I'd like to see in Yellow. This isn't that difficult to achieve using ANSI escape sequences.

stumbled across a cmdlet I was not familiar with: Invoke-Item. His tips page included a one liner that stated:

and testing, for example. You do many repetitive actions like clicking on buttons and links, login, run a search, and click some more. Good thing there's Selenium and PowerShell.

through the user interface, PowerShell provides several methods for rebooting a computer remotely.

by a scope, writing them back to onpremises Active Directory, including group memberships.

open the curtains or look outside the window.

PowerShell, I encourage you to download this game.

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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.

the steps manually can be easily forgotten and re-signing needs to happen after every script change. Because I like CI/CD topics and have not found a solution on the internet I decided to build a solution based on Azure capabilities. Furthermore, I wanted a solution which does not require to hand out the code signing certificate to the respective script author which can be useful if you have a bunch of people writing PowerShell scripts.

in PowerShell scripts. I am talking about Break, Return and Exit. I will use three examples for explanation. Let's jump in.

can fix them easily. Or just report and let the community do the work.

effort it takes to manage and configure Windows. But much like the blue shell in Mario Kart, it can also wreak havoc when it's used as an attack mechanism. It has access to things like file systems, registries, certificate stores, and a whole host of other sensitive data.

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

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what are they most excited for in the future and how PowerShell has expanded from being an optional Windows component to a fully-fledged, open-source scripting and automation language supported on dozens of platforms. Join us to learn more about PowerShell, how PowerShell is applied to solve real-world challenges, and what drives the ever-growing community of PowerShell enthusiasts around the world.

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

format. That is to say, the top-level directories in a specified path.

.NET 5.0.0-rc.1. Given the impact of these regressions, particularly in interactive scenarios on non-Windows systems, we will only be publishing PowerShell v7.1.0-rc.1 packages for Windows and Linux, skipping macOS until v7.1.0-rc.2 is available with the proper fixes.

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

what's changed and started browsing and comparing the various settings via the admin portal. Then I realized how that's not very optimal, and began looking for alternatives. I eventually got myself into trying something new, and went on to compare the Security Baselines Profiles using Powershell and the Microsoft Graph. The result of that journey is this post.

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.

macOS, Linux, and Windows.

since most of the actions it performs against devices are made in Powershell, I thought it might be the right place to promote it.

previous state. It hooks the main Runspace's availability event to store session state as CLIXML. If you close your PS terminal and open a new one, you can run Restore-Terminal to set variables, location and import modules you had in your previous session.

Metro Design GUI.

I looked at PSGraph. PSGraph is a module that provides a domain specific language for working with Graphviz. You can create diagrams really easily and output them as images.