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May 28, 2021

Announcements!

PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
This week at Microsoft's annual Build conference, we made two announcements related to Azure Durable

Functions: Two new backend storage providers, and the General Availability of Durable Functions for PowerShell. In this post, we'll go into more details about the new capabilities that Durable Functions brings to PowerShell developers.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.2.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
PowerShell 7.2-preview.6 is out! Thanks to all the community contributors (see changelog for

details!)

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

SecretManagement Module v1.1.0 preview update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The next 1.1.0 version of SecretManagement has a number of minor fixes, but also two significant

changes, one of which is a potentially breaking change for extension authors. For more information on the changes in this release, see the CHANGELOG document. This blog discusses the primary changes, why one is potentially breaking, and is especially relevant for extension vault owners who may want to test their vault and make any changes while these updates are in a preview state.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.9 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Happy Microsoft Build 2021 and happy 2nd birthday to Windows Terminal! This release introduces

version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8. As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from the GitHub releases page. Let's get into what's new!

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By: Windows Terminal Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Invoke-Command: Compensating for slow responding computers (4sysops.com)
Sometimes, running remote code with the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-Command can take a long time to

run-and not for any reason having to do with your code itself. Connecting to older computers means that long bits of code take longer to run. Computers on the other side of slow WAN links will always be slower in responding than something close and well connected.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Most Useful PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage Exchange Online Mailboxes (o365reports.com)
Most admins prefer PowerShell over Microsoft 365 admin center to manage, report, audit, and analyze

their Exchange Online Environment. So, I have listed the top 15 useful PowerShell cmdlets for admins to manage their Exchange mailboxes efficiently.

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By: O365Reports.com submitted:Jun 16 2022

Understanding PowerShell’s Execution_Policy and Scope functionality – Part 1 (alanbonnici.com)
Windows started life as a text-based OS that had graphical elements bundled on top. Today most of

the interaction with the OS is done through the graphical interface although the underlying text-based interface still exists and is important to reach certain nooks and crannies that are not exposed graphically.

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By: chribonn submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Poshover (github.com)
A PowerShell module for sending notifications / messages using the Pushover API
By: Josh Hendricks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Top 5 Useful PowerShell Commands – YouTube (youtube.com)
If you're a PowerShell user, then you likely have a handful of commands you use on a regular basis.

Among the hundreds of cmdlets, there are likely a few useful ones that you're unaware of. Join Mike in this video as he shares his top 5 PowerShell commands!

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By: ITProTV submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I like making dumb little games in PowerShell. (reddit.com)
My latest is Hangman. Clues sourced from Wheel of Fortune.
By: u/premtech submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 21, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PlatyPS 2.0.0-Preview1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PowerShell external help files have been authored by hand or using complex tool chains and stored as

MAML XML for use as console help. MAML is cumbersome to edit by hand, and common tools and editors don't support it for complex scenarios like they do with markdown. Markdown is adopted widely by Open Source, supported by many editors including Visual Studio Code, and with minimal rules, easier to author. PlatyPS is provided as a solution to allow documenting PowerShell help in any editor or tool that supports markdown.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Announcing PSDesiredStateConfiguration on PowerShell Gallery (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Continuing our investment in DSC, we are pleased to announce the release of

PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in preparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new capabilities, but also some breaking changes.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How To Setup A Github Actions Pipeline For Publishing Your PowerShell Module (scriptingchris.tech)
In this post, I will walk through how I set up a Github Actions Workflow Pipeline for publishing a

PowerShell module to the PowerShell Gallery.

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By: Christian Hoejsager submitted:Jun 16 2022

Invoke-Command: Connecting to computers requiring different credentials (4sysops.com)
Connecting to computers that require different credentials via the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-Command

is a common occurrence. This post explains how you manage these situations.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Launch PowerShell Script From Within KeePass And Include Password Secure String Credential (sans.org)
You want to 1) launch PowerShell.exe using the KeePass password manager by double-clicking an entry

in KeePass, perhaps to run a script, 2) inject a password stored in KeePass into that PowerShell.exe process as a variable, such as for a secure string or a PSCredential object, but 3) you cannot expose the password as a command-line argument or other plaintext channel when launching PowerShell.exe because it could be logged or captured. This article will show you how to do it.

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By: Jason Fossen submitted:Jun 16 2022

Managing the Windows 10 Taskbar with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
When I'm working on a Pluralsight course, I tend to setup a virtual machine for recording. Although,

lately I've been trying with Windows 10 Sandbox. This is handy when all I need is a Windows 10 desktop. When I setup the system, I have particular settings I need to configure. Naturally I use a PowerShell script to automate the process. One item that I wanted to address was Windows 10 taskbar. When I'm recording a course, I like to have it auto-hide. Sure, I could manually set it. But that's no fun.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Moving SQL Server System Databases With PowerShell (onsb.co)
One task that I was frequently finding myself spending more time than necessary with was building

out SQL Servers. The chief time consuming task being when I'd have to move the SQL Server's default System Database and Log Files to new, dedicated database and log volumes.

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By: Dane submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pester 5 and Group-Object – Best Friends (nocolumnname.blog)
Figuring out how to group the output of your Pester tests
By: Shane O'Neill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Azure Sentinel PowerShell Notebook DNS Enrichment example (nbviewer.jupyter.org)
A lot more work to do but some start on Azure Sentinel PowerShell Notebook DNS Enrichment example
By: Nathan Swift submitted:Jun 16 2022

CSIRT-Collect (github.com)
PowerShell script to collect memory and (triage) disk forensics
By: Doug Metz submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Network Troubleshooting with PowerShell – YouTube (youtube.com)
PowerShell vs CMD for network troubleshooting
By: PowerShell Breakdown submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Get-AsciiDice.ps1 (github.com)
Easily create ascii are dice for your powershell games. You can roll them at random, or from a

number set. You can change the colors too. Limited to numbers 1-6 and a total of 10 die.

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By: smithcbp submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 14, 2021

Announcements!

Microsoft Stops Set-User Updating Phone Numbers for Azure AD Accounts (office365itpros.com)
Without any warning, Microsoft seems to have introduced a restriction to the Set-User cmdlet in the

Exchange Online management PowerShell module. The change happens when you connect a new PowerShell session to Exchange Online and the cmdlets are downloaded into a session.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Block or unblock keyboard combinations on your devices with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you how to prevent some keyboard combinations on your devices with

PowerShell.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting Remote Access (cyberdrain.com)
A friend of mine recently requested if it would be possible to document some of the types of remote

access tools that are installed on a computer, and list the possible access URLs; that way he could easily document which access methods are open and audit them once in a while to see if he...

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use PowerShell To Scan Windows 10 for Virus & Malware (techviral.net)
Windows 10 is indeed a great operating system that's powering most PCs and laptops. Windows 10

offers you more features and options than every other desktop operating system. Microsoft also provides users a free antivirus tool known as Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

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By: Amarnath Chakraborty submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Tough Love (jdhitsolutions.com)
Do you know you need to start using VSCode instead of the ISE but can't break the habit? See if this

helps?

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upload Files to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate Desktop (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
In this blog post, we are going to have a look at how you can automatically upload files to an Azure

Blob storage account using Power Automate Desktop. Power Automate Desktop is a great tool to build automation on your desktop. You can create flows,?interact with everyday tools such as email and excel and work with modern and legacy applications.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Copy-MSTeamsTeam (github.com)
While Microsoft provides avenues to easily clone a Team whether using the Teams client or Graph

API's clone URL. The cloning isn't as robust as it could be, both avenues miss key components that an administrator may want to clone, like but not limited to private channels. This script not only copies the group's public channels, but its private channels, and private channel members including their correct roles. It's also been my experience while the Teams client will copy guest Teams members, using clone from the Graph API doesn't. This script, however, will.

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By: thetolkienblackguy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Show file download time & rate (pastebin.com)
How long did it take (roughly) to download that file and what was the average download speed?

Assuming file not modified since download, here's PowerShell to do it

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure Functions University – HTTP Lesson (PowerShell) – YouTube (youtube.com)
Hi serverless friends! We have a new video for Azure Functions University ????? where @Ba4bes shows

how to create HTTP triggered functions written in PowerShell!

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Tech in 5 minutes: M365 Universal Print (cyberdrain.com)
In about 5 minutes, I'll walk you through what Universal Print is, what is isn't, and how to deploy

a shared printer via Universal Print

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 7, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the second preview of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework to rapidly

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Az 5.9 is out! (docs.microsoft.com)
Checkout the new features of Az.AKS - attach / detach an Azure Container Registry (ACR) to an Azure

Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) and reset the service principal of an existing AKS cluster !

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By: Azure PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pester 5.2.0 is out (github.com)
Code coverage works, including report! And more
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Deploying Temporary Access passwords (cyberdrain.com)
So last time I spoke about Passwordless but skimped over the new feature TAP. TAP stands for

Temporary Access Password and TAP is actually pretty cool, especially for MSPs deploying loads of devices. The TAP is a generated password th at has a maximum amount of uses...

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

From PowerShell to Payload: An Analysis of Weaponized Malware (huntress.com)
Click, boom, and your network is compromised. All a hacker needs is one successful exploit and you

could have a very bad day. Recently, we uncovered one artifact that we would like to break down and showcase. We will get "into the wee ds" here and really deep-dive on the technical details, so put on your ear protection and let's walk down range...

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By: John Hammond submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use PowerShell to Remove OneDrive Files Found by a Content Search (practical365.com)
Recently, while working on some Content Searches, a question came up on how to perform selective

deletion of OneDrive documents found in the searches. While you can remove email using a content search action, Office 365 doesn't includ e a method to cleanup OneDrive documents found by content searches....

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By: Damian Scoles submitted:Jun 16 2022

Run PowerShell scripts or commands to your Azure Windows VM from Cloud Shell (markou.me)
I am pretty sure that you have already have found out that you can run PowerShell scripts or

Commands within your VMs using the Azure Portal or the Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI modules....

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By: George Markou submitted:Jun 16 2022

Send a mail using the current outlook user account without to provide credentials with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you how to send a mail using the current outlook user account without to

provide credentials....

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using the new PowerShell profiler to profile `Export-Excel` (twitter.com)
Using the new PowerShell profiler to profile `Export-Excel` and then use `Export-Excel` to export

the trace, and apply a data bar

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Make your code faster with Profiler (powershellmagazine.com)
Making PowerShell code faster has always been a difficult task. There are few DOs and DON'Ts of

writing fast PowerShell code, but until now there was not a good way to measure what is actually happening. This changes with my new Profiler module....

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By: Jakub Jares submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Releases V2.3.0 of the Teams PowerShell Module (office365itpros.com)
On April 30, 2021, Microsoft published V2.3.0 of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module in the

PowerShell Gallery. Welcome as any update is, the publication was unaccompanied by any announcement or notification, and Microsoft didn't up date the release notes for the module until late on May 3. Even with the release notes, we don't know exactly what V2.3.0 contains, so it's time for inspired interpre...

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pglet (pglet.io)
Web app to run PowerShell commands on a computer from anywhere
By: Feodor Fitsner submitted:Jun 16 2022

TlsConfig (github.com)
Imagine how great it would be if all you had to do to get secure TLS settings on your box were

running: Set-TlsConfiguration -EnableSecure -DisableInsecure Fortunately it IS that simple with the new PowerShell module TlsConfig

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automating SSLabs testing using PowerShell – YouTube (youtube.com)
Clem Messerli demos a script he wrote to automate the testing of a website SSL settings. The script

leverages the SSLabs API to test websites from the command line. Clem walks through why he is using the various settings that he added to his script. This is an excellent example of how API's can be leveraged to automate a task and query for certain suspect security settings.

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By: Clem Messerli submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Counting Down Events with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
We just finished a very successful virtual edition of the PowerShell+DevOps Global Summit. We lost

our 2020 event to the pandemic but fortunately, the people at The DevOps Collective were able to pull together a fantastic virtual even t. There were as many virtual attendees as we normally have at the in person event. But of course, we are all looking forward to next year when we can gather again in...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun with PSWordCloud (twitter.com)
Fun PowerShell things I made that bring me simple joys
By: Joe Sallow submitted:Jun 16 2022

Happy Birthday Song (reddit.com)
With Beep Tones in PowerShell Script (My Cake day)
By: u/hackoofr submitted:Jun 16 2022

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