October 29, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.4 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the fourth 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

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: setting OneDrive ownership (cyberdrain.com)
So I've been hard at work on CIPP the last couple of weeks and because of that haven't had time to

blog really. The great thing is that all of the stuff I normally blog about is pretty easy to integrate into CIPP

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Creating an API to find an Azure resource abbreviation (4bes.nl)
I have created an API to find an Azure resource abbreviation. In most naming conventions I have seen

at companies, the resource type is mentioned in the name of the resource. To save space, an abbreviation is used.

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By: Barbara Forbes submitted:Jun 16 2022

For those that were asking about splatting in PowerShell (twitter.com)
recently (where you pass a hashtable containing the parameters rather than passing named parameters

(never use positional parameters!)), you can multi-splat if you need to as I do here

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Generate PowerShell Dynamic Parameter Code (jdhitsolutions.com)
One of the topics we've discussed in the PowerShell Cmdlet Working Group is a request to make it

easier to insert dynamic parameters.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Edit Files with a Real PowerShell Text Editor (adamtheautomator.com)
Did you run a script that read a text file and discover that the file had several wrong entries? A

PowerShell text editor may come in handy in such situations. You wouldn't need to fire up an external editor. Instead, you can edit the file without leaving PowerShell. How cool is that?

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By: Amanda Punch submitted:Jun 16 2022

Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools (flxsql.com)
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs

multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK for a while, but then everything broke.

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By: Andy Levy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Saving PowerPoint Deck as a PDF – with PowerShell 7 (tfl09.blogspot.com)
This week, I got into a twitter discussion about a presenter posting their slides for delegates. My

personal preference is to always share the slides. Often, especially when I was working for an employer, I'd share a PDF of the file rather than the slides. Some decks had had a LOT of effort put in (some by inhouse graphics guys) and giving those animations away was sub-optimal for IP reasons.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

$This is a PowerShell syntax\technique I was unaware of until today.$