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January 28, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Difference between GetTempFileName() and GetRandomFileName() that got my ass kicked (evotec.xyz)
Today's story is about me making assumptions on how things work based on the method's name.
By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

How To Connect To Microsoft Graph API Using PowerShell (thesysadminchannel.com)
Microsoft has confirmed on multiple occasions that the Azure AD Graph Endpoint is deprecated and

will fully be decommissioned on June 30, 2022.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jun 16 2022

Multiplatform reading EXIF data in Powershell 7 (reddit.com)
I am attempting to get EXIF metadata using a Powershell 7 script
By: u/_ReeX_ submitted:Jun 16 2022

Only One Join-Path Is Needed (nocolumnname.blog)
Learning from my mistakes aka Failing Up
By: Shane O'Neill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using PowerShell with $PSStyle (4sysops.com)
PowerShell 7.2 introduced the automatic variable $PSStyle for a new feature called PSAnsiRendering.

In this post, I show you how you can use ANSI rendering to control text decorations, such as color and font styling, in PowerShell.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Want to “tail” a text file in real-time? (twitter.com)
Get-Content (alias gc) will do it
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Recently there's been a number of users who have encountered a particular bug with PowerShellGet

1.0.0.1 in Windows PowerShell. This bug occurs when you try to to use a PowerShellGet cmdlet that is dependent on PackageManagement

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By: Amber Erickson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BicepDev (github.com)
Functions to support and speed up development of Bicep templates
By: justacurley submitted:Jun 16 2022

MCW-Backup (github.com)
A Powershell script that automate the process of create backups for your Minecraft worlds, both

Bedrock and Java Edition on Windows.

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By: Kevin Luna submitted:Jun 16 2022

Open Source YouTube PowerShell Module (github.com)
A PowerShell module to manage YouTube content.
By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

OSDCloud Sandbox for OSD Windows Autopilot is ready to go (osdcloud.com)
OSDCloud Sandbox is created to simplify the WinPE and OOBE OSD process. This is a new concept based

on PSCloudScript

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By: David Segura submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Making a “choose your own adventure” game in PowerShell (reddit.com)
Questions around creating your own game in PowerShell
By: u/FlaccoPastorius submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 21, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Active Directory: Find users based on Attributes and add them to a Group with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
Active Directory objects are usually stored in organizational units. Sometimes these organizational

units don't refer to the site where the users work.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Behind the PowerShell Pipeline (jdhitsolutions.com)
Last week I made some passing references on Twitter to a new project I am working on this year. I

thought I'd take a little time to explain it and hopefully entice a few of you into joining me.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

For those that work in IT Admin, what are the key Powershell Commands that every admin should know? (reddit.com)
A great discuss on r/PowerShell about what cmdlets to learn
By: u/mrEnigma86 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Getting new Secure App Model tokens (cyberdrain.com)
Since I've released CIPP I've been getting a load of questions about the Secure Application Model,

one of the most common occurrences happens to be that users somehow don't get their tokens setup completely, and need to retrieve these again.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Just been asked to try to speed up a PowerShell loop (twitter.com)
notice how much slower Get-Date is than using -as or a cast. Using -as also has the advantage that

it doesn't error with bad date format it just returns $null which you can check for. Use TryParseExact for non-standard ones

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring battery health (cyberdrain.com)
This one was requested by several users for a while, I added this to some script libraries but never

actually released it on the blog so I figured it's a good way to get back into blogging.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Recently there's been a number of users who have encountered a particular bug with PowerShellGet

1.0.0.1 in Windows PowerShell. This bug occurs when you try to to use a PowerShellGet cmdlet that is dependent on PackageManagement, including cmdlets such as Find-Module, Install-Module, Save-Module, etc.

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By: Amber Erickson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Audit-UserShare (github.com)
Need to find all old user accounts who have home directories? How about old directories that have no

user?

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By: Foyerr submitted:Jun 16 2022

Sentinel-Queries/Device-PowershellConnectingtoInternet.kql (github.com)
Find users that are connecting to internet endpoints via PowerShell commands
By: reprise99 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Lets Chat: PowerShell Getting Started EP1 – YouTube (youtube.com)
This the first video in a series on how to learn to code with PowerShell. The goal of this series is

to slowly ramp things up over time but we'll start with an assumption that you're here with little to no programming, or PowerShell knowledge.

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By: JordanTheItGuy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

PowerShell Painting (tommymaynard.com)
Sorry this was just too cute not to share!
By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 14, 2022

Announcements!

PowerCLI 12.5 – What’s New (blogs.vmware.com)
Today, We have released PowerCLI 12.5 and with this, we are continuing to expand our cmdlet coverage

to various VMware products and solutions. Below are some of the key highlights out of this release-

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By: VMware submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Copy PowerShell History Command (jdhitsolutions.com)
I thought I'd share a short but useful PowerShell utility. This is something that is very handy when

I am writing. As you know, PowerShell maintains a command history in your PowerShell session. You can view history with the Get-History cmdlet or its alias h. To re-rerun a command use Invoke-History or its alias...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to control media playback in powershell (reddit.com)
How do you control media playback in powershell ?
By: u/Stride_44 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using WordPress API’s with PowerShell (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
This blog uses WordPress. Why WordPress? Well, it was the most prevalent platform when I started

this blog back in 2016 and it was more powerful and extensible than Blogger which I had used previously. Anyway, that's rather irrelevant for this post which about accessing WordPress APIs with PowerShell..

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Download and extract the latest AzCopy (Windows 64-bit) executable into a specified folder (wmatthyssen.com)
AzCopy is a free command-line tool that is offered by Microsoft. It allows you to easily copy and

transfer data (data migration) from and to Azure storage. It is designed for high performance transfers and can be deployed on both Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Linux systems, but also on macOS.

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By: Wim Matthyssen submitted:Jun 16 2022

Prerelease of PSFunctionTools for PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
At the end of last year wrote a series of blog posts describing tools and techniques for working

with PowerShell scripts and functions. My goal was to build a framework of tools that I could use to automate PowerShell scripting work, such as creating a new module from a group of existing files. I've finally...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I made a little multiplication game for my daughter (reddit.com)
My daughter is working on learning multiplication in school so I was inspired to make a small

program that would test her skills.

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By: u/Ecrofirt submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Community Call (github.com)
Jan 20th, 2022
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 7, 2022

Announcements!

What are your best Posh tips & tricks? (twitter.com)
Awesome Twitter thread
By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating SonarCloud with PowerShell (jonathanmedd.net)
Part 3 Onboarding a User
By: Jonathan Medd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Discovering Pester Tags with the PowerShell AST (jdhitsolutions.com)
As I resolved at the end of last year, I am doing more with Pester in 2022. I'm getting a bit more

comfortable with Pester 5 and as my tests grow in complexity I am embracing the use of tags. You can add tags to different Pester test elements.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Perform Active Directory security assessment using PowerShell (4sysops.com)
My Active Directory security assessment script pulls important security facts from Active Directory

and generates nicely viewable reports in HTML format by highlighting the spots that require attention. The script manipulates user data using facts collected with benchmark values.

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By: Krishnamoorthi Gopal submitted:Jun 16 2022

What career or jobs can I use PowerShell most effectively with? (reddit.com)
It seems like the one the continually comes up is sysadmin however, are there other positions that

could use it?

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By: u/redditacct320 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BuildM365Apps.ps1 (github.com)
Set up #M365 Apps with a single script
By: Gary Blok submitted:Jun 16 2022

Log4ShellDetection (github.com)
This is written in PowerShell, targets Windows, and is meant to find Log4Shell vulnerabilities

wherever they may be

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By: Ryan Ephgrave submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Investigating WMI Backdoors in Windows With Loki Yara Scanner | TryHackMe Investigating Windows 2.0 – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this video walk-through, we covered investigating a compromised Windows machine with WMI

Backdoors. This was part of TryHackMe Investigating Windows 2.0 lab.

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By: Motasem Hamdan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Jumpstart: PowerShell Learning Resources (networkadm.in)
Some people prefer books, others prefer blogs, some prefer videos and some prefer interactive tools.

I have put together a list of resources you can use a reference for places to learn and practice PowerShell.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Play Wordle, the Puzzle Game Using PowerShell (thelazyadministrator.com)
I recently came across a NYTimes article talking about a new game called, 'Wordle.' If you are not

familiar with the game, its a text-based game where you have 6 tries to guess the word. Letters in a Gray box are not letters found in the word. Letters in a Yellow box are found in the word, but are in the incorrect spot. And finally, letters in a Green box are in the word and in the correct location.

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Jun 16 2022

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