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March 25, 2022

Announcements!

Release v7.3.0-preview.3 (github.com)
Come get the latest PowerShell Preview release now!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Configuring PowerShell 7 With Group Policy (tfl09.blogspot.com)
Group policy is a feature of Windows Server Active Directory which automagically deploys groups of

policies to users and computers. A policy is some computer setting you wish to enforce, such as which screen saver to use, what desktop background to use, or what the default execution policy should be.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

Connect Azure Cloud Shell to Virtual Network vNet (thomasmaurer.ch)
As you know, Azure Cloud Shell is a great management tool to manage your Azure resources. Azure

Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to create a Jira ticket using PowerShell (doitpsway.com)
The possibility to create Jira tickets in an automated can be very handy. But it can be a little bit

tricky because Jira is quite customizable and therefore there is no universal PowerShell function that will work for everybody.

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By: Ondrej Sebela submitted:Jun 16 2022

I’m too lazy to put text I want to search for into the clipboard from a PowerShell window (twitter.com)
get a new browser tab & paste it in to get search results so I added $google variable to my $profile

so I can search thus

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Use PowerShell to get your OneDrive Sync status (cloudappie.nl)
The OneDrive Sync client makes it easy to sync your files. Event with selective sync you can just

right-click to download everything. The only downside was that the site collection contained around 250 GB of content.

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By: Albert-Jan Schot submitted:Jun 16 2022

When is it NOT a good idea to use PowerShell? (reddit.com)
Another great topic and discussion from Reddit.
By: u/DenverITGuy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows PowerShell disk management (4sysops.com)
In this series I will introduce you to Windows PowerShell disk management. In today's post I review

some general disk management concepts.

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By: Surender Kumar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Building PowerShell Module – YouTube (youtube.com)
how to organise your source files and build with ease
By: Kamil Pro submitted:Jun 16 2022

Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition (manning.com)
Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, 4th Ed being released on March 31st
By: Travis Plunk, James Petty, Tyler Leonhardt, Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Reddit Powershell Episode 1 – YouTube (youtube.com)
Starting to record my reddit PowerShell sessions in case it helps out any beginners
By: Intermediate IT submitted:Jun 16 2022

Sysmon for Linux PowerShell Module – YouTube (youtube.com)
SysmonLinux.Util is a PowerShell module for working with the Syslog events generated by Microsofts

Sysmon for Linux. This is a brief intro to the module and how it can be leverage for working with the logs and easier Sysmon configuration rule creation.

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By: Carlos Perez submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I know it feels like PowerShell has been around here forever and I guess it has. (twitter.com)
@jsnover hasn't aged a bit!
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 18, 2022

Announcements!

AsBuiltReport.Microsoft.AD v0.7.0! (github.com)
Check out what's new!
By: AsBuiltReport submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A great discussion on Twitter about when to use PowerShell vs C# (twitter.com)
Whenever I review PowerShell from someone who is really good at it, I'm always envious. But

sometimes, when there is a lot of code...I think to myself, this would be better in a .NET app, for testability

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By: David Pine submitted:Jun 16 2022

Building a Discord Bot in PowerShell and Azure Functions (blog.dcrich.net)
I like using Discord to accomplish stuff. But I'm no programmer. That leaves me with little space to

operate in; making a Discord bot is hardT. I've made some scripts for my own usage that integrate with Discord bots, but they've always been for my own use only.

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By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 16 2022

Convert Dynamic Distribution Lists to Teams (office365itpros.com)
After writing about the recent revamp of Exchange Online dynamic distribution lists, I was asked if

it was possible to create a team from the membership of a dynamic distribution list. The answer is that the steps are straightforward to create a static Microsoft 365 group. Things get more complicated if you contemplate using a dynamic Microsoft 365 group.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Creating and publishing PowerShell Modules to Azure Artifacts with Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines (faun.pub)
PowerShell Modules are very useful and can save a lot of time if well designed and created. Check on

this post how to create and pack a basic PowerShell Module, and publish it into Azure Artifact using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines.

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By: Wesley Camargo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get-CIMInstance Vs Get-WMIObject: What’s The Difference? (networkadm.in)
Sysadmins have been using WMI for years, and then Microsoft gave us data access via CIM with the

rollout of PowerShell v3.0. What's the difference between these management interfaces? Which one should you use, and why?

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Quickly Open PowerShell for Folder (community.idera.com)
In Windows Explorer, when you navigate to a folder, you can easily open a classic cmd or a

PowerShell console with the current folder set as current path.

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Variable name with a space in it? O_o (reddit.com)
For those who have ever had to deal with this.
By: u/bee_administrator submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Introducing PSProjectStatus (jdhitsolutions.com)
I write a lot of PowerShell modules. And probably like you, I am working on more than one project at

a time. I was finding it difficult to keep track of what I was working on and what I might be neglecting. So I turned to PowerShell and created a tool that I use to keep on top of my projects.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Invoke-ParameterisedSqlQuery.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Invoke-SqlCmd doesn't support parameterised queries, so you have to resort to magic strings, and

possibly leave yourself open to SQL injection attacks. While you may be the only one using your script, it's likely that you're using values you're getting from a database, file, or some other external source. So I finally got around to writing a function that supports parameterised queries, and thought I'd offer it up in case others find it useful.

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By: Neil Barnwell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows security event log backup to SQL Server Express with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
My ADSecurityLogArchivingManager PowerShell module is a custom monitoring data retrieval tool that

allows you to export security event logs to SQL Server Express, which Windows cleans from the system after a certain number of days. The tool enables you to create an offline Event Viewer for a specific computer.

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By: Krishnamoorthi Gopal submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 11, 2022

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) release of PowerShell Crescendo
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Download HTTP files over 122x faster (twitter.com)
by disabling the progress bar
By: Stephen Gutekanst submitted:Jun 16 2022

Git repo best practices for PowerShell (reddit.com)
Curious how everyone else manages their code repos for Powershell.
By: u/Sunsparc submitted:Jun 16 2022

Learning How to Compare Objects with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Sure enough, comparing files or file contents in Windows is one thing you've been doing through the

years. But doesn't eyeballing files and contents strain your eyes at some point? Well, lucky for you, PowerShell lets you compare objects the way you want to with the Compare-Object command.

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By: Chaitanya submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using a PowerShell script to determine app requirement in Intune (sccmentor.com)
When creating Win32apps in Intune, we have a standard set of requirements we can use to determine if

an app will install on a device or not. These are

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By: Paul Winstanley submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Building an Open Source IT Admin Toolkit with WinUI 3 (nkasco.com)
A customizable and expandable destination for centralizing day-to-day job functions.
By: Nathan Kasco submitted:Jun 16 2022

psncal.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Print the calendar vertically i.e the weekdays will be shown in a column, not in a row
By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Let’s Chat: PowerShell IDE I mean ISE I mean VSCode – YouTube (youtube.com)
Finally we are going to leave the console, at least for a little bit, just long enough to start off

with getting an editor installed, and no I'm not talking about Notepad++ I'm talking about that amazing tool VSCode.

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By: JordanTheItGuy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I stole this and editied it (was BaSh before), (twitter.com)
but I love it and it's true! However that may have more to do with my work not spending money and

expecting me to script stuff rather than buy a product. I treat it as a big techincal exercise! It works in my favour.

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By: PowerShell Young Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 4, 2022

Announcements!

Deprecation of Azure AD module extended (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
It was announced that Microsoft is going to postpone the deprecation of the Azure AD Graph API
By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A simple performance increase trick (reddit.com)
Just posting that a simple trick of not using += will help speed up your code by a lot and requires

less work than you think.

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By: u/kewlxhobbs submitted:Jun 16 2022

Find orphaned (unused) User Accounts with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
This short blog post will show you how you can find orphaned user accounts in Active Directory that

may no longer be in use. Let's go.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Learn to adjust the AdminCount attribute in protected accounts (techtarget.com)
It's critical to know how to change the settings for protected accounts and groups in Active

Directory to avoid serious problems. PowerShell can make quick edits to keep order.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Put the Alias Description Property to Work (tommymaynard.com)
I use a small handful of my own PowerShell aliases and of course some of those included with

PowerShell natively. There is a best practice around aliases in PowerShell, and that is to not use them in anything that is going to live longer than a one-time use.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

Uninstall programs (remotely) with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
Microsoft offers several options if you want to remove installed programs by using the command line

or a script. Unfortunately, no method covers all scenarios. PowerShell's package management, for example, is limited to the local computer, while WMI does not recognize all programs.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell with Azure Automation (practical365.com)
In a previous article about using Azure Automation accounts and runbooks with the Exchange Online

management PowerShell module, in that article, I also explained how to use Graph API queries in a PowerShell script executed in a runbook.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Comparing advanced objects (evotec.xyz)
Let's take two or more objects with the same structure but different data. It's pretty easy to

compare it if the object is one-dimensional, but things are not that obvious once you try to reach more complicated objects. Below, I have two objects that look the same at first, but I've changed a few values.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

HardeningKitty (github.com)
The project started as a simple hardening list for Windows 10. After some time, HardeningKitty was

created to simplify the hardening of Windows. Now, HardeningKitty supports guidelines from Microsoft, CIS Benchmarks, DoD STIG and BSI SiSyPHuS Win10. And of course my own hardening list.

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By: Michael Schneider submitted:Jun 16 2022

Interactive Pipelines (blog.dcrich.net)
A while back, I asked about how we can pause or close the pipeline prematurely like Select-Object

-First 3 without causing errors and was told to either try/catch it or use a gist by SeeminglyScience. Well today, I've used that gist and turned it into a module that can do far more than just exit a pipeline early.

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By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 16 2022

Metric Meta PowerShell Scripting (jdhitsolutions.com)
I was fiddling around with PowerShell the other day. I spend my day in front of a PowerShell prompt

and am always looking for ways to solve problems or answer questions without taking my hands off the keyboard. For some reason, I started thinking about metric conversions. How many feet are 50 meters? How many meters is 21.5 feet?

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell S2E64 (Pending reboots) – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this video I demonstrate how you can get pending reboot information on Windows using remoting

techniques.

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By: IT Generalist aka Mr Automation submitted:Jun 16 2022

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