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July 29, 2022

Announcements!

Archive Module 2.0 Preview 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that the first preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the

module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jul 28 2022

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 (azure.microsoft.com)
Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 enables developing and deploying Azure Function Apps for

production scenarios using the latest version of PowerShell.

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By: Microsoft Azure submitted:Jul 28 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Active Directory ACL Reporter – PowerShell (powershellcenter.com)
There is no need to talk about the critical role Active Directory plays within the organization.

Securing Active Directory is a massive part of the overall organization security, configuration, and permission and Access Control List (ACL).

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Jul 28 2022

Best Practices – PowerShell Universal (docs.powershelluniversal.com)
Learn how to best configure PowerShell Universal.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jul 28 2022

Check If An Email Was Read using Graph API PowerShell SDK (thesysadminchannel.com)
With the growing number of people migrating from the Azure AD module to Microsoft Graph API, it's

great to see some features finally become available via the command line interface .aka. PowerShell. Today we'll cover step by step on how.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jul 28 2022

Free SquaredUp Community Dashboard Server for PowerShell (4sysops.com)
SquaredUp Community Dashboard Server is a free solution for creating dashboards based on PowerShell

and Web APIs. Learn about recent updates that add even more features.

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By: Brandon Lee submitted:Jul 28 2022

PowerShell tips and tricks (powershellisfun.com)
Over the years I learned a lot of PowerShell tricks but also stopped using a few because they are

out-dated or not that smart to use them anymore performance wise. In this blogpost I will share a few of them 🙂 (These are just a few, will write a new blogpost with others in the future)

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 28 2022

Understanding PowerShell Objects (petri.com)
One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy to use yet sometimes difficult to learn is

its focus on objects. I have taught PowerShell objects to many people over the last 10 years and this is not as difficult as people make it out to be.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jul 28 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Developing PowerShell Tools with Adam Driscoll (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
We talked about Adam's journey into PowerShell, how he started creating tools for PowerShell, and

how his experience as a developer. He shared insights into the challenges of growing a business while developing new features and how he manages all the tasks on his plate. We also learn more about his personal life, including his numerous travel mishaps, Iron Man competitions, and even building your own cryptocurrency. We covered all that and much, much more.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jul 28 2022

PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit – [Chapter 1 Fundamentals] (youtube.com)
When you have a centralized management platform like Microsoft Intune or Configuration Manager, it

is very import that automate what you can. When it comes to application management, there are many ways to do it. Some are more complex than others.

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By: MEM - tips and tricks submitted:Jul 28 2022

Using REST APIs via PowerShell – Guy Leech (youtube.com)
Our second session at the Bradford Cloud User Group July event was Guy Leech 'Using REST APIs via

PowerShell. Whilst many PowerShell modules and SDKs are an alternative to calling REST APIs, calling them from PowerShell gives you platform independence & no pre-requisites which can be a barrier to adoption. This session shows how to use multiple vendor's REST APIs including Azure & once you know how to call one vendor's API, it's easy to use another's

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By: Bradford Cloud User Group submitted:Jul 28 2022

Upcoming Events

PSGitUtils v1.13.3 (powershellgallery.com)
Providers emoji supports for Git commit and Git log.
By: Cpadiem Chao submitted:Jul 28 2022

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July 22, 2022

Announcements!

New PowerShell Version – v7.3.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Check out and test what is new and upcoming in PowerShell
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jul 22 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Getting device warranty information (cyberdrain.com)
This morning I woke up with a mission; I wanted to fix HP warranty reporting for my PSWarranty

PowerShell Module. If you're not familiar yet I've blogged about the module and warranty reporting before here. Most of the module has been left the same so you can reference that blog for more information.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jul 22 2022

Microsoft Graph Support for SharePoint Online Tenant Settings (office365itpros.com)
Despite being the two basic Microsoft 365 workloads, one of the notable gaps in Microsoft Graph API

coverage has been administrative interfaces for SharePoint Online and Exchange Online. A small but valuable step in the right direction happened with the appearance of the settings resource type in the TenantAdmin namespace.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 22 2022

Programmatically Return S-1-5-18’s Username (reddit.com)
I'm trying to get LocalPaths of each user via Get-WmiObject win32_userprofile.
By: u/AlaricBloomberg submitted:Jul 22 2022

PSA: If you run Windows 10 and use WinSCP to transfer files to Linux hosts (twitter.com)
you can ditch WinSCP in favor of the native PowerShell or Command Prompt SCP implementation!
By: Christopher Hart submitted:Jul 22 2022

Report on Active Directory OU permissions using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
For one of our customers we are working on restricting permissions of admin accounts by implementing

Role Based Access and delegating permissions on Organizational Units (OU's). But one of the first questions was. What are the current permissions and what should we remove and where? In this blogpost I will show you a way to report on the current permissions so that you can remove them where they shouldn't be granted

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 22 2022

Reporting SharePoint Online External Users with PowerShell (office365itpros.com)
A SharePoint external user is someone who doesn't have an account in your tenant. Because of the

influence of Teams, most SharePoint Online external users are guest accounts, created when external people join the membership of Microsoft 365 Groups (teams). If the organization uses the SharePoint Online integration with Azure AD B2B collaboration, SharePoint also creates guest accounts when people share files or folders with external people.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 22 2022

The Ins-and-Outs of PSReadline in PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
PowerShell is a phenomenal cross-platform task automation solution. But be honest, does it feel like

something's missing in your PowerShell command-line experience? Why not turn to the PSReadline PowerShell module?

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Jul 22 2022

Using Windows Terminal for PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
The Windows Terminal application has been out for a while now and it's one of the things (Next to my

Edge Browser, Teams and Outlook of course ?? ) that I start after logging into my laptop. It's a Terminal application which allows you to have multiple PowerShell (Or cmd, ssh or even WSL linux sessions) open. In this blogpost I will show you some configuration settings to make it your go-to app for command-line stuff ??

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 22 2022

Why use PowerShell Core? (reddit.com)
For those who haven't made the switch yet, here are some great reasons.
By: u/Plastic_Teacher_9914 submitted:Jul 22 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Get information about connected monitor (stolpe.io)
At work Helpdesk did receive multiple complaints regarding a specific manufacture and model of

monitors. And many of our user can't look at the back of the monitor to see the brand or model and even harder to see the serial number of the monitor. Also we wanted to know if the monitor was inside the warranty period or not.

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By: Robin Stolpe submitted:Jul 22 2022

PowerShell: Split-Path Examples (sid-500.com)
The cmdlet Split-Path can be useful to split volumes, folder and file path names. In this blog posts

I will give you some examples you can build on. Have fun reading the code samples to learn more about the power of Split-Path.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jul 22 2022

Retype (powershellgallery.com)
Retype is an ultra-high-performance generator that builds a website based on simple text files.

Focus on your writing while Retype builds the rest

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By: Adam Bacon submitted:Jul 22 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Enable Azure AD Groups for GroupWriteback v2 using MS Graph Powershell (youtube.com)
In this stream I had a casual coding walkthrough of the Azure AD group properties for managing per

group writeback v2 to on-premises using MS Graph PowerShell

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By: Jef Kazimer submitted:Jul 22 2022

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (manning.com)
Don't miss the latest installment of this great series.
By: James Petty, Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jul 22 2022

Using PowerShell for Incident Response with Fernando Tomlinson (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of someone who has been in the trenches of Incident

Response. Fernando shared his experiences and methods for leveraging PowerShell during incidents. We talk about how the general perception of PowerShell Security has changed over the years and how PowerShell is now being publicly embraced by security organizations. Fernando told us about dealing with obfuscation and some of the most annoying techniques that he's encountered. All this and more is covered in this episode jam-packed with security goodness.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 22 2022

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July 15, 2022

Announcements!

Update on Status on PowerShell Community Textbook (reddit.com)
I'm writing an update post to advise on the status of the PowerShell Community Textbook:
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jul 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Cheat Sheet – Console Experience (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PowerShell can take some getting used to. Especially if you come at it from a different Shell and

don't see any way to get your good old experience back. However, hidden behind that plain white on blue shell, there is actually a wide range of customization options that help make your life less painful. See below for the most commonly appreciated options.

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jul 15 2022

How do you guys document your work? (reddit.com)
Another great discussion thread on r/PowerShell
By: u/bigbossbeku submitted:Jul 15 2022

How to Quickly Display Files With PowerShell Cat (adamtheautomator.com)
Are you thinking of displaying the contents of files either for automation or troubleshooting

purposes? How about editing and managing files based on the contents of another file? Don't worry; PowerShell cat is an excellent tool in your arsenal.

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By: Edem Afenyo submitted:Jul 15 2022

Use the Debug Parameter for Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets to Expose Graph API Requests (office365itpros.com)
Debug Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets to Gain Insights into What They Do
By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AzurePipelinesPS (powershellgallery.com)
A PowerShell module that makes interfacing with Azure Pipelines a little easier
By: Michael Dejulia submitted:Jul 15 2022

PSTemperature (github.com)
A simple PowerShell binary module used for conversion between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin

temperatures. Rankine temperature scale support is provided via PowerShell 7 Experimental Features. This module can be used as an example of a PowerShell binary/C# module and for PowerShell 7 Experimental Features.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jul 15 2022

ReadPDF (powershellgallery.com)
Allows you to read an entire pdf
By: Adam Bacon submitted:Jul 15 2022

Updating your PowerShell modules to the latest version plus cleaning up older versions (powershellisfun.com)
You installed a PowerShell module on your machine and used it for a long time and suddenly.. It

doesn't connect anymore, shows warnings that some commands are deprecated and now what?! In this blogpost I will show you a way to update all your modules to the latest version and also remove unused older versions.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

A conversation that will !slap you with Jaap (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, Jaap tells us how he got into speaking at conferences. We talk about examples of

how his support has helped people on their own speaking journey. We discuss a few of the recent talks he has given, from abstracting code to bettering your home automation.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 15 2022

Episode 044 – PowerShell Tips & Tricks (powershellnews.podbean.com)
In this episode, we talk about tips and tricks.
By: The PowerShell News Podcast submitted:Jul 15 2022

Intro to Azure DevOps for sysadmins (youtube.com)
Azure DevOps is a set of services offered by Microsoft to create and maintain automation in the

Azure cloud.

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Jul 15 2022

PowerShell 2022: State of the Art / Hack / Infection (youtube.com)
Why has PowerShell become so popular for ransomware, hacking tools, cloud computing, and security

automation? Isn't PowerShell just another command shell? No! Attend this talk by SANS Faculty Fellow Jason Fossen to see what PowerShell really is, how it's being used (and abused) today, and future trends.

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By: Jason Fossen submitted:Jul 15 2022

Fun

BioNameGenerator (powershellgallery.com)
A name generator for projects, versions and other stuff written in powershell
By: Davi Marcon submitted:Jul 15 2022

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July 8, 2022

Announcements!

Congrats to all those who made MVP this year! (twitter.com)
It is always well earned
By: Microsoft submitted:Jul 8 2022

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code June 2022 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that an update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now

available on the extension marketplace.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jul 8 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release!
By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jul 8 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Setting Sharepoint Sharing Settings (cyberdrain.com)
For a long time SharePoint Admin Settings wasn't something available inside the Graph API. We always

had to jump through many hoops and had an issue with running changes headless because the PowerShell modules didn't support it. Recently I've been in contact with the SharePoint team and we now have a functional API for most of the important admin settings.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jul 8 2022

Install Windows Terminal without the Store (on Windows Server) (4sysops.com)
Microsoft has made its new terminal for multiple shells and command line programs available as a

Store app. However, if you want to install the package with PowerShell because, for example, there is no Store app on Windows Server or Windows 10 LTSC, you'll get an error message due to a missing library.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Jul 8 2022

Performing a Conditional Access Assessment with PowerShell (practical365.com)
Conditional Access is a powerful tool granting an easy way to bolster the security of an Office 365

tenant. The flexibility of Conditional Access means it can fit most organizational and security requirements easily. However, as with most things in technology, with flexibility there often comes complexity.

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By: Sean McAvinue submitted:Jul 8 2022

PowerShell: Decrypt a Secure String (sid-500.com)
In this blog post I will carry out how to decrypt a secure string. A secure string is a string that

is saved in a non-readable format to temporarily store passwords and strings. Let's start.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jul 8 2022

The Value of Objects (jdhitsolutions.com)
I expect I will write several articles about PowerShell and its relationship with objects. I know

that this is the biggest hurdle for PowerShell beginners to overcome. But once they grasp that PowerShell is about working with objects in the pipeline, they recognize the value and begin finding it easier to write PowerShell code and use it interactively at a console prompt.

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jul 8 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BinaryPasswordGenerator (powershellgallery.com)
A binary password generator rewritten from of the popular PasswordGenerator nuget package.
By: Emil Larsson submitted:Jul 8 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Streamlining Learning with Josh Duffney (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we talk about how unique your career path can be, how common it is to end up doing

things you never imagined, and how PowerShell plays a role in getting you there. Josh talks about streamlining his day-to-day life to maximize his ability to learn new things. We talk about leaving your work on a high note and how leaving linkage can help you get to a cleaner start when you return to a project.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 8 2022

Fun

Get a Message Of The Day in your PowerShell session (powershellisfun.com)
Sometimes you just need a nice inspirational quote to get some motivation ?? In this blogpost I will

show you how to get one each time you start a new PowerShell session.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 8 2022

In honor of Independence Day I made an alien invasion game in PowerShell (two versions in fact!) (reddit.com)
In short, I made a Space Invaders-esque game in PowerShell.
By: u/Ecrofirt submitted:Jul 8 2022

Looking Busy – Powershell (reddit.com)
(Use caution before running anything in here) Does anyone have some Powershell commands that look

super impressive? I'm talking Hollywood movie, code flying everywhere kind of stuff. Ideally on a loop.

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By: u/Bartoosk submitted:Jul 8 2022

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July 1, 2022

Announcements!

Jeffrey Snover is leaving Microsoft (twitter.com)
I'm sure like many of you, I own a big part of my career to this man. He certainly will be missed, and I wish him the best of luck!
By: Jeffrey Snover submitted:Jul 1 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Enable AppLocker on Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
In the past, AppLocker was available only for Windows Enterprise and Education subscribers. In this

post, I will show you a way to use AppLocker on Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro.

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By: Welf Alberts submitted:Jul 1 2022

Hosting PowerShell in a Python script (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Yes Virginia, languages other than PowerShell do exist.
By: Jim Truher submitted:Jul 1 2022

How to make your PowerShell scripts look better (powershellisfun.com)
When I started writing my first PowerShell scripts. They didn't look that good, it was PowerShell

2.0 of course and I was just a beginner. I'm getting better at it and the newer versions of PowerShell (And Visual Studio Code) have a few nice formatting tricks. This blogpost will show you a few ways to make your scripts look better and more importantly. A lot more readable!

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 1 2022

Install PowerShell on ArcoLinux (mikefrobbins.com)
ArcoLinux is a rolling release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Like other Arch-based Linux

distributions, ArcoLinux uses pacman for its package manager.

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Jul 1 2022

Microsoft Graph Explorer Boosted by New Features (office365itpros.com)
Some recent changes have made the Graph Explorer even more useful. First, PowerShell has joined the

set of supported languages for code snippets.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 1 2022

PowerShell Best Practices for Expert Level (reddit.com)
A great Reddit thread, worth reading through
By: u/bwljohannes submitted:Jul 1 2022

Reading Configuration Manager Status Messages With PowerShell (devblogs.microsoft.com)
I can read Configuration Manager status messages using the Monitoring tab. Can I do it using

PowerShell?

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By: Francisco Nabas submitted:Jul 1 2022

Restart Exchange Services with PowerShell (thesysadminchannel.com)
If you're hosting Microsoft Exchange server on-premises, you've probably realized that it is pretty

critical to ensure those services are up and running. In the event that some services are not running, it's always good to know how to restart Exchange services with Powershell.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jul 1 2022

What other languages do you use, and when do you pick them over PowerShell? (reddit.com)
Another great Reddit read
By: u/UntrustedProcess submitted:Jul 1 2022

What’s New with Select-String in PowerShell7? (commandline.ninja)
Select-String is one of those commands that either you use it often or not much at all. There

doesn't seem to be a middle of the road for Select-String. I don't get called upon to use it that often, but when I do, it usually saves my bacon at work. The most typical use case for me is for searching flat log files for patterns of text or for all entries of a particular phrase across a bunch of files.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jul 1 2022

Write great AWS Lambda PowerShell functions (yobyot.com)
In this post, I share some tips I use when I write AWS Lambda PowerShell functions. You can find

lots of help writing .Net end user functions for Lambda. By end user, I mean things that are part of an application system, like kicking off Glue jobs, working with Redshift and so on.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jul 1 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Confluence CVE Vulnerability Checker (powershell.city)
So here is something I noticed to be helpful to all Confluence admins that want to check and not

worry about the deep distracted deep reading needed in a slew of other CVE and parse relevant details to only their versions.

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By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jul 1 2022

Curl2PS (github.com)
This module is a utility module to help convert curl commands to Invoke-RestMethod syntax.
By: Anthony Howell submitted:Jul 1 2022

Duplication of last command into terminal (github.com)
Glad to know I'm not the only one that was annoyed by this.
By: VSCode submitted:Jul 1 2022

PSReadLine 2.2.6 enables Predictive Intellisense by default (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PSReadLine first introduced Predictive IntelliSense using History based suggestions as a customer

enabled feature in November 2020. Since its introduction, two new predictors have become available:

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jul 1 2022

Start Windows Sandbox with parameters (powershellisfun.com)
Personally I use Windows Sandbox a lot for testing Endpoint Manager packages or software, sometimes

you want to start it with certain options (Connect a folder on your harddrive or start without a network connection) and you have to create a custom configuration file (.wsb) with those options. This blogpost shows you how to start Windows Sandbox using PowerShell with parameters without the need of creating multiple configuration files.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 1 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Repositories with Adil Leghari: Do not take orally (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we learned all about repositories and how to use them in a PowerShell context. We

briefly discussed the challenges of working from Home. We learned how Adil got started in the PowerShell community including getting involved in the PowerShell Slack/Discord, attending PowerShell Summit, and even stepping up and helping put on an event: BridgeConf. Adil convinces Jordan to submit to speak at Summit 2023, and Jordan agrees. The crowd goes wild! We tried to capture the code that we ran on this episode in a transcript file, which can be found below.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 1 2022

TheShow: C1: Why PowerShell Crescendo (youtube.com)
In this series, Jason will explain the purpose of Crescendo and how to build and automate cmdlets

from traditional platform-specific console tools.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jul 1 2022

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