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September 30, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

At what point does a script become a module? (reddit.com)
I'm currently writing a Powershell GUI that will handle everything from AD, parts of SCCM, and

pulling some data from other sources.

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By: u/Anti_Alphabet submitted:Sep 30 2022

Encrypting Sensitive Data for Transit or Rest with PowerShell (smsagent.blog)
This blog is about how you can use the .Net cryptography model to encrypt and decrypt sensitive

information such as passwords with PowerShell. It is specifically for the encryption in transit and encryption at rest scenarios, where, for example, you may be sending data to a backend service and securely storing it in that service.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Sep 30 2022

How to make my powershell script reference the current user account who is running it? (reddit.com)
Part of my script involves making yourself a site admin for OneDrive data (set-spouser), then adding

the manager, then removing yourself. Since I've always been the only one using this script, I've hardcoded my username into the script. However, other people will be using this script.

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By: u/PaidByMicrosoft submitted:Sep 30 2022

Internet Explorer Automation – Pt.1 Removing IE (shankuehn.io)
With Internet Explorer finally retiring after a lengthy 27 year career, it came time for removal

within the servers I maintain for demos. I actually thought a security update would've removed the browser, but after applying updates for June, July, and August, I realized it would be up to me to remove the browser.

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By: Shannon Kuehn submitted:Sep 30 2022

Introduction to the Microsoft Graph Powershell SDK (practical365.com)
A Unified Approach to Microsoft 365 management The Microsoft Graph API has been around for some time

now and Microsoft is moving more management functions (such as License Management for Azure AD Accounts) to the platform. When Microsoft transitions a function to the Graph, organizations might have to update PowerShell scripts.

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By: Sean McAvinue submitted:Sep 30 2022

List all logged on Users with quser.exe and PowerShell (sid-500.com)
In this short article I will show how to list all logged on local users with the quser.exe tool.

Quser displays information about logged on users on the local computer and on

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Sep 30 2022

Synchronizing PowerShell scripts – allow only one instance at a time (itconstructors.com)
This is a first article from a short series about synchronizing PowerShell scripts in Windows

environment. Today I'll explain how to allow only one instance of a script at a time.

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By: Wiktor Mrówczyński submitted:Sep 30 2022

Test if Microsoft services TCP ports are accessible (powershellisfun.com)
In a previous blog post, I showed a way to retrieve all the Microsoft Services FQDNs, ports, and

IP-Addresses. Nice to know those in secure environments where not everything is allowed to go onto the internet, but how can you test if they are accessible? This blog post will show how to test most of these services using PowerShell.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 30 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Foil 0.2.0 (powershellgallery.com)
A PowerShell Crescendo wrapper for Chocolatey
By: Ethan Bergstrom submitted:Sep 30 2022

SpeculationControl 1.0.17 (powershellgallery.com)
This module provides the ability to query the speculation control settings for the system.
By: Matt Miller submitted:Sep 30 2022

Updated my scripts (powershellisfun.com)
Sometimes you look back at your scripts and think... Hmmm, why did I use that ?! So I looked back at

some scripts, changed a few things, and updated some of the blog posts. Check them out if you haven't already 😉 (Check the sidebar for categories)

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 30 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Patterns and Projects in PowerShell with Chris Bergmeister (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we learn more about how Christopher, a traditionally trained .NET developer,

approaches PowerShell patterns and projects. He shares with us a wealth of wisdom that he's learned throughout his career. From discussing the learning opportunities that a Pull Request gives, all the way to getting started with open source and the role it played in getting his Microsoft MVP status. Chris also shared with us the meaning and importance of KISS.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 30 2022

What’s new in PowerShell 7 – Steve Lee (youtube.com)
As we get closer to a release candidate for PowerShell 7.3, learn about the new capabilities and

features in PowerShell 7 to be more productive.

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By: PowerShell Conference EU submitted:Sep 30 2022

Fun

Pixel Art for PowerShell (shaunlawrie.com)
While procrastinating about setting up this blog I wanted to create a favicon in a pixel art style.

Instead of creating the icon I got carried away spaghetti coding a pixel art editor for the terminal in PowerShell...

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By: Shaun Lawrie submitted:Sep 30 2022

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September 23, 2022

Announcements!

PowerShell Community Textbook Update: To be released this weekend! (reddit.com)
Gday Everyone,
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Sep 23 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Configure Windows Firewall Rules For Remote Access | PowerShell (faun.pub)
Suppose, your firewall is enabled on your Windows server, but you want to access your server using

"Remote Desktop"

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By: Mohammed Shamim submitted:Sep 23 2022

Exchange PowerShell without basic auth? (alexholmeset.blog)
On October 1st Microsoft states in this doc that they are starting to randomly disable Basic Auth in

tenants. They even started to disable it last year for tenants that had not used it. It's a good thing they are taking this step to make our tenants more secure. The big questions though is,

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By: Alexander Holmeset submitted:Sep 23 2022

Get all Microsoft IP and FQDNs for their services (powershellisfun.com)
When you are in an environment with strict internet access, you need to figure out what to open to

what destination for Microsoft services like Exchange Online, Teams, Endpoint Manager, and so on. Microsoft publishes this on their website but in the blog post, I would like to show you a nice way of outputting

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 23 2022

Installing Git – 14 days of Git (techielass.com)
As part of my 14 days of Git learning journey it's time to get Git installed on my desktop. I walk

you though the manual installation process, and configuration of Git.

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By: Sarah Lean submitted:Sep 23 2022

Invoke-AKSH and easily manage your local lab (ellitedevs.in)
Having worked on AKSH (my Discord bot) and witnessing how easy it made deploying and managing a lab

on AWS, I wanted something similar for my local lab as well. On my local machines I use VMWare Workstation to create and manage virtual labs. Even though it has an intuitive GUI, it lacks a mechanism to perform actions (start, stop, snapshot, revert etc.) on multiple virtual machines via single click (maybe that's where vSphere comes in!). However, to compensate for that, it exposes a command line interface (vmrun.exe) that can aid in automating actions on multiple virtual machines.

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By: Uday Mittal submitted:Sep 23 2022

PowerShell Community Textbook Update: To be released this weekend! (reddit.com)
Gday Everyone,
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Sep 23 2022

PowerShell Prompt: Functionality (sqladm.in)
Some handy tips to add extra functionality to your PowerShell session
By: Jeff Hill submitted:Sep 23 2022

PowerShell Registry Monitor (devblogs.microsoft.com)
How to set up a simple registry key monitor with PowerShell
By: Francisco Nabas submitted:Sep 23 2022

This is why you don’t store credentials in your scripts: Uber Hack (reddit.com)
Great discussion on a great topic in this thread.
By: u/Trakeen submitted:Sep 23 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Introduction to Microsoft Graph PowerShell (learn.microsoft.com)
Characterize the types of business processes that Microsoft Graph PowerShell can automate. Describe

the commands and permissions needed to automate processes with Microsoft Graph PowerShell.

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By: Microsoft Learning submitted:Sep 23 2022

PowerShell Community Textbook Update: To be released this weekend! (reddit.com)
Gday Everyone,
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Sep 23 2022

PowerShell, PipeScript, and the Future James Brundage (youtube.com)
PowerShell is a great language, it can be better. Check out the future of PowerShell?
By: New York PowerShell Meetup submitted:Sep 23 2022

Shy Bairns Get Nowt with Brett Miller (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we discuss Brett's unusual path to IT. He discusses how his contributions to the

community have changed over the years. We discuss the similarities in problem-solving between daily tasks and coding. Jordan learns that listing yak shaving in Twitter bios is not a secret language between the PowerShell community but is a common expression. Last, we discussed his trip to South Hampton to attend a PowerShell user group, where he was able to catch up with several people from the PowerShell community.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 23 2022

Fun

Help With Spelling Bee Script (reddit.com)
So for years, I've been struggling to find a Spelling Bee app to help my kids prep for their school

spelling bee that does what I want it to do, so I've attempted to make my own by piecing together things I've found online for text-to-speech and creating forms in PowerShell - both of which I have no experience with. While it's ugly, I think it does everything I want it to do now. I'm starting with words.csv which has the word, how it's spelled, and a sentence:

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By: u/2PhatCC submitted:Sep 23 2022

Script w/ GUI to Prevent Computer Inactivity (reddit.com)
This is a little script I use to prevent messenger software from marking me as inactive. It presses

Scroll Lock once a minute while running. I added a time window, for example you can set it to only keep you active between 8:00AM - 5:00PM. It runs the job in the background, so it will continue to run until you click Turn Off even if the tool is closed. I created a shortcut to run the tool and pinned it to my taskbar.

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By: u/TheCallOfAsheron submitted:Sep 23 2022

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September 16, 2022

Announcements!

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on

the PowerShell Gallery!

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Sep 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16

to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store,

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Sep 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Audit Events in Your Azure Subscription with PowerShell (smsagent.blog)
Update! v.1.1 released fixing a bug where the most recent events were not being returned

(2022-09-13) A quick post - I just published a new script for retrieving activity log events for an Azure subscription as the current options for searching and retrieving events didn't satisfy me.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Sep 16 2022

Automating scripts without saving credentials on the server (reddit.com)
My org has decided to disable the saving of network passwords on servers, so I can no longer use

Task Scheduler to run my Powershell scripts.

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By: u/xylog submitted:Sep 16 2022

Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell with an Azure Managed Identity (thelazyadministrator.com)
Recently the Exchange Online Module v2 came out with support for connecting to Exchange Online via a

managed identity. The module has several parameters:

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Sep 16 2022

Create an Azure Arc Service Principal with longer expiration date using PowerShell (thomasmaurer.ch)
When you are onboarding at scale of Azure Arc enabled servers or Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

clusters, you want to use service principals for automated authentication during the onboarding process for Azure Arc resources. Microsoft provides you with an option in the Azure portal to create that service principal. When you use this, you can set .

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Sep 16 2022

Does PowerShell DSC have any concept of a ‘handler’ like Ansible does? (reddit.com)
So for those unaware, a 'handler' in Ansible is basically a task that executes upon a specific

condition, such as a file being changed on the system. You can 'notify' the handler task, in which case Ansible knows that at the end of your playbook, it will execute that task regardless of where in the playbook you currently are, but **only if the notifying task has caused a change to the system**.

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By: u/Marquis77 submitted:Sep 16 2022

How to Report High-Priority Azure AD App Permissions That Hackers Might Exploit (practical365.com)
Microsoft 365 tenants usually include many Azure AD apps. These apps hold permissions, including

permissions that hackers like to exploit. This article explains how to use PowerShell to detect apps with high-priority permissions and report them to administrators for review.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Sep 16 2022

Power On HPE Server Using PowerShell (adminknowhow.wordpress.com)
You may need to download the HP iLO Cmdlets for Windows PowerShell (x64) from HPE support portal and

install it on the server/machine you wish you execute the PowerShell command. COMMAND Below is the PowerShell command to power on/off the server.

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By: Jimmy Liew submitted:Sep 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Monitor Network Connectivity with PowerShell 7 (Successful Pings) (sid-500.com)
Recently, I have created a script that returns a beep sound when the connection is re-established. I

would like to share this script here on my website.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Sep 16 2022

PSMDE 0.5.7 (powershellgallery.com)
Provides a PowerShell functions to interact with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
By: Jan-Henrik Damaschke submitted:Sep 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Exploring AutomatedLab and DSC with Raimund Andrée (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we revisit AutomatedLab with the other primary maintainer, Raimund Andrée. Raimund

teaches us about DSC and shares details of the DSCWorkshop project, which is a great way to go about learning more about DSC in a hands-on manner. We also learned about Cattle vs. Pets and how that applies to your servers. You can hear all of this, plus more in this companion episode to our first AutomatedLab episode.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 16 2022

Fun

Set-WallpaperClock 1.3.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A PS Module that sets your desktop background to show the current time.
By: Psychosapien submitted:Sep 16 2022

Text-To-Speech using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Just a little fun thing for a Friday, text-to-speech! We used this many years ago at the office,

sending this to the laptop of a colleague and having fun while he's trying to figure out where the voice is coming from ?? How it works There is a System.Speech assembly which can be used to

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 16 2022

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September 9, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Adding color to bracket pairs (devblogs.microsoft.com)
When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio, it can be hard to figure out which

brackets match and which do not. For people with color blindness or other optic maladies, the problem can be even worse. By color-coding bracket pairs,

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By: Mads Kristensen submitted:Sep 9 2022

Creating a Microsoft 365 Automated Off-boarding Process with SharePoint, Graph API, and PowerShell (thelazyadministrator.com)
In this write-up I will be creating a basic off-boarding automation that uses SharePoint as the

front end, and PowerShell, the Graph API, and Azure Runbooks as the back-end.

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Sep 9 2022

Different ways of gaining remote computer access (4sysops.com)
Technical support personnel, engineering teams, and security teams often need access to a remote

computer involving both servers and workstations, using a variety of techniques. Three of the most common tools in a Windows environment are Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP), VMware Console access, and Microsoft Management Console (MMC), but we can also use SMB shares, PowerShell remoting, and PsExec. This article will you give an overview of the most popular ways gaining remote computer access, along with some tips of what you can do if the remote connection fails.

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By: Dan Greenhaus submitted:Sep 9 2022

Enable BitLocker with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
BitLocker is a volume encryption technology that was first introduced in Windows Vista and Windows

Server 2008. Like other Microsoft products, it also suffers from certain glitches, but many people around the globe rely on BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) to protect their data at rest.

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By: Surender Kumar submitted:Sep 9 2022

How do I Un-Join, Reboot then Join my Domain via Powershell? (reddit.com)
My question is, how can I convert these steps to Powershell? Once I enter the correct code and press

Enter, will I be prompted for MyAdmin password? I saw a few examples but they don't seem to be quite what I'm looking for. I would be performing this on an individual station, therefore I don't think I would need to specify a computer name.

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By: u/mudderfudden submitted:Sep 9 2022

How does Powershell deal with processing/storing massive objects in terms of memory management? (reddit.com)
I deal with a lot of massive log analysis and reporting. I often am worried about resource

utilisation when scripts are running on remote/customer servers that need to process millions of lines. Instead of variables I would just write everything off to a file. However, with things like invoking commands in parallel this doesn't work well as there is a need for mutexes where a thread aware collection would work so much better.

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By: u/cazmajor submitted:Sep 9 2022

PowerShell Solution: AGPM unable to take control of a GPO (blog.ehmiiz.tech)
If you enjoy the principle of least privileges, version control and doing big infrastructural

changes in a safe manner, Advanced Group Policy Management or AGPM, is an amazing tool.

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By: Emil Larsson submitted:Sep 9 2022

Run PowerShell Scripts with Azure Automation Hybrid Workers on-premises using Azure Arc (thomasmaurer.ch)
If you want to automate your on-premises environment Azure Arc enabled Server is a great offering to

onboard Azure management services such as Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, and many others. One of the integrations is with Azure Automation Hybrid Worker. This allows you to run Azure Automation PowerShell or Phyton runbooks on-premises directly on .

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Sep 9 2022

Updating Extension Attributes for Azure AD Registered Devices with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (office365itpros.com)
Azure AD registered devices have 15 extension attributes that tenants can use for their own

purposes. In this article, we explore how to use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to update extension attributes for registered devices, and even better, access the content in the extension attributes afterward.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Sep 9 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Azure AD Exporter (github.com)
The Azure AD Exporter is a PowerShell module that allows you to export your Azure AD and Azure AD

B2C configuration settings to local .json files.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Sep 9 2022

Get-MsIdUnredeemedInvitedUser (github.com)
Are you monitoring your Azure AD tenant for external users the business invites but are not actually

redeemed? Here is a quick example PowerShell cmdlet using MS Graph API to enumerate them by creation date and either delete or disable them as you wish

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By: Jef Kazimer submitted:Sep 9 2022

IT and user support GUI made with XAML and Powershell (joseespitia.com)
It's been a while since my last post but I just wanted to share something that I have been working

on. Lately I have been trying to migrate all of my WinForms to WPF with Powershell and since I have started learning how to create WPF forms , I wanted to share a tool that I created called "About Me". This tool will give your users common information that support would need to assist them. If Outlook is installed, it will give users the ability to draft an email automatically with the information that is displayed in the tool. I also have included a "Tools" section that has some shortcuts to commonly used utilities in the OS.

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By: Jose Espitia submitted:Sep 9 2022

PowerShell Script to Simplify Send-MgUserMail (powershellcenter.com)
Okay, Microsoft Graph API is cool, but sometimes it's boring to deal with all these hashtables and

arrays. The Send-MgUserMail is a great graph cmdlet to send Emails using the Graph API endpoint, this post is fully explained in the Send-MgUserMail BodyParameter Explained. But going through these hashtables is a challenge, and its more complicated.

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Sep 9 2022

Report Scheduled Tasks on servers that have local or domain accounts configured (powershellisfun.com)
For one of our customers, I needed to create a report of all Scheduled Tasks on their servers with a

local or domain account configured. They needed this report because they are switching to more strict Group Policies and they needed to know what user accounts should have the "Log on as a batch job"

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 9 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Forensic cases suited for using PowerShell (eforensicsmag.com)
This video tutorial shows forensic cases suited for using PowerShell.
By: Agata Staszelis submitted:Sep 9 2022

Introducing AutomatedLab with Jan (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we get an initial introduction to AutomatedLab by one of the primary maintainers,

Jan-Hendrik Peters. We learned about what AutomatedLab is used for and how you can benefit from it. We also got to hear about his observations from teaching PowerShell over the years. All this, plus our usual foolishness, is included. We also talk about how tech is always changing.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 9 2022

PowerShell for DBAs (github.com)
I don't want to build a product or module. I want to provide a proof of concept, a tutorial, a code

example, maybe a guide or a source of ideas for your own implementation. This is about using publicly available software (like database clients or NuGet packages) and a few lines of PowerShell code to show database administrators how to work with PowerShell.

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By: Andreas Jordan submitted:Sep 9 2022

Fun

PowerShell Prompt: Colors and Icons (sqladm.in)
Tips and Tricks to improve your PowerShell experience
By: Jeff Hill submitted:Sep 9 2022

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September 2, 2022

Announcements!

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

is now available on the extension marketplace.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Sep 2 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Alas Kaizala, All is Lost (practical365.com)
On August 26, Microsoft announced that they will retire Kaizala in August 2023. The Kaizala

retirement is not big news because it's been coming for a while. If you want to get ahead of the game, you can remove the Kaizala service plans from the Office 365 licenses assigned to user accounts. We explain how to do the job in an example PowerShell script.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Sep 2 2022

Automating Azure Abuse Research – Part 2 (posts.specterops.io)
In this second and final part of this series, we are going to dive into the BloodHound Attack Research Kit (BARK). We will explain how the BloodHound Enterprise team uses BARK to perform so-called “continuous abuse primitive validation”. We will also explain how BARK can make your own Azure abuse research easier, faster, and more accurate.
By: Andy Robbins submitted:Sep 2 2022

CISO Wants To Block PowerShell But Open to Ideas (reddit.com)
Yes. you read it right. Just for starters, I have read this:
By: u/CuriousJazz7th submitted:Sep 2 2022

Create a report on local DNS lookups using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
When troubleshooting a system, you sometimes need to know what DNS lookups are being done. This will

give you a good insight into traffic from the systems to the local network or internet. You can do this with DNS auditing on your Windows server or in your local Pihole server, but that's not always available

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Sep 2 2022

Learn Everything About PowerShell Start-Transcript (adamtheautomator.com)
Save your code, and your sessions, by learning everything you need to know about the PowerShell

Start-Transcript command!

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Sep 2 2022

Lessons Learned from Using Azure Automation with PowerShell Scripts (office365itpros.com)
I've spent some time investigating Azure Automation PowerShell recently. In this article, I discuss

three learnings that might be of interest to others. Debugging, cost, and tracking the use of Azure Automation PowerShell might not interest everyone, but they've certainly helped me to understand how the platform works.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Sep 2 2022

Query Azure AD logs with KQL from Powershell (learningbydoing.cloud)
Kusto Query Language (KQL) is a powerfull tool to query Azure AD log entries from Log Anayltics in

Azure. See how you can query log data using Powershell.

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By: Stian A. Strysse submitted:Sep 2 2022

Questions from a PowerShell.org Forums User (thedavecarroll.com)
A PowerShell.org Forums user asked me a few questions about my PowerShell journey and here are my

answers.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Sep 2 2022

Send MDM commands without an MDM service using PowerShell (oofhours.com)
Sometimes you run into something completely by accident; other times, it's more of a building

process based on work that you've done in the past.

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By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Sep 2 2022

what are you guys using for emails? (reddit.com)
Hey everybody, Ive been using send-mailmessage for years and just realized Microsoft docs don't

recommend it anymore. What are your guys thoughts on this?

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By: u/x180mystery submitted:Sep 2 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AzBobbyTables (powershellgallery.com)
A module that wraps the Azure Data Tables SDK. +1 just for the name alone!
By: Emanuel Palm submitted:Sep 2 2022

Easy removal of preinstalled bloatware using PowerShell (doitpsway.com)
Recently I came into a situation where I needed to provision new Dell Precision laptops for our

employees. This laptop comes with a lot of preinstalled applications (bloatware) so I was looking for some simple but efficient way to silently remove them. And by efficient I mean avoiding the need to manually find an uninstall command for each preinstalled application.

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By: Ondrej Sebela submitted:Sep 2 2022

PSLog (powershellgallery.com)
Redirects stanard Write-* cmdlets to a log and offers some basic tracing functions
By: AutomatedLab submitted:Sep 2 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Toasting Git with Cory Knox (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we chat with Cory Knox. We talked all about the PowerShell discord and how it's

grown over the years and is a great resource to connect with the community and have your questions answered. Cory and Jordan find common ground in their experiences with Toastmasters. Cory also talks to us about Git, how to get started using Git for PowerShell projects, an awesome PowerShell module to enhance your Git console experience, and more.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Sep 2 2022

Upcoming Events

PSConfEU MiniCon (psconf.eu)
September 27th 2022, 5PM CEST
By: PSConfEU submitted:Sep 2 2022

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