November 18, 2022

Announcements!

PowerShell 7.3 General Availability (devblogs.microsoft.com)
General availability of PowerShell 7.3
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Nov 18 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

5 Ways to install PowerShell 7 on Windows (sid-500.com)
PowerShell 7 is the successor to PowerShell 5.1. It's fast, reliable and it is cross-platform.

Without a doubt, PowerShell 7 is the future.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Nov 18 2022

Back to Basics: The PowerShell Contains Operator (adamtheautomator.com)
Keep your PowerShell fundamentals strong with this tutorial on the PowerShell contains operator by

ATA Learning!

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Nov 18 2022

How do you schedule your PS scripts? (reddit.com)
Im with two small IT help desk/ ops teams located in two different manufacturing plants.
By: u/Distinct_Ship_3152 submitted:Nov 18 2022

Install, remove, list, and set default printer with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
With PowerShell, you can easily install a printer driver, add a printer to the repository, and then

add a local or shared network printer to your Windows installation. In this post, I will also explain how you can list printers, add a printer port, set the default printer, and remove a printer with PowerShell.

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By: Emanuel Halapciuc submitted:Nov 18 2022

PsInfo: Get disk space, installed applications, and other information about local and remote Windows systems (4sysops.com)
PsInfo, a command-line tool that is part of the Sysinternals suite, gets key information about

Windows systems, such as the type of installation, available disk space, installed applications, kernel build number, uptime, registered owner, and the number of processors.

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By: Leos Marek submitted:Nov 18 2022

Use GitHub Codespaces for Azure PowerShell Function apps (4bes.nl)
While GitHub Codespaces have been available for a while, this week at GitHub Universe it was

announced that everyone can use them for free. Everyone...

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By: Barbara submitted:Nov 18 2022

Use PowerShell splatting and PSBoundParameters to pass parameters (4sysops.com)
The automatic variable PSBoundParameters stores the parameters that you explicitly passed to a

function in a hash table. With the help of splatting, you can use this PowerShell feature to simplify passing of parameters to functions.

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Nov 18 2022

Using PowerShell on chromeOS Flex (powershellisfun.com)
On an older laptop, I use chromeOS Flex. Easy to install, and for simple web browsing, it's a

perfect solution without any license requirement. But yeah... I also wanted to use PowerShell on that, this blog post will show you how to install and use PowerShell on chromeOS Flex.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Nov 18 2022

Using PowerShell to Manage Azure AD Custom Security Attributes (office365itpros.com)
Azure AD custom security attributes can mark user and service principal objects for special

processing, which is how the app filter for conditional access policies works. It's nice to be able to interact with data through PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets support setting, updating, and retrieval of Azure AD custom security attributes. Everything works, but it's a pity that it's a little clunky.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Nov 18 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

CodeConversion (github.com)
Orginally a feature of PowerShell Pro Tools, this module provides the ability to convert between C#

and PowerShell. No license required.

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By: Ironman Software, LLC submitted:Nov 18 2022

Mdbc (github.com)
MongoDB Cmdlets for PowerShell
By: Roman Kuzmin submitted:Nov 18 2022

PSObjectTools (github.com)
Functions to enable advanced PSObject analysis and comparison.
By: Tyler Richardson submitted:Nov 18 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

ELI5 (reddit.com)
Attempting my way through "PS through a month of lunches" only experience being my A+.
By: u/iamelloyello submitted:Nov 18 2022

Exchange Online PowerShell Book Updated! (powershellgeek.com)
Last night (11/16/22) the Exchange Online PowerShell book had it's first of three planned updates!

The new edition of the book is available HERE and is a Nov 2022 Edition! Go get your copy now, or if you are a subscriber (THANK YOU!) you can download an update to your subscription. The next update should...

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By: damian submitted:Nov 18 2022

HTML Reporting with Powershell Part 1 Creating the Basic Report (youtube.com)
In tis video, we look at how to create an html report in powershell. This will shows the basics of

how to create a multiple fragment body and why it's needed for more complex reports.

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By: Chasse TAC submitted:Nov 18 2022

Nightmare Fuel with I am Jakoby (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we talk with ethical hacker I am Jakoby who gives us insights into the many ways

someone can get access to your systems. We talked about how he started his journey into ethical hacking, and the support he got when he submitted for hak5.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Nov 18 2022

Practicing PowerShell (reddit.com)
Hi everyone. What would be the most cost effective option/service I could use to spin up a few

servers so I can build out a test AD environment to effectively practice PowerShell?

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By: u/Ckn0wt submitted:Nov 18 2022

Start and Stop EC2 New Instances Using Powershell (youtube.com)
In this video we cover the basics of starting and stopping a EC2 Instance With Powershell.
By: Joshua Arp submitted:Nov 18 2022

Fun

PowerShell Mastodon Report (github.com)
A report of PowerShell activity across the Mastodon landscape. It searches across multiple public

Mastodon servers for people talking about PowerShell. If you are looking for who to follow or which server to join, this is the place for you.

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By: Matthew Dowst submitted:Nov 18 2022

PSPlex (github.com)
A PowerShell module to aid Plex server management.
By: Robin Malik submitted:Nov 18 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell SnippetRace 44/45-2022 (powershell.co.at)
PSScriptAnalyzer, OpenSSH, curl, -ne, Azure Automation Events PowerShell Workshop (MS-Graph,

PowerShellGet, news around PS), 9. November 2022 in Linz. Workshop will be held in GERMAN language.

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By: Roman Stadlmair submitted:Nov 18 2022

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