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December 16, 2022

Announcements!

v7.3.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Fresh off the pipelines for Christmas, it's PowerShell v7.3.1
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Dec 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

6 Command Line (PowerShell & CLI) Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Azure you should know about! (thomasmaurer.ch)
There are many experiences and possibilities to manage your Microsoft Azure resources, one of them

being the command line experience using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. In this blog post we are going to have a look at 6 tips & tricks for managing your Microsoft Azure resources using the command line with Azure

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Dec 16 2022

Adding a Help Parameter to a Function (tommymaynard.com)
I started writing a PowerShell function to replicate the work of an old executable called ICSWEEP.

ICSWEEP "is a command-line utility to clear the Temporary Internet Files Cache and/or the TEMP files folder of ALL user profiles that are NOT in use when this command is executed." ICSWEEP Information.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Dec 16 2022

Audit Microsoft Teams Membership Changes using PowerShell (o365reports.com)
Microsoft Teams plays a crucial role in facilitating collaboration and communication in the

organizations. As team owners can add or remove members from MS Teams, it is important for admins to track membership changes to ensure authorized individuals have access

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By: Kathy Cooper submitted:Dec 16 2022

Best way to automate File Transfers (reddit.com)
Currently I have about 15+ SFTP Connections, with many being both inbound and outbound.
By: u/Ok_Hearing3804 submitted:Dec 16 2022

Create a Windows 11 Multi-session golden image for Azure Virtual Desktop using Marketplace Image (askaresh.com)
Want to create a Windows 11 golden image for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) using a marketplace image

using PowerShell? Check out this post by Aresh Sarakari on how you can do just that.

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By: Aresh Sarakari submitted:Dec 16 2022

How can one powershell script check if another powershell script is running? (reddit.com)
I have two powershell scripts, a.ps1 and b.ps1
By: u/LunchyPete submitted:Dec 16 2022

Mastering PowerShell Dynamic Arrays (jeffbrown.tech)
PowerShell arrays are a powerful construct when working with a group of similar items. You can loop

through them and access items using their index values. However, adding or removing items to a fixed array is not intuitive and, depending on the method, can cause performance issues. This article will teach you different strategies

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Dec 16 2022

PowerShell output on screen (powershellisfun.com)
It's always nice to have some screen output while running scripts interactively, in this blog post I

will show you a few ways to do that.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Dec 16 2022

Setting Lifecycle Management Policy on Azure Storage using Azure PowerShell (jorgebernhardt.com)
Following the thread of my last post, I want to show you how to take advantage of this functionality

by configuring a data lifecycle management.

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By: Jorge Bernhardt submitted:Dec 16 2022

Working with Different PowerShell Wildcard Expressions (techgenix.com)
In PowerShell, a wildcard can be used to take the place of one or more characters. This is

especially useful when working with variables or when manipulating text strings. In this article, I'll discuss some of the many things that you can do with wildcards in PowerShell.

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By: Brien Posey submitted:Dec 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

ShowDemo (github.com)
Want to showcase something you built in PowerShell? You can make a .demo.ps1 file to showcase your

script line by line.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Dec 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Create Your Own ChatGPT in 5 Minutes with PowerShell! (youtube.com)
ChatGPT is all the rage right now, but I've had my own ChatGPT in PowerShell for quite a while now,

even before ChatGPT existed. In this video, I will show you how you can get access to your own ChatGPT from the PowerShell command line in less than 5 minutes, WITHOUT having to write a single line of code!!!

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By: Caroline Chiari submitted:Dec 16 2022

Modern IT Automation with PowerShell (leanpub.com)
A PowerShell Textbook written by the community for the community!
By: The DevOps Collective and Michael Zanatta submitted:Dec 16 2022

PowerShell, Microsoft, Management, and more with Steve Lee (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of an insider. Steve Lee shares a bit about his

background and how he came to find himself managing the PowerShell team. He talks about the double-edged sword of working on a product that is so widely distributed. Steve talks about how and why PowerShell uses telemetry and some of the challenges that come along with such a large amount of data. We learn about the differences between OpenSSH and WinRM, doing visible work, interacting with the community, AI, and more.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Dec 16 2022

Windows Updates through PowerShell (youtube.com)
Did you know you can install updates with using PowerShell? This is the Guide for doing that!
By: Chris Titus Tech submitted:Dec 16 2022

Community

PSGallery Reports (github.com)
See reports of what has been recently released and what is popular on the PowerShell Gallery.

Updated weekly!

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Dec 16 2022

r/PowerShell (reddit.com)
I know Reddit can get a bad rep sometimes, but the people on r/PowerShell are some of the best in

the community. If you haven't check it out, you really should.

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By: r/PowerShell submitted:Dec 16 2022

Social is Hard (jdhitsolutions.com)
Social media has been a great asset to my career. It has helped me build new relationships, keep on

top of trends in IT, and generally be that co-worker sitting across from me. I have worked from home for at least as long as I worked from an office. I often miss the social aspect.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Dec 16 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023 (powershellsummit.org)
Early Bird tickets now available until December 31, 2022
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Dec 16 2022

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly? Do you know something that should be included? Let me know in the comments below, or on
twitter.

December 9, 2022

I’m excited to announce a new category that has been added to PowerShell Weekly, Community Spotlights. This category will spotlight people and solutions who have made significate contributions to the PowerShell community. Starting this week with some fantastic tools for those exploring Mastodon. Plus, a couple of spotlights and updates for some awesome community members. And as always, please let me know if you have any suggestions for content here or any of the categories. Enjoy 😊

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-preview01 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
This preview includes a new schema, support for argument

value transformation, the ability to bypass the output handler, and improved error handling.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Dec 9 2022

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

Code. (sssh, nobody tell them it's December 🙂 )

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By: Andy Jordan submitted:Dec 9 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Configure DHCP-Server-Role with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
The Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) helps you manage your network by automatically assigning

IP-Adresses to hosts. In this article I will show you how to configure a DHCP Server with a [...]

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Dec 9 2022

Install PFX certificate on servers (ehmiiz.tech)
As you may have guessed, this post will be about installing certificates using PowerShell.
By: Emil Larsson submitted:Dec 9 2022

PowerShell to bulk remove VIBs from multiple ESXi hosts (putting hosts in MM mode beforehand) (angrysysops.com)
During my last upgrade from vSphere 6.7 to vSphere 7.0 on one of my clusters, I come across the

issue with VIBs.

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By: Piotr Tarnawski submitted:Dec 9 2022

Taking Your PowerShell Variables to the Next Level (techgenix.com)
PowerShell allows you to do much more than just declare and use variables. In this article, you'll

learn how to create constants and rename variables, taking your PowerShell variable usage to the next level.

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By: Brien Posey submitted:Dec 9 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AzOps v1.9.2 (github.com)
This PowerShell module provides the ability to deploy Resource Templates & Bicep files at all Azure

scope levels. To provide this functionality the multiple scopes within Azure Resource Manager are represented (example below) within Git. Using directories and files, templates can be deployed (Push) at various scopes whilst also exporting (Pull) composite templates from ARM and placing them within the repository.

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By: Customer Architecture Team (CAT) submitted:Dec 9 2022

BluebirdPS v0.8.3 (powershellgallery.com)
A Twitter Automation Client for PowerShell 7. Tweet, retweet, send direct messages, manage lists,

and more.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Dec 9 2022

Microsoft.PowerPlatform.DevOps v2.0.134 (powershellgallery.com)
A Toolset for Implementing and Adopting a full ALM strategy for the Microsoft PowerPlatform.
By: Dylan Haskins and Eugene Van Staden submitted:Dec 9 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

10 Best Powershell Courses & Tutorials – Learn Powershell Online (coursesity.com)
Highly curated best Powershell tutorials for beginners. start with the best Powershell tutorials and

learn Powershell as beginners.

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By: Coursesity Team submitted:Dec 9 2022

PowerShell 7 Tutorials for Intermediates #8 : Working with XML (youtube.com)
In this video I will go over how to work with XML in PowerShell 7. I will show how to import a .xml

that was written by someone or another application and then also take a look at PowerShell's ability to generate CliXml files and import-clixml / export-clixml

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By: JackedProgrammer submitted:Dec 9 2022

The Return of James Petty with James Petty (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we got to speak to James Petty, who is a little busy at the moment. Running Summit

has become so easy for him that he added both a new kid and a new job into the mix this year. We talk all about Summit, PowerShell, how many first-time speakers submitted to speak, and the future of OnRamp. Finally, we learn about new books to help you along your PowerShell journey.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Dec 9 2022

Community

Fossilize – Mastodon account backup tool (github.com)
This GitHub Action will help you backup Mastodon account items to CSV files
By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Dec 9 2022

Influx – Import CSV files to Mastodon (github.com)
This GitHub Action will help you import CSV files to Mastodon
By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Dec 9 2022

JackedProgrammer (youtube.com)
He has tons of great video on a range of PowerShell topics at all levels, with new content added

regularly.

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By: JackedProgrammer submitted:Dec 9 2022

Lee Dailey ♥ (reddit.com)
An awesome update about one of the kindest and most knowledgable Redditors on r/PowerShell. I wish him and his family well. Enjoy your retirement. You will be missed.
By: u/thebeersgoodnbelgium submitted:Dec 9 2022

Twitter Exodus (github.com)
Helps Twitter communities find members on Mastodon. Searches lists, hashtags, account followers and

more for Mastodon links in their name, bio or pinned tweet. Once found, their info is exported to a CSV file that can be imported into Mastodon.

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By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Dec 9 2022

Fun

Added speed and time remaining to progress for PowerShell `copy-item`. (twitter.com)
WoooHoooo!
By: Steve Lee submitted:Dec 9 2022

OpenAI Chat GPT 3 Can Write Your PowerShell Script (powershellcenter.com)
Do you know how to write a PowerShell script? If the answer is no, let me introduce you to your new

friend OpenAI Chat GPT 3. OpenAI Chat GPT uses a human-spoken natural language to generate your desired code. So all you need to do is describe what you want your script to do, and...

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Dec 9 2022

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly? Do you know something that should be included? Let me know in the comments below, or on
twitter.

December 2, 2022

Announcements!

Change $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to default to Legacy on stable release and Windows on previews

(github.com)

By: Steve Lee

$PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to Legacy on Windows (still Standard on non-Windows). We would keep the default as Windows on Windows for preview releases. This would be backported to 7.3.x

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Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A Beginners Guide To PowerShell New-Item

(adamtheautomator.com)

By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen

within PowerShell!

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Active Directory Infra check using PowerShell

(powershellisfun.com)

By: Harm Veenstra

overview of their environment I always check a lot of things before writing a report and a recommendation about which steps we need to take. In this blog post, I will show you a script that gathers information about the Active Directory Domain which saves a lot of command-line checking and starting up Management Consoles 😉

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PowerShell Tab Completion: The Ultimate Guide

(jeffbrown.tech)

By: Jeff Brown

user experience. You provide the user with possible values or build a dynamic list of values so the user knows what they can use. This article will teach you five ways to add tab completion to PowerShell functions. Using [...]

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Retrieve Coinmarketcap information using PowerShell

(powershellisfun.com)

By: Harm Veenstra

this is a blog post for you 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how you can use the API from Coinmarketcap to show you the latest stats in every newly started PowerShell session.

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Tips From The Warzone – HashSet To The Rescue – E4

(reddit.com)

By: u/bukem

properties, you name it.

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What command launched your session?

(twitter.com)

By: Jeff Hicks

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

ComputerCleanup v1.1.5

(powershellgallery.com)

By: Tom de Leeuw

Get-MgServicePrincipalPermission.ps1

(gist.github.com)

By: Justin Grote

Azure Portal shows

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PSEdit

(github.com)

By: Adam Driscoll

PSWinVitals v0.6.8

(powershellgallery.com)

By: Samuel Leslie

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell 7 Tutorials for Intermediates #7 : Working with JSON

(youtube.com)

By: JackedProgrammer

.json file, convert a .csv to .json, how to create PowerShell objects from json, etc.

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PowerShell Microsoft Teams PowerShell Cheat Sheet

(lp.scriptrunner.com)

By: Script Runner

always will be ad free. It's just a cheat sheet that I thought was worth sharing.

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The PowerShell Podcast at 40; Reflections, Ruminations, and Ramblings

(powershellpodcast.podbean.com)

By: The Powershell Podcast

going-ons. Jordan tells us how he saved dozens of hours on a script and the benefits of helping out your friends. Andrew chats about terminal GUIs, his new OMG USB, PowerShell Summit, and being careful not to information overload people when teaching them PowerShell. All this, our usual charming banter, and more!

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Fun

I wrote a guitar tuner in PowerShell. Thought you guys might get a kick out of it.

(reddit.com)

By: u/MessAdmin

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly? Do you know something that should be included? Let me know in the comments below, or on
twitter.

December 2, 2022

Announcements!

Change $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to default to Legacy on stable release and Windows on previews (github.com)
Given the impact to users with the 7.3.0 release, proposal is to change the default of

$PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to Legacy on Windows (still Standard on non-Windows). We would keep the default as Windows on Windows for preview releases. This would be backported to 7.3.x

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By: Steve Lee submitted:Dec 2 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A Beginners Guide To PowerShell New-Item (adamtheautomator.com)
Get started with PowerShell New-Item in this beginner's guide to creating new items and folders

within PowerShell!

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Dec 2 2022

Active Directory Infra check using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Some of our customers have an Active Directory environment that needs upgrading, to get a good

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Dec 2 2022

PowerShell Tab Completion: The Ultimate Guide (jeffbrown.tech)
Adding tab completion to your PowerShell parameters (or arguments) is a great way to enhance the

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Dec 2 2022

Retrieve Coinmarketcap information using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
If you're into Crypto and would like to see the latest price of your precious coin, then perhaps

this is a blog post for you 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how you can use the API from Coinmarketcap to show you the latest stats in every newly started PowerShell session.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Dec 2 2022

Tips From The Warzone – HashSet To The Rescue – E4 (reddit.com)
I work with large datasets. Millions of objects. Quite often I need to find unique entities, compare

properties, you name it.

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By: u/bukem submitted:Dec 2 2022

What command launched your session? (twitter.com)
What command launched your session?
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Dec 2 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

ComputerCleanup v1.1.5 (powershellgallery.com)
Module for freeing up disk space / removing temp files etc.
By: Tom de Leeuw submitted:Dec 2 2022

Get-MgServicePrincipalPermission.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Get a list of application and delegated permissions for a service principal, similar to what the

Azure Portal shows

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By: Justin Grote submitted:Dec 2 2022

PSEdit (github.com)
Edit PowerShell scripts directly in your terminal.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Dec 2 2022

PSWinVitals v0.6.8 (powershellgallery.com)
Consolidate common system health checks, maintenance tasks & inventory retrieval
By: Samuel Leslie submitted:Dec 2 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell 7 Tutorials for Intermediates #7 : Working with JSON (youtube.com)
In this video I will go over how to work with JSON in PowerShell 7. I will show how to import a

.json file, convert a .csv to .json, how to create PowerShell objects from json, etc.

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By: JackedProgrammer submitted:Dec 2 2022

PowerShell Microsoft Teams PowerShell Cheat Sheet (lp.scriptrunner.com)
**Requires you to fill out a form** This is not a paid advertisment. This newsletter has been and

always will be ad free. It's just a cheat sheet that I thought was worth sharing.

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By: Script Runner submitted:Dec 2 2022

The PowerShell Podcast at 40; Reflections, Ruminations, and Ramblings (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this laid-back episode, Jordan and Andrew take the opportunity to catch up on their PowerShell

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Dec 2 2022

Fun

I wrote a guitar tuner in PowerShell. Thought you guys might get a kick out of it. (reddit.com)
##Guitar Tuner
By: u/MessAdmin submitted:Dec 2 2022

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly? Do you know something that should be included? Let me know in the comments below, or on
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