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

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