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January 27, 2023

Announcements!

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code January 2023 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that the January update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio

Code is now available on the extension marketplace.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jan 27 2023

PowerShell/OpenSSH Team Investments for 2023 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Team investments for 2023 across PowerShell, PowerShellGallery, OpenSSH, and supporting tools
By: Steve Lee submitted:Jan 27 2023

v7.3.2 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come get the latest version fresh off the build pipelines
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jan 27 2023

Windows Package Manager 1.4 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Windows Package Manager team has been busy working on WinGet 1.4. This release introduces

support for .zip-based packages. WinGet can now extract and run an installer inside of a .zip archive or install one or more portable packages from an archive.

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By: Demitrius Nelon submitted:Jan 27 2023

Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Windows Terminal team is back with our first release of the year! ??
By: Christopher Nguyen submitted:Jan 27 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Empty the Recycle Bin with PowerShell and the Task Scheduler (sid-500.com)
In this post I will show you how to empty the recycle bin automatically. For this I will use

PowerShell and Scheduled PowerShell Jobs.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jan 27 2023

How to Find Teams Channels With a Wiki Tab (office365itpros.com)
Microsoft plans to replace the Teams wiki with OneNote and will release a migration app to move

content from wiki to OneNote. That's great, but you need to know what channels include the wiki tab before you can decide what material should be migrated. This article explains how to use PowerShell to create a report of Teams channel tabs for wikis.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 27 2023

Install or update your SysInternals Suite using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
I think a lot of you use the SysInternals tools on your machine. They are great tools at your

disposal and have helped me a lot! You can install it using the Microsoft Store method, it will be updated like that too, but for your management server, it's nice to have an installer that works without the Microsoft Store 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way to install or update your SysInternals Suite.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 27 2023

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA (petri.com)
You only have a few days left.
By: Rabia Noureen submitted:Jan 27 2023

Permissions Required to Run Microsoft Graph Cmdlets (powershellgeek.com)
Introduction When connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell, it is important to determine what

permissions are needed for that connection as it could determine which cmdlets we are able to run as well as what access is granted to manage objects with Graph PowerShell. Microsoft does provide a hand pair of cmdlets for determining cmdlets to...

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By: damian submitted:Jan 27 2023

Server-Side-Filtering in PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Retrieving objects in your scripts is something that you do regularly. It takes a long time to

download and process in larger environments, wasting CPU and time. This blog post will explain how to speed up scripts by filtering server-side before downloading all results and filtering afterward.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 27 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Add IP/Hostname to Taskbar via Powershell (reddit.com)
I found a PowerShell script that will create an icon, add it to the notification tray and will

display information (hostrname, IP addresses, etc)

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By: u/Pinguillina submitted:Jan 27 2023

QB Licensing Extraction Script (reddit.com)
Hey all, I created a script to extract the licensing information for all installed versions of

QuickBooks on a machine including versions that have since been deleted from the testing I have conducted but this may be wrong. I wrote this script about 2 years ago for a migration project at work but it has recently been useful for new clients to get the information as it can be run from a backend tool so users do not get interrupted. The script is fairly well commented to tell you what it is doing but if you have any questions I can answer them.

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By: u/ColdF1r3 submitted:Jan 27 2023

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Asking the Right Questions: A Conversation with Guy Leech (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this interview with Guy Leech, he shared his passion for the coding community and how it has

helped him in his career. He revealed that he uses his Twitter account as a personal knowledge base, and shared his story on how he got started in coding. He also provided valuable insights on how to ask good questions, the importance of helping others in the community, and how doing so can lead to better career opportunities. Additionally, he discussed error handling in PowerShell and the importance of not getting bogged down by small details.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 27 2023

Community

PowerShell Community on Twitter (twitter.com)
Skip the junk and get right to the stuff you want on Twitter with the PowerShell community feed.
By: PowerShell submitted:Jan 27 2023

Fun

Clippy for VS Code (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
Because, why not 🙂
By: Laura bananas submitted:Jan 27 2023

Upcoming Events

MMS 2023 at MOA (mmsmoa.com)
April 30 - May 5, 2023 at the Mall of America Bloomington, Minnesota
By: MMS submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit (powershellsummit.org)
April 24-27, 2023 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Days UK (sessionize.com)
Call for speakers now open. Event takes place on 3 Mar 2023.
By: psday.uk submitted:Jan 6 2023

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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January 20, 2023

Announcements!

Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
We are happy to announce the Public Preview of Azure Automation extension to help create and manage

runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is a light weight source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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By: Jaspreet Kaur submitted:Jan 20 2023

Visual Studio Spell Checker Preview Now Available (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We know developers like you take pride in your code! Many of the features in Visual Studio are

designed to help you write the code you want. Visual Studio helps you ensure your code compiles and can even help with code styling.

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By: Dante Gagne submitted:Jan 20 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Get Application Certificate and Secret Expiration with Graph API (thesysadminchannel.com)
In the world of Azure cloud automation we always need to ensure that our accounts are able to

properly authenticate. Accounts with username and password might have Active Directory alert you when your password expires, however, what can we use...

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jan 20 2023

How do you read word document files using powershell? (reddit.com)
Compared to text files when I use Get-Content on a word document it shows some weird symbols as if

it was obfuscated. How can I properly make powershell display the contents of a word document without downloading anything?

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By: u/RallyAngelo submitted:Jan 20 2023

Locating Microsoft Graph PowerShell Cmdlets (powershellgeek.com)
Introduction In the previous article (link here) we covered the basics of connecting to Microsoft

Graph PowerShell as well as some of the requirements that go along with the connection. This week we will review how to find cmdlet for Graph to help start to break down what is available in this module as well...

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By: damian submitted:Jan 20 2023

PS script to move files from Sharepoint library to S3 bucket (reddit.com)
Ideally this script would move files **directly** from SPO to the S3 bucket, but I haven't been able

to get anything working.

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By: u/SteveNeedsPizza submitted:Jan 20 2023

Recreate Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts #ASRmageddon (powershellisfun.com)
It's just a beautiful Friday 13th, due to a Windows Defender update that removed shortcuts from many

machines with Attack Surface Reduction enabled for Macros. (Work-around "Setdefender ASR rule 92e97fa1-2edf-4476-bdd6-9dd0b4dddc7b to audit only unit issue is resolved.") This blog post describes how you can recreate the missing shortcuts and deploy this using Intune or run it manually on the affected system(s).

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 20 2023

Upgrading the Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams Membership Report Script (office365itpros.com)
The Microsoft 365 Groups Report (membership of groups and teams) originally used the Azure AD and

Exchange Online PowerShell modules. Now its code uses only cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. It's an example of the kind of update that many organizations are going through due to the upcoming deprecation of the Azure AD and MSOL modules.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 20 2023

Upload and Download files from Azure Blob Storage using Connection String (evotec.xyz)
They say there is a first time for everything. For me, it's how to download and upload files to

Azure Blog Storage using Connection String. Recently I was given Connection String, Container name and had to download some files from Azur Blog Storage. After some research and trying Connect-AzAccount, I found that the proper way to go is thru New-AzStorageContext.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jan 20 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Deploy Windows 365 via Powershell (nielskok.tech)
Stefan Dingemanse and I built a Powershell Module to deploy Windows 365 more easily.
By: Niels Kok submitted:Jan 20 2023

Find Frequent Event Viewer Errors & Lookup Their Solutions (reddit.com)
EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback. The script can be customized to fit your needs. Please run it as

admin or the script will not function correctly. I wish I could find a job where writing these scripts is encouraged. My current customer-facing remote support job does not value these type of scripts. Thanks for all the upvotes 🙂

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By: u/nick4networking submitted:Jan 20 2023

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Can we do this while exhausted with Andrew, Jordan, and JJ (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, JJ joins Jordan and Andrew as they attempt an episode while being rundown and

exhausted. We cover many subjects but veer off course several times. Not to worry, Jordan finds a way to talk food again. We also find time to talk about some PowerShell, including making music with system beeps, ChatGPT, and what we think the best way to dive into making modules the first time is. Join us to see how weird it gets when we are only semi-coherent.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 20 2023

Community

PowerShell on Discord (discord.gg)
A super helpful and very responsive community of PowerShell enthusiast.
By: PowerShell submitted:Jan 20 2023

Fun

Offend a PowerShell coder in one tweet (twitter.com)
A fun read 🙂
By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 20 2023

Upcoming Events

MMS 2023 at MOA (mmsmoa.com)
April 30 - May 5, 2023 at the Mall of America Bloomington, Minnesota
By: MMS submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit (powershellsummit.org)
April 24-27, 2023 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Days UK (sessionize.com)
Call for speakers now open. Event takes place on 3 Mar 2023.
By: psday.uk submitted:Jan 6 2023

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.

January 13, 2023

Announcements!

PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit 3.9 (github.com)
Tons of new features in this release!
By: PSAppDeployToolkit submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18 (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:Jan 13 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Best Practices Make Perfect (jdhitsolutions.com)
This post is a reprint from an article published to my premium PowerShell newsletter Behind the

PowerShell Pipeline available on Substack.

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jan 13 2023

Connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (powershellgeek.com)
Introduction As promised in my blog post last week, this is the first of many blog posts on

Microsoft Graph PowerShell and to start things out right we will first cover the How on connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Then over the coming weeks we will cover permissions, cmdlet discovery as well as some common...

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By: damian submitted:Jan 13 2023

Find the source of AD account lockouts (4sysops.com)
In a previous post, we discussed how to quickly unlock AD accounts with PowerShell. However, the

main problem admins tend to face is identifying the source computer or service that is causing the account to lock out in the first place.

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By: Surender Kumar submitted:Jan 13 2023

Five shortcuts to boost your productivity (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive

developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we've put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio.

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By: Mads Kristensen submitted:Jan 13 2023

Getting Started with PowerShell Gallery (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how to leverage the PowerShell Gallery for more efficient and effective PowerShell scripting

in this ATA Learning tutorial.

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Jan 13 2023

How to create a PowerShell Module with multiple Functions (sid-500.com)
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a module with multiple functions using an example.

You will see that this is not rocket science. Let's jump in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Begin Process End Blocks Demystified (jeffbrown.tech)
If you want to take your PowerShell function writing skills to the next level, consider implementing

Begin, Process, and End blocks. These input processing methods enable your functions to process pipeline input and multiple parameter values. In this article, you will learn the basic syntax of PowerShell Begin, Process, and End blocks.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jan 13 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Scripting With VMware SRM REST API And PowerShell (blog.ukotic.net)
In a previous blog I wrote about Getting Started With Site Recovery Manager REST API. The post

focused on using...

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By: Mark Ukotic submitted:Jan 13 2023

Unleash the Power of Artificial Intelligence with PowerShell (github.com)
Welcome to the PowerShell Artificial Intelligence repository! Here, you will find a collection of

powerful PowerShell scripts that will enable you to easily integrate AI into your projects and take them to the next level. Imagine being able to interact directly with OpenAI's GPT AI with just a few simple commands. With this module, it's now possible.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 13 2023

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

MVPs and Stars with Barbara 4rbes (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we are joined by GitHub star Barbara Forbes. She tells us what her experience has

been like as a GitHub star and presents a session at GitHub Universe. We got to learn about GitHub Codespaces as well as GitHub CoPilot and the future of AI. She discussed the value of mentorship and how helpful getting a 2nd opinion can be when dealing with doubts. We also got to hear how she got her awesome plushies.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 13 2023

Community

Follow Friday nominee – dfinke (github.com)
Most of you probably know Doug from his ImportExcel module, but did you know he is also a wizard

when it comes to running PowerShell in Jupyter Notebooks and many other things. He has over 200 GitHub repos for you to explore and learn from.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 13 2023

Fun

I asked ChatGPT how to use ChatGPT programmatically with PowerShell. It told me how, and now I’ll tell you. (reddit.com)
EDIT: Turns out that if you are using a Microsoft or Google account, you will need to register

ChatGPT as an application using OAuth2.0. I ended up just making my API key in the OpenAI GUI.

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By: u/Marquis77 submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell SnippetRace 01/02-2023 (powershell.co.at)
MessageBox, BgInfo, Images, Version Events Snippets Crafting a MessageBox with PowerShell With the

switch of Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core, a lot of semi-gui-like features of PowerShell have been lost for the price of multi-platform availability. If you still want to present messageboxes with PowerShell, read this blog from Edem Afenyo. BgInfo with PowerShell IT-veterans know it for a long time, and also IT newbees may have heard of it - bgInfo. BGInfo draws system information on the background of your desktop to make support and diagnosis easier. Now there is a PowerShell variant of bginfo, written in PowerShell. Look

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By: Roman Stadlmair submitted:Jan 13 2023

Upcoming Events

MMS 2023 at MOA (mmsmoa.com)
April 30 - May 5, 2023 at the Mall of America Bloomington, Minnesota
By: MMS submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit (powershellsummit.org)
April 24-27, 2023 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Days UK (sessionize.com)
Call for speakers now open. Event takes place on 3 Mar 2023.
By: psday.uk submitted:Jan 6 2023

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.

January 6, 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Graph API using a Managed Identity in an Automation Runbook (thesysadminchannel.com)
In a previous post, I laid out detailed steps on how to connect to Microsoft Graph API using

PowerShell. This is using the PowerShell SDK running on a machine that's not in Azure.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jan 6 2023

How to Craft a Modern PowerShell Message Box (adamtheautomator.com)
Discover all the modern ways to craft a PowerShell Message Box and get away from the VBScript

methods of old in this updated how-to!

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By: Edem Afenyo submitted:Jan 6 2023

Image Manipulation, Image Resize, Image Combine and more with PowerShell (evotec.xyz)
ImagePlayground is a PowerShell module that works in PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7+. It works

partially on Linux and should work on macOS, except for charts. That means it's partially cross-platform, but the end goal is to make it work fully on all platforms. So what can this module do?

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jan 6 2023

Install Microsoft Graph Module for Azure Automation using PowerShell (thesysadminchannel.com)
If you're familiar with Azure Automation and Graph API, you may have noticed that it may be a bit

cumbersome to install the Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module in an Automation account.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jan 6 2023

Top Ten PowerShell Tips for Microsoft 365 Management: Part Two (practical365.com)
If you are stuck using your on-premises resources to manage a cloud infrastructure, it is an

opportune time to change that with the availability of tools and functions that are now available. In this article, we focus on how to use PowerShell to manage Microsoft 365. In addition, we consider how to use cloud services to manage PowerShell code, testing, security controls, and more.

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By: Damian Scoles submitted:Jan 6 2023

Why is it “New-ADUser” not “Add-ADUser”? (reddit.com)
I am trying to understand why this design decision was made. It seems a bit off from verb-object

pattern.

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By: u/d3lee3 submitted:Jan 6 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PowerBGInfo – PowerShell alternative to Sysinternals BGInfo (evotec.xyz)
When I created ImagePlayground, I thought about how to show its usefulness to the general community.

On how to deliver what PowerShell can do. Then I saw on some forum people asking BGInfo to expand and allow running PowerShell scripts so that the data on the BGInfo Wallpaper can be gathered from PowerShell rather than VBS. I thought this was a great idea to create BGInfo using PowerShell without the necessity of using BGInfo at all.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jan 6 2023

Recovering Deleted Groups with the Graph PowerShell SDK (office365itpros.com)
This article describes how to restore deleted Azure AD groups with PowerShell using cmdlets from the

Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. Although options exist in the Microsoft 365 admin center and Azure AD admin center to restore deleted groups, it's nice to have the option to do the same with PowerShell.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 6 2023

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Building Communities with Chrissy LeMaire (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, Chriss LeMaire chats with us and shares her perspective as a PowerSheller, DBA,

Github star, community-builder, and more. We explore imposter syndrome and where Chrissy gets her confidence from. We talked about creating DBATools, becoming an author, how awesome Lee Holmes is, and even the fediverse. We also get to hear the legendary story of Big Perms. Last, Jordan derails the conversation to talk about food and has no regrets.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 6 2023

How to open current path using File Explorer in Windows PowerShell (youtube.com)
A nifty trick, I never knew about.
By: Coffee Programmer submitted:Jan 6 2023

PowerShell + Plotting in Polyglot Interactive Notebooks (youtube.com)
In this video, you'll see you how to use PowerShell in combination with ScottPlot, a graphical

plotting library for .NET, to create data visualizations.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 6 2023

PowerShell Notes for Professionals book (goalkicker.com)
A wonder and FREE PowerShell reference ebook. No sign-up required.
By: goalkicker.com submitted:Jan 6 2023

Community

Breaking PowerShell (breakingpwsh.com)
An awesome new site, that already has a ton of great content.
By: Steve Landry submitted:Jan 6 2023

Follow Friday nominee – @skatterbrainzz (twitter.com)
A ton of entertain musing with some great PowerShell content sprinkled in.
By: PSFollowFriday submitted:Jan 6 2023

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Days UK (sessionize.com)
Call for speakers now open. Event takes place on 3 Mar 2023.
By: psday.uk submitted:Jan 6 2023

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.

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