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

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