June 9, 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Determine if laptop or desktop? (reddit.com)
Is there a definitive way that I could tell if a computer is a laptop or desktop?
By: u/rivkinnator submitted:Jun 9 2023

Display any tree with PowerShell (itluke.online)
Display Active Directory, Registry, VMWare, File System, and more trees with PowerShell...
By: Luke submitted:Jun 9 2023

Finding your Windows Install Date – Clayton Errington (claytonerrington.com)
Did you ever need to find when you installed your operating system? Check out the many ways to check

your system.

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By: Clayton Errington submitted:Jun 9 2023

How to Move Files with PowerShell (thomasmaurer.ch)
PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can help you automate various tasks on your Windows

and Linux system. One of the common tasks that you may need to perform is moving files from one location to another. In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell to move files with different ...

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 9 2023

HTTP server in powershell for Sharing files (reddit.com)
Hey, I made a powershell script running a HTTP server that allows file transfer through web browser.

What do you think? Any improvements I should do?

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By: u/Boxmaker1 submitted:Jun 9 2023

Keeping Teams Tidy Through Automation (practical365.com)
With a relatively small amount of effort, the provisioning of Teams in an organization can be

automated to cater to the requirements of the business, as well as IT. In this article, Sean McAvinue goes over keep your Teams tidy through some useful tips and PowerShell code.

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By: Sean McAvinue submitted:Jun 9 2023

Scheduled Tasks & PowerShell (garytown.com)
Triggering Script from GitHub This post was mostly created for myself to help remember tricks I use

in creating scheduled tasks with PowerShell. I find it handy when developing thing in my lab to keep the script in GitHub, and call it remotely. You can also easily modify the script to copy the script local ... Read more

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By: gwblok submitted:Jun 9 2023

Using Azure Automation and Runbooks to Run Azure SQL Database Maintenance Tasks | Tracy Boggiano’s Blog (tracyboggiano.com)
I've been using Azure SQL Database for quite some while and have set up it in many various ways to

run Ola's Index Optimize and Statistics Updates on them. All of these have seemed way too complicated probably because I was setting them up once, not again for several more months or a year. Well

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By: Tracy Boggiano submitted:Jun 9 2023

Using the Rapid7 InsightVM API with PowerShell (blog.jonsdocs.org.uk)
An explanation and some examples for connecting to Rapid7's InsightVM API (version 3) with

PowerShell.

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By: joncojonathan submitted:Jun 9 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Function to Monitor Azure App Service Web Jobs (reddit.com)
I was recently tasked with finding a way to monitor our Azure Web Jobs. In my research and learning,

I found there wasn't a whole lot out there, and what was there wasn't quite what fit our needs. So I created my own function, Get-AzWebJobStatus,

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By: u/Sin_of_the_Dark submitted:Jun 9 2023

Community

Blogging secrets with Christian Ritter (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by community member Christian Ritter. We

talk about PSConfEU and the importance of community. Christian shares his blogging secrets and insights into his growth in PowerShell over the years. From using Microsoft Graph to teaching PowerShell at work, this episode has all that and more!

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jun 9 2023

Fun

Changing your Windows Terminal background image (powershellisfun.com)
I use Windows Terminal to run scripts, connect to SSH hosts, or start a WSL Ubuntu session. You can

customize Windows Terminal in many ways, and in this blog post, I will show you how to change the background in your Profiles to a fixed or randomly selected one.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jun 9 2023

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