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that's considered the crown jewels. This is due to Active Directory still being the bread and butter for most organizations in regard to authentication and authorization. When it comes to security, automation is your best friend and keeping a close eye on privileged group membership should be on top of your list. This post will walk you through, how you can make sure no unwelcome objects make their way into privileged groups in on-premises AD, by leveraging Microsoft Sentinel and its option to run playbooks automated. This breaks down to Microsoft Sentinel generating an alert, which triggers the associated Playbook, which triggers a Logic app, which triggers a Runbook in an Automation Account, which ultimately runs a PowerShell script on an on-premises server.

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third-party, but Microsoft signed are safe(r). In this blog post, I will show you how you can scan your system for non-Microsoft signed Windows Services and create a report on those.

administrators; it is a critical task to do! While our primary concern is safeguarding our data with these policies, it's equally important

explain how to connect with SharePoint sites from Microsoft PowerShell. I will show you how to use the SharePoint Online management shell to connect with SharePoint Online sites and also how to work with SharePoint on-premises sites.

Windows? It's even really simple and with help of this article everyone can make it. In this example, I'll add a new item to context menu (when you right click on a file). It appears only for PowerShell ...

a rising figure in the PowerShell community. Clayton shared his intriguing journey into the world of PowerShell, shedding light on his first steps and his continuous involvement in the community. Of particular significance was our discussion about his experience developing the impactful 365AutomatedLab module. Also, Clayton's "Getting Started with 365AutomatedLab module" blog received special attention, serving as a fantastic resource for fellow developers. The episode provided remarkable insights, demonstrating Clayton's expertise and his dedication to sharing knowledge with the community.

already left before I started, and I had to search far and wide for documentation on how they had set up the systems.

For example, you want to convert the following command for

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most basic tasks you're expected to do as an administrator. This guide will teach you how to use PowerShell to get and set the IP address.

date of a news page in SharePoint Online. This can be useful if you need to update the publish date of a news page to reflect changes in the content or to correct errors in the original publish date.

Directory domain to get a nice list in the output.

TeamViewer client.

Joe Houghes, engaging him in an insightful discussion about his dynamic journey and participation in community activity. Woven throughout with humor and knowledge, our ponderings with Joe centered around the significance of building relationships within the community. We ventured further into the dialogue surrounding the emphasis on soft skills and their interaction with professional growth. The conversation pivoted towards effective communication as an investment into one's self, bringing about palpable value in the workplace. Walk away with a newfound reflective insight and tangible advice for involvement in the community, all courtesy of Joe's enlightening experiences.

little fun. Here is a collection of PowerShell one-liners, all celebrating 13. And maybe you'll even pick up something new about PowerShell. Manage and Report Active Directory, Exchange and Microsoft 365 withManageEngine ADManager Plus -...

adding Windows Terminal Canary to the Windows Terminal family. Windows Terminal Canary is a new canary channel of Windows Terminal that ships nightly and includes "hot off the presses" features.

Ensuring its health is pivotal for the seamless operation of various services. Today, I decided to look at Microsoft Entra Connect Health (Azure AD Connect Health) service, which allows monitoring Azure AD Connect, ADFS, and Active Directory. This means that under a single umbrella, you can have an overview of three services health. But is it worth it?

performing a particular action for some integration scripts.

some caveats such as not removing Exchange Online licenses. Organizations might want to do this to save money on Microsoft 365 license fees while an account is temporarily unused. Removal of Exchange Online licenses can result in the loss of a mailbox, and you don't want that to happen if you're disabling accounts just because someone is on a long-term sabbatical or other leave of absence.

code. It will contain 2 main functions: Get-CodeImprovementSuggestion and Get-CodeFixSuggestion. Both accept a ScriptBlock parameter. As names indicate, the first one checks in OpenAI if there are some possible improvements. The second one checks for errors.

specific actions in the Azure / Entra ID portal in the past. But you can also use it for Intune 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how this works.

is and how it adds to / replaces the current PowerShellGet v2.2.5.

interconnected, safeguarding sensitive information such as API keys has never been more important. These keys grant access to valuable resources and services, making them targets for malicious actors if not adequately protected. Azure Key Vault offers a robust and secure solution for managing and storing API keys and other secrets. This article explores how you can leverage PowerShell Secrets Management with Azure Key Vault to ensure the security of your API keys.

Powershell-Modules, but they can modify environment variables on load and restore the old environment state on remove. The functionallity was inspired by the Linux program modulecmd.

using Pester to test your code. And if you use PlatyPS to generate markdown documentation like I do, then you have a bunch of example PowerShell code sitting in .md files. But what happens if you rename a command, a parameter, or make some other kind of breaking change?

the intricate world of cross-platform terminal setups with none other than Gilbert Sanchez. Providing some much-needed clarification and sparking a f...

maintain a proper lifecycle around Active Directory groups. Many organizations love creating groups however, some (most?), don't really like to do cleanup

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reporting of shared mailbox quotas. The old script used just Exchange Online PowerShell. This versions mixes Exchange Online and the Graph SDK and throws in some certificate-based authentication to boot to allow the script to send email from something other than the signed-in account.. It all comes together, using chunks of code from other scripts to speed up writing. It's the PowerShell way...

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function which uses the properties on the incoming objects to define the column names, supports the definition of maximum column widths, and outputs either pretty-printed markdown with padded values and aligned columns, or "compressed" markdown without the unnecessary padding included.

distinguished guest, Joel "Jaykul" Bennett. From plumbing the depths of GitOps basics to demystifying the role of Kubernetes, Joel leaves no stone unturned. By sharing his journey of self-discovery in finding empowering employers and honing his IT skills, he offers invaluable insights for professionals in the tech sector. Joel also speaks about his all-time favorite conference talks, revealing the nuggets of wisdom he's gained from his prolific career. But what's a PowerShell Podcast without diving into the nitty-gritty? Joel also shares about knowing one's worth in the IT field and gives us a peek into his favorite modules.

enthusiast or a DevOps aficionado with a wealth of knowledge to share?

PowerShell and .NET.