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October 25, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating Sign-In Analysis with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph (hcritter.devdojo.com)
In this article, we'll walk through how to explore and analyze Conditional Access data in Microsoft

Entra using the Developer Tools in your browser. The purpose of this walkthrough is to demonstrate how you can identify and extract the necessary Microsoft Graph API calls directly from the Entra portal, providing a foundation for automating this process with PowerShell.

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By: Christian Ritter submitted:Oct 25 2024

Automating VM Deployment in Azure with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how to automate the deployment of a Windows VM on Azure using PowerShell. This guide covers

network setup, NSG rules, and IIS installation.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Oct 25 2024

Get Active Directory ports with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
Active Directory services communicate over specific ports needed for authentication, replication,

and other directory services. Knowing these ports is crucial for configuring firewalls, ensuring secure communication, and troubleshooting network issues related to Active Directory services. This post will teach you how to get the Active Directory ports with PowerShell.

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By: Markus Elsberger submitted:Oct 25 2024

How to Set Directory Synchronization Features with the Graph (office365itpros.com)
Directory synchronization features control how the Entra Connect tool works when synchronizing

accounts from Active Directory to Entra ID. The current advice is to use a cmdlet from the depreciated MSOL module to update settings. This article explains how to do the job with the Graph APIs, including cmdlets from the Entra PowerShell module.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Oct 25 2024

List all EEEU and Anonymous links for SharePoint and OneDrive! (alexholmeset.blog)
A colleague of mine asked me before the weekend if I knew if there was a way to list all Everyone

Except External Users and Anonymous links for OneDrive for Business. He had written a PowerShell script but had some errors.

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By: Alexander Holmeset submitted:Oct 25 2024

Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters (practical365.com)
In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how

to use them within in functions and scripts.

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By: Michel De Rooij submitted:Oct 25 2024

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Automating Wireshark in Windows (potentengineer.com)
For advanced scenarios where you need to automate running Wireshark at scale
By: Daniel Ratliff submitted:Oct 25 2024

Get-ConditionalAccessSignIn.ps1 (github.com)
The Get-ConditionalAccessSignIn function retrieves Conditional Access Sign-In logs from the

Microsoft Graph API within a specified date range.

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By: Christian Ritter submitted:Oct 25 2024

PSAzureVirtualDesktop v 1.0.3 (powershellgallery.com)
Build Azure AVD POCs
By: Laurent VAN ACKER submitted:Oct 25 2024

Community

BlueSky PowerShell Community starter pack (bsky.app)
If you're part of the exodus from X to Bluesky and you like PowerShell and automation, check out

this PowerShell Community starter pack.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Oct 25 2024

Cross-Platform PowerShell and Sending Emails with Frank Lesniak & Neha Patil (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dive into the world of cross-platform PowerShell with

Frank Lesniak, who shares insights from his recent talk at PowerShell Saturday NC. Frank explores some unique use cases for PowerShell across different platforms and opens up about his interests beyond the scripting language.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Oct 25 2024

Upcoming Events

PowerShell AI Build Hour – Doug Finke (meetup.com)
Friday, October 25, 2024 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
By: New York PowerShell Meetup submitted:Oct 25 2024

PS Saturday Karlsruhe (psugffm.odoo.com)
Join us for our first-ever 'PowerShellSaturday Karlsruhe' on November 30th, 2024 in Ettlingen near Karlsruhe, as ScriptRunner welcomes us in their offices!
By: PSUGFFM submitted:Oct 11 2024

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October 18, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating Performance Monitor in Windows (potentengineer.com)
For advanced scenarios where you need to automate running Perfmon at scale
By: Daniel Ratliff submitted:Oct 18 2024

Convert to Azure Premium SSD v2 Disks with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
Azure Premium SSD v2 disks, currently in public preview, provide enhanced throughput and IOPS at a

lower cost than earlier versions. You can convert existing disks to Premium SSD v2 using PowerShell. However, it's crucial to understand the specific limitations and requirements beforehand.

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By: Baki Onur Okutucu submitted:Oct 18 2024

Duplicate Drivers from a ConfigMgr Boot Image (deploymentresearch.com)
When creating new boot images in ConfigMgr, you often want to copy drivers from an older boot image.

If you have many drivers added, it's way quicker to do that in PowerShell compared to comparing drivers in the boot image drivers tab.

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By: Johan Arwidmark submitted:Oct 18 2024

Manage Your SharePoint Online Environment with PnP PowerShell (practical365.com)
In this article, we explain how to get started using PnP PowerShell, and review some practical

examples of where the module can immediately add value for tenant administrators.

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By: Sean McAvinue submitted:Oct 18 2024

Query WinGet software installer data with PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
I'm a big fan of WinGet, and the software available in their ecosystem is growing daily. Still, I'm

always curious about what WinGet will download and how it does the silent install of the specified software. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way of retrieving that data 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Oct 18 2024

Type less by using PowerShell type accelerators (blog.danskingdom.com)
I had heard the PowerShell term "type accelerators" a few times, but never really knew what that

meant. I finally decided to check out the about_Type_Accelerators docs and it turns out they're simply aliases for .NET types.

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By: Dan Schroeder submitted:Oct 18 2024

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PSMSGraphFunctions/Get-MSGraphEnterpriseApplicationPermission.ps1 (github.com)
Export permission scopes for Enterprise Apps in your tenant using oauth2PermissionGrants

(represented) and appRoleAssignments (within).

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By: Christian Ritter submitted:Oct 18 2024

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automate Your Daily Database Checks with PowerShell (youtube.com)
You'll get a glimpse of how I do health checks for large SQL Server Always On Availability Groups at

the end of the video.

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By: Edwin M Sarmiento submitted:Oct 18 2024

PSQuizMaster v 1.3.0 (powershellgallery.com)
A module for running and creating quizzes to learn PowerShell. Quizzes are stored as JSON files.
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Oct 18 2024

Community

Exploring Redfish Protocol, Data Science, and PowerShell with Blake Cherry & Danny Stutz (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, I sit down with Blake Cherry to discuss the Redfish

Protocol and its impact on simplifying data center hardware management, drawing insights from his talk at PowerShell Saturday, NC. We explore how Redfish is reshaping IT systems at scale. I also speak with Danny Stutz, who dives into the intersection of PowerShell and Data Science, covering topics like AI, data analysis, and K-means clustering, all applied to real-world use cases using PowerShell. Whether you're managing hardware or looking to integrate advanced data science techniques into your scripts, this episode has something for everyone!

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Oct 18 2024

OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke (runasradio.com)
You should be writing tests for your PowerShell scripts... but how to get started? Doug talks to

RunAsRadio about using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to explore different aspects of PowerShell, including testing!

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By: RunAsRadio submitted:Oct 18 2024

Upcoming Events

PowerShell AI Build Hour – Doug Finke (meetup.com)
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 12:30 PM EDT - Ready to go from zero to app hero? I'll live demo

building an app using the new OpenAI Canvas-the interface that transforms writing and coding into an interactive adventure. This isn't just chat; it's creating real-world projects, start to finish.

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By: New York PowerShell Meetup submitted:Oct 18 2024

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October 11, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A Complete Guide For SharePoint Site Creation with PowerShell (sposcripts.com)
In this article I want to show you how you can streamline the SharePoint Site creation with

PowerShell. You can save time by doing it with PowerShell especially, if you want to create multiple sites as part of a backend process.

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By: Serkar submitted:Oct 11 2024

Build a Windows Server 2025 S2D cluster lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell (4sysops.com)
To explore Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in Windows Server 2025, you can set up a lab environment

using virtual machines with Hyper-V and PowerShell.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Oct 11 2024

Check the Software Installation/Removal History in Windows (woshub.com)
A complete history of software installations, updates, and removals on a computer can be found in

Windows Event logs.

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By: Windows OS Hub submitted:Oct 11 2024

Customer Managed Planned Failover for Azure Storage using PowerShell (4sysops.com)
Currently, in Preview, the Customer Managed Planned Failover feature allows you to manage and

execute a planned failover of your Azure Storage account. This guide demonstrates how to perform this using PowerShell.

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By: Baki Onur Okutucu submitted:Oct 11 2024

EntraFIDOFinder Update (clatent.com)
October 15, is less than a week away for the MFA requirement on certain 365 Apps. Please make sure

you are all set by then. Make sure to go through all your accounts, especially those old ones that you rarely ever touch, and see if you still need it or what is the best way

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Oct 11 2024

Signing PowerShell Scripts on macOS (bynkiidotcom.wordpress.com)
MAJOR UPDATE During my PowerShell session at MacAdmins 2023, someone asked if you could sign a

PowerShell script on macOS. Doing so on Windows is trivial and well-documented elsewhere, I won'...

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By: Bynkii submitted:Oct 11 2024

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automatically Optimize Static Images of your Project via PowerShell Script (youtube.com)
Automatically Optimize Static Images of your Project via PowerShell Script
By: Tauseed Zaman submitted:Oct 11 2024

How I Write PowerShell Scripts for Microsoft 365 (office365itpros.com)
The question of how best to write PowerShell for Microsoft 365 was asked during a TEC 2024

PowerShell workshop. There are many variables, and one has the right answer. To start the ball rolling, this article describes how I write PowerShell for Microsoft 365 using a variety of modules such as Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Oct 11 2024

How to Create Your First Azure Automation Runbook with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how to create, publish and run your first Azure Automation runbook using PowerShell and the

Azure CLI. This step-by-step guide walks through setting up an Automation account, creating a runbook, and executing it in Azure.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Oct 11 2024

Community

Culinary to Command Line: Catching Up with Drew McClellan (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back the "bestsest in the midwestest" Drew

McClellan, who shares his recent promotion from Jr. Sysadmin to SysAdmin II. Drew talks about how he uses PowerShell in his daily role, tackling new software implementations and projects, and his approach to continuous learning. We also dive into how the OnRamp experience at PowerShell Summit helped prepare him. As a bonus, Drew, a chef for 10 years, dishes out some recipe recommendations to Andrew!

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Oct 11 2024

Shorten The Code – Results and Learnings with Well-known Community Members (youtube.com)
Xavier Clinquart from the Belgian PowerShell User Group has analyzed all scripts, and now it is time

to take a look at the best ones. Together with well-known members of the PowerShell community, we will talk about the results and learnings of this fun competition.

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By: ScriptRunner submitted:Oct 11 2024

Fun

PowerShell 7: Changing the Style of the Progress Bar with $PSStyle (sid-500.com)
If you include a progress bar in PowerShell, you will notice that it looks different in PowerShell 5

and PowerShell 7. This is exactly the problem we will tackle in this blog

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Oct 11 2024

Upcoming Events

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October 4, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Customize your Windows 11 (23H2 and onwards) taskbar during OSD with ConfigMgr using just PowerShell (imab.dk)
Approximately two years ago, I authored a blog post detailing how to customize the taskbar in

Windows 11.

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By: Martin Bengtsson submitted:Oct 4 2024

GitHub Copilot Password Warning (clatent.com)
Did you know that GitHub Copilot is now sensing hard coded credentials and giving you a warning?

It's not perfect, but even if something looks like hard coded creds it will flag it, as on another script I had, it contained numbers that looked like they could be private, and it gave me a warning

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Oct 4 2024

How to Create Azure Service Principals in PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how to create Azure service principals using PowerShell, enabling secure automation for

managing Azure resources like virtual machines.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Oct 4 2024

Microsoft Retires the Revoke-SPOUserSession Cmdlet (office365itpros.com)
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft announced the deprecation of the Revoke-SPOUserSession cmdlet for November

2024. The cmdlet is replaced by the Revoke-MgUserSignInSession cmdlet, which works across Microsoft 365 rather than just SharePoint Online. All of this happened while the 2nd annual PowerShell Script-Off happened at TEC 2024 and competitors struggled with what to do to secure a user account for an ex-employee.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Oct 4 2024

PowerShell Potluck – September 2024 (buttondown.com)
Welcome back to another PowerShell Potluck, and you didn't have to bring a thing, other than a

little curiosity and a willingness to try new things.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Oct 4 2024

Restore classic context menu in Windows 11 Explorer using Group Policy or PowerShell (4sysops.com)
Alongside the revamped Start Menu, one of the most noticeable changes in Windows 11 is the

redesigned context menu in File Explorer. However, these modifications are not merely aesthetic - they also restrict its functionality. You can deploy a registry key using Group Policy Preferences to restore the classic context.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Oct 4 2024

Running PSScriptAnalyzer in GitHub Actions (horrell.ca)
I was working on a project recently that has some PowerShell scripts and I wanted to add some kind

of linting for PRs, as you do. The go-to for PowerShell seems to be PSScriptAnalyzer and it's something I've already setup in VS Code. Great! The next step was to setup

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By: Christopher Horrell submitted:Oct 4 2024

Using Get-Content in PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
I use Get-Content a lot (or cat, gc, and type as its alias) to display or track the contents of a

file. There are different parameters for it, and in this blog post, I will show you what you can do with those 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Oct 4 2024

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

EntraFIDOFinder – New PowerShell Module (clatent.com)
After so much interest from my post on Friday, I figured I'd do one better and make a PowerShell

module that does it for you. So now you will be able to find which FIDO2 keys are attestation compatible with Entra right from your terminal. In the very near future I will have individual functions

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Oct 4 2024

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Common PowerShell Commands You Will Use As A System Administrator (youtube.com)
Are you ready to level up your PowerShell skills? In this video, we'll cover 10 essential PowerShell

commands every IT pro, sysadmin, and developer should know. These commands will streamline your scripting, automation, and everyday tasks on Windows.

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By: CyberMe submitted:Oct 4 2024

What are the different Help commands available out of the box using PowerShell? (youtube.com)
This video provides a basic introduction on all the help commands available in Windows PowerShell.
By: Power Tech Speck (Girish Uppal) submitted:Oct 4 2024

Community

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025: Call for Papers Now Open! (powershell.org)
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025: Call for Papers Now Open! Calling all innovators,

problem-solvers, and thought leaders in the PowerShell and DevOps realm!

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By: James Petty submitted:Oct 4 2024

Spectre Console and TUI Magic with Shaun Lawrie (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
On this episode of The PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Shaun Lawrie to discuss terminal user

interfaces (TUIs) and his work on the PWSHSpectreConsole project. Shaun shares insights into the world of TUIs, offers valuable career advice, and talks about his journey in tech. Tune in for practical tips and an in-depth look at what it takes to thrive in the PowerShell ecosystem.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Oct 4 2024

Fun

PowerShell ASCII Art (powershellisfun.com)
I posted my Windows Terminal this week on social media channels, including LinkedIn, and received

some responses about the login banner screen. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way to pimp your PowerShell Console 😉

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Oct 4 2024

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Saturday NC (powershellsaturdaync.com)
Join us for PowerShell Saturday NC 2024, proudly brought to you by the Research Triangle PowerShell

User Group! Mark your calendars for October 5th for this year's gathering in Raleigh, NC.

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell User Group submitted:Aug 2 2024

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