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March 28, 2025

Announcements!

Docker images containing PowerShell now maintained by the .NET team (github.com)
For years, the PowerShell team has maintained official PowerShell Docker images. Moving forward, we

are using the Docker images produced by the .NET team.

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By: The PowerShell Team submitted:Mar 28 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

AI-powered administration in the terminal without cutoff date using OpenAI GPT-4o Search in PowerShell and Warp (4sysops.com)
The GPT-4o Search model offers search engine functionality similar to ChatGPT Search or Perplexity

when accessed via the OpenAI API. With the free OpenAI Python Library, you can enhance your terminal AI by adding online search features, overcoming the limitations of LLM cutoff dates, and eliminating the frustration of outdated instructions.

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By: Michael Pietroforte submitted:Mar 28 2025

Artificial Intelligence, PowerShell, and Microsoft 365 Administration (office365itpros.com)
Artificial Intelligence and PowerShell should be a good thing to help hard-pressed Microsoft 365

tenant administrators cope with common tasks. The early signs are there with Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center. However, the current state of the art depends on what's gone before and can't handle the kind of complex automation that tenants sometimes need, like generating a licensing report from Entra ID, product information, and license costs.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Mar 28 2025

Avoid UserNames Becoming Bad Words with a Little AI and PowerShell (linkedin.com)
Maybe your business has been really good. So good, in fact, that now your acquiring other businesses around the world, and you're facing support for more languages. Welcome to having to join meetings at crazy hours due to all those new time zones you never knew about.
By: David Stein submitted:Mar 28 2025

Human Readable File Sizes in PowerShell (claytonerrington.com)
Simple way to humanize a file size in powershell
By: Clayton Errington submitted:Mar 28 2025

Identify and Block Sign-in for Shared Mailboxes in Microsoft 365 (o365reports.com)
Shared and resource mailboxes in Microsoft 365 are designed for collaboration, not for direct

sign-ins. However, if sign-in remains enabled, attackers could exploit these accounts to bypass security policies, send unauthorized emails, or access confidential data-posing a serious compliance and security risk.

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By: Lokesh submitted:Mar 28 2025

Install IIS and PHP 8.x on Windows 11 and Server 2025 (Core) (4sysops.com)
PHP is still available on Windows despite Microsoft no longer providing support for version 8.x. It

can be integrated as a script engine into Internet Information Services (IIS), either through the graphical IIS Manager or via PowerShell, which is especially useful for Server Core installations.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Mar 28 2025

Launching Start Menu apps using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Sometimes, you want to run a few applications as a different (Admin) user on your system. Usually, I

do that by (Shift) Right-clicking applications, etc... In this small blog post, I will show you a simple way to start multiple applications using PowerShell, making life somewhat easier 😉

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Mar 28 2025

New MiToken Graph PowerShell module for multi-tenant apps (ourcloudnetwork.com)
Connect to multi-tenant apps using a managed identity using Microsoft Graph PowerShell with the

MiToken PowerShell module.

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By: Daniel Bradley submitted:Mar 28 2025

Using Windows Terminal Chat with GitHub Copilot (4sysops.com)
Terminal Chat enables the integration of GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and OpenAI's AI services into

Windows Terminal Canary. Through this experimental feature, you can request assistance from an AI for your PowerShell commands and directly execute the AI's recommendations in the terminal.

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By: Markus Elsberger submitted:Mar 28 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AiLogging v 2.0.5 (powershellgallery.com)
Helper module for PowerShell developers that allows easy logging of script activity to Azure

Application Insights

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By: Jiri Formacek submitted:Mar 28 2025

PSScriptTools v3.0.0 (github.com)
A set of PowerShell functions you might use to enhance your own functions and scripts or to

facilitate working in the console. Most should work in both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7, even cross-platform.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Mar 28 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automating Excel with PowerShell: Practical Tips from a Microsoft MVP (youtube.com)
Doug Finke, a 16-time Microsoft MVP and author of "PowerShell for Developers", demonstrates how to

streamline Excel report creation using his widely popular PowerShell module, ImportExcel, with over 11 million downloads. Doug shares straightforward methods for automating Excel tasks-from formatting and filtering data, to generating conditional formats, pivot tables, and charts-saving you valuable time and effort. You'll also get practical examples for combining data from multiple sources, quickly reorganizing spreadsheets, and troubleshooting common Excel automation challenges.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Mar 28 2025

PowerShell 20 Basic Commands and Their Uses – Izoate Tech (izoate.tech)
Learn the 20 basic PowerShell commands for beginners to manage files, processes, and system tasks

efficiently with this easy-to-follow guide.

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By: Izoate Tech submitted:Mar 28 2025

Community

How to Build an IT Career from the Ground Up with Kevin Apolinario (KevTech) (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome Kevin of KevTech IT Support, a well-known

mentor and educator in the IT community. With a background in fast food and law enforcement, Kevin shares his inspiring journey into IT and how he leveraged mentorship, home labs, and community engagement to build a thriving career. We dive into help desk fundamentals, breaking into IT, career development, and Kevin helps give you a map to career success.Key topics in this episode include:

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Mar 28 2025

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 (powershellsummit.org)
April 7-10, 2025 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 28 2025

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March 21, 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Ensure a Function Should be Invoked (tommymaynard.com)
it's been a long time since I've written; I know. I still use PowerShell at every opportunity; I

just don't write about it like I used to. An average of a post per week for nine years, which is what I managed previously, wasn't always something I planned to maintain.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Mar 21 2025

EntraFIDOFinder now with over 50 new keys! (clatent.com)
I guess I should be careful what I ask for now.. Not sure if you saw, but when Microsoft first made

this update it blew up my repo with over 100 issues due to all the changes and I assumed Microsoft had changed how they formatted their website, but they hadn't.

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Mar 21 2025

How To Extract Mailboxes From EDB File (powershellcenter.com)
Sponsored - Exchange Server Database (EDB) files consist of the emails, contacts, notes, calendar,

and other crucial mailbox items. Several reasons may prompt you to extract these mailboxes from EDB file.

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Mar 21 2025

How to update multiple Hyper-V VMs offline (4sysops.com)
In environments with multiple VMs running the same Windows version, powering down the Hyper-V VMs

during a maintenance window is usually the most efficient way to update them offline. This involves mounting the virtual disk and installing updates through PowerShell. This approach also benefits VMs that have been powered off for an extended period. Instead of starting them in an outdated and potentially vulnerable state, you can apply critical security updates in advance.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Mar 21 2025

Mastering Active Directory Hygiene: Automating SIDHistory Cleanup with CleanupMonster (evotec.xyz)
Security Identifier (SID) History is a useful mechanism in Active Directory (AD) migrations. It

allows users and groups in a new domain to retain access to resources that still rely on permissions from the old domain. However, once migrations are completed, these historical SIDs can become clutter, posing both security and administrative challenges.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Mar 21 2025

Reinventing PowerShell in C/C++ – SCRT Team Blog (blog.scrt.ch)
Reinventing PowerShell in C/C++: Bypassing Security FeaturesThe article demonstrates creating a full

PowerShell console using native C/C++ code, bypassing security features like AMSI and Constrained Language Mode.

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By: Clement Labro submitted:Mar 21 2025

SharePoint Online PowerShell Module Gets Modern Authentication (office365itpros.com)
Microsoft has announced that the SharePoint Online PowerShell module will be upgraded from the very

old and now obsolete IDCRL protocol to use modern (OAuth) authentication in versions released from March 28, 2025. The update to OAuth should not affect scripts, but it's always wise to test in case your use of the module is an edge case that Microsoft doesn't test.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Mar 21 2025

ShellGPT for PowerShell: AI assistant with local Ollama support (4sysops.com)
In this guide, I'll walk through installing ShellGPT (shell_gpt) - a command-line AI assistant - on

PowerShell using a local Ollama LLM. This approach lets you use AI in your terminal without relying on cloud APIs, which is great for privacy. This review highlights the use of ShellGPT on Windows through PowerShell. If you are using Mac or Linux, check out our earlier review of ShellGPT.

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By: Michael Pietroforte submitted:Mar 21 2025

Windows Server Core – Command Line Only Administration (techygeekshome.info)
Run Windows Server Core in 2025-CLI setup, roles, remote ops, FAQs. Full guide for IT pros. Master

it now!

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By: Anthony Powell submitted:Mar 21 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Auto Archive Inactive Teams in Microsoft Teams (o365reports.com)
Each project in an organization follows a lifecycle, including start, execution, and completion.

However, even after a project ends, the corresponding team often remains in the execution phase, leading to a growing number of inactive teams in Microsoft Teams.

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By: Karthi submitted:Mar 21 2025

Dynamics 365 F&O IAM PowerShell Module (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
Over the years I've written many an integration with identity sources. Dynamics 365 F&O though is

one that has come up a number of times. With that in mind I've written a PowerShell Module to expose and simplify integration with Dynamics 365 F&O for Users and Roles.

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Mar 21 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Inside IT Automation | E20 (youtube.com)
Microsoft MVP Doug Finke talks about the state of AI and PowerShell
By: ScriptRunner submitted:Mar 21 2025

Community

Exploring PowerShell for Physical Security and Automation with Cody Paternostro (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome Cody Paternostro, a rising star in PowerShell

automation, to discuss his unique journey into IT, the power of persistence in learning, and his work on RemotePro, a sophisticated PowerShell-based security camera management tool. Cody shares how he transitioned from food delivery to IT, leveraged PowerShell to streamline operations in physical security, and how asking the right questions helped accelerate his growth.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Mar 21 2025

PowerShell Community Award Nominations (survey.sogolytics.com)
Nominate a deserving community member today! Submissions close April 3, 2025, at 5 PM ET
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 21 2025

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 (powershellsummit.org)
April 7-10, 2025 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 21 2025

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March 14, 2025

Announcements!

Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0. We discuss the

features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Mar 14 2025

PowerShell Community Award Nominations (survey.sogolytics.com)
Nominate a deserving community member today! Submissions close April 3, 2025, at 5 PM ET
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 14 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Authoring Enhancements in Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
This is the third post in a multi-part series about the new release of DSC. Microsoft Desired State

Configuration (DSC) v3.0.0 provides powerful feature that enhance the authoring experience. Shell completion Schema-based validation Support for modern DSLs like Azure Bicep DSC command completer The completer command returns a shell script that, when executed, registers completions

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Mar 14 2025

Get started with Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
This post show you how to install DSC v3.0.0 and get started using the dsc command.
By: Jason Helmick submitted:Mar 14 2025

How to Check Who Deleted Emails from Shared Mailbox in Microsoft 365 (o365reports.com)
With multiple users having access to Microsoft 365 shared mailboxes, the risk of important emails

disappearing is a real challenge. A single missing email can disrupt client interactions or halt progress in collaborative projects. Therefore, this blog will show you how to monitor shared mailbox email deletion to identify who...

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By: Lokesh submitted:Mar 14 2025

How to manage most Rest APIs with just a few PowerShell functions (baswijdenes.com)
A cmdlet around the endpoint, or a cmdlet per method? Disclaimer: every REST API works different, so

this script should be an example of how you can build a function for each REST API. Nowadays there are more and more Rest APIs that we can use instead of Cmdlets (which use the Rest API in ... Continue reading How to manage most Rest APIs with just a few PowerShell functions

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By: Bas Wijdenes submitted:Mar 14 2025

Optimize and customize Windows 11 with PowerShell and Winhance (4sysops.com)
Winhance is a PowerShell utility for optimizing and customizing Windows 11. It enables users to

remove unwanted software, prevent reinstallation, and enhance system privacy and performance settings.

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By: Leos Marek submitted:Mar 14 2025

PowerShell: The new Entra ID Module (sid-500.com)
The new PowerShell Entra ID Module is a powerful tool designed to streamline the management and

automation of Microsoft Entra resources.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Mar 14 2025

Practical Graph: Nag Users to Upgrade to a Strong Authentication Method (practical365.com)
Convincing people to use MFA is one challenge. Convincing them to use a stronger authentication

method than SMS is another. This article explains how to use PowerShell to find people still using SMS for MFA and send email to ask them to upgrade their authentication method.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Mar 14 2025

SharePoint Online PowerShell Module Gets Modern Authentication (office365itpros.com)
Microsoft has announced that the SharePoint Online PowerShell module will be upgraded from the very

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Mar 14 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Get-MacInfo 2.0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A macOS version of the Get-ComputerInfo module
By: Bynkii submitted:Mar 14 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Find retiring Azure features and address them safely en masse with PowerShell (youtube.com)
See how to find which of your Azure resources will be impacted by upcoming Azure retirements. I also

show an approach to targeting updating specific Azure resources, allowing you to more safely modify resources en masse, such as by environment, with PowerShell and the Az PowerShell module. There are other ways to do this as well; this is just one workflow I often use.

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By: Daniel Schroeder submitted:Mar 14 2025

PowerShell: Summarizing YouTube transcripts with AI (youtube.com)
In this video, 16-time Microsoft MVP Doug Finke demonstrates the PSAI PowerShell module to summarize

Scott Hanselman's NDC London 2025 AI keynote.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Mar 14 2025

Community

How PowerShell and the Right Mindset Can Transform Your IT Career with Steven Wight (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Steven Wight, known online as PowerShell

Young Team, to discuss his journey in PowerShell, automation, and the impact of the PowerShell community. Steven shares how PowerShell transformed his workflow, his approach to solving IT problems, and how he went from lurking in the background to actively contributing and engaging with the community.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Mar 14 2025

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 (powershellsummit.org)
April 7-10, 2025 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 14 2025

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 find me on your preferred social media.

March 7, 2025

Announcements!

Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK V2.26.1 Remains Flawed (office365itpros.com)
The developers rushed out Version 2.26.1 of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to fix some obvious

issues. Alas, problems persist in PowerShell SDK cmdlets, including licensing failures and an issue that prevents the Connect-MgGraph cmdlet from being able to obtain an access token from Entra ID. My advice is to stay with V2.25 until Microsoft resolves the problems and generates a new stable version of the SDK.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Mar 7 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

AI-powered Azure Function for querying Azure in natural language (4sysops.com)
In this post, I introduce an AI-powered Azure Function that connects to the Azure OpenAI API. This

Function allows you to execute queries in natural language to fetch Azure resource information without requiring a deep knowledge of the Azure Resource Graph Query Language (KQL).

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By: Baki Onur Okutucu submitted:Mar 7 2025

EntraFIDOFinder March Update (clatent.com)
We are in March, and looks like no new major changes. I may have to start sending this update out

later in the week, as I'm wondering if Microsoft hasn't updated their page yet. Some things I did notice were that a few of the YubiKey names slightly changed on the FIDO Alliance database

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Mar 7 2025

Practical Protection: Automating Inactive Account Blocking with PowerShell (practical365.com)
Inactive accounts aren't glamorous, but they're a real risk! In this episode of Practical

Protection, we dive into the basics of inactive account blocking and share some PowerShell scripts to help automate this process.

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By: Paul Robichaux submitted:Mar 7 2025

Retrieve End of Life information using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
One of the things that I do when writing documents for customers is check if the products I advise

or the customers use are still supported. The end-of-life date is essential, and in this blog post, I will show you how to retrieve that information quickly 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Mar 7 2025

The not so simplified syntax of Where-Object in PowerShell (mikefrobbins.com)
PowerShell 3.0 introduced several notable improvements to its cmdlet library, with one of the most

useful features in this release being the simplified syntax for the Where-Object cmdlet. This enhancement made filtering objects more efficient and user-friendly by introducing Property and Value parameters and a switch parameter for every comparison operator. This article explores how these changes work, their usefulness, and how to leverage them in your scripts.

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Mar 7 2025

Warp for Windows (4sysops.com)
We have reviewed Warp's Mac and Linux versions multiple times, as it stands out as the top terminal

application. The newly released Windows edition introduces AI-driven automation for PowerShell administrators.

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By: Michael Pietroforte submitted:Mar 7 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Announcing AI Shell Preview 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to share a new preview release of AI Shell!
By: Steven Bucher submitted:Mar 7 2025

Create Entra ID Guest invite using PowerShell and Graph API (powershellcenter.com)
It's easy to create an Entra ID guest account using the interface. But as usual, the automation and

bulk are the challenges. In Entra ID, there is the option to create bulk invitations, but I still find it limited.

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Mar 7 2025

Dayforce PowerShell Module (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
A foundational Dayforce PowerShell Module to query Employee data.
By: Darren Robinson submitted:Mar 7 2025

Community

PowerShell as a Defender’s Secret Weapon with Michael Haag (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Michael Haag, Principal Threat

Researcher at Splunk, to dive into PowerShell security, threat detection, and automation. Michael shares his journey from IT support to becoming a security expert, the role of PowerShell in modern cybersecurity, and his work on PowerShell Hunter and Atomic Red Team.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Mar 7 2025

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 (powershellsummit.org)
April 7-10, 2025 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Mar 7 2025

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly?
Do you know something that should be included?
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