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April 25, 2025

Announcements!

PowerShell v7.5.1 (github.com)
Come and get the latest and greatest!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Apr 25 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How to post on Bluesky with PowerShell (blog-en.topedia.com)
I wanted to know how to use the Bluesky APIs and PowerShell for new posts (or Skeets). Bluesky has

published a sample to post via code, also they have very good documentation about their API.

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By: Tobias Asböck submitted:Apr 25 2025

How to Report the Sponsors of Entra ID Guest Accounts (office365itpros.com)
Entra ID populates the sponsor property for new guest accounts with details of the person who

invites the guest to the tenant. It's data that can be used for different purposes, such as having someone to justify the continued presence of a guest account in a Microsoft 365 tenant. This article explains how to report guest accounts and their sponsors with some straightforward PowerShell.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 25 2025

Restrict and report logon hours for Active Directory accounts (4sysops.com)
For security purposes, it may be beneficial to restrict Active Directory account logins to regular

working hours. These logon times can be configured using the calendar widget in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). However, PowerShell provides a more efficient and flexible alternative, particularly because it offers reporting capabilities that the graphical interface does not.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Apr 25 2025

Tab completions in PowerShell (damirscorner.com)
While learning about Fast Node Manager, I noticed completions for PowerShell being mentioned in the

documentation. I wasn't aware of completions beyond filenames and cmdlets were even supported in PowerShell. I decided to try them out with Fast Node Manager first and then check if they are available for other command line tools I regularly use.

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By: Damir Arh submitted:Apr 25 2025

Why aligning equals signs in PowerShell hash tables matters (mikefrobbins.com)
If you ever formatted a hash table in PowerShell, you know how easy it is to focus on function over

form. But what if one minor formatting tweak could improve readability, reduce syntax errors, simplify code reviews, and enhance script maintainability?

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Apr 25 2025

Windows PowerToys 2 in 1 Short cuts (blog.ifconfig.pro)
In Windows 11 there's a really powerful set of tools called "Microsoft PowerToys". Within the

features there's a section to make your own shortcut hot keys under "Keyboard Manager"

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By: pronto submitted:Apr 25 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Execution Policy: A Comprehensive Guide (spguides.com)
Have you encountered an error "execution of scripts is disabled on this system" while trying to run

a PowerShell script? I am sure you must have at least at the beginning. This is because of PowerShell's execution policy settings. In this article, I will walk you through everything you need to know about PowerShell execution

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By: Bijay Kumar submitted:Apr 25 2025

Video: Windows Server App Control and Azure Arc (thomasmaurer.ch)
Are you looking for ways to enhance the security of your Windows Server environment? In this video,

we explore how to leverage App Control to secure your Windows Server and manage it at scale using Microsoft Azure Arc.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Apr 25 2025

Community

The Powershell Podcast Summit sessions with Adam Rivera, Asmar Fontenot, & Luis Orta (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you another Summit Sessions special recorded

live at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025! This episode is a celebration of first-time attendees, newcomers to the PowerShell community, and those discovering their voice in tech. Andrew Pla sits down with passionate IT professionals who share their personal stories of growth, connection, and finding purpose through PowerShell and community.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 25 2025

Fun

Basically me to my new coworkers this week. (bsky.app)
100% agree!
By: Leeky submitted:Apr 25 2025

PSPodcast (github.com)
A few commands to get and display information of episodes of The PowerShell Podcast.
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Apr 25 2025

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Conference Europe 2025 (psconf.eu)
23-26 June 2025
By: SynEdgy submitted:Apr 25 2025

Rolling Your Own Configuration as Code Toolset (rtpsug.com)
Lucas will demo his home-grown toolset which includes custom PowerShell modules for maintaining the

environment, the Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement module for managing automation credentials, GitHub for versioning and collaboration and good old Window Task Scheduler.

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell User Group submitted:Apr 25 2025

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April 18, 2025

Announcements!

Important Purview eDiscovery Changes Take Effect in May 2025 (office365itpros.com)
Microsoft is making some important changes to Purview eDiscovery from May 26, 2025. The changes

affect how content searches work and are likely to affect many Microsoft 365 tenants. Administrators and eDiscovery investigators will both have to master new ways of working with eDiscovery cases, searching for information, reviewing search results, and exporting what's found. Changes to PowerShell cmdlets might affect scripts, so there's lots to consider.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 18 2025

PnP PowerShell v3 released! (pnp.github.io)
It has been in the works for a long time, but finally we're excited to announce that PnP PowerShell

3.0 has been released.

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By: Erwin van Hunen submitted:Apr 18 2025

PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2025 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Come read about the investments Microsoft has planned for PowerShell in 2025.
By: Steve Lee submitted:Apr 18 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Build your own natural language interface for PowerShell using the Azure OpenAI API (4sysops.com)
This article presents a PowerShell script leveraging the Azure OpenAI API, enabling you to execute

PowerShell commands using natural language. A key benefit compared to comparable AI tools like ShellGPT is the ability to customize the script.

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By: Baki Onur Okutucu submitted:Apr 18 2025

Create a Catalog of Windows Update Data using Microsoft Graph (smsagent.blog)
For some time I have run my own reporting solution for Windows Updates since I've never really been

happy with the canned reports Microsoft have created in Intune and Windows Update for Business reports, even to this day.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Apr 18 2025

How to Append Text to Files in PowerShell (spguides.com)
As a PowerShell user, I've found that one of the most common tasks is writing data to files,

especially appending content to existing files without overwriting previous information. This will be helpful in scenarios such as creating logs, generating reports, or saving script output, etc. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the different methods

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By: Bijay Kumar submitted:Apr 18 2025

Microsoft Attempts to Fix Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Problem with Azure Automation (office365itpros.com)
V2.26 and V2.26.1 of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK were low-quality, buggy disasters. Microsoft

aims to fix the problem in the next version to make it possible for the SDK to work with Azure Automation runbooks again and address many of the obvious problems that should never have appeared outside Microsoft. It will take time for customer confidence to be restored.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 18 2025

Practical AI: Managing My Travel Calendar with PowerShell (practical365.com)
AI is supposed to make our lives easier, so how about writing some PowerShell to block out timeslots

in a travek calendar when the calendar's owner is on the move? Eventually AI gets the task done, but it needed some coaching and firm instruction along the way.

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By: Paul Robichaux submitted:Apr 18 2025

Using the Get-NetView PowerShell Module for Network Troubleshooting (powershellisfun.com)
Collecting enough logs and information from a system with networking issues can be difficult. You

always need just one more to troubleshoot the problem. 😉 In this blog post, I will show you how the built-in Get-NetView module can help you collect all the necessary logs and information.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Apr 18 2025

Vibe Coding: How I Built a 120K Line App Without “Learning to Code” (adamtheautomator.com)
Building real applications with AI isn't just for developers anymore. Here's how I went from

PowerShell scripts to a full-stack React/Express app by embracing "vibe coding" with AI.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Apr 18 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AutoCategorizerPS (github.com)
A series of scripts that perform zero-shot (untrained) data classification using AI.
By: Frank Lesniak submitted:Apr 18 2025

Metro.AI.PowerShell (github.com)
Metro-AI is a unified PowerShell module that streamlines management of Azure AI Agent and Assistant

APIs.

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By: Azure submitted:Apr 18 2025

psBluesky v2.6.0 (github.com)
Heads up PowerShell PSBluesky users, time to update the module. Thanks to @wragg.io for adding

StarterPack commands.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Apr 18 2025

Community

The PowerShell Podcast Summit 2025 – Missy, Leslie, & Hailey (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you a special edition live from the PowerShell +

DevOps Global Summit 2025 - the Summit Sessions! This episode is packed with energy, community stories, and career inspiration as Andrew Pla chats with community leaders, organizers, and first-time contributors about what makes this event and the PowerShell community so special.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 18 2025

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April 11, 2025

Announcements!

v7.6.0-preview.4 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come test out the latest release.
By: The PowerShell Team submitted:Apr 11 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automate Your Virtual Infrastructure Management: A Handy PowerCLI Script for On-Call Situations (angrysysops.com)
Imagine a scenario where a power outage or building power-up event causes your ESXi hosts to remain

in maintenance mode.

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By: Piotr Tarnawski submitted:Apr 11 2025

Build your own natural language interface for PowerShell using the Azure OpenAI API (4sysops.com)
This article presents a PowerShell script leveraging the Azure OpenAI API, enabling you to execute

PowerShell commands using natural language. A key benefit compared to comparable AI tools like ShellGPT is the ability to customize the script.

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By: Baki Onur Okutucu submitted:Apr 11 2025

Mastering Error Handling in PowerShell: Try, Catch, and Finally (sid-500.com)
Error handling is a critical aspect of writing robust scripts in any programming language.

PowerShell provides a powerful structure for handling errors gracefully using try, catch, and finally blocks.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Apr 11 2025

PowerShell script: BgInfo deployment script for Windows Server 2025 (wmatthyssen.com)
In this blog post, I'll show you how to deploy and configure the latest version of BgInfo on a

serverContinue Reading

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By: Wim Matthyssen submitted:Apr 11 2025

Practical Graph: Running Audit Log Searches with the AuditLog Query API (practical365.com)
After a year or so of using the AuditLog Query Graph API, we have enough experience to be able to

explain how to take advantage of the API and when it could be used to run audit searches instead of the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet. There's lots of PowerShell code in this article to give anyone who wants to experiment with the API a good start to finding audit events.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 11 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Create a Web Server on the fly using PowerShell with James Brundage (youtube.com)
Join Microsoft MVP James Brundage for a look at how you can create a fully functional web server in

just 50 lines of PowerShell code! 🚀 Come see the potential of transforming PowerShell scripts into dynamic web front ends, setting the stage for your next development project. Don't miss it!

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Apr 11 2025

Community

Discovering the Deeper Layers of PowerShell with Jeff Hicks (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we're joined by the legendary Jeff Hicks, PowerShell

educator, author, speaker, and community pillar. With decades of experience shaping the PowerShell landscape, Jeff returns to the podcast to share insights from his latest projects, discuss the evolution of the community, and offer wisdom for both new and experienced PowerShell users. From PowerShell Summit to writing foundational books and building up new contributors, Jeff continues to play a critical role in shaping the PowerShell ecosystem.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 11 2025

PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – David R (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this casual bar-session chat recorded at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025, host Andrew

Pla sits down with David R, a first-time attendee with a passion for learning PowerShell. David shares how the PowerShell Podcast itself inspired him to attend and helped shape his scripting journey. What began as a work assignment turned into a powerful learning path, community connection, and a personal transformation.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 11 2025

PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – Frank Lesniak (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Summit 2025 Bar Sessions, Frank Lesniak makes a triumphant return

to the podcast. Frank has taken the reigns In this two-sided interview, Frank flips the script and interviews Andrew, but only after we talk about how his week is going, fine dining, how to grow in your career and capitalize on opportunity, the value of empowering others, and more!

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 11 2025

PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – Steven Judd (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions we talk with Steven Judd. We talk about

Summit, Sean Kearney Spirit award, community, career, and more!

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 11 2025

Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks (runasradio.com)
How do you write better PowerShell? Richard talks to Jeff Hicks about his latest book, Behind the

PowerShell Pipeline, and his efforts to promote writing PowerShell scripts that are easy to understand, use, and maintain! Jeff...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Apr 11 2025

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April 4, 2025

Announcements!

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 (powershellsummit.org)
The summit starts on Monday! I can't wait to see a bunch of you there!
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Apr 4 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Duplicate Mail User Objects Created for Guest Accounts (office365itpros.com)
The February 2025 EX1015484 incident explains why mail user objects with duplicate SMTP addresses

are created for guest accounts. That's a problem because Exchange Online can't route messages to objects with duplicate email addresses. Fortunately, you can find out if any duplicates exist in your tenant with some PowerShell. Problems happen!

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 4 2025

How to Check CPU Temperature Using PowerShell Command (izoate.tech)
Let's check real-time CPU temperature logging using powershell command. In this guide we have

discuss best powershell command to monitor CPU temp.

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By: Izoate Tech submitted:Apr 4 2025

How to Find Who Assigned Retention Labels to SharePoint Files (office365itpros.com)
A reader asked if it's possible to discover who made retention label assignments for SharePoint

files. The Files Graph API can't tell you who (or what policy) made retention label assignments, but it's possible to find this information in the audit log and use that data to report the requested information. All with a few lines of PowerShell!

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Apr 4 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Creating a No-Prompt ConfigMgr Boot Image ISO (deploymentresearch.com)
Here are two PowerShell scripts that can be used to create a No-Prompt ConfigMgr Boot Image ISO.

This is particularly useful when performing large-scale deployments of virtual machines, or for any automation related to VM deployments, such as our Image Factory solution for ConfigMgr.

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By: Johan Arwidmark submitted:Apr 4 2025

PSCalendar v2.10.1 (github.com)
A set of PowerShell commands for displaying calendars in the console. The module is compatible with

Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Apr 4 2025

TeamViewerPS v 2.2.0 (powershellgallery.com)
TeamViewerPS allows to interact with the TeamViewer Web API as well as a locally installed

TeamViewer client.

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By: TeamViewer submitted:Apr 4 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell best practices for Intune: Error Handling (youtube.com)
In the next part of our PowerShell best practices series, we go over how to get started with error

handling.

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By: Steve Weiner submitted:Apr 4 2025

Community

Contribute a tip (now available via PR template) (github.com)
Have a PowerShell tip you want to share? Know of a great module, blog post, or community event that

you think others should know about?

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By: Daniel Schroeder submitted:Apr 4 2025

From Proper Football to Databases with Jess Pomfret (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we reconnect with Jess Pomfret, a PowerShell and SQL

Server powerhouse, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and community advocate. From her early days in England to becoming a respected speaker and consultant, Jess shares her journey into tech, her passion for automation, and the importance of mentorship, curiosity, and community.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Apr 4 2025

MVP Summit 2025 (powershellisfun.com)
This year was my first in-person MVP Summit at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. In this blog post, I

will highlight a few things about the week, but... I won't share any details about the sessions because of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Apr 4 2025

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