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workflows to generate and execute Python, JavaScript, C#, and PowerShell in Hyper-V isolated session.

Conditional Access policies with report-only validation.

details are stored on individual domain controllers and not fully replicated. This makes it hard to get a single accurate value, especially in environments with multiple DCs. To simplify this, we developed a PowerShell script that retrieves accurate last logon details for all users in a domain.

systems. This article discusses creating ICS files for Teams Online meetings as part of a project to send welcome messages to new employees that contain information about upcoming corporate events that the new people might like to attend. Suffice to say that formatting the ICS files to Outlook's satisfaction takes some effort.

gets the job done, and it's used everywhere.

looks straightforward until something breaks in production. Connecting an application to Exchange Online is not the same as connecting a user. The objects involved are different, and the mistakes people make are different too.

ran this, but nothing happens..." (When sending a script that contained a function). In this blog post, I will show you how to create an executable of a script and its limitations.

functions in this release, but I did create some functions to compare differences as well as one to show changes by the month. Is there a functionality you are looking for?

find, ps, du, tar, etc.) that accept real bash flags and return structured PowerShell objects while producing identical text output. Pipeline bridge pattern preserves typed objects through grep, sort, head, tail.

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wide-ranging conversation about product management, the PowerShell community, and what it looks like to deeply learn a technical domain when you're not coming from a traditional sysadmin background. Mark shares his journey from tech support to product management, what drew him to PDQ and the challenges facing IT admins, and what surprised him about PowerShell once he started paying close attention. The two also dig into the history behind PDQ Connect's PowerShell Scanner, how product teams learn from customers, the art of storytelling as a PM and sysadmin skill, and more.

project needs" and just handles it -- that's exactly what PSDepend is.

hardened, meeting both Apple's security requirements and Microsoft's internal compliance standards.

automation grows, how you source, validate, and distribute PowerShell packages becomes just as important as the scripts themselves. Modern security guidance increasingly treats package feeds as part of the software supply chain. For PowerShell, that means being deliberate about which repositories you trust

SCVMM, which is hardening

continues to evolve.

built-in .NET FileSystemWatcher class instead of relying on classic Windows file-system access auditing....

will show you how to discover and use them 🙂

in the root of C:Windows lately, you've probably noticed something new: a SecureBoot folder containing an ExampleRolloutScripts subfolder with seven PowerShell scripts inside. You might even recognize these scripts because they were previously available as individual articles

years now. I want to share with you something that I've realized over the years: Static Sites Are Simple

folder containing seven PowerShell scripts. These scripts are part of Microsoft's sample toolkit for managing Secure Boot certificate migration across enterprise environments. This article explains what each script does, how to run it, and its limitations.

development, and some new additions, including Intune support.

helps you find approved verbs, make your commands easier to discover, and keep PowerShell from judging you.

Washington, host Andrew Pla takes his mic to the hotel bar for a series of candid conversations with attendees. The episode features four guests: Josh Gratton, an OnRamp scholarship recipient whose career pivot to junior systems engineer was fueled by PowerShell and the podcast; Mark Go, a first-time Summit speaker and attendee; Craig Mileham, a fellow podcast listener and Summit first-timer working in higher ed IT; and Matt Zaske, a longtime community member, conference speaker, and IoT enthusiast who ran a Home Assistant lightning demo. What connects all four conversations is the same thread Andrew keeps pulling on: community makes everything better. Beginners belong here. Reach out. Take the risk. Start now.

like Git. Pull requests allow developers to propose...

DSC is a tool that lets you describe how a Windows or Linux system should be configured - services running, firewall rules in place, features installed - and then automatically apply or verify that configuration.

free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of...

also fail to open on your Windows PC. You can easily fix such problems by updating PowerShell.

operations. To simplify this, we developed a PowerShell script that helps you perform 15 Active Directory group management tasks for single or multiple groups in bulk. This blog walks through the script and shows how to use it to manage AD groups.

about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub...

discuss how the Group.Read.All and GroupMember.Real.All permissions work and why you should choose one permission over the other and respect the principle of least permission when it comes to assigning Graph permissions to your apps and PowerShell scripts.

Topics with conceptual help to better help you understand how PowerShell works. In this small blog post, I will show you how to query and use them.

Azure operations questions from your local development workflow. The setup is simple. Microsoft provides the Azure MCP Server, Codex provides MCP client support, and your Azure identity controls what the agent is allowed to see or change.

with email prefixed with OIDCONFLICT_UpnReuse_{OID_HERE} (i.e. when trying to give them access or when mentioning them): Such users are neither visible in the Azure DevOps Web UI under Organization settings > General > Users nor when querying all users via graph or via the Azure DevOps CLI.

Xonsh, Tcsh, Ion, and Cmd. - andev0x/paneship

that keeps people coming back. She and Andrew cover a lot of ground, starting with her upcoming "Chase the Sun" charity cycling event where she'll attempt to ride 205 miles coast-to-coast across the UK in a single day, starting at sunrise on the longest day of the year and racing the sun to the finish line. It's a big undertaking, and she's riding to raise money for Momentum in Fitness, a charity her wife works for that brings fitness opportunities to older adults, kids in non-traditional school settings, and children with cancer.

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management of ReFS snapshots.

existing discussions and threads will be migrated to the Devolutions forum - the new home for all PowerShell Universal conversations

locking down specific types of Windows devices, such as shared devices, kiosk devices, or even just actual locked down devices, by suppressing specific key combinations.

version, 7.6 (which is now the new LTS). In this short blog post, I will highlight some changes and how to install v7.7.0-preview.1.

your Microsoft 365 cloud with PowerShell. It only takes a few commands-super simple.

commands using crafted folder names, affecting Windows 10 and 11 since 2017.

awards and certifications held by users. Usually this would be done through a Copilot connector, but it's possible to add awards and certifications using Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets. All explained in great detail with working examples here.

a walkthrough on this blog. At the time, the goal was simple: make Exchange deployments more predictable, repeatable, and less error‑prone by removing as much

new Datalist element and a lot more - including some additional breaking changes.

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eight-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, and happy generalist, joins Andrew for a wide-ranging conversation about her tech journey and what it actually looks like to grow from deep hands-on work into technology leadership. They kick things off with a topic near and dear to a lot of PowerShell folks: the ISE-to-VS Code migration. Paula was terrified of it, put it off for as long as she could, and now uses VS Code every single day.