March 12, 2021
Announcements!
Announcing Az Predictor preview 2
(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Last November, we announced the first preview of Az Predictor, a PowerShell module for Azure that
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022
Last November, we announced the first preview of Az Predictor, a PowerShell module for Azure that
brings to your fingertips the entire knowledge of the Azure documentation customized to your current session.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022
Release v7.1.3 Release of PowerShell
(github.com)
Come and get it while it's still hot!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022
Come and get it while it's still hot!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022
Blogs, Articles, and Posts
Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting admin actions
(cyberdrain.com)
So with all this exchange news going around, I figured there's enough people writing about that so I
By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022
So with all this exchange news going around, I figured there's enough people writing about that so I
won't bother; there's lots a smart scripts flying about that can be used to find the webshells, etc. Instead I'm focussing on M365 admin actions.
By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022
How to add pictures to Excel with PowerShell?
(bronowski.it)
Spreadsheets' main purpose is data: storing, manipulating and analyzing them. We can add some
By: Mikey Bronowski submitted:Jun 16 2022
Spreadsheets' main purpose is data: storing, manipulating and analyzing them. We can add some
colours or charts to make the data more friendly, but sometimes we may want to add something else - like a logo or picture and all that can be achieved with PowerShell.
By: Mikey Bronowski submitted:Jun 16 2022
How to backup all of your keys, certs and secrets included in all your Azure Key Vaults
(scriptinglibrary.com)
After my previous article on the basic Powershell cmdlets for Azure Key Vault, I thought it would be
By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022
After my previous article on the basic Powershell cmdlets for Azure Key Vault, I thought it would be
interesting to provide to all users, who are already familiar with it, a method to export all keys, certs and secrets stored in it once via Powershell.
By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022
How to Use the Get-FileHash PowerShell Cmdlet
(adamtheautomator.com)
Do you need to compare two files or make sure a file has not changed? The PowerShell cmdlet
By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 16 2022
Do you need to compare two files or make sure a file has not changed? The PowerShell cmdlet
Get-FileHash generates hash values both for files or streams of data. A hash is simply a function that converts one value into another. Sometimes the hash value may be smaller to save on space, or the hash value may be a checksum used to validate a file.
By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 16 2022
Passing each element of an array into a function with Powershell
(sean-lloyd.com)
Let's say you have a collection of objects, and you wish to perform the same action over each object
By: Sean Lloyd submitted:Jun 16 2022
Let's say you have a collection of objects, and you wish to perform the same action over each object
in that collection.
By: Sean Lloyd submitted:Jun 16 2022
Reviewing PowerShell’s Role in the Exchange Hack
(reddit.com)
A good discussion on Reddit about the recent Exchange exploit..
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jun 16 2022
A good discussion on Reddit about the recent Exchange exploit..
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jun 16 2022
The De Facto Guide for Converting a PS1 to EXE (7 Ways)
(adamtheautomator.com)
You can invoke PowerShell scripts in many different ways, but they all have one downfall, you can't
By: Arman Castillote submitted:Jun 16 2022
You can invoke PowerShell scripts in many different ways, but they all have one downfall, you can't
simply run them like a standard Windows program (EXE). Perhaps you'd like to prevent editing the code in a script or perhaps make it easier for your users to run scripts. It's time to learn how to convert a PS1 to an EXE.
By: Arman Castillote submitted:Jun 16 2022
Projects, Scripts, and Modules
PSWriteHTML
(github.com)
PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any
By: Evotec submitted:Jun 16 2022
PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any
knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required.
By: Evotec submitted:Jun 16 2022
Test ARM templates with What-If in a pipeline
(4bes.nl)
Find out how to test all templates in your repo in one task with PowerShell and the What-If module.
By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022
Find out how to test all templates in your repo in one task with PowerShell and the What-If module.
With examples for Azure DevOps pipelines and Github Actions
By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022
Books, Media, and Learning Resources
How to Run SQL Assessment Checks in Azure SQL MI (YouTube)
(youtube.com)
In this episode with Aaron Nelson, we'll show you the basics of the SQL Assessment PowerShell
By: Aaron Nelson and Anna Hoffman submitted:Jun 16 2022
In this episode with Aaron Nelson, we'll show you the basics of the SQL Assessment PowerShell
commands, and how you can run the assessments for your Azure SQL Managed Instances as well as your on-prem SQL Server instances.
By: Aaron Nelson and Anna Hoffman submitted:Jun 16 2022
Unattended Authentication to Azure (YouTube)
(youtube.com)
A walkthrough of options for unattended authentication to Azure for automations. Covers managed
By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022
A walkthrough of options for unattended authentication to Azure for automations. Covers managed
identity and service principals. Lots of demos including service principals with secrets and certificates with PowerShell. Concepts apply to AZ CLI as well.
By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022
Fun
Because why not
(twitter.com)
There are 3 PowerShell script examples in this Microsoft Doc and each one uses a different brace
By: Mark Wragg submitted:Jun 16 2022
There are 3 PowerShell script examples in this Microsoft Doc and each one uses a different brace
style
By: Mark Wragg submitted:Jun 16 2022
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