January 13, 2023

Announcements!

PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit 3.9 (github.com)
Tons of new features in this release!
By: PSAppDeployToolkit submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on

the PowerShell Gallery!

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jan 13 2023

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Best Practices Make Perfect (jdhitsolutions.com)
This post is a reprint from an article published to my premium PowerShell newsletter Behind the

PowerShell Pipeline available on Substack.

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jan 13 2023

Connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (powershellgeek.com)
Introduction As promised in my blog post last week, this is the first of many blog posts on

Microsoft Graph PowerShell and to start things out right we will first cover the How on connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Then over the coming weeks we will cover permissions, cmdlet discovery as well as some common...

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By: damian submitted:Jan 13 2023

Find the source of AD account lockouts (4sysops.com)
In a previous post, we discussed how to quickly unlock AD accounts with PowerShell. However, the

main problem admins tend to face is identifying the source computer or service that is causing the account to lock out in the first place.

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By: Surender Kumar submitted:Jan 13 2023

Five shortcuts to boost your productivity (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive

developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we've put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio.

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By: Mads Kristensen submitted:Jan 13 2023

Getting Started with PowerShell Gallery (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how to leverage the PowerShell Gallery for more efficient and effective PowerShell scripting

in this ATA Learning tutorial.

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Jan 13 2023

How to create a PowerShell Module with multiple Functions (sid-500.com)
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a module with multiple functions using an example.

You will see that this is not rocket science. Let's jump in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Begin Process End Blocks Demystified (jeffbrown.tech)
If you want to take your PowerShell function writing skills to the next level, consider implementing

Begin, Process, and End blocks. These input processing methods enable your functions to process pipeline input and multiple parameter values. In this article, you will learn the basic syntax of PowerShell Begin, Process, and End blocks.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jan 13 2023

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Scripting With VMware SRM REST API And PowerShell (blog.ukotic.net)
In a previous blog I wrote about Getting Started With Site Recovery Manager REST API. The post

focused on using...

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By: Mark Ukotic submitted:Jan 13 2023

Unleash the Power of Artificial Intelligence with PowerShell (github.com)
Welcome to the PowerShell Artificial Intelligence repository! Here, you will find a collection of

powerful PowerShell scripts that will enable you to easily integrate AI into your projects and take them to the next level. Imagine being able to interact directly with OpenAI's GPT AI with just a few simple commands. With this module, it's now possible.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 13 2023

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

MVPs and Stars with Barbara 4rbes (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we are joined by GitHub star Barbara Forbes. She tells us what her experience has

been like as a GitHub star and presents a session at GitHub Universe. We got to learn about GitHub Codespaces as well as GitHub CoPilot and the future of AI. She discussed the value of mentorship and how helpful getting a 2nd opinion can be when dealing with doubts. We also got to hear how she got her awesome plushies.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 13 2023

Community

Follow Friday nominee – dfinke (github.com)
Most of you probably know Doug from his ImportExcel module, but did you know he is also a wizard

when it comes to running PowerShell in Jupyter Notebooks and many other things. He has over 200 GitHub repos for you to explore and learn from.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 13 2023

Fun

I asked ChatGPT how to use ChatGPT programmatically with PowerShell. It told me how, and now I’ll tell you. (reddit.com)
EDIT: Turns out that if you are using a Microsoft or Google account, you will need to register

ChatGPT as an application using OAuth2.0. I ended up just making my API key in the OpenAI GUI.

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By: u/Marquis77 submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell SnippetRace 01/02-2023 (powershell.co.at)
MessageBox, BgInfo, Images, Version Events Snippets Crafting a MessageBox with PowerShell With the

switch of Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core, a lot of semi-gui-like features of PowerShell have been lost for the price of multi-platform availability. If you still want to present messageboxes with PowerShell, read this blog from Edem Afenyo. BgInfo with PowerShell IT-veterans know it for a long time, and also IT newbees may have heard of it - bgInfo. BGInfo draws system information on the background of your desktop to make support and diagnosis easier. Now there is a PowerShell variant of bginfo, written in PowerShell. Look

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By: Roman Stadlmair submitted:Jan 13 2023

Upcoming Events

MMS 2023 at MOA (mmsmoa.com)
April 30 - May 5, 2023 at the Mall of America Bloomington, Minnesota
By: MMS submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit (powershellsummit.org)
April 24-27, 2023 Bellevue, WA
By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Jan 13 2023

PowerShell Days UK (sessionize.com)
Call for speakers now open. Event takes place on 3 Mar 2023.
By: psday.uk submitted:Jan 6 2023

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