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August 26, 2022

Announcements!

Upcoming breaking changes in Azure PowerShell (docs.microsoft.com)
Come see what need to fix before the next release
By: Azure PowerShell submitted:Aug 26 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Enable PowerShell remoting on ArcoLinux (mikefrobbins.com)
PowerShell is a cross-platform scripting language that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. ArcoLinux

is a rolling release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Aug 26 2022

Report on Active Directory Container permissions using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
In a previous blog post (Link), I showed a way to create a report on OU (Organizational Unit)

permissions. One of the replies I got about that was: How about the Container permissions, those are important too 🙂 And that's correct, they are! In this blog post, I will show you how to create a report on those (Script is based on the OU report)

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Aug 26 2022

Reporting Teams Channel Email Addresses (office365itpros.com)
No Microsoft 365 admin portal will tell you about the set of email addresses assigned to Teams

channels. Fortunately, it's relatively easy to create a report with PowerShell and just a little Graph magic.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Aug 26 2022

The Secret to Unleashing PowerShell GitHub Abilities (adamtheautomator.com)
In this deep dive, learn how to use PowerShell GitHub abilities to take your workflow to the next

level and automate everything!

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By: Bart Tacken submitted:Aug 26 2022

Using Exchange Online PowerShell with Azure Automation Managed Identities (practical365.com)
Microsoft doesn't support using an Azure Automation managed identity and Exchange Online PowerShell.

However, that doesn't mean the two can't work together. In this article we explore how to use Exchange Online PowerShell with Azure Automation while waiting for Microsoft to deliver a full solution.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Aug 26 2022

Using Graph to assign a group to a PowerShell script in Intune (deploymentresearch.com)
While doing some Intune automation the other day I got stuck on trying to assign a script to a

group. Using the graph API documentation sent me on a wild goose chase so just wanted to write a small writeup if someone else ran into the same problem.

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By: Mattias Benninge submitted:Aug 26 2022

Windows Defender Management using PowerShell (powershellcenter.com)
Microsoft has invested heavily in Microsoft Defender Antivirus (known as Windows Defender) over the

years to reduce the attack surface on the Windows environment against viruses and spyware, and ransomware.

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Aug 26 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Configure SysInternals EULA Acceptance (jdhitsolutions.com)
I just saw a very, very handy thing on Twitter where you can set a registry key that will

automatically accept all EULA prompts for the SysInternals tools. I know there is a command-line switch I can use, but I never remember to use it. Setting the registry key appears to accept EULAs globally. Naturally,...

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Aug 26 2022

Microsoft Graph Known Issue (twitter.com)
If you're using the Microsoft Graph API and getting repeated auth prompts with every request you may

have a corrupt token cache.

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By: Sam Erde submitted:Aug 26 2022

Powershell: Citrix Hypervisor Count Function (alainassaf.github.io)
Contents Contents Scenario Citrix Hypervisor and PowerShell? Conculsion Learning More Value for

Value Scenario I've been hesitant to dive into Citrix Hypervisor PowerShell cmdlets, but there's no rational reason to not do it. Citrix continues to make great strides in expanding and updating PowerShell for its hypervisor, PVS, and XenDesktop.

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By: Alain Assaf submitted:Aug 26 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Make More Modules with Adam Bacon (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we hear from someone whose career has grown alongside PowerShell's. Adam shares

some of the challenges that he's experienced when automating business processes with PowerShell. Starting in the early days of PowerShell, Adam talks about that first experience where he saw the potential of PowerShell. We also spent some time talking about creating GUI applications in PowerShell. We talk about all this, and much more, in this episode.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Aug 26 2022

PowerCLI and PowerShell cheat sheet (angrysysops.com)
Here are commands, every vSphere admin should know: List of available interfaces and physical

network cards (vmkernel + vmnic): Adding another interface (vmkernel to vMotion)...

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By: Piotr Tarnawski submitted:Aug 26 2022

Running commands in the shell (docs.microsoft.com)
PowerShell is a command-line shell and a scripting language used for automation. Similar to other

shells, like bash on Linux or the Windows Command Shell (cmd.exe), PowerShell lets you to run any command available on your system, not just PowerShell commands.

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By: Sean Wheeler submitted:Aug 26 2022

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August 19, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Best practice to use function keyword in single purpose script? (reddit.com)
When creating a single purpose PS1 script, what is the benefit of using to the function keyword as

opposed to simply naming the PS1 script verb-noun without using the function keyword?

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By: u/jeffwcpa submitted:Aug 19 2022

Configure attack surface reduction in Microsoft Defender using Group Policy or PowerShell (4sysops.com)
In addition to the virus scanner, Microsoft Defender offers other security functions. These include

the reduction of the attack surface, which hardens applications such as Office, browsers, and Adobe Reader. The feature is not active by default and can be configured via group policies or PowerShell.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Aug 19 2022

How to implement your PowerShell 7 Scripts in Task Scheduler (sid-500.com)
So you're already working with the latest PowerShell version and wondering how to automate your

PowerShell 7 scripts with the task scheduler? Yes? Ok, then stay tuned I will show you

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Aug 19 2022

How to run Docker commands in CMD/PowerShell from Docker using WSL2 (dev.to)
In the last tutorial, we learned how to create Docker images without Docker Desktop in Windows.

However, this can break our daily duties, especially if we have automated anything. This can be fixed in three steps:

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By: Federico Navarrete submitted:Aug 19 2022

Security of app registration in Azure Active Directory (sposcripts.com)
Originally, I thought about writing an article about how to get SharePoint list items with Microsoft

Graph API by PowerShell. But before doing this, I thought you should first need to know something about app registration in Azure Active Directory in this context. App registrations are really powerful, as you can raise any request if

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By: Serkar submitted:Aug 19 2022

The many flavours of WMI management (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Working with the different ways of managing WMI.
By: Francisco Nabas submitted:Aug 19 2022

Using Azure Key Vault with Microsoft 365 PowerShell (office365itpros.com)
A previous article explains how to use an Azure Automation runbook to write information to a

SharePoint Online site and Teams channel. At the time, I used a stored credential to authenticate and access SharePoint and Teams. Azure Key Vault offers another way to store secrets (bits of information) securely. This article explores how to store secrets in Azure Key Vault and retrieve and use the secrets in a runbook script and interactive PowerShell.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Aug 19 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Create a focus time countdown clock using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Sometimes you really need to finish something and notifications from your running programs keep

taking away your focus. You can try using the script in this blog post to keep focused on your task, when the count-down timer is done your programs will be available again

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Aug 19 2022

DFIR4vSphere (github.com)
The DFIR4vSphere PowerShell module collects logs and forensics artefacts on both ESXi hosts and the

vCenter console.

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By: ANSSI submitted:Aug 19 2022

Find-CrimeUK (powershellgallery.com)
Helps you locate all the crime that has happened in a particular place in the UK. As long as the

police have recorded it and it has been registered on this API then it should show you the information about the crime.

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By: Adam Bacon submitted:Aug 19 2022

PoshTaskbarItem: module to make simple UIs on the Windows taskbar (reddit.com)
Some months ago, I shared a script here that notifies you of unread Outlook emails by badge

notifications on the taskbar. I got some positive comments and decided to make a module for the taskbar handling part so that anyone can quickly make their tools.

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By: u/mdgrs-mei submitted:Aug 19 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Quick Tips : Environment Variables (youtube.com)
This is a new video series for quick tips in PowerShell. In this video ill be going over environment

variables, how to use the built in ones and also create your own env variables and either limit them to the user or the machine.

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By: JackedProgrammer submitted:Aug 19 2022

Pushing PowerShell’s Perceived Purpose with James Brundage (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we explore different ways that the upper-bound limits of PowerShell have been

pushed. We get to hear from one of the most advanced PowerShellers that we've met yet. He shares insight into what it was like working on the PowerShell team and how PowerShell has grown massively over time. James has been advocating for PowerShell for a long time, and he shares some details about leading the first internal PowerShell group at Microsoft and some things that came from it. We also learn about some of the awesome projects James has worked on, from RegeX, UIs, formatting, Git, and markdown. James shares details about his latest project, an extensible transpiler, PipeScript.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Aug 19 2022

Fun

Challenge to shorten this code as much as possible using wildcard/regex/code golfing techniques [PLATINUM AWARD CHALLENGE] (reddit.com)
Congrats and thank you [**me_again**](https://www.reddit.com/user/me_again/) **I**
By: u/jakobyscream submitted:Aug 19 2022

Fun with functions (reddit.com)
function Sing99Bottles {
By: u/unhandy_handyman submitted:Aug 19 2022

Janet Jackson’s music video is now a vulnerability for crashing hard disks (bleepingcomputer.com)
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video of 1989 has officially been declared a security

vulnerability as it freezes some models of hard drives on older computers. [...]

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By: Ax Sharma submitted:Aug 19 2022

Upcoming Events

September **In-person** Meetup (meetup.com)
Three speakers are lined up, sandwiches, tea, and coffee will be served, and 3 raffle prizes to be

won at the end (see below)!

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By: PowerShell Southampton submitted:Aug 19 2022

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August 12, 2022

Announcements!

Announcing the release of Get-WhatsNew (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Get the latest PowerShell feature information in your terminal with Get-WhatsNew
By: Jason Helmick submitted:Aug 12 2022

Archive Module 2.0 Preview 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that the second preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the

module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Aug 12 2022

v7.2.6 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Fresh off the pipelines.the latest release of PowerShell
By: The PowerShell Team submitted:Aug 12 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Create a TCP/UDP port listener using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
One of our customers is securing his network and firewall changes were made that needed to be

tested. In this case, the new servers were not deployed in that specific network yet. But... We did want to test the connections before deploying the servers 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you a way how to create listening ports on a machine in order to test the connection from another network using netcat on Linux or portqry on Windows.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Aug 12 2022

How To Use the PowerShell Expand Property for Select-Object (adamtheautomator.com)
Discover the ins-and-outs of the PowerShell expand property for the Select-Object command in this

example driven tutorial!

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By: Edem Afenyo submitted:Aug 12 2022

Installing software via Azure DevOps & PowerShell on Windows servers (reddit.com)
The idea of this pipeline to manage the software dependencies (.exe's, .msi) via an azure-package

feed. This way all uploads, updates to version are traceable. The pipeline will download this package during its build, and publish it as an artefact (named patch) for the deployment stages where the software will copied to and installed on the servers For every environment provided in parameters Environments, the software will be attempted to be installed on the servers via PowerShell scripts. Azure DevOps is the orchestrator, but the PoSh script does the heavy lifting.

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By: u/Robba078 submitted:Aug 12 2022

Migrate Your Script from AzureAD or MSOnline to Graph API (powershellcenter.com)
No one can deny the superior help of AzureAD and MSOL PowerShell modules and how these two made

cloud management easy and simple. But the end for these two modules is nearby, and the direction is the Graph API. So why not start now and learn what you need to know to migrate your PowerShell [.]

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Aug 12 2022

PowerShell and JSON (powershellisfun.com)
JSON is something that's being used a lot, it's easy for storing and retrieving data. In this small

blog post, I will show you how to do that 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Aug 12 2022

Schedule and Run PowerShell Scripts for Azure VMs using Azure Automation (thomasmaurer.ch)
A while ago I wrote a blog post on how you can run a PowerShell or Bash script against multiple

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) using Run Command. In this blog post we are going to have a look on how you can schedule and run PowerShell and Bash scripts against Azure virtual machines (VMs) using .

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Aug 12 2022

Small Tips and Tricks – PowerShell – Reading all onedrive urls, owners and storage quota (knowledge-junction.com)
Small Tips and Tricks - PowerShell - Reading all onedrive urls, owners and storage quota
By: Prasham Sabadra submitted:Aug 12 2022

TIL (accidentally) that PowerShell Copy-Item has -ToSession (twitter.com)
(and -FromSession) parameters so you can copy files/folders to/from remote machines without needing

$ shares. Best to set $ProgressPreference to SilentlyContinue unless you want it slowed by progress messages

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Aug 12 2022

Working with VirusTotal from PowerShell (evotec.xyz)
Virus Total is an excellent service. It's a single place where hundreds of antivirus engines can

verify if the file, URL, domain name, or IP Address is trusted or not. Of course, it's not a silver bullet, but it brings tremendous value, and I often verify files I download before executing. Since I release a lot of new or updated PowerShell modules on a weekly/monthly basis, I thought it would be great to send newly released versions straight to Virus Total so I can have them checked before anyone executes them. I also hope to prevent false positives from some antivirus vendors that may tag my modules as malware because they haven't seen the DLL or PowerShell module in this form before. I've seen it happen to DBATools, so why not try and push my modules before users even use them?

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Aug 12 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

RoboCopy 1.0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
The official Robocopy as a Powershell Cresendo module. With parameters that now make sense
By: Adam Bacon submitted:Aug 12 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Passion + PowerShell = Profit with David Hall (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we cover a lot of ground. We cover how PowerShell has helped our careers, from the

beginning roots to the current day. David covers how he got his start, the challenges he faced along the way, and how each opportunity to teach came up. We explore the origins of PSAffirmations and the role that affirmations had when dealing with Imposter Syndrome. Security is David's specialty, so we spent some time picking David's brain about the current state of security and where attention is needed. We discuss whether passion can be taught or if it already must be there. Last, Jordan lets slip that he hates Christmas.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Aug 12 2022

PowerShell Conference EU (youtube.com)
Recordings of PSConfEU Vienna 2022 have been published!
By: PowerShell Conference EU submitted:Aug 12 2022

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August 5, 2022

Announcements!

Exchange Online : Major Update – Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA module (knowledge-junction.com)
Prasham provides a great rundown of what to expect and how to prepare for the upcoming changes.
By: Prasham Sabadra submitted:Aug 5 2022

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code July 2022 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that the July update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code
By: Steve Lee submitted:Aug 5 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Groups: Getting Started Guide (jeffbrown.tech)
In previous posts, you learned how to create your first Azure Automation PowerShell runbook and

configure authentication to Azure resources. With these tools available, your next step is to expand your runbook's reach outside of Azure to on-premises resources. Azure Automation makes this possible with Hybrid Worker Groups. In this guide, you will learn how

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Aug 5 2022

Best practices for Powershell (reddit.com)
What is best practices for running unattended, scheduled Powershell scripts? Do you locate them on

the machines they're related to? Did you create a centralized server to run them from? Do you just dump results to logs or do you send notification e-mails to interested parties?

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By: u/breid7718 submitted:Aug 5 2022

FYI you can use square brackets with wildcards in PowerShell Select-Object (alias select) (twitter.com)
to restrict the wildcard eg here I only want name properties beginning with C or D so I use

[CD]*name where square brackets is same as in regex & means 1 of. Use ? to match single character

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Aug 5 2022

How to add BGP routes to AWS security groups (yobyot.com)
PowerShell's Compare-Object makes it easy to compare two collections of objects
By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Aug 5 2022

Jupyter notebooks in VSCode with PowerShell support (powershellisfun.com)
Saw a video about Jupyter in Visual Studio Code a while back, tried to get it up and running and...

It seems that that things are changed now, it was there in VSCode preview versions together with the PowerShell preview extension. All the How-To's I found showed me that way of getting it installed/configured. So I played around a little bit with Jupyter and the PowerShell kernel installation and got it working in VSCode, in this blogpost I will show you how to install and configure everything 🙂

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Aug 5 2022

Password Expiry Notification Using Teams and Graph API (devblogs.microsoft.com)
This post's intent is to show how to use Graph API through PowerShell to send a Teams message.
By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Aug 5 2022

ScriptRunner Portal Edition R4: A portal for PowerShell scripts (4sysops.com)
ScriptRunner is a solution that centrally manages the running of PowerShell scripts across the

environment. The new ScriptRunner Portal Edition R4 release provides many new features and capabilities.

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By: Brandon Lee submitted:Aug 5 2022

Using the Get-TeamAllChannel Cmdlet (office365itpros.com)
Version 4.6 of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module includes the Get-TeamAllChannel cmdlet. As the

name implies, the cmdlet returns details of all channels in a team (regular, private, and shared). To see what it does, we wrote a script to report all the channels in teams in a tenant.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Aug 5 2022

Using winget with PowerShell to install Software remotely (sid-500.com)
In this blog post I will carry out how to remotely install software on a domain-joined Windows 11

client. Winget is a command line tool that provides a lot of different options

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Aug 5 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Find all .iso files in VMware datastores with PowerCLI (reddit.com)
Hello /r/Powershell. I've been lurking for some time now, and have decided to share some of my

scripts with this wonderful community.

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By: u/Ottetal submitted:Aug 5 2022

Organizing Chaos with PSWorkItems and PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
I spend my working days living in a PowerShell console. Over the years, I've developed many

PowerShell modules to help me manage the chaos that is my work life. One area that always demands attention is managing my tasks and To-Dos. For several years I have been using the MyTasks module. This module stored tasks...

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Aug 5 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Oh the Places you will go… with PowerShell – Mike F. Robbins (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we get to hear the journey of someone who was a Microsoft MVP that ended up turning

in their MVP and joining the mothership. Mike details his journey and shares some of the secrets to his success, including the importance of blogging, having a personal brand, and more.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Aug 5 2022

Fun

Why is the PowerShell script file format .PS1? Why the “1”? (twitter.com)
In case you ever wondered why
By: ConfigMgrDogs submitted:Aug 5 2022

Upcoming Events

#PSTweetChat (twitter.com)
Join the PowerShell conversation tomorrow from 1-2PM Eastern (UTC-4). Use #PSTweetChat to follow

along.

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By: Everyone submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell SnippetRace 29-30/2022 (powershell.co.at)
Expertslive Cafe 14. September 2022 - details coming soon
By: Roman Stadlmair submitted:Aug 5 2022

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July 29, 2022

Announcements!

Archive Module 2.0 Preview 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that the first preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the

module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jul 28 2022

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 (azure.microsoft.com)
Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 enables developing and deploying Azure Function Apps for

production scenarios using the latest version of PowerShell.

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By: Microsoft Azure submitted:Jul 28 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Active Directory ACL Reporter – PowerShell (powershellcenter.com)
There is no need to talk about the critical role Active Directory plays within the organization.

Securing Active Directory is a massive part of the overall organization security, configuration, and permission and Access Control List (ACL).

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By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Jul 28 2022

Best Practices – PowerShell Universal (docs.powershelluniversal.com)
Learn how to best configure PowerShell Universal.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jul 28 2022

Check If An Email Was Read using Graph API PowerShell SDK (thesysadminchannel.com)
With the growing number of people migrating from the Azure AD module to Microsoft Graph API, it's

great to see some features finally become available via the command line interface .aka. PowerShell. Today we'll cover step by step on how.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jul 28 2022

Free SquaredUp Community Dashboard Server for PowerShell (4sysops.com)
SquaredUp Community Dashboard Server is a free solution for creating dashboards based on PowerShell

and Web APIs. Learn about recent updates that add even more features.

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By: Brandon Lee submitted:Jul 28 2022

PowerShell tips and tricks (powershellisfun.com)
Over the years I learned a lot of PowerShell tricks but also stopped using a few because they are

out-dated or not that smart to use them anymore performance wise. In this blogpost I will share a few of them 🙂 (These are just a few, will write a new blogpost with others in the future)

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 28 2022

Understanding PowerShell Objects (petri.com)
One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy to use yet sometimes difficult to learn is

its focus on objects. I have taught PowerShell objects to many people over the last 10 years and this is not as difficult as people make it out to be.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jul 28 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Developing PowerShell Tools with Adam Driscoll (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
We talked about Adam's journey into PowerShell, how he started creating tools for PowerShell, and

how his experience as a developer. He shared insights into the challenges of growing a business while developing new features and how he manages all the tasks on his plate. We also learn more about his personal life, including his numerous travel mishaps, Iron Man competitions, and even building your own cryptocurrency. We covered all that and much, much more.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jul 28 2022

PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit – [Chapter 1 Fundamentals] (youtube.com)
When you have a centralized management platform like Microsoft Intune or Configuration Manager, it

is very import that automate what you can. When it comes to application management, there are many ways to do it. Some are more complex than others.

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By: MEM - tips and tricks submitted:Jul 28 2022

Using REST APIs via PowerShell – Guy Leech (youtube.com)
Our second session at the Bradford Cloud User Group July event was Guy Leech 'Using REST APIs via

PowerShell. Whilst many PowerShell modules and SDKs are an alternative to calling REST APIs, calling them from PowerShell gives you platform independence & no pre-requisites which can be a barrier to adoption. This session shows how to use multiple vendor's REST APIs including Azure & once you know how to call one vendor's API, it's easy to use another's

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By: Bradford Cloud User Group submitted:Jul 28 2022

Upcoming Events

PSGitUtils v1.13.3 (powershellgallery.com)
Providers emoji supports for Git commit and Git log.
By: Cpadiem Chao submitted:Jul 28 2022

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July 22, 2022

Announcements!

New PowerShell Version – v7.3.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Check out and test what is new and upcoming in PowerShell
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jul 22 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Getting device warranty information (cyberdrain.com)
This morning I woke up with a mission; I wanted to fix HP warranty reporting for my PSWarranty

PowerShell Module. If you're not familiar yet I've blogged about the module and warranty reporting before here. Most of the module has been left the same so you can reference that blog for more information.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jul 22 2022

Microsoft Graph Support for SharePoint Online Tenant Settings (office365itpros.com)
Despite being the two basic Microsoft 365 workloads, one of the notable gaps in Microsoft Graph API

coverage has been administrative interfaces for SharePoint Online and Exchange Online. A small but valuable step in the right direction happened with the appearance of the settings resource type in the TenantAdmin namespace.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 22 2022

Programmatically Return S-1-5-18’s Username (reddit.com)
I'm trying to get LocalPaths of each user via Get-WmiObject win32_userprofile.
By: u/AlaricBloomberg submitted:Jul 22 2022

PSA: If you run Windows 10 and use WinSCP to transfer files to Linux hosts (twitter.com)
you can ditch WinSCP in favor of the native PowerShell or Command Prompt SCP implementation!
By: Christopher Hart submitted:Jul 22 2022

Report on Active Directory OU permissions using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
For one of our customers we are working on restricting permissions of admin accounts by implementing

Role Based Access and delegating permissions on Organizational Units (OU's). But one of the first questions was. What are the current permissions and what should we remove and where? In this blogpost I will show you a way to report on the current permissions so that you can remove them where they shouldn't be granted

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 22 2022

Reporting SharePoint Online External Users with PowerShell (office365itpros.com)
A SharePoint external user is someone who doesn't have an account in your tenant. Because of the

influence of Teams, most SharePoint Online external users are guest accounts, created when external people join the membership of Microsoft 365 Groups (teams). If the organization uses the SharePoint Online integration with Azure AD B2B collaboration, SharePoint also creates guest accounts when people share files or folders with external people.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 22 2022

The Ins-and-Outs of PSReadline in PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
PowerShell is a phenomenal cross-platform task automation solution. But be honest, does it feel like

something's missing in your PowerShell command-line experience? Why not turn to the PSReadline PowerShell module?

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By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen submitted:Jul 22 2022

Using Windows Terminal for PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
The Windows Terminal application has been out for a while now and it's one of the things (Next to my

Edge Browser, Teams and Outlook of course ?? ) that I start after logging into my laptop. It's a Terminal application which allows you to have multiple PowerShell (Or cmd, ssh or even WSL linux sessions) open. In this blogpost I will show you some configuration settings to make it your go-to app for command-line stuff ??

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 22 2022

Why use PowerShell Core? (reddit.com)
For those who haven't made the switch yet, here are some great reasons.
By: u/Plastic_Teacher_9914 submitted:Jul 22 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Get information about connected monitor (stolpe.io)
At work Helpdesk did receive multiple complaints regarding a specific manufacture and model of

monitors. And many of our user can't look at the back of the monitor to see the brand or model and even harder to see the serial number of the monitor. Also we wanted to know if the monitor was inside the warranty period or not.

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By: Robin Stolpe submitted:Jul 22 2022

PowerShell: Split-Path Examples (sid-500.com)
The cmdlet Split-Path can be useful to split volumes, folder and file path names. In this blog posts

I will give you some examples you can build on. Have fun reading the code samples to learn more about the power of Split-Path.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jul 22 2022

Retype (powershellgallery.com)
Retype is an ultra-high-performance generator that builds a website based on simple text files.

Focus on your writing while Retype builds the rest

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By: Adam Bacon submitted:Jul 22 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Enable Azure AD Groups for GroupWriteback v2 using MS Graph Powershell (youtube.com)
In this stream I had a casual coding walkthrough of the Azure AD group properties for managing per

group writeback v2 to on-premises using MS Graph PowerShell

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By: Jef Kazimer submitted:Jul 22 2022

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (manning.com)
Don't miss the latest installment of this great series.
By: James Petty, Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jul 22 2022

Using PowerShell for Incident Response with Fernando Tomlinson (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of someone who has been in the trenches of Incident

Response. Fernando shared his experiences and methods for leveraging PowerShell during incidents. We talk about how the general perception of PowerShell Security has changed over the years and how PowerShell is now being publicly embraced by security organizations. Fernando told us about dealing with obfuscation and some of the most annoying techniques that he's encountered. All this and more is covered in this episode jam-packed with security goodness.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 22 2022

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July 15, 2022

Announcements!

Update on Status on PowerShell Community Textbook (reddit.com)
I'm writing an update post to advise on the status of the PowerShell Community Textbook:
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jul 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Cheat Sheet – Console Experience (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PowerShell can take some getting used to. Especially if you come at it from a different Shell and

don't see any way to get your good old experience back. However, hidden behind that plain white on blue shell, there is actually a wide range of customization options that help make your life less painful. See below for the most commonly appreciated options.

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jul 15 2022

How do you guys document your work? (reddit.com)
Another great discussion thread on r/PowerShell
By: u/bigbossbeku submitted:Jul 15 2022

How to Quickly Display Files With PowerShell Cat (adamtheautomator.com)
Are you thinking of displaying the contents of files either for automation or troubleshooting

purposes? How about editing and managing files based on the contents of another file? Don't worry; PowerShell cat is an excellent tool in your arsenal.

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By: Edem Afenyo submitted:Jul 15 2022

Use the Debug Parameter for Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets to Expose Graph API Requests (office365itpros.com)
Debug Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets to Gain Insights into What They Do
By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

AzurePipelinesPS (powershellgallery.com)
A PowerShell module that makes interfacing with Azure Pipelines a little easier
By: Michael Dejulia submitted:Jul 15 2022

PSTemperature (github.com)
A simple PowerShell binary module used for conversion between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin

temperatures. Rankine temperature scale support is provided via PowerShell 7 Experimental Features. This module can be used as an example of a PowerShell binary/C# module and for PowerShell 7 Experimental Features.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jul 15 2022

ReadPDF (powershellgallery.com)
Allows you to read an entire pdf
By: Adam Bacon submitted:Jul 15 2022

Updating your PowerShell modules to the latest version plus cleaning up older versions (powershellisfun.com)
You installed a PowerShell module on your machine and used it for a long time and suddenly.. It

doesn't connect anymore, shows warnings that some commands are deprecated and now what?! In this blogpost I will show you a way to update all your modules to the latest version and also remove unused older versions.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

A conversation that will !slap you with Jaap (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, Jaap tells us how he got into speaking at conferences. We talk about examples of

how his support has helped people on their own speaking journey. We discuss a few of the recent talks he has given, from abstracting code to bettering your home automation.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 15 2022

Episode 044 – PowerShell Tips & Tricks (powershellnews.podbean.com)
In this episode, we talk about tips and tricks.
By: The PowerShell News Podcast submitted:Jul 15 2022

Intro to Azure DevOps for sysadmins (youtube.com)
Azure DevOps is a set of services offered by Microsoft to create and maintain automation in the

Azure cloud.

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Jul 15 2022

PowerShell 2022: State of the Art / Hack / Infection (youtube.com)
Why has PowerShell become so popular for ransomware, hacking tools, cloud computing, and security

automation? Isn't PowerShell just another command shell? No! Attend this talk by SANS Faculty Fellow Jason Fossen to see what PowerShell really is, how it's being used (and abused) today, and future trends.

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By: Jason Fossen submitted:Jul 15 2022

Fun

BioNameGenerator (powershellgallery.com)
A name generator for projects, versions and other stuff written in powershell
By: Davi Marcon submitted:Jul 15 2022

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July 8, 2022

Announcements!

Congrats to all those who made MVP this year! (twitter.com)
It is always well earned
By: Microsoft submitted:Jul 8 2022

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code June 2022 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that an update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now

available on the extension marketplace.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jul 8 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release!
By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jul 8 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Setting Sharepoint Sharing Settings (cyberdrain.com)
For a long time SharePoint Admin Settings wasn't something available inside the Graph API. We always

had to jump through many hoops and had an issue with running changes headless because the PowerShell modules didn't support it. Recently I've been in contact with the SharePoint team and we now have a functional API for most of the important admin settings.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jul 8 2022

Install Windows Terminal without the Store (on Windows Server) (4sysops.com)
Microsoft has made its new terminal for multiple shells and command line programs available as a

Store app. However, if you want to install the package with PowerShell because, for example, there is no Store app on Windows Server or Windows 10 LTSC, you'll get an error message due to a missing library.

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By: Wolfgang Sommergut submitted:Jul 8 2022

Performing a Conditional Access Assessment with PowerShell (practical365.com)
Conditional Access is a powerful tool granting an easy way to bolster the security of an Office 365

tenant. The flexibility of Conditional Access means it can fit most organizational and security requirements easily. However, as with most things in technology, with flexibility there often comes complexity.

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By: Sean McAvinue submitted:Jul 8 2022

PowerShell: Decrypt a Secure String (sid-500.com)
In this blog post I will carry out how to decrypt a secure string. A secure string is a string that

is saved in a non-readable format to temporarily store passwords and strings. Let's start.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jul 8 2022

The Value of Objects (jdhitsolutions.com)
I expect I will write several articles about PowerShell and its relationship with objects. I know

that this is the biggest hurdle for PowerShell beginners to overcome. But once they grasp that PowerShell is about working with objects in the pipeline, they recognize the value and begin finding it easier to write PowerShell code and use it interactively at a console prompt.

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By: Jeffery Hicks submitted:Jul 8 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BinaryPasswordGenerator (powershellgallery.com)
A binary password generator rewritten from of the popular PasswordGenerator nuget package.
By: Emil Larsson submitted:Jul 8 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Streamlining Learning with Josh Duffney (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we talk about how unique your career path can be, how common it is to end up doing

things you never imagined, and how PowerShell plays a role in getting you there. Josh talks about streamlining his day-to-day life to maximize his ability to learn new things. We talk about leaving your work on a high note and how leaving linkage can help you get to a cleaner start when you return to a project.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 8 2022

Fun

Get a Message Of The Day in your PowerShell session (powershellisfun.com)
Sometimes you just need a nice inspirational quote to get some motivation ?? In this blogpost I will

show you how to get one each time you start a new PowerShell session.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 8 2022

In honor of Independence Day I made an alien invasion game in PowerShell (two versions in fact!) (reddit.com)
In short, I made a Space Invaders-esque game in PowerShell.
By: u/Ecrofirt submitted:Jul 8 2022

Looking Busy – Powershell (reddit.com)
(Use caution before running anything in here) Does anyone have some Powershell commands that look

super impressive? I'm talking Hollywood movie, code flying everywhere kind of stuff. Ideally on a loop.

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By: u/Bartoosk submitted:Jul 8 2022

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twitter.

July 1, 2022

Announcements!

Jeffrey Snover is leaving Microsoft (twitter.com)
I'm sure like many of you, I own a big part of my career to this man. He certainly will be missed, and I wish him the best of luck!
By: Jeffrey Snover submitted:Jul 1 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Enable AppLocker on Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro with PowerShell (4sysops.com)
In the past, AppLocker was available only for Windows Enterprise and Education subscribers. In this

post, I will show you a way to use AppLocker on Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro.

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By: Welf Alberts submitted:Jul 1 2022

Hosting PowerShell in a Python script (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Yes Virginia, languages other than PowerShell do exist.
By: Jim Truher submitted:Jul 1 2022

How to make your PowerShell scripts look better (powershellisfun.com)
When I started writing my first PowerShell scripts. They didn't look that good, it was PowerShell

2.0 of course and I was just a beginner. I'm getting better at it and the newer versions of PowerShell (And Visual Studio Code) have a few nice formatting tricks. This blogpost will show you a few ways to make your scripts look better and more importantly. A lot more readable!

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 1 2022

Install PowerShell on ArcoLinux (mikefrobbins.com)
ArcoLinux is a rolling release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Like other Arch-based Linux

distributions, ArcoLinux uses pacman for its package manager.

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Jul 1 2022

Microsoft Graph Explorer Boosted by New Features (office365itpros.com)
Some recent changes have made the Graph Explorer even more useful. First, PowerShell has joined the

set of supported languages for code snippets.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jul 1 2022

PowerShell Best Practices for Expert Level (reddit.com)
A great Reddit thread, worth reading through
By: u/bwljohannes submitted:Jul 1 2022

Reading Configuration Manager Status Messages With PowerShell (devblogs.microsoft.com)
I can read Configuration Manager status messages using the Monitoring tab. Can I do it using

PowerShell?

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By: Francisco Nabas submitted:Jul 1 2022

Restart Exchange Services with PowerShell (thesysadminchannel.com)
If you're hosting Microsoft Exchange server on-premises, you've probably realized that it is pretty

critical to ensure those services are up and running. In the event that some services are not running, it's always good to know how to restart Exchange services with Powershell.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jul 1 2022

What other languages do you use, and when do you pick them over PowerShell? (reddit.com)
Another great Reddit read
By: u/UntrustedProcess submitted:Jul 1 2022

What’s New with Select-String in PowerShell7? (commandline.ninja)
Select-String is one of those commands that either you use it often or not much at all. There

doesn't seem to be a middle of the road for Select-String. I don't get called upon to use it that often, but when I do, it usually saves my bacon at work. The most typical use case for me is for searching flat log files for patterns of text or for all entries of a particular phrase across a bunch of files.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jul 1 2022

Write great AWS Lambda PowerShell functions (yobyot.com)
In this post, I share some tips I use when I write AWS Lambda PowerShell functions. You can find

lots of help writing .Net end user functions for Lambda. By end user, I mean things that are part of an application system, like kicking off Glue jobs, working with Redshift and so on.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jul 1 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Confluence CVE Vulnerability Checker (powershell.city)
So here is something I noticed to be helpful to all Confluence admins that want to check and not

worry about the deep distracted deep reading needed in a slew of other CVE and parse relevant details to only their versions.

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By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jul 1 2022

Curl2PS (github.com)
This module is a utility module to help convert curl commands to Invoke-RestMethod syntax.
By: Anthony Howell submitted:Jul 1 2022

Duplication of last command into terminal (github.com)
Glad to know I'm not the only one that was annoyed by this.
By: VSCode submitted:Jul 1 2022

PSReadLine 2.2.6 enables Predictive Intellisense by default (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PSReadLine first introduced Predictive IntelliSense using History based suggestions as a customer

enabled feature in November 2020. Since its introduction, two new predictors have become available:

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jul 1 2022

Start Windows Sandbox with parameters (powershellisfun.com)
Personally I use Windows Sandbox a lot for testing Endpoint Manager packages or software, sometimes

you want to start it with certain options (Connect a folder on your harddrive or start without a network connection) and you have to create a custom configuration file (.wsb) with those options. This blogpost shows you how to start Windows Sandbox using PowerShell with parameters without the need of creating multiple configuration files.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jul 1 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Repositories with Adil Leghari: Do not take orally (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
In this episode, we learned all about repositories and how to use them in a PowerShell context. We

briefly discussed the challenges of working from Home. We learned how Adil got started in the PowerShell community including getting involved in the PowerShell Slack/Discord, attending PowerShell Summit, and even stepping up and helping put on an event: BridgeConf. Adil convinces Jordan to submit to speak at Summit 2023, and Jordan agrees. The crowd goes wild! We tried to capture the code that we ran on this episode in a transcript file, which can be found below.

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jul 1 2022

TheShow: C1: Why PowerShell Crescendo (youtube.com)
In this series, Jason will explain the purpose of Crescendo and how to build and automate cmdlets

from traditional platform-specific console tools.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jul 1 2022

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June 24, 2022

Announcements!

v7.2.5 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come get the latest and greatest
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 24 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Adding printer drivers with Endpoint Manager and PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Printers and their drivers, not always the most fun part of IT. Since PrintNightMare it has become

more difficult for users to add printers to their workstation, this blogpost describes how you can add printers using Endpoint Manager and PowerShell in a easy way.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jun 24 2022

NSA shares tips on securing Windows devices with PowerShell (bleepingcomputer.com)
The National Security Agency (NSA) and cybersecurity partner agencies issued an advisory today

recommending system administrators to use PowerShell to prevent and detect malicious activity on Windows machines.

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By: Ionut Ilascu submitted:Jun 24 2022

Retrieve Email DNS records using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
I have been doing a lot of Exchange on-prem to Exchange Online migrations the last few years,

because of that I use mxtoolbox.com a lot for querying of MX, SPF, DMARC and DKIM records. Wouldn't it be convenient to get a simple overview of those records in a PowerShell function? This blogpost will show you how

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jun 24 2022

Step by step: Start using GIT for PowerShell scripts (4bes.nl)
So you have been working with PowerShell. You hear a lot of people around you talking about GIT and

you want to get into the game. But there are so many possibilities, you have no clue where to start. Your not a Dev, you just write small scripts every now and then. Read further, as this is a step by step guide about how to start using GIT, focused on PowerShell.

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 24 2022

Troubleshooting PowerShell Scripts with Set-PSBreakPoint (sid-500.com)
The Set-PSBreakPoint cmdlet sets a breakpoint in a script. When you are troubleshooting a script it

could be helpful to know what's going on in a particualar step or workflow. In this blog bost I will give you an overview and the basics you can build on to troubleshoot and investigate your script. Let's jump in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 24 2022

Using Powershell to Investigate Azure Ad User Risks (scriptingchris.tech)
In this post, I will explain how you can use the PowerShell SDK for Microsoft Graph to investigate

Risky Users in your Azure Active Directory. I will also show you how to use PowerShell to connect directly to the Microsoft Graph and query the data from there. Being able to query for riskDetections, risky users, and sign-ins, allows you to automate alerts or actions whenever a user gets flagged in your risk policy.

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By: Christian Hojsager submitted:Jun 24 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PSHTML (github.com)
PSHTML is a cross platform Powershell module to generate HTML markup language within a DSL on

Windows and Linux.

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By: Stephane Van Gulick submitted:Jun 24 2022

PSparklines (github.com)
Sparklines for PowerShell!
By: endowdly submitted:Jun 24 2022

SysInternals (github.com)
PowerShell Crescendo module for SysInternals tools.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 24 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Intune Graph API Query Tips and Graph X-Ray to get PowerShell Scripts from MEM Admin Center (youtube.com)
Microsoft Graph exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft cloud services

such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager. As Microsoft sums it up, it's the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365.

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By: Namaste Techies submitted:Jun 24 2022

Maneuvering Your Way to Microsoft Graph API with Jocel Sabellano (youtube.com)
Jocel Sabellano gives a deep dive into getting started with the Microsoft graph API via PowerShell.

He discusses how it works and how to interact with it to access the myriad of services in the Microsoft 365 Cloud.

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Jun 24 2022

Securing and Setting up Microsoft Sentinel with Sabrina Kay (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
This episode taught us about Microsoft Sentinel, a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)

and SOAR (Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response) product. Security is a constantly changing landscape, and Sabrina gives some tips on a successful test/deployment of Microsoft Sentinel to that you can get robots (AI) to help you think!

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By: The PowerShell Podcast submitted:Jun 24 2022

Fun

PowerShell being 15 years old… Just made me realise how old I am.. (twitter.com)
Me too, Thomas, me too
By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 24 2022

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