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January 28, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Difference between GetTempFileName() and GetRandomFileName() that got my ass kicked (evotec.xyz)
Today's story is about me making assumptions on how things work based on the method's name.
By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

How To Connect To Microsoft Graph API Using PowerShell (thesysadminchannel.com)
Microsoft has confirmed on multiple occasions that the Azure AD Graph Endpoint is deprecated and

will fully be decommissioned on June 30, 2022.

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By: Paul Contreras submitted:Jun 16 2022

Multiplatform reading EXIF data in Powershell 7 (reddit.com)
I am attempting to get EXIF metadata using a Powershell 7 script
By: u/_ReeX_ submitted:Jun 16 2022

Only One Join-Path Is Needed (nocolumnname.blog)
Learning from my mistakes aka Failing Up
By: Shane O'Neill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using PowerShell with $PSStyle (4sysops.com)
PowerShell 7.2 introduced the automatic variable $PSStyle for a new feature called PSAnsiRendering.

In this post, I show you how you can use ANSI rendering to control text decorations, such as color and font styling, in PowerShell.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Want to “tail” a text file in real-time? (twitter.com)
Get-Content (alias gc) will do it
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Recently there's been a number of users who have encountered a particular bug with PowerShellGet

1.0.0.1 in Windows PowerShell. This bug occurs when you try to to use a PowerShellGet cmdlet that is dependent on PackageManagement

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By: Amber Erickson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BicepDev (github.com)
Functions to support and speed up development of Bicep templates
By: justacurley submitted:Jun 16 2022

MCW-Backup (github.com)
A Powershell script that automate the process of create backups for your Minecraft worlds, both

Bedrock and Java Edition on Windows.

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By: Kevin Luna submitted:Jun 16 2022

Open Source YouTube PowerShell Module (github.com)
A PowerShell module to manage YouTube content.
By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

OSDCloud Sandbox for OSD Windows Autopilot is ready to go (osdcloud.com)
OSDCloud Sandbox is created to simplify the WinPE and OOBE OSD process. This is a new concept based

on PSCloudScript

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By: David Segura submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Making a “choose your own adventure” game in PowerShell (reddit.com)
Questions around creating your own game in PowerShell
By: u/FlaccoPastorius submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 21, 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Active Directory: Find users based on Attributes and add them to a Group with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
Active Directory objects are usually stored in organizational units. Sometimes these organizational

units don't refer to the site where the users work.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Behind the PowerShell Pipeline (jdhitsolutions.com)
Last week I made some passing references on Twitter to a new project I am working on this year. I

thought I'd take a little time to explain it and hopefully entice a few of you into joining me.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

For those that work in IT Admin, what are the key Powershell Commands that every admin should know? (reddit.com)
A great discuss on r/PowerShell about what cmdlets to learn
By: u/mrEnigma86 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Getting new Secure App Model tokens (cyberdrain.com)
Since I've released CIPP I've been getting a load of questions about the Secure Application Model,

one of the most common occurrences happens to be that users somehow don't get their tokens setup completely, and need to retrieve these again.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Just been asked to try to speed up a PowerShell loop (twitter.com)
notice how much slower Get-Date is than using -as or a cast. Using -as also has the advantage that

it doesn't error with bad date format it just returns $null which you can check for. Use TryParseExact for non-standard ones

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring battery health (cyberdrain.com)
This one was requested by several users for a while, I added this to some script libraries but never

actually released it on the blog so I figured it's a good way to get back into blogging.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Recently there's been a number of users who have encountered a particular bug with PowerShellGet

1.0.0.1 in Windows PowerShell. This bug occurs when you try to to use a PowerShellGet cmdlet that is dependent on PackageManagement, including cmdlets such as Find-Module, Install-Module, Save-Module, etc.

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By: Amber Erickson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Audit-UserShare (github.com)
Need to find all old user accounts who have home directories? How about old directories that have no

user?

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By: Foyerr submitted:Jun 16 2022

Sentinel-Queries/Device-PowershellConnectingtoInternet.kql (github.com)
Find users that are connecting to internet endpoints via PowerShell commands
By: reprise99 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Lets Chat: PowerShell Getting Started EP1 – YouTube (youtube.com)
This the first video in a series on how to learn to code with PowerShell. The goal of this series is

to slowly ramp things up over time but we'll start with an assumption that you're here with little to no programming, or PowerShell knowledge.

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By: JordanTheItGuy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

PowerShell Painting (tommymaynard.com)
Sorry this was just too cute not to share!
By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 14, 2022

Announcements!

PowerCLI 12.5 – What’s New (blogs.vmware.com)
Today, We have released PowerCLI 12.5 and with this, we are continuing to expand our cmdlet coverage

to various VMware products and solutions. Below are some of the key highlights out of this release-

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By: VMware submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Copy PowerShell History Command (jdhitsolutions.com)
I thought I'd share a short but useful PowerShell utility. This is something that is very handy when

I am writing. As you know, PowerShell maintains a command history in your PowerShell session. You can view history with the Get-History cmdlet or its alias h. To re-rerun a command use Invoke-History or its alias...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to control media playback in powershell (reddit.com)
How do you control media playback in powershell ?
By: u/Stride_44 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using WordPress API’s with PowerShell (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
This blog uses WordPress. Why WordPress? Well, it was the most prevalent platform when I started

this blog back in 2016 and it was more powerful and extensible than Blogger which I had used previously. Anyway, that's rather irrelevant for this post which about accessing WordPress APIs with PowerShell..

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Download and extract the latest AzCopy (Windows 64-bit) executable into a specified folder (wmatthyssen.com)
AzCopy is a free command-line tool that is offered by Microsoft. It allows you to easily copy and

transfer data (data migration) from and to Azure storage. It is designed for high performance transfers and can be deployed on both Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Linux systems, but also on macOS.

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By: Wim Matthyssen submitted:Jun 16 2022

Prerelease of PSFunctionTools for PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
At the end of last year wrote a series of blog posts describing tools and techniques for working

with PowerShell scripts and functions. My goal was to build a framework of tools that I could use to automate PowerShell scripting work, such as creating a new module from a group of existing files. I've finally...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I made a little multiplication game for my daughter (reddit.com)
My daughter is working on learning multiplication in school so I was inspired to make a small

program that would test her skills.

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By: u/Ecrofirt submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Community Call (github.com)
Jan 20th, 2022
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

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January 7, 2022

Announcements!

What are your best Posh tips & tricks? (twitter.com)
Awesome Twitter thread
By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating SonarCloud with PowerShell (jonathanmedd.net)
Part 3 Onboarding a User
By: Jonathan Medd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Discovering Pester Tags with the PowerShell AST (jdhitsolutions.com)
As I resolved at the end of last year, I am doing more with Pester in 2022. I'm getting a bit more

comfortable with Pester 5 and as my tests grow in complexity I am embracing the use of tags. You can add tags to different Pester test elements.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Perform Active Directory security assessment using PowerShell (4sysops.com)
My Active Directory security assessment script pulls important security facts from Active Directory

and generates nicely viewable reports in HTML format by highlighting the spots that require attention. The script manipulates user data using facts collected with benchmark values.

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By: Krishnamoorthi Gopal submitted:Jun 16 2022

What career or jobs can I use PowerShell most effectively with? (reddit.com)
It seems like the one the continually comes up is sysadmin however, are there other positions that

could use it?

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By: u/redditacct320 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BuildM365Apps.ps1 (github.com)
Set up #M365 Apps with a single script
By: Gary Blok submitted:Jun 16 2022

Log4ShellDetection (github.com)
This is written in PowerShell, targets Windows, and is meant to find Log4Shell vulnerabilities

wherever they may be

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By: Ryan Ephgrave submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Investigating WMI Backdoors in Windows With Loki Yara Scanner | TryHackMe Investigating Windows 2.0 – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this video walk-through, we covered investigating a compromised Windows machine with WMI

Backdoors. This was part of TryHackMe Investigating Windows 2.0 lab.

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By: Motasem Hamdan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Jumpstart: PowerShell Learning Resources (networkadm.in)
Some people prefer books, others prefer blogs, some prefer videos and some prefer interactive tools.

I have put together a list of resources you can use a reference for places to learn and practice PowerShell.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Play Wordle, the Puzzle Game Using PowerShell (thelazyadministrator.com)
I recently came across a NYTimes article talking about a new game called, 'Wordle.' If you are not

familiar with the game, its a text-based game where you have 6 tries to guess the word. Letters in a Gray box are not letters found in the word. Letters in a Yellow box are found in the word, but are in the incorrect spot. And finally, letters in a Green box are in the word and in the correct location.

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Jun 16 2022

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December 17, 2021

Announcements!

Release v7.2.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Looks like Christmas came early this year!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.3.0-preview.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Two PowerShell releases in one week!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Why is Az 7 an important release for Azure PowerShell? (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
The Azure PowerShell team is proud to announce a new major version of the Az PowerShell module.

Following our release cadence, this is the second breaking change release for 2021. Because this release includes updates related to security and the switch to MS Graph, we recommend that you review the release notes before upgrading.

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By: Damien Caro submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Discovering Aliases with the PowerShell AST (jdhitsolutions.com)
I've been working on a new PowerShell module that incorporates code from a few of my recent posts on

converting PowerShell scripts and functions to files. I even whipped up a script, think of it as a meta-script, to create the module using the commands that I am adding to the module.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Preview PowerShell Scripts In PowerShell (devblogs.microsoft.com)
When I use Windows Explorer and select a PowerShell script file - I do not see the script in the

preview window. Can I fix that?

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

To Rename a PowerShell Variable (tommymaynard.com)
I had one of those thoughts. you know, a dumb one. As dumb as it might be, it gave some brief

inspiration to try something new.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

What’s new in PowerShellGet v3? (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
In this post, we'll look at the newest version of PowerShellGet.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Whitelisting your Public IP with Azure Bicep and PowerShell – luke.geek.nz (luke.geek.nz)
Allowing and restricting Azure resources by being accessible by specific Public IP (Internet

Protocol) addresses has been around for years; most Azure resources support it, a Storage account is no different.

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By: Luke Murray submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Hey Windows Terminal fans! This month we are delivering a servicing release and the next feature

release is scheduled for January, so we figured we'd write a blog post discussing Windows Terminal as the default command line experience on Windows and what our future plans are.

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By: Windows Terminal Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Apache Log4j2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability – CVE-2021-44228 – ESA-2021-31 emergency patch script for Windows (gist.github.com)
I wrote this powershell script because the example command given only works on Linux.
By: Steve Donaghy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Teams Speed Dial Contacts Provisioning (alexholmeset.blog)
Have you ever thought that it might be handy to provision a curated speed dial list for your

end-users to get started with when they are onboarded to Microsoft Teams?

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By: Alexander Holmeset submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Detecting Log4J files (cyberdrain.com)
Hey all, so this is a pretty quick one, to add onto the already many scripts released for this. In

this script we're trying to get all the files that could suffer from the Log4J issue in CVE-2021-44228.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

powershell-notebooks (github.com)
.NET Interactive Notebooks for PowerShell
By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Toolbox (github.com)
Toolbox is a PowerShell based Windows Form tool developed using Sapien PowerShell Studio 5.8.196.

This repo contains the PowerShell Studio project files along with a PS1 export and a x86 and x64 compiled executable of the project.

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By: intrntpirate submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Best youtube series for learning Powershell (reddit.com)
A good list of great resources
By: u/ARASquad submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I just wanted to share my love for Powershell! (reddit.com)
Just an all around great read and thread
By: u/vksdann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Obfuscated Oneliner Rickroll (reddit.com)
Specific goal here was to make it look as malicious as humanly possible as a oneliner. The kind of

thing that makes people who can't decipher it run it in a VM with no network access.

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By: u/Danksley submitted:Jun 16 2022

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December 10, 2021

Announcements!

PowerShell Crescendo Release Candidate (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework to

rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Release (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: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

16 .NET Classes PowerShell Users Should Know (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
There are thousands of awesome cmdlets and modules but sometimes you just need to take advantage of

.NET directly when writing PowerShell scripts. This post includes 16 classes that are helpful to PowerShell scripters.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Exporting PowerShell Functions to Files (jdhitsolutions.com)
When I write a PowerShell module, it typically includes more than one export function. Where you

store your module functions is a great discussion topic and I don't think there is necessarily one best practice for everyone.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Finding duplicate SPN with PowerShell (evotec.xyz)
Duplicate SPNs aren't very common but can happen in any Active Directory as there's no built-in way

that tracks and prevent duplicate SPN's

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Finding PowerShell Last Logon by User Logon Event ID (adamtheautomator.com)
There are many fancy tools out there to monitor user login activity. What if I told you, you didn't

need to spend any money by building a PowerShell last logon and history script? You can find the last logon date and even the user logon event ID with the Windows event log and a little PowerShell!

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Viewing PowerShell Files in Preview within Windows Explorer (tfl09.blogspot.com)
Windows Explorer has a nice feature that shows the contents of a selected file. Click on a file and

in the right pane you can see the contents. This is a great feature, except it does not work for ALL filetypes out of the box. So would you wish to view a .PS1 file this way - you are out of luck. By default

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

What determines when you will use PowerShell to automate a process? (reddit.com)
A great discuss on r/PowerShell about when to automate.
By: r/PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview (evrone.com)
We had a great talk with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO for Modern Workforce

Transformation. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.

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By: Evrone submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

[FightingEntropy(?)] FEInfrastructure Preview/Demo (reddit.com)
FEInfrastructure is a part of the FightingEntropy module/modification for Windows PowerShell, that

has been many months in the making. Actually, if I'll be perfectly honest... it's truly been a lifetime in the making.

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By: Michael C. Cook Sr. submitted:Jun 16 2022

Extracting HTML table from a web page (or HTML file) and converting it into PowerShell object (doitpsway.com)
Several months ago I've created ConvertFrom-HTMLTable function for helping me extract HTML tables

from locally saved HTML files or live web pages and convert them into usable PowerShell objects. So it is not a new function but I think it deserves a standalone post because it can be quite handy.

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By: Ondrej Sebela submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get-IPGeolocation.psm1 (owenmurr.co.uk)
Sometimes in my day to day job I need a quick way of looking up IP information and wanting a quicker

method that doesn't mean I have to open up a web browser and visit a website, I wrote a small Powershell module to allow me to get the information.

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By: Owen Murr submitted:Jun 16 2022

hawk (github.com)
Powershell Based tool for gathering information related to O365 intrusions and potential Breaches
By: Paul Navarro submitted:Jun 16 2022

Update-AllPSModules (github.com)
This script will update all locally installed PowerShell modules to the latest version it can find

online. It will also attempt to update PackageManagement and PowerShellGet so that it can update to pre-release versions.

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By: Kieran Walsh submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Driving the Citrix Cloud REST API with PowerShell – UK CUGC Dec 2021 – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this session, CTP Guy Leech walks through how to authenticate to Citrix Cloud via OAuth, and how

to query and update CVAD configuration via the Citrix Cloud REST APIs using PowerShell, without the need for any Citrix PowerShell modules

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

POWERSHELL STRINGS [Highway to PowerShell – Ep 5] – YouTube (youtube.com)
This tutorial covers an introduction to using text in PowerShell. We take a look at how create

strings using different methods and how to combine text from variables and properties into strings. Learn string concatenation and formatting in PowerShell!

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By: Simon Automates submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 19, 2021

Announcements!

Happy 15th Birthday PowerShell! (twitter.com)
Can't believe it's been 15 years
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2022 Call for Presentors (papercall.io)
The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2022 will be returning to Bellevue, WA, to our new home at

the Downtown Marriott from 25-April to 28-April 2022. PowerShell and DevOps experts from all over the world including PowerShell team members will once again join together to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace in fast-paced, knowledge-packed presentations.

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By: PowerShell + DevOps Summit submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A Beginner’s Guide to Managing Files with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
If you're wondering how to use PowerShell to write a file, use PowerShell to output to a file, or

use PowerShell to check if a file exists, along with other file examples, stay tuned.

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By: John Case submitted:Jun 16 2022

A multi-stage PowerShell based attack targets Kazakhstan (blog.malwarebytes.com)
On November 10 we identified a multi-stage PowerShell attack using a document lure impersonating the

Kazakh Ministry of Health Care, leading us to believe it targets Kazakhstan.

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By: Malwarebytes Labs submitted:Jun 16 2022

Checking the Weather with PowerShell (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
In this post, we'll check the weather with PowerShell.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Embedding Q# in your favorite languages and platforms (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Calling Quantum Programs from Julia? Lua.? PowerShell.?
By: Chris Granade submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using Visual Studio 2022 Hot Reload for Developing Binary PowerShell Cmdlets (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
In this post, we'll look at how to use Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022 to develop binary PowerShell

cmdlets.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

What was the hardest thing in PowerShell for you to learn or understand? (twitter.com)
Or if your struggling to grasp a PowerShell concept right now, what is it?
By: Kevin Marquette submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Easy-GPU-P (github.com)
A Project dedicated to making GPU Partitioning on Windows easier!
By: James Stringer submitted:Jun 16 2022

FSharp for PowerShell (github.com)
This is a PowerShell module to enable use of the F# language in PowerShell. It is currently only

supported with Powershell 7.2+ at the moment.

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By: Justin Grote submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get-DSREGCMDStatus (powershellgallery.com)
Simple script to format DSREGCMD /Status output
By: Adam Gross submitted:Jun 16 2022

MarkdownRender 1.0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
Have you wanted ever wanted backward compat. with Windows PowerShell when trying to use

ConvertFrom-Markdown which was introduced with PowerShell 6.1?

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By: David Sass submitted:Jun 16 2022

ScriptBlockDisassembler (github.com)
Show a pseudo-C# representation of the code that the PowerShell compiler generates for a given

ScriptBlock.

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By: Patrick Meinecke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Test-TCPPort.ps1 (github.com)
Test one or more TCP ports against one or more hosts
By: krzydoug submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Configuration-as-Code for Microsoft 365 with Microsoft365DSC – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this 20-minute developer-focused demo, Nik Charlebois overviews Microsoft 365DCS (Desire State

Configuration) - a PowerShell Module that represents your entire Microsoft 365 tenant's configuration as code and allows DevOps to monitor and control configuration discrepancies.

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By: Nik Charlebois submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Invoke-MgExtendDeviceManagementDeviceConfigurationGroupAssignmentDeviceConfigurationMicrosoftGraphWindowUpdateForBusinessConfigurationFeatureUpdatePause (reddit.com)
Sorry, nothing serious I just looked at the longest cmdlet I could find and, 152 characters
By: u/Bugibugi submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Power Quiz: (twitter.com)
What is the output of: 1 -eq 2 -eq 2 -ne 2 Explain the working and why.
By: PowerShell Michael submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 12, 2021

Announcements!

General Availability of PowerShell 7.2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We're pleased to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.2!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Creating a PowerShell Clock (jdhitsolutions.com)
I've published a new project to the PowerShell Gallery. This is something that I needed, and maybe

you do as well. Even though I have the typical clock running in the Windows taskbar, I have an ultrawide monitor so it isn't always easy to read.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Endpoint Manager Packaging Script Pt.1 (nielskok.tech)
I created an Endpoint Manager Packaging Script which downloads the installer, packages it, uploads

it to Intune and assigns it. But first things first, credits to Nickolaj Andersen and his module who made it all possible.

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By: Niels Kok submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get a better Intune policy report part 3. (doitpsway.com)
By combining information from MDMDiagReport.xml and system registry
By: Ondrej Sebela submitted:Jun 16 2022

How do we create a temp file through powershell that last for one session and goes away? (reddit.com)
I m facing issue in finding logic to create a temp text that is created during a powershell session

and which gets automatically deleted after the powershell session ends. Any help is much much appreciated .Thank you

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By: r/PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Flags Need to Upgrade PowerShell Scripts to Use TLS 1.2 (office365itpros.com)
Failure Will Break Ability to Send Email via Exchange Online
By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell and Regex (Find, Replace, Occurrences.) (sid-500.com)
Want to get more out of PowerShell? Refine the search? Just get better? Then check out Regex. Regex

statements make things possible that seem impossible. In this blog post I show you a few Regex examples you can build on. Let's dive in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Search Everything with PowerShell (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
Everything is a Windows file system indexer that makes search very fast. This post uses the

PSEverything module to search Everything.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Mass Upgrade .doc .xls and .ppt files to their relative .x file format (reddit.com)
Posting here after helping someone from this subreddit, and hoping that this may help save others

some headaches as well. The below updates .doc to .docx .xls to .xlsx and .ppt to .pptx, optionally deletes the old files if you un-comment the remove-item lines

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By: u/oneAwfulScripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

WinOps (github.com)
PSModule For Windows/AD Administration
By: Evan Chisholm submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

My Hallway is Red During Teams Calls (brianbunke.com)
Why? So my family knows the answer before they walk down the hall and open the door.
By: Brian Bunke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upcoming Events

psconf.eu 2022: Call for Speakers (sessionize.com)
We would LOVE to have YOU here with us to share your knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
By: PowerShell Conference Europe 2022 submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 5, 2021

Announcements!

I almost fell off my chair logging on to Azure Automation this morning! (twitter.com)
PowerShell 7.1 support in preview!
By: Alexander Holmeset submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Did you know that you can use functions as values in a PowerShell hashtable? (twitter.com)
You can define the scriptblock as a reference to the keys of the hashtable, and then you can pass

arguments to it and evaluate it.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (devblogs.microsoft.com)
(and yes, it's as much fun as it sounds!) New and Improved!!
By: Dr Scripto submitted:Jun 16 2022

What have you done with PowerShell this month? (reddit.com)
Always some great PowerShell stuff
By: r/PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PowerShell Module Cache (github.com)
This action makes caching PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery easy for both Linux and

Windows runners. Basically, it builds all of the required input for actions/cache@v2.

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By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using LINQ in PowerShell with plinqo (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
LINQ is a set of methods that are useful in .NET for working with arrays of objects. Using LINQ is

difficult in PowerShell because it doesn't work well with generic methods. plinqo provides methods that accept script blocks so LINQ methods are easily accessible in PowerShell.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Good video courses for PowerShell (reddit.com)
Some really good links in this post.
By: r/PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Unplugged (mediusdownload.event.microsoft.com)
Best MS Ignite session
By: Jeffrey Snover & Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Friday Fun: PowerShell Console Editing (jdhitsolutions.com)
The other day I read an interesting article on Adam Bertram's blog about editing files with a text

editor in PowerShell. Naturally, the PowerShell wheels in my head began turning. While I was intrigued by some of the options in the article, I've in fact installed the Micro editor to play with, I realized I already had my favorite console text editor installed.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

The PowerShell After Party – YouTube (youtube.com)
Join us for the best After Party at Ignite 2021! We will host an Ask The Experts style session with

Jeffrey Snover, SydneySmith, Justin Grote, Jason Helmick, Jeff Hicks Mike Kanakos, Steve Lee, and Danny Maertens.

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By: Azure DevOps submitted:Jun 16 2022

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly? Do you know something that should be included? Let me know in the comments below, or on
twitter.

October 29, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.4 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the fourth preview of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework to rapidly

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: setting OneDrive ownership (cyberdrain.com)
So I've been hard at work on CIPP the last couple of weeks and because of that haven't had time to

blog really. The great thing is that all of the stuff I normally blog about is pretty easy to integrate into CIPP

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Creating an API to find an Azure resource abbreviation (4bes.nl)
I have created an API to find an Azure resource abbreviation. In most naming conventions I have seen

at companies, the resource type is mentioned in the name of the resource. To save space, an abbreviation is used.

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By: Barbara Forbes submitted:Jun 16 2022

For those that were asking about splatting in PowerShell (twitter.com)
recently (where you pass a hashtable containing the parameters rather than passing named parameters

(never use positional parameters!)), you can multi-splat if you need to as I do here

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Generate PowerShell Dynamic Parameter Code (jdhitsolutions.com)
One of the topics we've discussed in the PowerShell Cmdlet Working Group is a request to make it

easier to insert dynamic parameters.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Edit Files with a Real PowerShell Text Editor (adamtheautomator.com)
Did you run a script that read a text file and discover that the file had several wrong entries? A

PowerShell text editor may come in handy in such situations. You wouldn't need to fire up an external editor. Instead, you can edit the file without leaving PowerShell. How cool is that?

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By: Amanda Punch submitted:Jun 16 2022

Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools (flxsql.com)
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs

multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK for a while, but then everything broke.

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By: Andy Levy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Saving PowerPoint Deck as a PDF – with PowerShell 7 (tfl09.blogspot.com)
This week, I got into a twitter discussion about a presenter posting their slides for delegates. My

personal preference is to always share the slides. Often, especially when I was working for an employer, I'd share a PDF of the file rather than the slides. Some decks had had a LOT of effort put in (some by inhouse graphics guys) and giving those animations away was sub-optimal for IP reasons.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

$This is a PowerShell syntax\technique I was unaware of until today.$