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June 4, 2021

Announcements!

Call for Speakers (sessionize.com)
The Call for Presentations for the Automation + DevOps Summit 2021 is now OPEN! Proposals are due by

11:59 CDT Thursday, July 15th, 2021

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By: Automation + DevOps Summit submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automate and manage Azure AD tasks at scale with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
If you're using the Azure AD PowerShell or MSOnline PowerShell modules to manage Azure AD, we

encourage you to try the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK is where all our current and future investments are being made.

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By: Alex Simons submitted:Jun 16 2022

Import PFX Certificate and Configure Binding on Remote IIS Servers (geeklifenow.com)
A way to import a pfx certificate and set the HTTPS binding on a list of remote servers
By: Matthew Snyder submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Move-Item examples for file, folder management (searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com)
Moving files and folders with PowerShell requires some finesse for different situations.
By: Anthony Howell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Collection-of-Useful-Scripts (github.com)
This is a collection of useful scripts from various sources
By: Abhishek Sinha submitted:Jun 16 2022

UserRightsAssignment 1.0.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Analyze the effective User Rights Assignments on a computer and compare results
By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Debug PowerShell with and without VS Code – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this video I walk through how to debug PowerShell code using VS Code native features and the

native PowerShell debugger.

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 28, 2021

Announcements!

PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
This week at Microsoft's annual Build conference, we made two announcements related to Azure Durable

Functions: Two new backend storage providers, and the General Availability of Durable Functions for PowerShell. In this post, we'll go into more details about the new capabilities that Durable Functions brings to PowerShell developers.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.2.0-preview.6 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
PowerShell 7.2-preview.6 is out! Thanks to all the community contributors (see changelog for

details!)

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

SecretManagement Module v1.1.0 preview update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The next 1.1.0 version of SecretManagement has a number of minor fixes, but also two significant

changes, one of which is a potentially breaking change for extension authors. For more information on the changes in this release, see the CHANGELOG document. This blog discusses the primary changes, why one is potentially breaking, and is especially relevant for extension vault owners who may want to test their vault and make any changes while these updates are in a preview state.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.9 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Happy Microsoft Build 2021 and happy 2nd birthday to Windows Terminal! This release introduces

version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8. As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from the GitHub releases page. Let's get into what's new!

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By: Windows Terminal Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Invoke-Command: Compensating for slow responding computers (4sysops.com)
Sometimes, running remote code with the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-Command can take a long time to

run-and not for any reason having to do with your code itself. Connecting to older computers means that long bits of code take longer to run. Computers on the other side of slow WAN links will always be slower in responding than something close and well connected.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Most Useful PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage Exchange Online Mailboxes (o365reports.com)
Most admins prefer PowerShell over Microsoft 365 admin center to manage, report, audit, and analyze

their Exchange Online Environment. So, I have listed the top 15 useful PowerShell cmdlets for admins to manage their Exchange mailboxes efficiently.

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By: O365Reports.com submitted:Jun 16 2022

Understanding PowerShell’s Execution_Policy and Scope functionality – Part 1 (alanbonnici.com)
Windows started life as a text-based OS that had graphical elements bundled on top. Today most of

the interaction with the OS is done through the graphical interface although the underlying text-based interface still exists and is important to reach certain nooks and crannies that are not exposed graphically.

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By: chribonn submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Poshover (github.com)
A PowerShell module for sending notifications / messages using the Pushover API
By: Josh Hendricks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Top 5 Useful PowerShell Commands – YouTube (youtube.com)
If you're a PowerShell user, then you likely have a handful of commands you use on a regular basis.

Among the hundreds of cmdlets, there are likely a few useful ones that you're unaware of. Join Mike in this video as he shares his top 5 PowerShell commands!

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By: ITProTV submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

I like making dumb little games in PowerShell. (reddit.com)
My latest is Hangman. Clues sourced from Wheel of Fortune.
By: u/premtech submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 21, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PlatyPS 2.0.0-Preview1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
PowerShell external help files have been authored by hand or using complex tool chains and stored as

MAML XML for use as console help. MAML is cumbersome to edit by hand, and common tools and editors don't support it for complex scenarios like they do with markdown. Markdown is adopted widely by Open Source, supported by many editors including Visual Studio Code, and with minimal rules, easier to author. PlatyPS is provided as a solution to allow documenting PowerShell help in any editor or tool that supports markdown.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Announcing PSDesiredStateConfiguration on PowerShell Gallery (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Continuing our investment in DSC, we are pleased to announce the release of

PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in preparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new capabilities, but also some breaking changes.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How To Setup A Github Actions Pipeline For Publishing Your PowerShell Module (scriptingchris.tech)
In this post, I will walk through how I set up a Github Actions Workflow Pipeline for publishing a

PowerShell module to the PowerShell Gallery.

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By: Christian Hoejsager submitted:Jun 16 2022

Invoke-Command: Connecting to computers requiring different credentials (4sysops.com)
Connecting to computers that require different credentials via the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-Command

is a common occurrence. This post explains how you manage these situations.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Launch PowerShell Script From Within KeePass And Include Password Secure String Credential (sans.org)
You want to 1) launch PowerShell.exe using the KeePass password manager by double-clicking an entry

in KeePass, perhaps to run a script, 2) inject a password stored in KeePass into that PowerShell.exe process as a variable, such as for a secure string or a PSCredential object, but 3) you cannot expose the password as a command-line argument or other plaintext channel when launching PowerShell.exe because it could be logged or captured. This article will show you how to do it.

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By: Jason Fossen submitted:Jun 16 2022

Managing the Windows 10 Taskbar with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
When I'm working on a Pluralsight course, I tend to setup a virtual machine for recording. Although,

lately I've been trying with Windows 10 Sandbox. This is handy when all I need is a Windows 10 desktop. When I setup the system, I have particular settings I need to configure. Naturally I use a PowerShell script to automate the process. One item that I wanted to address was Windows 10 taskbar. When I'm recording a course, I like to have it auto-hide. Sure, I could manually set it. But that's no fun.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Moving SQL Server System Databases With PowerShell (onsb.co)
One task that I was frequently finding myself spending more time than necessary with was building

out SQL Servers. The chief time consuming task being when I'd have to move the SQL Server's default System Database and Log Files to new, dedicated database and log volumes.

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By: Dane submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pester 5 and Group-Object – Best Friends (nocolumnname.blog)
Figuring out how to group the output of your Pester tests
By: Shane O'Neill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Azure Sentinel PowerShell Notebook DNS Enrichment example (nbviewer.jupyter.org)
A lot more work to do but some start on Azure Sentinel PowerShell Notebook DNS Enrichment example
By: Nathan Swift submitted:Jun 16 2022

CSIRT-Collect (github.com)
PowerShell script to collect memory and (triage) disk forensics
By: Doug Metz submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Network Troubleshooting with PowerShell – YouTube (youtube.com)
PowerShell vs CMD for network troubleshooting
By: PowerShell Breakdown submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Get-AsciiDice.ps1 (github.com)
Easily create ascii are dice for your powershell games. You can roll them at random, or from a

number set. You can change the colors too. Limited to numbers 1-6 and a total of 10 die.

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By: smithcbp submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 14, 2021

Announcements!

Microsoft Stops Set-User Updating Phone Numbers for Azure AD Accounts (office365itpros.com)
Without any warning, Microsoft seems to have introduced a restriction to the Set-User cmdlet in the

Exchange Online management PowerShell module. The change happens when you connect a new PowerShell session to Exchange Online and the cmdlets are downloaded into a session.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Block or unblock keyboard combinations on your devices with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you how to prevent some keyboard combinations on your devices with

PowerShell.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting Remote Access (cyberdrain.com)
A friend of mine recently requested if it would be possible to document some of the types of remote

access tools that are installed on a computer, and list the possible access URLs; that way he could easily document which access methods are open and audit them once in a while to see if he...

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use PowerShell To Scan Windows 10 for Virus & Malware (techviral.net)
Windows 10 is indeed a great operating system that's powering most PCs and laptops. Windows 10

offers you more features and options than every other desktop operating system. Microsoft also provides users a free antivirus tool known as Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

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By: Amarnath Chakraborty submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Tough Love (jdhitsolutions.com)
Do you know you need to start using VSCode instead of the ISE but can't break the habit? See if this

helps?

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upload Files to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate Desktop (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
In this blog post, we are going to have a look at how you can automatically upload files to an Azure

Blob storage account using Power Automate Desktop. Power Automate Desktop is a great tool to build automation on your desktop. You can create flows,?interact with everyday tools such as email and excel and work with modern and legacy applications.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Copy-MSTeamsTeam (github.com)
While Microsoft provides avenues to easily clone a Team whether using the Teams client or Graph

API's clone URL. The cloning isn't as robust as it could be, both avenues miss key components that an administrator may want to clone, like but not limited to private channels. This script not only copies the group's public channels, but its private channels, and private channel members including their correct roles. It's also been my experience while the Teams client will copy guest Teams members, using clone from the Graph API doesn't. This script, however, will.

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By: thetolkienblackguy submitted:Jun 16 2022

Show file download time & rate (pastebin.com)
How long did it take (roughly) to download that file and what was the average download speed?

Assuming file not modified since download, here's PowerShell to do it

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure Functions University – HTTP Lesson (PowerShell) – YouTube (youtube.com)
Hi serverless friends! We have a new video for Azure Functions University ????? where @Ba4bes shows

how to create HTTP triggered functions written in PowerShell!

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Tech in 5 minutes: M365 Universal Print (cyberdrain.com)
In about 5 minutes, I'll walk you through what Universal Print is, what is isn't, and how to deploy

a shared printer via Universal Print

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 7, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are pleased to announce the second 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

Az 5.9 is out! (docs.microsoft.com)
Checkout the new features of Az.AKS - attach / detach an Azure Container Registry (ACR) to an Azure

Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) and reset the service principal of an existing AKS cluster !

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By: Azure PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pester 5.2.0 is out (github.com)
Code coverage works, including report! And more
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Deploying Temporary Access passwords (cyberdrain.com)
So last time I spoke about Passwordless but skimped over the new feature TAP. TAP stands for

Temporary Access Password and TAP is actually pretty cool, especially for MSPs deploying loads of devices. The TAP is a generated password th at has a maximum amount of uses...

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

From PowerShell to Payload: An Analysis of Weaponized Malware (huntress.com)
Click, boom, and your network is compromised. All a hacker needs is one successful exploit and you

could have a very bad day. Recently, we uncovered one artifact that we would like to break down and showcase. We will get "into the wee ds" here and really deep-dive on the technical details, so put on your ear protection and let's walk down range...

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By: John Hammond submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use PowerShell to Remove OneDrive Files Found by a Content Search (practical365.com)
Recently, while working on some Content Searches, a question came up on how to perform selective

deletion of OneDrive documents found in the searches. While you can remove email using a content search action, Office 365 doesn't includ e a method to cleanup OneDrive documents found by content searches....

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By: Damian Scoles submitted:Jun 16 2022

Run PowerShell scripts or commands to your Azure Windows VM from Cloud Shell (markou.me)
I am pretty sure that you have already have found out that you can run PowerShell scripts or

Commands within your VMs using the Azure Portal or the Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI modules....

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By: George Markou submitted:Jun 16 2022

Send a mail using the current outlook user account without to provide credentials with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you how to send a mail using the current outlook user account without to

provide credentials....

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using the new PowerShell profiler to profile `Export-Excel` (twitter.com)
Using the new PowerShell profiler to profile `Export-Excel` and then use `Export-Excel` to export

the trace, and apply a data bar

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Make your code faster with Profiler (powershellmagazine.com)
Making PowerShell code faster has always been a difficult task. There are few DOs and DON'Ts of

writing fast PowerShell code, but until now there was not a good way to measure what is actually happening. This changes with my new Profiler module....

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By: Jakub Jares submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Releases V2.3.0 of the Teams PowerShell Module (office365itpros.com)
On April 30, 2021, Microsoft published V2.3.0 of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module in the

PowerShell Gallery. Welcome as any update is, the publication was unaccompanied by any announcement or notification, and Microsoft didn't up date the release notes for the module until late on May 3. Even with the release notes, we don't know exactly what V2.3.0 contains, so it's time for inspired interpre...

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

Pglet (pglet.io)
Web app to run PowerShell commands on a computer from anywhere
By: Feodor Fitsner submitted:Jun 16 2022

TlsConfig (github.com)
Imagine how great it would be if all you had to do to get secure TLS settings on your box were

running: Set-TlsConfiguration -EnableSecure -DisableInsecure Fortunately it IS that simple with the new PowerShell module TlsConfig

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automating SSLabs testing using PowerShell – YouTube (youtube.com)
Clem Messerli demos a script he wrote to automate the testing of a website SSL settings. The script

leverages the SSLabs API to test websites from the command line. Clem walks through why he is using the various settings that he added to his script. This is an excellent example of how API's can be leveraged to automate a task and query for certain suspect security settings.

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By: Clem Messerli submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Counting Down Events with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
We just finished a very successful virtual edition of the PowerShell+DevOps Global Summit. We lost

our 2020 event to the pandemic but fortunately, the people at The DevOps Collective were able to pull together a fantastic virtual even t. There were as many virtual attendees as we normally have at the in person event. But of course, we are all looking forward to next year when we can gather again in...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun with PSWordCloud (twitter.com)
Fun PowerShell things I made that bring me simple joys
By: Joe Sallow submitted:Jun 16 2022

Happy Birthday Song (reddit.com)
With Beep Tones in PowerShell Script (My Cake day)
By: u/hackoofr submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 30, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Az Next – AI-powered interactive assistant Azure CLI (thomasmaurer.ch)
As you know, the Azure CLI already AI-build in with the az find command, and you might have seen a

great feature like AI-powered PowerShell module called Az Predictor Module (Azure PowerShell Predictions), which does what the name says, predict PowerShell commands. Now with az next, the team also brought a similar feature to the Azure CLI. The team's goal with az next is to guide users through their scenarios or sequence of jobs-to-be-done in tool, so that they could remain focused and avoid unnecessary external documentation searches.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Find cmdlets with -ComputerName parameter (twitter.com)
Today my granddaughter asked me what PowerShell cmdlets take a -ComputerName parameter so can be

self-remoted so I gave her this:

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Quickly Initializing Multiple PowerShell Consoles (community.idera.com)
Let's say you are admin in many areas, i.e. Azure, SharePoint, SQL, Microsoft 365, you name it. For

each environment, you may need to run some prerequisites, log onto some systems, and run some commands until your PowerShell environment is ready for action.

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Run multiple scripts in-process (twitter.com)
Here is some code I sent someone showing them how to run multiple scripts in-process without having

them interfere with one another. SOOO powerful. SOOO cool! I freaking love PowerShell!

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By: Jeffrey Snover submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

5 PowerShell Gallery modules for Windows Server Administration (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
PowerShell Gallery contains lots of modules that you can add to a Windows Server deployment to make

it easier to manage. In this article, I'll cover a few of the ones I've found most useful over the years when it comes to managing Windows Server.

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By: Orin Thomas submitted:Jun 16 2022

ConvertOneNote2MarkDown (github.com)
Ready to make the step to Markdown and saying farewell to your OneNote, EverNote or whatever

proprietary note taking tool you are using? Nothing beats clear text, right? Read on!

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By: David das Neves submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get-RegKeyInfo.ps1 (gist.github.com)
TIL about volatile registry keys which exist in memory and are deleted when the hive is unloaded,

e.g. on a reboot. There's no documented way to determine if a key is volatile so I wrote a PowerShell function that uses the undocumented way

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By: Jordan Borean submitted:Jun 16 2022

Profiler: Script, ScriptBlock and module performance profiler for PowerShell (github.com)
It can profile performance of modules, scripts, and scriptblocks. And compare them before and after

your changes. More features are coming.

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By: nohwnd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Getting started and Learn PowerShell on Microsoft Learn! (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
I remember running my first commands and building my first automation using Windows PowerShell back

in 2006. Since then, PowerShell became one of my daily tools to build, deploy, manage IT environments. With the release of PowerShell version 6 and now PowerShell 7, PowerShell became cross-platform. This means you can now use it on even more systems like Linux and macOS. With PowerShell becoming more and more powerful (you see what I did there ;)), more people are asking me how they can get started and learn PowerShell. Luckily we just released 5 new modules on Microsoft Learn for PowerShell.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

New PowerShell Secrets Management Module – YouTube (youtube.com)
In this video I explore a solution to the problem of handling secrets in scripts and having to use

secret implementation specific code. The new Secrets Management module solves this.

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Let’s Play a PowerShell Game (ironscripter.us)
The 2021 edition of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is here. Sadly, due to the state of the

world, this year's event will be virtual. And sad only in the sense that we can't come together and celebrate the community. This year's virtual even will have the same terrific content. However, there won't be the traditional Iron Scripter event. Instead The Chairman offers this challenge to test your PowerShell skills.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 23, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Better Event Logs with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
Because I don't work in a corporate environment, I don't always see opportunities where PowerShell

can make your life better as an IT professional. I have a friend - let's call her Gladys Kravitz. Gladys and I were chatting and she mentioned how tricky it is to pull information out of Windows event logs. If I recall, she was looking at 4625 events in the Security log which represents failed logon attempts.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Finding System Paths (community.idera.com)
Occasionally, your script needs to know the path to the users' desktop, or to the start menu, etc.

These paths can vary, especially when users use OneDrive. To find the current system path, use this line:

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Tracking Down Potential Security Breaches with the Windows Event Log and PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Many organizations rely on Microsoft technologies to get work done. At the same time, threat actors

can exploit operating systems like Windows. Luckily, Windows logs OS security events to help you track down this behavior.

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By: Justin Sylvester submitted:Jun 16 2022

Why is += so frowned upon? (reddit.com)
DustinDortch on Reddit gives a great answer to this question.
By: u/DustinDortch submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Check website stock with chrome driver and alert user via telegram (github.com)
For anyone else out there who is trying to buy a GPU.
By: Splinx submitted:Jun 16 2022

Clean-ADInactiveDevice (github.com)
Just released an AD inactive devices cleanup PowerShell script. It can disable and move computer

objects. Also it logs in EventLog and as a file on disk in csv format.

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By: Ioan Popovici submitted:Jun 16 2022

Rotten-Scripts (github.com)
Rotten Scripts contains amazing and awesome scripts written in Python, JavaScript, Bash, Powershell,

and more. Consider this repository as your personal space to find or add any new script that can make life easier for us and the Open Source community too, as a Developer, and find a utility of coding to burst out of boredom. Get started with coding exhilarating scripts that you can use to download PDFs from an Online Source or just to randomly like everyone's Instagram Post.

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By: Harsh Mishra submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Tech in 5 minutes: Azure Functions (cyberdrain.com)
Tech in 5 minutes is a new video series to help managed services providers, or technology

specialists get small digestible bites about new technologies, complex scripts, and solutions you could be implementing in your MSP today. I'm fairly anti-tool culture where MSPs get a different tool for each minor inconvenience and focus just on that tool, so I'll be focussed on modern technologies in the Microsoft stack, but also will cover other external tools if they make a big enough difference.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

“Your stupid PowerShell script is broken.” : PowerShell (reddit.com)
A fun little story and a good reminder on why logging is so important.
By: u/BaDumDumTish submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 16, 2021

Announcements!

New features added in the Azure Container Registry PowerShell module (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
While Azure Container Registry (ACR) is prevalent as an Azure service, the corresponding

Az.ContainerRegistry Azure PowerShell module wasn't fully featured. Sometimes, PowerShell users had to take advantage of the Az CLI. We want to allow PowerShell user to be able to fully manage container images. Starting with Az.ContainerRegistry version 2.2.1, we will gradually be rolling out new cmdlets and new parameters. In this release, you can now fully manage (Get-, Remove-, Update-) repositories, manifests, and tags with increased performance.

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By: Yabo Hu submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.8 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Welcome back to another release of Windows Terminal! This release updates Windows Terminal Preview

to version 1.8 and moves Windows Terminal to version 1.7. Both builds can be installed from the Microsoft Store as well as the GitHub releases page. Let's jump into what's new!

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Deploying Unifi DHCP Option (cyberdrain.com)
Last week one of my friends was working on deploying DHCP options to automatically adopt devices

inside networks managed by a Windows DHCP server. The process is pr etty straight forward - Add a vendor class, add the option, and set it to the correct IP address. Unfortunately, that of course means a lot of clicking in the DHCP console on each Windows Server he manages....

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

AWS S3 server side encryption using PowerShell (yobyot.com)
Recently, a client asked me to develop standards for them for AWS S3. They are primarily an Azure

shop but, like most enterprises these days, they have some apps and business units which use AWS. As I documented what I already knew and researched what I didn't, I was (once again) blown away by the capabilities of this massive cloud-scale network file system....

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 16 2022

Building a PowerShell Process Detection Tool (jdhitsolutions.com)
I spend my entire working day in a PowerShell prompt. It is often a combination of Windows

PowerShell and PowerShell 7. Sometimes I'm in a session with a loaded profile, sometimes not. Sometimes I have a PowerShell 7 Preview session running. And then there are the scheduled jobs which also run PowerShell. Over the years, I've written a number of variations of a PowerShell script or function to discover all of the running PowerShell sessions on my computer. But I think I have finally written the final version of a PowerShell process detection tool.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Import and Export Hyper-V VMs with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Do you need to export a Hyper-V virtual machine and transfer it from one host to another? How about

export a VM from your development workstation to a Hyper-V host in production? If so, you've come to the right place!...

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By: Bill Kindle submitted:Jun 16 2022

Leveraging PowerShell SecretManagement to generalize a demo environment (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
I've been working with some colleagues on a shared demo environment, and one issue came up during a

session with customers that highlighted a problem. If any of us change the local admin password of the servers or redeploys the environment with a password of their own. We no longer can access it without contacting the group and request the new password....

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By: Pierre Roman submitted:Jun 16 2022

OneDrive and PowerShell: Get size and size on disk (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you a quick script allowing you to display OneDrive size, and onedrive size

on disk.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

What do you guys do to setup Visual Studio Code for PowerShell? (reddit.com)
A cool discussion on Reddit of how others are setting up VS Code.
By: r/PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

discordrpc: Discord Rich Presence Client (github.com)
In celebration of the rumored talks about Microsoft buying Discord, I made a Discord Rich Presence

Client for PowerShell!

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By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remove all Expired Certs on a Windows Machine (gist.github.com)
A script to remove all expired certs from a Windows machine.
By: tg12 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Roles 1.0.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Allows flexibly granting permissions on code blocks or individual resources. Intended for Just

Enough Administration scenarios.

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Windows PowerShell Remoting Fundamentals (Free this month!) (pluralsight.com)
Learn to use PowerShell remoting to simplify day-to-day Windows administration.
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Generating random Marvel names for your Azure resources (wesleyhaakman.org)
Sometimes you just need to redeploy a lot of resources for testing because you're building something

for a customer. For me these scenario's always go into scripting or templates. That means for every change I want to be redeploy the environment and see if everything is still working. For that I need random names. You could pick a name, add a number and up the number for every new deployment but, where's the fun in that?

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By: Wesley Haakman submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 9, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

CI CD for PowerShell scripts in Active Directory environments (reddit.com)
For anyone who is looking for simple solution to:
By: u/Federal_Ad2455 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Control Split-Panes in Windows Terminal through PowerShell (powershellone.wordpress.com)
In this post, I would like to introduce a PowerShell function to create new split-panes for the

Windows Terminal. One of the many great features of the Windows Terminal is the ability to split a window into panes:

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By: Dirk submitted:Jun 16 2022

From PowerShell to Payload: An Analysis of Weaponized Malware | Threatpost (threatpost.com)
John Hammond, security researcher with Huntress, takes a deep-dive into a stager's technical and

coding aspects.

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By: John Hammond submitted:Jun 16 2022

ISE should not switch focus automatically to the console pane (windowsserver.uservoice.com)
Glad to know I'm not the only one annoyed by this.
By: User Voice submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring MFA Usage (cyberdrain.com)
So I've blogged about this before too, but times change and monitoring MFA usage is becoming a

little more difficult . Microsoft allows per-user MFA, Security Defaults, and Conditional Access all to be used concurrently. I've created this monitoring script that returns which users seem to fall out of any Multi-factor authentication scope, and also reports what type of authentication is currently active on the tenant. Using the normal PowerShell methods you can only find if a user has per-user MFA enabled, if a user uses Conditional Access or Security Defaults it shows the per-user MFA state as disabled, which is a little annoying.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

My Azure AD has been breached! What now? (danielchronlund.com)
In the cloud, we are all under attack, every day, every minute! In the spirit of zero trust we

should always assume breach. The attack will come and it can strike from any direction - the Internet, on-prem, BYOD, etc. The first thing an organisation experiences after the fact is often confusion, fear, and panic. Not the best mix of feelings to have while trying to sort things out! Most organisations don't have a clear plan of what to do next.

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By: Daniel Chronlund submitted:Jun 16 2022

Transforming PowerShell experience with PSReadLine (YouTube) (youtube.com)
In this video I introduce PSReadLine as a way to transform your day-to-day PowerShell experience!
By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Create a secure GitHub webhook to trigger an Azure PowerShell Function (4bes.nl)
For this post, I want to look at the connection you can make between GitHub and Azure Functions. I

have written an extensive blog post about this subject before, which I encourage you to read if you have never created this connection before. I want to focus on how you can create a secure GitHub webhook to trigger an Azure PowerShell Function. We will make use of a secret that we will store in Azure Key vault.

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Visualize and Document Azure Infrastructure with PowerShell (ridicurious.com)
A PowerShell module to automatically generate Azure resource topology diagrams or rich

infrastructure visualizations by just typing a PowerShell cmdlet and passing the name of one or more Azure Resource Groups.

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By: Prateek Singh submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Infrastructure Testing with Pester (Pluralsight) (pluralsight.com)
Are you sure that script you ran on all of your servers actually did what you intended? Be sure in

the PluralSight course, Infrastructure Testing with Pester, where Adam covers how to use Pester and PowerShell to create in-depth infrastructure tests.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 2, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing the preview of PSArm (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today, we are pleased to announce the first preview of a new experimental module that make it easier

than ever for PowerShell customers to create Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates: PSArm.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

6 Ways to Copy Files to Remote Hosts with Ansible (Step by Step) (adamtheautomator.com)
In Ansible, copying files is a common task most users perform every day. The Ansible copy module is

a familiar way to copy files and copy directories with Ansible, but it's definitely not the only way. Are you picking the right method?

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By: Jason Hiatt submitted:Jun 16 2022

Add Developer PowerShell and Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Windows Terminal is great, I use it for all my command line work. It automatically detects new

shells that are installed on your system, like the shell for Ubuntu or PowerShell Core 7. Unfortunately, it doesn't detect the Developer Command Prompt and Developer PowerShell for Visual Studio. Luckily, you can add them yourself!

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By: Yannick Reekmans submitted:Jun 16 2022

An alternative progress cmdlet based on cli-spinners – Tech thoughts (powershellone.wordpress.com)
In this post, I would like to share the steps to build a fun project implementing a console-based

progress-spinner that runs in a separate thread while executing arbitrary code in the main thread. The code I'm sharing is compatible with WindowsPowerShell 5.1 and works best when executed within Windows Terminal rather than the PowerShell console window. To keep the cursor in the same position, while writing the progress, we will make use of ANSI-Escape sequences.

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By: Dirk submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Get-LastLogon (reddit.com)
Get accurate last logon time for user
By: u/krzydoug submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure Resource Graph Deep Dive (YouTube) (youtube.com)
In this video I dive into Azure Resource Graph. How to use it, what it can do with lots of examples

along the way. See how to use the resource graph to efficiently get information about your resources in Azure.

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

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