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July 2, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

General Guidance on Conversion to C# Cmdlets (github.com)
A great discussion on converting script modules into C# cmdlet modules.
By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to download and install offline Windows updates with PowerShell (ryanjan.uk)
Automating Windows Update Services can be a pain! It's often easier to install an offline Windows

update with PowerShell, but where can you download offline update files? Thankfully, the Microsoft Update Catalog site provides offline .msu files for all updates that are released. And, using the MSCatalog module, it's a breeze to download and install these offline updates using PowerShell.

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By: Ryan Kowalewski submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring Azure App Proxies (cyberdrain.com)
Sometime back I made a youtube video about how to use Azure App Proxy. This was received really good

in a lot of the communities I frequent but a worry popped up by someone recently; how am I sure that the Azure Application Proxy is always completely functional at my clients? You can monitor the service of course, but that does not mean that the entire connection to Azure is functional.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

ConvertFrom-JsonFast (github.com)
A faster and more memory efficient implementation of ConvertFrom-Json and Invoke-RestMethod
By: William Easton submitted:Jun 16 2022

Install-NewRDCMan.ps1 (github.com)
Install the new Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) with PowerShell
By: Martin Bengtsson submitted:Jun 16 2022

StopAndDisableDefaultSpoolers.ps1 (github.com)
This script STOP and DISABLES Print Spooler service (aka #PrintNightmare) on each server from a list
By: Grzegorz Tworek submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Master Class – YouTube (youtube.com)
Zero adverts or interruptions, just info to help you learn this awesome technology.
By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

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June 25, 2021

Announcements!

Practical Automation with PowerShell (manning.com)
I am proud to announce my book is now available for early access. Learn how to design PowerShell

automations to be reusable, resilient, and flexible enough to handle any unforeseen complexities. Save 50% by using the code 'mldowst'

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By: Matthew Dowst submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: Deploying Microsoft Teams Templates (cyberdrain.com)
ne of the biggest challenges we've faced when moving over our client base towards a cloud-only

infrastructure has been the development of Teams. Teams is amazing tool on it's own but there is a risk regarding governance and training, but also explosive growth of teams and the way these are implemented. Especially because Teams makes self-services super easy.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Azure PowerShell – Knowing the basics and starting with few important CMDLETS (knowledge-junction.com)
On every weekend we are started sharing basic question and answers (may help to prepare interview ,

certifications, migration, help to understand basic concepts.) related to Microsoft cloud technologies (Azure, Azure AD, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Teams, Power Platform and so on)

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By: Prasham SaBbdra submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to run ESXCLI commands in PowerShell using the PowerCLI Get-EsxCli cmdlet (ryanjan.uk)
If you're a vSphere admin, you'll be very familiar with the esxcli command. But have you ever

wondered how to run esxcli commands from PowerCLI? Maybe you don't want to enable SSH on your hosts, or perhaps you need to run an esxcli command in a PowerShell script. The Get-EsxCli cmdlet from the VMware.PowerCLI PowerShell module is the answer!

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By: Ryan Kowalewski submitted:Jun 16 2022

Manipulating Strings with Trim, TrimStart and TrimEnd (sid-500.com)
In PowerShell it's easy to manipulate strings, especially to cut off some characters from a string.

These three methods are your friends when it comes to trimming: Trim, TrimStart and TrimEnd. In this blog post I will show you how to use PowerShell to manipulate strings and cut off something at the beginning and at the end. I will also try to give you some useful practical examples in hand to convince you that it's worth to learn something about string manipulation. Let's hop in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Sorting Tricks (Part 1) (community.idera.com)
A lesser-known fact is that Sort-Object also accepts hash tables which gives you more control. For

example...

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using the PSGSuite Module for G Suite (powershell.anovelidea.org)
Examples on how to create OUs, groups, and users with the PSGSuite PowerShell Module.
By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

And so it begins… (github.com)
Useful-Windows-11-Scripts/Set-TaskbarAlignment.ps1
By: u/ixi_your_face submitted:Jun 16 2022

Create a Sharepoint Document Library from PowerShell (community.spiceworks.com)
Quick script to stand up a new SPO site and use the document library template.
By: Gregory for Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Delete Device Records in AD / AAD / Intune / Autopilot / ConfigMgr with PowerShell smsagent (smsagent.blog)
I've done a lot of testing with Windows Autopilot in recent times. Most of my tests are done in

virtual machines, which are ideal as I can simply dispose of them after. But you also need to cleanup the device records that were created in Azure Active Directory, Intune, the Autopilot registration service, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (if you're using it) and Active Directory in the case of Hybrid-joined devices.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Jun 16 2022

PSano: A powershell text editor (reddit.com)
PSano is a Text editor written in Powershell. So no external c# libraries or binaries needed to be

able to interactively edit text. And I don't just mean text files on your computer. Function definitions and variables1 can be edited in memory. It also supports editing text files over a PS Session, so you can edit text without access to the admin share or installing a editor on the remote computer.

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By: u/purplemonkeymad submitted:Jun 16 2022

SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
I've just published v1.1.4 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module to both GitHub and the

PowerShell Gallery. Release 1.1.4 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module is the result of considerable effort by myself and Sean McGovern. Release 1.1.4's numerous updates comprise changes to cmdlets to account for changes to IdentityNow API authentication, four new cmdlets, cmdlet updates for API changes, bug-fixes and documentation updates..

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Scripting the Ubiquitous Object-Based Shell (amazon.com)
How do you use PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web

page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system administrators will find more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts they can copy and use immediately.

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By: Lee Holmes submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell for Beginners: Learn PowerShell 7 Through Hands-On Mini Games (amazon.co.uk)
Learn the basic tools and commands to write scripts in PowerShell 7. This hands-on guide is designed

to get you up and running on PowerShell quickly - introducing interactive menus, reading and writing files, and creating code that talks over the network to other scripts, with mini games to facilitate learning.

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By: Ian Waters submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Remember to triple check your scripts before using in prod (reddit.com)
A simple yet effective reminder from this Reddit user.
By: u/the_star_lord submitted:Jun 16 2022

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June 18, 2021

Announcements!

BluebirdPS v0.6.1 Released (powershellgallery.com)
New version released this week, with multiple updates and fixes.
By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Preview updating PowerShell 7.2 with Microsoft Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today, we're happy to announce that we're taking the first steps to making PowerShell 7 easier than

ever to update on Windows 10 and Server.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Create advanced dynamic groups with PowerShell & Azure Functions (powers-hell.com)
Creating advanced dynamic groups for MS Intune with PowerShell and Azure Functions
By: Ben Reader submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fully automated RDP connection using LAPS password and PowerShell (doitpsway.com)
In this article, I will show you, how to automate using of LAPS password for making RDP connection,

so it will be a matter of calling one PowerShell function

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By: Ondrej Sebela submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Defender PowerShell module and Nagios (scriptinglibrary.com)
Microsoft Defender antivirus is included in every Windows OS and there are many components and

options available to manage, protect and monitor endpoints. I was not surprised a few months ago when I needed to implement a monitoring check for Nagios that there was a dedicated PowerShell module that did exactly what I needed.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Predict when disk is full (cyberdrain.com)
I've always liked predictive monitoring as it allows you to be as proactive as you can be - making

small analysis on stuff like disk space can make a huge difference in how you respond to incidents but I rarely see this integrated into RMM systems - Often there are some reports on which you could extrapolate this data manually but that means you'll only do it on demand and it will require your time.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

ps-documentor: Automatic PowerShell Function Documenting (github.com)
This Script can be used to document all Custom PowerShell Functions inside of a Script or a Script

Directory. I just created this script and I am testing it to multiple use cases. This whole project could be a PowerShell module in the future.

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By: Ismael Wismann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Teams Meeting Tenant To Tenant Migration (alexholmeset.blog)
I have seen and done several tenant to tenant migrations lately. You can migrate both Exchange and

Teams. But there's one problem, when you migrate a Teams meeting event from Exchange to a new tenant, the URLs and other information still points to the old tenant. If you then disable all the users in the old tenant, those meetings would be useless even if guests are auto accepted to join, as they would not exist anymore. There would be various other problems also trying to join a meeting in the old tenant.

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By: Alexander Holmeset submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Intune Backup & Restore (github.com)
Back up all of your Intune configuration to JSON files.
By: John Seerden submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Snippets Vol 4 (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
Welcome to my PowerShell Snippets Vol 4. A collection of PowerShell commands for tasks that I don't

perform often and can't recall easily from memory. Those 'I know I've worked this out before' type moments.

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remove old PowerShell modules versions using PowerShell (luke.geek.nz)
Did you know, that if you update PowerShell modules, the old versions can sometimes get left behind?
By: Luke Murray submitted:Jun 16 2022

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June 11, 2021

Announcements!

Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement 1.1.0-preview2 (powershellgallery.com)
SecretManagement 1.1-preview2 is out! A stable 1.1 release is expected in a few weeks if there are

no major issues reported.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

6 steps to pimp my terminal (dev.to)
My current setup is mixed of tools from following list:
By: Piotr Stapp submitted:Jun 16 2022

How anyone can contribute to the MS Docs website! – YouTube (youtube.com)
docs.microsoft.com is the home for Microsoft documentation. It is a valuable resource for IT pros to

learn how various Microsoft services and products work. What may not be well-known is that the docs website is open source! Anyone can contribute, edit, change, add to the documentation available. The question is how to does someone make a change and what happens after they submit a change?

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Jun 16 2022

How I Automated Software Management (tseknet.com)
Did someone say chocolate?
By: Dan Tsekhanskiy submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to chain multiple PowerShell commands on one line ?? – YouTube (youtube.com)
PowerShell one-liners sometimes are an easy way to achieve something quickly. There are cases where

you might want to run multiple separated PowerShell commands on one line. This can be handy if you do copy pasting of commands or if you want to make it easy for the end-user when you need to troubleshoot something. In this blog post, we will look at how you can chain and run multiple PowerShell commands on one line using pipelines and chaining commands.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to show all known Wi-Fi network SSIDs and Passphrases with Powershell (scriptinglibrary.com)
I think is very important to remember how much information is stored on our laptops over the years,

this is the case also for all wireless networks with (SSID and Passphrase) that our OS stores and use to connect automatically.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Is Python better than PowerShell? (itblogpros.com)
Many developers and IT professionals have been debating for years whether Python is better than

Powershell. There are many factors to consider when making this decision, including speed, ease of use, adoption rates, and demand for each technology. In this article we will try to answer the question by comparing these four factors side-by-side.

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By: Graeme John submitted:Jun 16 2022

Moving on from Send-MailMessage (practical365.com)
Sending Email from PowerShell using the Graph API
By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Remoting for Troubleshooting Purposes | ScriptRunner (scriptrunner.com)
I'm going to show you ways to perform troubleshooting, remotely, for instance when the problem is

that a GUI based logon such as through mstsc or the physical or virtual console hangs/goes slowly.

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

These damn curly quote marks! (reddit.com)
You copy / pasta some snippet of code you find handy, and then when you go to actually use the

script...

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By: u/richie65 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition (oreilly.com)
This portable reference to PowerShell summarizes the command shell and scripting language and

provides a concise guide to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy administrator and don't have time to plow through huge books or in-depth online searches, this is the ideal on-the-job tool.

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By: Lee Holmes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Powershell Codewars (codewars.com)
Interactive PowerShell Learning
By: u/we3trees submitted:Jun 16 2022

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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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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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