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January 15, 2021

Announcements!

Introducing the New PowerCLI Home Page (blogs.vmware.com)
Today we are pleased to inform you that we have updated the PowerCLI home Page, Which further

improves your experience working with PowerCLI documentation.

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By: VMware submitted:Jun 16 2022

Powershell Extension Pack – Visual Studio Marketplace (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
The Powershell VS Code extension pack has been updated to include Tyler Leonhardt's excellent Pester

Test Adapter, and removed some non-directly-relevant PS Extensions. Check it out!

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By: Justin Grote submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.1.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Hot off the presses (git) the latest release of PowerShell 7 is now available!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

What the Shell is Happening? (jdhitsolutions.com)
A great recap of the what's currently going on in the world of PowerShell
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How to Download a File with PowerShell from the Web (adamtheautomator.com)
Do you need to download files from the web but hate repeatedly clicking links? If your job involves

downloading files from the web regularly, you will probably want to automate the task. Why not use PowerShell to download files?

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Send Email from Azure (adamtheautomator.com)
Microsoft Azure does not have an email delivery service. Whether you are testing applications or

developing scripts in Azure to send emails, know that there is no native email service available to you.

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use PowerShell Where-Object to Filter All the Things (adamtheautomator.com)
When you work with PowerShell property values in a collection of objects, sometimes you will need a

way to filter out all the things you do not need. Knowing how to use the PowerShell Where-Object cmdlet is an important skill to have in your PowerShell toolbox.

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By: Bill Kindle submitted:Jun 16 2022

Saving Time with Background Jobs (tommymaynard.com)
If you're like me, there's something you know a decent amount about regarding PowerShell, but you

just don't get to use it much. Today, it's PowerShell background jobs. If you've been reading my blog currently, then you know I'm right in the middle of a series regarding Splunk. In the series, I'm sending telemetry data from my function template to Splunk. The problem, although slight, is that it's increased the duration, or length of time, the function takes to complete. No surprise. It's running several additional commands where it polls the user and system for information. It's only adding maybe a second more of time to the duration of the function. Still, why not determine if it's time that can be reclaimed. Enter background jobs.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

What are your PowerShell hidden gems? Things you discovered that gave you that “Oh, I had no idea” feeling. (twitter.com)
Check out this Twitter thread for a bunch of great tips.
By: Kevin Marquette submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Automating with PowerShell: Automatically following all Sharepoint Sites or Teams for all users (cyberdrain.com)
So a while back we had a client that uses a lot of sharepoint sites. The client only used Sharepoint

online, and found it hard to find all the sites in one place. We pointed them to https://YOURDOMAIN.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx which gives a nice overview of sites and teams.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Regrecent.ps1 (github.com)
Here's a PowerShell script, based on C++ code I wrote 20+ years ago, that allows you to search the

registry based on key timestamps (note that values do not have timestamps).

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Building REST APIs with PowerShell (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
This guide will cover how to build REST APIs using PowerShell Universal and PowerShell. Most of this

post can be accomplished without purchasing an API license.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Basics of PowerShell P2 : Port Scanning and Pattern Matching – TryHackme Hacking with Powershell (YouTube) (youtube.com)
In this video walkthrough, we carried on the basics of PowerShell scripting language for pentesting

and introduced port scanning and pattern matching. This video is part of TryHackMe OSCP Pathway - room: Hacking with Powershell.

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By: Motasem Hamdan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Show 25 – Part 2: A celebration of automation (greyhatbeard.com)
Welcome to the 2nd year of GreyHatBeard. 2021 may not be starting in the best way for many but why

not listen to use as we have a Celebration of Automation. We're joined by Veronique Lengelle, a dual MVP and also a Solutions Architect at CPS, sharing her expertise in PowerShell and how it can improve your life through automation.

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By: GreyHatBeard submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Does anyone remember this mousepad? (twitter.com)
I don't but I wish I had it!
By: Aleksandar Nikolic submitted:Jun 16 2022

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twitter.

January 8, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Azure Durable Functions for PowerShell (4bes.nl)
I have written before about how you can start working with Azure PowerShell functions and how you

can connect to a storage queue and CosmosDB. For this post, we will see how you can use PowerShell in Durable functions. This functionality has been in public preview since August 2020. While some documentation is available, I want to focus on a practical example. This will be a bit of a step-by-step guide on how you can create your own Azure PowerShell Durable functions.

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

How To Export and Backup Azure Policy Definitions (charbelnemnom.com)
In this article, I will share with you how to export and backup Azure Policy definitions with

PowerShell.

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By: Charbel Nemnom submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to get the Xbox Series X (reddit.com)
Xbox series X were sold out everywhere. Powershell to the rescue. Wrote up a powershell script to

alert me the instant it showed "In Stock" online. After finally getting alerted and purchasing online, within one minute they were already sold out. Just picked it up today. Gotta be smarter than the competition.

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By: u/eldridgephotography submitted:Jun 16 2022

Store passwords on Azure Key Vault and retrieve them with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you how to store your passwords (like BIOS password) on Azure key vault,

then retrieve them from PowerShell.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Understanding REST Web Services in PowerShell (community.idera.com)
There are many different types of web services, and PowerShell can access many of them using

Invoke-RestMethod. Here is a quick intro to get you started.

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Az.SecurityInsights 0.1.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Microsoft Azure PowerShell - Azure Sentinel cmdlets in Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core.

Allows managing and monitoring the security posture of your resources.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Basics of Powershell For Pentesters (Video) (youtube.com)
In this video walkthrough, we demonstrated the basics of PowerShell scripting language and how to

conduct basic enumeration for the windows system. The machine is part of tryhackme room: hacking with powershell

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By: Motasem Hamdan submitted:Jun 16 2022

PSTeachingTools: A set of commands and tools for teaching PowerShell (github.com)
Major update to my PSTeachingTools module. Now with a true demo object.
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Believe it or not, (twitter.com)
PowerShell can help you with your resolutions:
By: Steven Judd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Iron Scripter (ironscripter.us)
A PowerShell Conversion Challenge
By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

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December 25, 2020

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.

December 18, 2020

Announcements!

PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today we are proud to announce the second preview release of PowerShell 7.2. This preview is still

based on .NET 5 as we wait for the first preview of .NET 6 which we expect PowerShell 7.2 to be based upon.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Deploy OpenSSH Server to Windows 10 (jdhitsolutions.com)
PowerShell 7 offers a number of compelling reasons to adopt it. One of the best is support for SSH

as a PowerShell remoting protocol. Unfortunately, this is not a topic that typically comes up for Windows-centric IT Pros. I know this is definitely true in my case, and a deficiency I have been working on. On the plus side, Windows 10 ships with the OpenSSH client installed and ready to go. But what about the OpenSSH Server? On Windows platforms, you need to enable and configure this element if you want to use SSH remoting in PowerShell. Naturally, I'd like to do this with PowerShell and also remotely. First up, I want to show you how to setup the OpenSSH Server component on Windows 10.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Hosting and Protecting Your Own NuGet Feed with ProGet (adamcook.io)
In this post I will share with you how to install Inedo's ProGet to host your own NuGet feed

(effectively your own PowerShell Gallery). This will let you share PowerShell modules and scripts amongst other systems and colleagues from an internal resource, using cmdlets from the PowerShellGet module e.g. Install-Module, Install-Script, Find-Module, Find-Script etc.

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By: Adam Cook submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Deploy an Azure VM to Availability Zone? (PowerShell Guide) (rebeladmin.com)
Azure Availability Zones offers high availability for data and applications. In an Azure region,

there can be one or more data centers. Azure Availability Zone is made out of one or more datacentres in the same Azure region, which have independent power, hardware, networking, and cooling. All Zone redundant service will replicate data and application across Availability Zone for high resilience. Each Azure region contains a minimum of three Azure Availability Zones.

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By: Dishan Francis submitted:Jun 16 2022

Media Sync: Organize Your Photos and Videos with PowerShell (spiderzebra.com)
Do you have photos and videos that you have taken over the years that are scattered all over the

place? Do you want to have all your photos and videos organized? Do you want all your photos and videos to have a standardized naming scheme? If you answered YES to these questions, then this is the post for you.

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By: SpiderZebra submitted:Jun 16 2022

Provisioning Azure Automation using Az.Automation module (jopx.blogspot.com)
Azure automation is a cloud based service which allows you to automate, configure and install

updates across hybrid environments. Azure Automation focuses on an infrastructure perspective and allows you to build/deploy resources, handling updates and configuring all type of resources (not only in Azure but also on premise).

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By: jopx submitted:Jun 16 2022

Setting up NuGet Server on Windows (Complete Walkthrough) (adamtheautomator.com)
So you've developed code. Great! Now you have to publish it to your users. But how There are many

ways to accomplish this but one of the most used is NuGet. NuGet is a technology that allows you to publish code in the form of packages for others. A NuGet server is a way to make it happen.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

You should be customizing your PowerShell Prompt with PSReadLine (hanselman.com)
I thought I had things pretty well dialed in. I even used PSReadLine, a bash inspired readline

implementation for PowerShell. But was I REALLY USING IT? No. Honestly, at the time I wouldn't be able to tell you what it offered me as a command line users. Wow was I wrong. Don't sleep on PSReadLine if you use PowerShell as your preferred prompt. Head over there and give them some love and a star and buckle up, friends!

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By: Scott Hanselman submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

IT Management Software Integrations with PowerShell (sourceforge.net)
Compare the Top IT Management Software integrations for PowerShell of 2020
By: SourceForge submitted:Jun 16 2022

Out-Verbose (github.com)
A colored verbose stream output.
By: eXpandFramework submitted:Jun 16 2022

Powershell_Template_with_Transcript.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Template Powershell script with built-in transcript log management
By: Eitan Blumin submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

How to Add an SSH Key to VS Code and Connect to a Host (adamtheautomator.com)
If you need to add an SSH key to VS Code to set up an SSH connection using key exchange, this

tutorial is for you. In this tutorial, you're going to learn, step-by-step, how to configure VS code to connect over SSH via key exchange for both a user with sudo rights (homelab in this guide) and the built in root user.

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By: Christopher Bisset submitted:Jun 16 2022

Run Tasks on Timers in PowerShell (YouTube) (youtube.com)
You can use PowerShell to run tasks on periodic timers. For example, let's say that you want to

clean up a folder with old log files on an hourly basis. Instead of using your operating system's task scheduler (ie. systemd on Linux, MacOS, or Windows Task Scheduler), you can use PowerShell to create a Timer.

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By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Retro Dashboard (docs.ironmansoftware.com)
This retro looking dashboard displays the top 10 CPU and memory using processes, disk usage, and

live CPU and network usage. It also demonstrates how to use themes to custom the backcolor, text color and font family.

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By: Ironman Software submitted:Jun 16 2022

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December 11, 2020

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
As a shell, PowerShell is intended to work with native commands in addition to cmdlets. However,

native commands have their own unique syntax, sometimes containing many subcommands and parameters/switches, and are often like its own language. Wouldn't it be great to have an option to leverage your PowerShell skills to use new commands or be even more proficient with native commands you are already using?

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Active Directory Auditing: How to Track Down Password Changes (adamtheautomator.com)
Tracking and auditing changes to passwords in an Active Directory (AD) domain are crucial to

maintaining a secure environment and heading off bad actors early. Thankfully, AD offers the information necessary to track these changes, despite being difficult to parse and understand at times. LAPS is a great example of this.

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By: Adam Listek submitted:Jun 16 2022

Azure Automation Runbook to manage SharePoin Online SPO (spjeff.com)
Wanted to demo Azure Runbook with daily PowerShell PS1 that send SharePoint storage report email

with HTML table and CSV attachment. Features include:

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By: Jeff Jones submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Typosquat domain checking (cyberdrain.com)
One of my team members was following Blackhat today and showed me a pretty cool tool they

demonstrated during the conference. The presenters showed a method of checking if your O365 domain was being Typosquated. The tool can be found here. The presenters made a Python tool, and I figured to create an alternative in PowerShell.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remove-Item : Access to the cloud file is denied while deleting files from OneDrive (evotec.xyz)
I like OneDrive. It allows me to keep my data secure and always synchronized. If things go wrong, I

can always get it back. I use it for almost everything. Even for my PowerShell projects, which are committed to GitHub, so in theory, I shouldn't need that. But every once in a while, I make some stupid mistake and delete a file that has yet not been committed to GitHub, and that's where the OneDrive comes in handy. Quick restore, and we're back. Unfortunately, sometimes things aren't as I would expect them to work. For example, let's have a look at this nice list of markdown files that are documentation for my module called GPOZaurr.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Wrangling REST APIs and JSON with PowerShell (Four Demos!) (adamtheautomator.com)
PowerShell is an incredibly flexible language. It has its proverbial digital fingers in just about

every corner of the Windows world you can imagine. However, there comes a time when you need to start integrating external sites and parties. Thankfully, many services have APIs which allow you to work with web services via code.

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By: Christopher Bisset submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PSChristmas (github.com)
A demonstration class based PowerShell module
By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Send to Viewer.ps1 (github.com)
Simple text viewer so won't add history anywhere. Takes multiple files, from explorer send to, or if

no files, uses clipboard

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By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Core Concept: Regex for N00bs (YouTube) (youtube.com)
Ever wish you could learn Regex in a simple, straightforward tutorial with one of the best speakers

in the PowerShell community? Check out this awesome intro to Regex

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By: Thomas Rayner submitted:Jun 16 2022

Introduction to PowerShell (docs.microsoft.com)
Learn about the basics of PowerShell. This cross-platform command-line shell and scripting language

is built for task automation and configuration management. You'll learn basics like what PowerShell is, what it's used for, and how to use it.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals (amazon.com)
PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform

version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals?especially Windows administrators and developers?how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

cool-retro-term (github.com)
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
By: Filippo Scognamiglio submitted:Jun 16 2022

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December 4, 2020

Announcements!

Incident Report – PowerShell Gallery Downtime October 30, 2020 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The PowerShell gallery experienced downtime on October 30th 2020. This report will give context as

to what caused the downtime, what actions were taken to mitigate the issue, and what steps we are taking to improve the PowerShell gallery experience moving forward.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Update: 2021 PowerShell DevOps Global Summit (powershell.org)
It's time to get excited for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, which is returning April 27-29,

2021 as a virtual event. I'm here to share with you some details we have planned for this year's event. The upcoming summit will differ from years past, since this event will be 100% virtual. You may wonder what a virtual event would be like, and is it worth it to attend?

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Control license allocation with the PowerShell in Microsoft 365! (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
I used the PowerShell ISE for this configuration. But you are also very welcome to use Visual Studio

Code, just as you wish. Please start with the following steps to begin the deployment (the Hashtags are comments):

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By: Tom Wechsler submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get The List of Non-Compliant Azure Resources With PowerShell (charbelnemnom.com)
In this article, I will share with you how to get the list of non-compliant Azure resources to be

remediated in all your Azure subscriptions with PowerShell.

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By: Charbel Nemnom submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Graph: Get group info (ingogegenwarth.wordpress.com)
In my daily work, I often have to deal with topics, where I need to collect more information about a

group. Yes, the new UI in the AAD portal helps, but doesn't provide all the information. On the other side there are a ton of PowerShell modules e.g.: MSOL, AzureAD or AzureADPreview.

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By: Ingo Gegenwarth submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell: Connect to Azure with stored Credentials (sid-500.com)
f you need to connect to Microsoft Azure frequently, it might be useful to store your tenant

information. Why? It brings comfort while giving up security. It's your choice. In this blog post I will show you a walkthrough how to connect to Azure with stored credentials. The credentials are encryptet with a certificate. Let's move on.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Reading Last Logged-On User and Other Registry Values (community.idera.com)
Reading some registry values with PowerShell is typically a snap: simply use Get-ItemProperty. This

snippet of code reads the Windows operating system details, for example:

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

Since mmc won’t do it here’s PowerShell to clone a scheduled task running under an arbitrary account (twitter.com)
Another slick solution from Guy Leech
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

Sitecore PowerShell Extensions – Find Content Items Missing From Sitecore Indexes (sitecoreart.martinrayenglish.com)
Over the course of the last month, we ran into data inconsistencies between what was in our content

databases compared to our Solr indexes.

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By: Martin English submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Debugging PowerShell Scripts in Visual Studio 2019 (YouTube) (youtube.com)
In this video, Adam shows how to debug PowerShell scripts in Visual Studio 2019 and PowerShell Tools

for Visual Studio. You can download PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Setting up Visual Studio Code for PowerShell Development (YouTube) (youtube.com)
If you're an aspiring PowerShell developer, we'll explore the process of getting set up with Visual

Studio Code for PowerShell development work. It doesn't matter if you're using Linux, Mac, or Windows, you can be productive as a PowerShell developer on any development platform!

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By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

The PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 (leanpub.com)
20+ subject matter experts (including yours truly) have teamed up to bring you the ultimate

collection of PowerShell+DevOps topics that are designed to be like a conference in a book. This book not only delivers top-notch content that rivals any book on the market, but all royalties are donated to the OnRamp scholarship program which bootstraps others into the industry.

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By: The DevOps Collective submitted:Jun 16 2022

The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book (Forever Edition) (leanpub.com)
Learn the patterns, practices, and details of PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking from the

industry's two most recognized experts on the subject.

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By: Don Jones and Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Evolution of a PowerShell developer (twitter.com)
Yup!
By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Want to practice your skills? Advent of Code 2020 went live today! (reddit.com)
Friendly reminder that Advent of Code started today! Time to save Santa. Or maybe the elves. Or

maybe Rudolph or something. I dunno, but it's a great way to learn/practice coding.

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By: u/Betterthangoku submitted:Jun 16 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell Usergroup #region Munich December meetup (meetup.com)
Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2020 19:00 bis 21:00 MEZ
By: German PowerShell Usergroup submitted:Jun 16 2022

vTechUG Virtual Tech Community Event (techug.org.uk)
Thurs 10th Dec 2020 - vTechUG is the virtual tech community event for IT Ops, IT Infrastructure,

Cloud, DevOps & CyberSecurity Professionals. We're completely independent and guided by local committee members who help create a great community experience.

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By: TechUG submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 27, 2020

Announcements!

Pester Release 5.1.0 (github.com)
Pester 5.1.0 is out!
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Backup and restore Conditional access policies with PowerShell (4bes.nl)
Since the summer of 2020, the AzureAD PowerShell module provides cmdlets that can help you manage

Conditional access policies. This can give you some nice options to backup, document and restore Conditional access policies. In my opinion, the PowerShell cmdlets aren't all that intuitive, which is the reason I want to show in this post how to backup and restore Conditional Access Policies with PowerShell.

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By: Barbara Forbes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Check latest PowerShell Module version with PowerShell (blog.it-koehler.com)
Sometimes it is necessary to check if your powershell module is still up to date. Yes in newer

PowerShell Versions you can choose the following cmdlet: Update-Module (PS-Version5.1). But I wanted to have a function which can compare versions of any powershell module and can also compare any other version. Therefor I did some research in google and found .Net Framework class [version]. Some blogposts later I got the comparing mechanism to check if one version is older than another.

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By: Alexander Koehler submitted:Jun 16 2022

Level up your PowerShell with five tips in five minutes! (nathanlmagyar.medium.com)
As engineers, we're fortunate enough to have the most diverse tool in Microsoft administration right

at our fingertips. With these 5 tips, you'll start to understand just how easily you can leverage PowerShell to your advantage in your daily operations.

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By: Nathan Magyar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Measuring PowerShell Profile Performance (jdhitsolutions.com)
Today's topic is one of those things that I don't know why I've never addressed before. Well, I have

for myself in a manual process. Hopefully you'll find it useful. As you probably know, PowerShell uses a set of profile scripts. These scripts have hard-coded paths and PowerShell runs them in order from broadest to narrowest.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: App hangs (cyberdrain.com)
I was talking to a friend the other day and he was using my user experience script in his RMM system

for a while. He told me that he loved having the ability to measure the users experience but he had some clients with in-house applications that would write errors to the system log constantly, or he had other clients with crashing services that could not be prevented.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Under The Stairs: Creating a PowerShell Cmdlet Using C# (tfl09.blogspot.com)
As part of a book I am writing, I wanted to show how simple it could be to create your own cmdlet in

C#. This was to be a part of an advanced look at the things you can do with PowerShell 7 and DotNet Core.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using a LiteDB portable database with your PowerShell project (smsagent.blog)
I was working on a PowerShell project recently where I needed to reference a large number of items -

more than I wanted to add as an array or hash table in script, or even an external file like an XML document. So I searched for a portable, standalone database that I could distribute with the script and happened across LiteDB, a lightweight, single-file NoSQL database. It seemed the ideal solution as there's a .Net code library for it, and so far I'm pretty impressed.

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By: Trevor Jones submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

BluebirdPS 0.1.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A Twitter Automation Client for PowerShell 7. Tweet, retweet, send direct messages, manage lists,

and more.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Preview Release of DDD (davidlenihan.com)
DDD is a PowerShell module. It adds commands to PowerShell to make working with 3D graphics easy.
By: David Lenihan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure Arc Intro (YouTube) (youtube.com)
You've might have heard the news about Azure Arc and how it enables multi-cloud management from

Azure. However, there's a secret that not many people know... you can manage your on-prem resources with Azure Arc.

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By: Mike Kanakos and Jeremy Brow submitted:Jun 16 2022

CyberSecLabs – Toast – Active Directory (YouTube) (youtube.com)
When hackers gain powershell access to a machine, they will check the powershell history. Here's a

practical example:

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By: PinkDraconian submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Lightning Talk: Disk Speed Test on PowerShell with Jeremy Smith (YouTube) (youtube.com)
Jeremy smith shows how he created some custom PowerShell functions to test disk speeds. He details

how he was able to take a manual process and automate it. Prior to Jeremy's automation, this process was done through an old school cmd line utility and then manually parsing out the relevant data. Jeremy was able to automate the process from start to end.

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

Tools: Build your first Serverless App in Azure in under 60 minutes! (YouTube) (youtube.com)
Looking to learn how to get started in Azure? Have you considered Serverless apps? Be not afraid.

They're easy to build and allow you get started without needing a degree in programming.... Our speaker, Jeremy Brown, will walk through the basics of serverless apps, build a simple app AND put it online in 45 minutes!

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

Fun

Monitoring the London Underground with SCOM (cookdown.com)
Not into train spotting, don't worry, our blog on monitoring the London Underground will show you

how to literally monitor anything! All you need to get started is our PowerShell MP, plus some APIs and custom discoveries - happy monitoring!

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By: Team Cookdown submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 20, 2020

Announcements!

PowerShell Universal 1.5 (blog.ironmansoftware.com)
Ironman Software is pleased to announce another feature-packed PowerShell Universal release! Today,

we're releasing version 1.5 of the ultimate platform for building web-based IT tools. This release contains a variety of new features as well as bug fixes that we suggest all users considering upgrading to.

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By: Ironman Software submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.2.0-preview.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come get the latest PowerShell Preview release now!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

SecretManagement preview 6 and SecretStore preview 4 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery:
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

AzUpdate: PowerShell and Azure Migrate, Managing User Authentication Updates and more (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
It's been sometime since we connected last so lots of news to cover this week. News this week

includes: PowerShell support for Server Migration with Azure Migrate is now generally available, Updates to managing user authentication methods, New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available, Microsoft announces the redesign of the Microsoft account Security page, QnA Maker introduces deep learning and as always our Microsoft Learn Module of the Week.

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By: Anthony Bartolo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Disaster recovery plan for Azure Key Vault using tags, PowerShell and Azure Function (rozemuller.com)
By default the Azure Key Vault has softdelete enabled with a 90 day retention. This option will

protect Key Vault items when deleted by accident. When deleted you are able to restore that item through the portal or PowerShell. But what if someone has deleted the Key Vault itself with all the items and softdeleted items included. There is no option to restore a Key Vault. In this article I will describe a way how to backup and restore a Key Vault when deleted.

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By: Sander Rozemuller submitted:Jun 16 2022

Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting Print Servers (cyberdrain.com)
Before I start on this; I agree. Printers are the bane of our existence in IT and I am hoping for a

paperless environment each day. Unfortunately we're not at that future just yet, so we have to document print servers and their settings.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Errors Connecting to Skype for Business Online PowerShell Module (jeffbrown.tech)
While Teams may have its own PowerShell module, many of the management tasks still reside in legacy

Skype for Business Online PowerShell. To connect to this service, you need to download and install the latest SkypeOnlineConnector module and create a remote PowerShell session to the service.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Revoke Azure Active Directory Tokens from Expired Users (biztechmagazine.com)
Do you have an on-premises Active Directory environment syncing to Azure Active Directory? If so,

you may have run across a frustrating problem: An on-premises AD user license has expired but that user can still access resources on Azure AD. As long as you're on a Windows 10 computer with the Remote Server Administration Tools and the Azure PowerShell module installed, you can remedy this security risk by finding all expired AD accounts and revoking them.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Lest you were wondering which the fastest algorithms were to use in PowerShell Get-FileHash (mobile.twitter.com)
(available in v4+), I've knocked up a quick script. All are equally CPU intensive.
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Write-Host: Do you Need It? Maybe. (adamtheautomator.com)
Over the years, there has been a lot of debate around the PowerShell Write Host cmdlet on whether

it's needed and when to use it. As in most cases, the answer is maybe and dependent on your needs.

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By: Adam Listek submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using the PowerShell formatting system to your advantage (joskw.gitbook.io)
Format data is completely centered around how a certain Type should be displayed. Type data is all

about defining extra properties and methods, but also accomodates a DefaultDisplayProperty and DefaultDisplayPropertySet property that can be set.

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By: Jos Koelewijn submitted:Jun 16 2022

What’s the last really useful Powershell technique or tip you learned? (reddit.com)
Some pretty cool tips in this Reddit post.
By: u/Tidder802b submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Pode.Web (github.com)
This is a web template framework for use with the Pode PowerShell web server (version 2.0+). It

allows you to build web pages purely with PowerShell - no HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge required!

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By: Matthew Kelly submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Run Different PowerShell Versions Side-By-Side with Docker (YouTube) (youtube.com)
You can run different versions of PowerShell side-by-side, on the same system, using Docker

containers! Let's take a look at how this works.

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By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

@jsnover Was PowerShell’s verb-noun syntax inspired by the Apollo guidance? (mobile.twitter.com)
Find out the answer from the man himself
By: r_keith_hill submitted:Jun 16 2022

80’s retrowave color scheme for Windows terminal (reddit.com)
I've been using an 80's color scheme that I've created for a while now, and I think it looks pretty

cool, that's why I've decided to share my config. You can find it here. Enjoy!

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By: u/rambrogi submitted:Jun 16 2022

A PowerShell Linking Challenge (ironscripter.us)
Back in the day when The Chairman was first managing IT, the cost of storage mattered and there was

no cloud. It might also matter what kind of storage you were using. Naturally, you wanted the fastest local storage. But you needed to make sure you were getting the best value for your storage dollar. Today's challenge is based on this bygone scenario. You will most likely never need to use the expected solution. But as with all challenges, The Chairman hopes it will extend and sharpen your PowerShell scripting skills. The challenge is aimed at intermediate level scripters with advanced bonus elements.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

Running VS Code on an Android Device (tech.davidfield.co.uk)
Ir you're the sort of person who's phone is their workhorse as I am, then finding a decent IDE for

quick edits on code is while a personal choice a bit of a problem as there are not many out there.

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By: David Field submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 13, 2020

Announcements!

Announcing Az Predictor (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
The Azure PowerShell modules expose over 4,000 cmdlets and, on average, ten parameters per cmdlet.

Experienced PowerShell users will find the right cmdlet and parameter to achieve their goal but this can be more complicated for casual users.

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By: Azure PowerShell submitted:Jun 16 2022

Announcing PowerShell 7.1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We're proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This

release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA release of .NET 5. Since then, the PowerShell Team (and many of you, our community contributors, thank you!) have been hard at work addressing some of the community's top bug reports and feature requests.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Announcing PSReadLine 2.1 with Predictive IntelliSense (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Tab completion has accelerated the success of new and experienced PowerShell users for over a

decade. New users get the benefit of discovery, seeing available cmdlets and parameters as options while interactively typing. Experienced users receive the benefit of acceleration, typing less while using the Tab key to quickly complete a command.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal Preview 1.5 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We're back with another Windows Terminal release! Windows Terminal has moved to version 1.4 and

includes the features described in the 1.4 release blog post. Windows Terminal Preview has moved to version 1.5 and includes the features described below. You can download both versions from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's dive into what's new!

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Attention if you use fslogix (twitter.com)
and your users still have an old profile path configured in their AD user object! You will get logon

errors. Use PowerShell to find users with a profile path in your AD!

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By: Dennis Mohrmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Survive Refactoring a PowerShell Script from Hell (adamtheautomator.com)
If you've ever inherited a script or set of PowerShell scripts, you probably know the frustration.

You have a specific way of coding honed over years and years of experience and you come across a...let's say monstrosity.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Domain Admins logon (cyberdrain.com)
So this is one I've been researching for a new tool I'm creating. AzPAM, AzPAM will be a Privledged

Access Management tool that will be living in your Azure environment, mostly designed for MSPs. If you want to see how AzPam looks or contribute, check out the Github page about it here. I should be pretty close to releasing an alpha version soon!

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Parsing ssh Known Hosts with PowerShell and Regular Expressions (jdhitsolutions.com)
Lately, I've been spending time learning more about ssh. Sadly, I've rarely had a need to learn and

use ssh. But of course, with PowerShell 7 and ssh-based remoting, it is time to up my game. I've started deploying the ssh server component to my Windows test servers (I'll write about that another day) and exploring how to use ssh in my automation and scripting work.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

What’s New in PowerShell 7.1 (docs.microsoft.com)
Check out what's new in PowerShell 7.1
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

You can unpin easily specific folders from explorer Quick Access with PowerShell. (twitter.com)
This can be useful for instance after migration from DFS to OneDrive.
By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Introducing PSTeams 2.0 (evotec.xyz)
PSTeams PowerShell module has been on the market for a while now. It supports sending notifications

to Microsoft Teams channels via Incoming WebHooks. You could send a pretty message to the team's channel with just a few lines of code. With PSTeams 2.0, support for Adaptive Cards, Hero Cards, List Cards, and Thumbnail Cards was added. In PSTeams 1.0, you could send a message to Teams Channel using the following code

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Win10Debloat (github.com)
A simple PowerShell script to remove bloatware apps from windows 10, disable bing in windows search

aswell as perform various other changes to declutter the windows 10 experience.

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By: Jeffrey Raphire submitted:Jun 16 2022

WPF – Create AD/Azure User (reddit.com)
Last week I created a minimalistic Create AD / Azure user script. Since then I have been asked to

make it easier to modify (Or more succinctly a Settings Page). This was a bit of work to think through. I am hoping someone might know of a more robust way to do what I am doing. This way I felt I could do with a bit of work. So I came up with two ways of implementing the same settings script.

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By: Alan Newingham submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

How To Update Windows 10 Using PowerShell Commands (Video) (youtube.com)
Learn how to update Windows 10 using PowerShell commands.
By: Alexander Hubbard submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Object Formatting (youtube.com)
If you work with PowerShell output and want to learn how to massage your data to work better for

you, this will be a great presentation. I will be covering how PowerShell formats output objects it creates, how formatting is determined and how you can create your own custom formatting views.

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By: David Goldman submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Tic-Tac-Toe in PowerShell (reddit.com)
I made tic-tac-toe in PowerShell and wanted to share it with the community.
By: u/Fireburd55 submitted:Jun 16 2022

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November 6, 2020

Announcements!

The Return of the PowerShell DevOps Global Summit (powershell.org)
The DevOps Collective INC is pleased to announce the return of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit

in April of 2021.

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By: PowerShell.org submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Back to Basics: How to Manage Windows Services with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Windows services is one of those topics nearly every Windows sysadmin has to work with. To manage

Windows services you could fire up the services.msc MMC snap-in for one-off tasks but what if you need to build some kind of automation with PowerShell? Learn how to use PowerShell to get a service, use PowerShell to start a service, use PowerShell to stop a service, and use PowerShell to restart a service in this tutorial!

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Finding Zombie Files with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
Ok, maybe these aren't really living dead files, but rather files with a 0-byte length. It is

certainly possible that you may intentionally want a 0 length file. But perhaps they are artifacts or accidents that you'd like to clean up. Here's one approach you might take.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Get a Computer Name with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Do you need to find a local or remote Windows computer's name in a PowerShell script? Look no

further. In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to use PowerShell to get a computer name in a few different and sometimes unexpected ways.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Outlook offline mode and OST Sizes, and active PSTS (cyberdrain.com)
Todays blog I'm going to be showing how to monitor if outlook has been set to offline mode by the

user, and if the OST size is nearing it's maximum size, as a bonus I'm also giving you the option of alerting on active PST files. The offline mode is just a handy gizmo to notify users that they might've misclicked - It still happens to our users from time to time.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell and Containers (phillipsj.net)
Did you know that Microsoft published official container images for PowerShell? Those official

images can be found here, and one cool thing to note is that there are even some ARM images. It is incredibly cool that these are provided as it makes shipping PowerShell tools simpler or hosting any PowerShell based script. I have two different use cases that I can demonstrate that make these pretty cool. The first demo is going to be using the Alpine image as the base image for building a container that hosts a Polaris based REST API, like I blogged about a few weeks ago. The second demo will be to host a PowerShell script that needs to run as a sidecar to a SQL Server container. Let's dive into these demos.

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By: Jamie Phillips submitted:Jun 16 2022

Start and execute Windows Updates on multiple servers (reddit.com)
An interesting discussion on patch management with PowerShell and if it is really the right tool for

the job.

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By: u/shab3y submitted:Jun 16 2022

You can convert a PS1 file to EXE (twitter.com)
with iexpress which is installed by default on Windows
By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

MS Teams Uninstall – Reinstall (reddit.com)
Here is my script, it is uninstall MS Teams with update.exe --uninstall, Remove this folder:

'C:Users\AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTeams', Clear this registry entry 'HKCU:SoftwareMicrosoftOfficeTeamsPreventInstallationFromMsi', download Teams installer to c:temp as teams.exe, execute teams.exe --silent

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By: u/jaqb7 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Publish to PowerShellGallery with GitHub Actions (robstr.dev)
My next step in automating my PowerShell module development workflow is to have my module deploy to

PowerShellGallery when creating a GitHub release. Last time it was doing unit testing with pester, now we want our code to get out in the world.

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By: Roberth Strand submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Free PowerShell Security e-Book by Script Runner (lp.scriptrunner.com)
This is really good material for people who are not sure about how to secure PowerShell within their

environments. Featured topics: Control execution of scripts using execution policy, codesigning and constrained language mode. Secure PowerShell remoting with SSH und TLS. Delegate administrative tasks with JEA. Audit and analyze PowerShell activities, encrypt logs. Improve code quality following best practices.

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By: Script Runner submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Happy Cakeday, r/PowerShell! Today you’re 12 (reddit.com)
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
By: Reddit submitted:Jun 16 2022

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