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April 23, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

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

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

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Idera submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Justin Sylvester submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

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

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

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

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By: Ioan Popovici submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Harsh Mishra submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

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

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

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

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

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April 16, 2021

Announcements!

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

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

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By: Yabo Hu submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

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

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

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Bill Kindle submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Pierre Roman submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

on disk.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

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

Client for PowerShell!

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By: Chrissy LeMaire submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

Enough Administration scenarios.

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

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

Fun

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

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

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By: Wesley Haakman submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 9, 2021

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

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

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

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

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By: Dirk submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

coding aspects.

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By: John Hammond submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Daniel Chronlund submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

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

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

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Prateek Singh submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

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

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

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

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April 2, 2021

Announcements!

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

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

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

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

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

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By: Jason Hiatt submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Yannick Reekmans submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

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

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By: Dirk submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

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

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

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

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

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 26, 2021

Announcements!

SecretManagement and SecretStore are Generally Available (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce two modules are now generally available on the PowerShell Gallery
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Can you specify powershell 7 for remote sessions? (reddit.com)
A neat little trick on how to use PowerShell 7 from an Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker.
By: u/PartTimeTulsa submitted:Jun 16 2022

Enable Remote Desktop remotely with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
Forgot to enable remote desktop? This is bad. The only solution is to go back to the remote computer

and then enable RD. Not really. In this blog post I will show you how you can enable RD with PowerShell. Let's jump in.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Going Deep Converting PowerShell Objects to JSON (jeffbrown.tech)
When working with APIs, you often need to convert between PowerShell objects and JSON. Web APIs

accept requests in JSON notation, and your PowerShell script might have data represented as a PowerShell object. In order to use this data in a web request, you convert it to JSON.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to chain multiple PowerShell commands on one line (thomasmaurer.ch)
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

Powershell and Azure Functions – Some experience to Share (reddit.com)
I've had a couple people asking me for details on what I did with azure functions, so I figured that

I'd just detail a little bit real quick for you

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By: u/Szeraax submitted:Jun 16 2022

TIL you can color text without Write-Host (reddit.com)
I don't know how on earth I've gone all this time without knowing this, but this was the only reason

I ever used Write-Host.

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By: u/CohorsMando submitted:Jun 16 2022

What’s One Thing that PowerShell dosen’t do that you wish it did? (reddit.com)
Join the discussion on Reddit for what you would like to see in PowerShell
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Bicep 1.4.3 (powershellgallery.com)
Just updated the Flexed biceps Bicep PowerShell module to use the BicepLang v0.3.126 assemblies.
By: Stefan Ivemo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Subnet 1.0.5 (powershellgallery.com)
Quickly find network details from the command line. Sorry, no #IPv6 support yet. :/
By: Richard Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Winfetch 2.0.0 released (github.com)
New segments, better speed, tons of improvements!
By: LPTSTR submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Have they never heard of PowerShell? (twitter.com)
No love, I tell ya
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 19, 2021

Announcements!

Release v7.2.0-preview.4 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Check out the latest version of PowerShell
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Voice your support for an AWS Lambda container base image for PowerShell (github.com)
I recently discovered that AWS Lambda launched support for container images, and supported every

major language except for PowerShell. If you're interested in publishing AWS Lambda functions, by using a PowerShell container image, add your voice to this GitHub issue report. One of the AWS developers has responded and expressed interest in prioritizing, but we need to show interest / demand for this feature.

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By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Add your IP address as an NSG rule in Azure using Powershell (sean-lloyd.com)
One of the (very minor) downsides of working from home, is that I often need to add my IP address to

many network security groups (NSG) in Azure.

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By: Sean Lloyd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Advanced HTML reporting using PowerShell (evotec.xyz)
I've been using HTML reporting in PowerShell for a while. Initially, I would usually build HTML by

hand, but the time spent trying to figure out what works and what doesn't drive me mad. With the PSWriteHTML module, a lot has changed. With just a few PowerShell lines, I can create feature-rich reports that change how I show data to my Clients. Today I wanted to show you some advanced HTML reporting without actually complicating PowerShell code. In the last few months, I've added many features that create advanced reports without sacrificing readability.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Better Active Directory Reporting with PowerShell (jdhitsolutions.com)
During the course of conversations with my friend and AD admin, Gladys Kravitz, I realized I needed

to build a solid reporting tool around Active Directory. I had a library of scripts and functions I have written over the years, including a few that I've written about here recently. Thus was born ADReportingTools.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Dynamic PowerShell Version in Windows Terminal Tabs (tommymaynard.com)
I find myself inside the Window Terminal's JSON Settings file each time I update the version of

PowerShell on my system. That includes non-preview and preview versions of PowerShell. Well, as of today, that's changed. Previously I would install an updated version, jump into the JSON Settings file, and modify the Name and TabTitle properties of the corresponding profile. I've long wanted the version number on the Tab and so I was hard coding the values. No longer.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

Just found out you can “Copy as PowerShell” a web request in Microsoft Edge : PowerShell (reddit.com)
Well now me too!
By: u/solarplex submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using PowerShell WhatIf So You Don’t Break Stuff (jeffbrown.tech)
PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and automation tool. You make changes for one thing or

hundreds of things using the same script or function. One amazing feature to add to your functions is the PowerShell -WhatIf parameter. This parameter tells you what the function is going to do before you execute it for real.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

A new version of the psframework PowerShell (psframework.org)
Among other things it now provides awesome new ways to author configuration files to import (e.g.

during CI/CD pipelines).

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By: Friedrich Weinmann submitted:Jun 16 2022

Get MigrationWiz Project Statistics and Error Reports Automatically (bittitan.com)
One of the biggest advantages to working with BitTitan is leveraging PowerShell scripting for

project management. While MigrationWiz has numerous capabilities built directly into the tool itself, using scripts to help manage users, adjust project settings, and monitor status is an easy way to step outside the UI and automate additional components of your project.

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By: Pablo Galan submitted:Jun 16 2022

jumpfs (github.com)
Jumpfs is a simple utility and set of scripts that allow you bookmark locations and refer to them

from PowerShell, Bash, or CMD. It can translate between WSL and Windows paths so you can access locations from your preferred shell.

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By: Neil MacMullen submitted:Jun 16 2022

SecretStore Release Candidate 3 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The SecretStore release candidate 3 (RC3) module is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This

contains an exciting new feature which allows users to non-interactively create, and configure a SecretStore. This feature was added to support CI systems and other automated scenarios.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

WindTerm 2.0 (github.com)
A Free Cross-Platform PowerShell/SSH/SFTP/Telnet/Serial Client
By: kingToolbox submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure Cloud Shell in the Windows Terminal (YouTube) (youtube.com)
Azure Cloud Shell is a great tool to manage your Azure environment. In this video, we are going to

have a look at how you can run your Azure Cloud Shell in the Windows Terminal. Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

A PowerShell IP Challenge (ironscripter.us)
The Chairman has returned with a new challenge that will test not only your PowerShell skills but

your networking knowledge as well. The challenge has been graded for Intermediate and Advanced levels, but don't let that stop you.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 12, 2021

Announcements!

Announcing Az Predictor preview 2 (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Last November, we announced the first preview of Az Predictor, a PowerShell module for Azure that

brings to your fingertips the entire knowledge of the Azure documentation customized to your current session.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.1.3 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come and get it while it's still hot!
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Documenting with PowerShell: Documenting admin actions (cyberdrain.com)
So with all this exchange news going around, I figured there's enough people writing about that so I

won't bother; there's lots a smart scripts flying about that can be used to find the webshells, etc. Instead I'm focussing on M365 admin actions.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to add pictures to Excel with PowerShell? (bronowski.it)
Spreadsheets' main purpose is data: storing, manipulating and analyzing them. We can add some

colours or charts to make the data more friendly, but sometimes we may want to add something else - like a logo or picture and all that can be achieved with PowerShell.

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By: Mikey Bronowski submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to backup all of your keys, certs and secrets included in all your Azure Key Vaults (scriptinglibrary.com)
After my previous article on the basic Powershell cmdlets for Azure Key Vault, I thought it would be

interesting to provide to all users, who are already familiar with it, a method to export all keys, certs and secrets stored in it once via Powershell.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use the Get-FileHash PowerShell Cmdlet (adamtheautomator.com)
Do you need to compare two files or make sure a file has not changed? The PowerShell cmdlet

Get-FileHash generates hash values both for files or streams of data. A hash is simply a function that converts one value into another. Sometimes the hash value may be smaller to save on space, or the hash value may be a checksum used to validate a file.

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By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 16 2022

Passing each element of an array into a function with Powershell (sean-lloyd.com)
Let's say you have a collection of objects, and you wish to perform the same action over each object

in that collection.

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By: Sean Lloyd submitted:Jun 16 2022

Reviewing PowerShell’s Role in the Exchange Hack (reddit.com)
A good discussion on Reddit about the recent Exchange exploit..
By: u/PowerShellMichael submitted:Jun 16 2022

The De Facto Guide for Converting a PS1 to EXE (7 Ways) (adamtheautomator.com)
You can invoke PowerShell scripts in many different ways, but they all have one downfall, you can't

simply run them like a standard Windows program (EXE). Perhaps you'd like to prevent editing the code in a script or perhaps make it easier for your users to run scripts. It's time to learn how to convert a PS1 to an EXE.

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By: Arman Castillote submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

posh-git (github.com)
A PowerShell environment for Git
By: Keith Dahlby submitted:Jun 16 2022

PSWriteHTML (github.com)
PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any

knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required.

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By: Evotec submitted:Jun 16 2022

Test ARM templates with What-If in a pipeline (4bes.nl)
Find out how to test all templates in your repo in one task with PowerShell and the What-If module.

With examples for Azure DevOps pipelines and Github Actions

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

How to Run SQL Assessment Checks in Azure SQL MI (YouTube) (youtube.com)
In this episode with Aaron Nelson, we'll show you the basics of the SQL Assessment PowerShell

commands, and how you can run the assessments for your Azure SQL Managed Instances as well as your on-prem SQL Server instances.

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By: Aaron Nelson and Anna Hoffman submitted:Jun 16 2022

Unattended Authentication to Azure (YouTube) (youtube.com)
A walkthrough of options for unattended authentication to Azure for automations. Covers managed

identity and service principals. Lots of demos including service principals with secrets and certificates with PowerShell. Concepts apply to AZ CLI as well.

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Because why not (twitter.com)
There are 3 PowerShell script examples in this Microsoft Doc and each one uses a different brace

style

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By: Mark Wragg submitted:Jun 16 2022

SnuePape (github.com)
Sets your desktop's wallpaper to today's top upvoted Reddit wallpaper
By: Nikola submitted:Jun 16 2022

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March 5, 2021

Announcements!

Call for Editors/ Authors for PowerShell Community Textbook (reddit.com)
I'm pleased to announce the Call for Editors and Call for Authors for the "Modern IT Automation with

PowerShell" book.

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By: Michael Zanatta submitted:Jun 16 2022

Migrate Azure PowerShell scripts from AzureRM to Az (docs.microsoft.com)
Don't wait until the last minute.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Team 2021 Investments (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The PowerShell Team plans engineering work per semester (6 months at a time). However, PowerShell

itself follows the .NET schedule of release every year. In this blog post, we'll cover the year long plan for PowerShell 7.2 as well as tooling and modules work we have planned for the next semester.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate 2 (RC2) modules are now available on the

PowerShell Gallery. These releases contain an exciting new feature which allows users to provide non-sensitive metadata for secrets (note: this feature may not be available for all extension vaults).

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

[PSA] Do not use [DateTime]$var to cast a String to a DateTime object, use Get-Date instead (reddit.com)
Looks like casting via [DateTime] doesn't respect the culture (d/MM/yyyy in my case), but Get-Date

does.

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By: u/dextersgenius submitted:Jun 16 2022

A Beginner’s Guide to Visual Studio Code and Git (adamtheautomator.com)
Those new to Visual Studio (VS) Code might just see a code editor. The true power of VS Code lies in

it's extensions, integrated terminal and other features. In this hands-on tutorial, you're going to learn how to use Visual Studio Code by working with a Git repo.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Azure AD Authentication Methods Summary Reports using Microsoft Graph and PowerShell (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
Recently I wrote about reporting on individual Azure AD Users Authentication Methods using Microsoft

Graph and PowerShell. Whilst this is great at a user level, Azure AD Authentication Methods Summary Reports at an organization level are often requested by IT Management. And whilst they can be obtained from the Azure Portal (Azure Active Directory > Security > Authentication Methods > Activity) how can we get them programmatically? In this post l will show how to extract Azure AD Authentication Methods Summary Reports using Microsoft Graph and PowerShell.

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

Connecting to Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Online via PowerShell using the new Teams Module (ucit.blog)
his guide will cover the command blocks that are needed to connect to Microsoft Teams and Skype for

Business Online via PowerShell via two methods.

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By: Eric Marsi submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to import/export data between SQL Server and Excel using PowerShell? (bronowski.it)
ImportExcel is a powerful tool to manage MS Excel, however, the user is not limited to data stored

in worksheets. We can import from and export to SQL Excel data using a combination of ImportExcel and dbatools modules.

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By: Mikey Bronowski submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to use Powershell to create a virus for testing your AV (scriptinglibrary.com)
In this article, I will use a PowerShell one-liner script to generate a test file to test if the

Anti-Virus runtime solution installed is working as expected.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 16 2022

Loaner Laptop Checkout/Checkin Powershell Script (smarthomepursuits.com)
If you work in the IT department, chances are that you loan out laptops to your users every once in

a while. They may need something temporary to use when giving a presentation, if their work computer breaks, or simply for testing something. In our case, we had to loan out a lot of laptops during the Work From Home shift so our users can VPN into the office from home.

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By: Danny submitted:Jun 16 2022

Logit Blog – Increase the success rate of Azure DevOps pipelines using Pester (logitblog.com)
With the increase in Azure DevOps usage, more and more EUC environments are being deployed using

pipelines. In the EUC environments, PowerShell is the primary scripting language to get these deployments automated. By using Pester the quality of the produced PowerShell code can be increased, which will result in a higher success rate of the DevOps pipeline. This blog post will provide some guidance and pointers how to use Pester in the Azure DevOps pipelines.

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By: Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Export Office 365 admins report (reddit.com)
The admins in the tenant are responsible for all the users, devices, applications, etc. Many

different admin roles for each administration purpose will help the company to track, monitor, and support the people and resources that belong to the company.

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By: u/Kathy_Cooper1012 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Invoke-RestMethod with a SOAP API (tommymaynard.com)
In the past, I have absolutely written PowerShell to interact with REST (REpresentational State

Transfer) APIs. What I haven't done until now, is interact with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) APIs. The below example is a mostly full-featured PowerShell function.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Windows Server Backup (cyberdrain.com)
Some MSPs are using Windows Server Backup as a 'last resort' type of backup, if online backups fail,

or the backup software does not work, they still have an image based backup for those huge emergencies.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

PSModuleBuilder (github.com)
This will allow you to quickly create your own custom Powershell Module's Just select a Source Path

were you saved all your functions in separate .ps1 files and select an output filePath.

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By: Jackldam submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Power BI, PowerShell and Azure Functions Deep Dive – YouTube (youtube.com)
This video shows you how to use Power BI's PowerShell commandlets and call those in an Azure

Function to allow you to run them fully automated.

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By: Steve Winward submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Under the Wire. PowerShell Training for the People (underthewire.tech)
Under the Wire trains experienced, developing, and novice Information Technologists to use Windows

PowerShell in a variety of situations through innovative and fun wargames.

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By: Under the Wire submitted:Jun 16 2022

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February 26, 2021

Announcements!

PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension

are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

vSphereDSC 2.2 is released now (blogs.vmware.com)
Fully supported on Linux. Total 73 DSC resources are available now. Support for Invoke-DSCResource.
By: VMware submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Comparing PowerShell Property Names (jdhitsolutions.com)
Recently, I was chatting with my friend Gladys Kravitz about the hassle of comparing objects in

PowerShell. Even after all these years. She has a specific use case, but you might also feel the need for a better comparison option. And to be clear, the comparison we're talking about is not the object's values, as you might see with Compare-Object. But rather the property names.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Finding Stale Azure AD B2B Guest Accounts based on lastSignInDateTime – darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions (blog.darrenjrobinson.com)
Collaboration between Azure Active Directory tenants typically involves Azure AD Guest accounts.

After a few years, the proliferation of 'Guest' accounts usually becomes a focus, especially for larger tenants. As Azure AD has matured the meta data associated with accounts, along with Microsoft Graph improvements is making it easier to define and locate stale Azure AD B2B Guest Accounts. In this post I investigate Azure AD with Microsoft Graph API's to find stale Azure AD B2B Guest Accounts.

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By: Darren Robinson submitted:Jun 16 2022

How do you deal with encrypting and saving credentials of a script multiple people use / ingest? (reddit.com)
A good discussion on Reddit on a very common topic.
By: u/PartTimeTulsa submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Create a Powershell Menu GUI (smarthomepursuits.com)
In this guide, I'm going to show you an incredibly simple way to create a menu to display all of

your most-used Powershell scripts.

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By: Danny submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to you organize your scripts repos? (reddit.com)
Another great topic and discussion from Reddit.
By: u/Zylea submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Bitdefender status (cyberdrain.com)
We're considering moving RMM systems, and that means reevaluating parts of our stack. One of the

pain points in our current stack is the monitoring of anti-virus, we often felt like there is not enough transparency and data returned via our RMM system. Either the system does not return the current state of alerts or forces us to use separate portals.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring listening applications (cyberdrain.com)
In one of the online communities I follow someone encountered an issue with application listeners

and ports being in use. The use case is that users have a Autocad type application installed that launches a server on a specific port; the users also run a remote control application that at times steals the port.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell sample for Privileged Identity Management (PIM) (anujchaudhary.com)
How cool would it be if I can use the MSGraph PIM api's to build custom applications. For example,

your IT Org has N different resource groups where you want to activate every day. It would be time consuming to activate them one by one. Instead, you can build a custom app using PowerShell or UI so that you can activate to all of these resource groups in one shot.

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By: Anuj Chaudhary submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using Get-Service (devblogs.microsoft.com)
in PowerShell 7 vs. Windows PowerShell 5.1
By: Faris Malaeb submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using PowerShell and RegEx to extract text between delimiters (powershellone.wordpress.com)
In this post I will share a little PowerShell function that I use quite frequently in order to

extract text between delimiters out of a bigger chunk of text. I hope that this can be useful to others too.

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By: Dirk submitted:Jun 16 2022

What You Need to Know about Visual Studio Code: A Tutorial (adamtheautomator.com)
Every cowboy needs a horse, every Batman needs a Robin, and every coder needs a great code editor.

When you work with code every day, you must have a go-to code editor. For many developers out there, Visual Studio (VS) Code is their editor of choice. Stick around for this Visual Studio Code tutorial.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Az Predictor Module (thomasmaurer.ch)
Want to make it easier to write Azure PowerShell commands? Check out the Az Predictor which helps

you to predict your Azure PowerShell command!

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

PSGPPreferences 0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A way to manage Group Policy Preferences through PowerShell
By: Kirill Nikolaev submitted:Jun 16 2022

Removing Duplicate Items from a Mailbox (eightwone.com)
Updated Remove-DuplicateItems.ps1 script to v2.0, which now also supports OAuth authentication

methods.

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By: Michel de Rooij submitted:Jun 16 2022

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