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June 12, 2020

Announcements!

Preview 4 and Store Update (twitter.com)
PowerShell 7.1 preview.4 will be coming later this month with the next .NET 5 preview. Windows Store

publication is still being worked on. No ETA for that.

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By: Steve Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.0.2 Release of Powershell (github.com)
Hot off the presses (git) the latest release of PowerShell 7 is not available for you to install.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

ForEach-Object and its scriptblocks (sergeyvasin.com)
A great refresher on ForEach-Object.
By: ?????? ????? submitted:Jun 16 2022

How To Create Azure IoT Hub Using PowerShell (c-sharpcorner.com)
In this article, we are going to see how to create an Azure IoT Hub using Azure PowerShell cmdlets.

IoT Hub is used to connect, manage, and monitor billions of IoT devices. It securely connects the devices to develop IoT applications. IoT Hub is a flexible cloud platform service that supports multiple protocols and open-source SDKs.

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By: Ravishankar N submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Code Golf (code.golf)
Code Golf is a game designed to let you show off your code-fu by solving problems in the least

number of characters.

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By: u/sirbogman submitted:Jun 16 2022

Don Jones’ PowerShell 4N00bs (leanpub.com)
What the heck is PowerShell, and why should you care? This new book from PowerShell MVP Don Jones

will teach you everything you need to know about PowerShell Core! Honor System: Pay what you feel this book is worth and what fits your budget.

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By: Don Jones submitted:Jun 16 2022

Module Monday: BurntToast (youtube.com)
Module Monday is a video series where I look at a different PowerShell module each Monday. This

Monday, I'm showing off BurntToast. BurntToast is a module for showing notifications in Windows 10. We'll look at how to send basic notifications, show progress bars, buttons and even kick off PowerShell scripts from notifications.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Solving the PowerShell Object Age Challenge – Part 2 (jdhitsolutions.com)
The other day I shared part of my solution to an Iron Scripter challenge to write a generic function

to report on the age of an object. The idea being that you could pipe any type of object to the function and get a result. And because I can't help myself, I went a bit further with my solution.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

VsCode is watching you (i.redd.it)
I know we've all been there
By: www.commitstrip.com submitted:Jun 16 2022

What DON’T you like about PowerShell? (reddit.com)
Pretty interesting read on some of the quirks with PowerShell.
By: u/makecodedothings submitted:Jun 16 2022

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twitter.

June 5, 2020

Announcements!

Announcing General Availability of the Exchange Online PowerShell v2 Cmdlets (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
The V2 module is now available in the PowerShell Gallery and we recommend all Exchange Online

customers start using these new cmdlets right away.

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By: The Exchange Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automating with PowerShell: an Azure DynDNS replacement (cyberdrain.com)
Oracle has bought DynDNS somewhere in 2019 and decided to slowly start killing off the DynDNS

Managed DNS services. This has caused us to look for a different solution. Of course, I immediately thought of Azure, with an Azure DNS hosted zone.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 16 2022

Exchange Online PowerShell V2 use cases and small tutorial (blog.it-koehler.com)
Dealing with PowerShell is a great thing, especially if you have to administer a large and dynamic

organization. Let's spend some time to learn some default use cases lot of exchange admins have to do. In this article I'm showing a various combination of different PowerShell cmdlets, with special focus in the new Exchange Online cmdlets. You can do a much more crazy stuff, but I want to show some basics.

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By: Alexander Koehler submitted:Jun 16 2022

How to Use the Azure DevOps REST API with PowerShell (imaginet.com)
Using PowerShell to call the Azure DevOps REST API is simple, yet very powerful. In my newest video,

I will provide a detailed walk-through and demo of how to use the Azure DevOps REST API with PowerShell.

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By: Etienne Tremblay submitted:Jun 16 2022

Using Win32_UserAccount WMI filter in PowerShell/Group Policies and what to avoid (evotec.xyz)
Some months ago, I created PowerShell Script to create local administrative users on workstations -

Create a local user or administrator account in Windows using PowerShell. It's a bit overcomplicated, but the goal was it should work for Windows 7 and up, and that means supporting PowerShell 2.0. As part of that exercise, I've been using Win32_UserAccount WMI based query to find local users and manage them to an extent. While Get-LocalUser exists, it's not suitable for the PowerShell 2.0 scenario. I also use the same query in GPO for WMI filtering. You can say it's been a good friend of mine - until today! Let's take a look at this basic WMI query:

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

50 of the Top PowerShell Modules to Check Out (ironmansoftware.com)
We put together a list of some awesome PowerShell modules that we think are worth checking out. If

you see an error or have a module that you'd like to recommend, please contact us!

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Compiling PowerShell 7 Scripts into an Executable (ironmansoftware.com)
We're happy to announce the return of PowerShell 7 script packaging! You can now target PowerShell 7

as a packaging target with PowerShell Pro Tools for Visual Studio, VS Code, and with Merge-Script. We're even introducing experimental Linux and Mac support. You'll be able to run your scripts cross-platform!

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Module Monday: InvokeBuild (youtube.com)
Module Monday is a video series where we show off cool PowerShell modules on Monday. In this video,

we look at InvokeBuild. InvokeBuild provides the ability to create build scripts with PowerShell.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Conference EU – YouTube (youtube.com)
Check out tons of great videos from this years PowerShell Conference EU that took place earlier this

week.

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By: PowerShell Conference EU submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Show ANSI Samples (jdhitsolutions.com)
Earlier this week I did a live session for the PSPowerHour. I talked about ways to dress up your

PowerShell work and console sessions. One of things I talked about was using ANSI escape sequences to add some color.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

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twitter.

May 29, 2020

Announcements!

Pester 5.0.0 Released (github.com)
Come check out all the new features available in the latest version of Pester.
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

ARM Template what-if deployment (4bes.nl)
Last year at Microsoft Ignite, the private preview of the ARM template what-if option was

introduced. Since about a month, this new option for PowerShell has gone into public preview and it is really a great new feature, that can help a lot with your template development. In this post, I want to show you how you can use ARM Template what-if deployment, how it can be integrated in a Azure DevOps pipeline and what this means for my PowerShell module ARMHelper.

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By: Barbara Forbes submitted:Jun 16 2022

Converting Pester V4 to Pester V5 basics (evotec.xyz)
Now that Pester V5 is out, I decided that I need to make sure that my Pester tests for all my

modules keep on running correctly. Some substantial changes in Pester add new features, changing some things, but that also means all the tests that you have defined most likely will need a small push to get it up and running again on Pester V5. Starting this blog post, I wanted to mention that I am by no means an expert on Pester, but I do use it for some time now for most of my projects. I am using basic functionality, but even that basic functionality stops working once you upgrade from PesterV4 to PesterV5, so I thought I would save you some time and give you a small overview of how you can quickly fix it. It works for me, but you may have to find your way to fix things.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 16 2022

Getting Started with OpenSSL and PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
Generating SSL certificates can be a daunting task, one filled with frustration and sorrow. But it

doesn't have to be that way! If you are struggling with SSL certificates for your webpages and servers, keep reading.

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By: Bill Kindle submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Classes and Enums (pipehow.tech)
Learn how to write them, and hopefully why!
By: Emanuel Palm submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers (reddit.com)
now removes provisioned packages too: bug or feature?
By: u/Fs00 submitted:Jun 16 2022

So *That’s* What OutBuffer Is For! (toastit.dev)
OutBuffer has been lurking in amongst the common parameters on most cmdlets for years, but I've

never taken the time to ask what it's for.

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By: Josh King submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Announcing Central Management Deployments (chocolatey.org)
We are gearing up for the 3rd release of Chocolatey Central Management (CCM), and this one will

include an amazing feature that many of you may have been waiting for - managing endpoints with a full Chocolatey solution! We are really excited to share with you what Central Management Deployments will offer and how you can get your hands on it!

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By: Chocolatey submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fish-like prompt that autoshrinks your current directory listing (reddit.com)
As a long time fish shell user who recently returned to Windows, I really wanted to recreate the

prompt from the fish shell, so I wrote a little script to do it! It's my first Powershell script, and I'm amazed by how easy it is to script things; it's just like C#!

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By: Thomas Tay submitted:Jun 16 2022

jX509ToOpenSSH (github.com)
PowerShell functions to convert Windows X509Certificate2 objects to OpenSSH public key format to use

for SSH authentication.

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By: jimmy58663 submitted:Jun 16 2022

Layer 2 Host Discovery With Powershell In Under A Second (xkln.net)
Fast LAN scanner, finds hosts on a /24 in under a second, even if the firewall is blocking pings
By: mdjx submitted:Jun 16 2022

Microsoft Teams Reporting using PowerShell (o365reports.com)
Recently, Microsoft Teams' usage has been increasing tremendously. This increased the need of

generating reports on Microsoft Teams on daily basis. Most admins and executives want to prepare reports on the number of meetings between users, meeting participants, call times, and more. But Microsoft is yet to provide the cmdlets or API to extract those data from Office 365.

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By: Kathy Cooper submitted:Jun 16 2022

OnedriveMapper 4.00 released (lieben.nu)
With version 4.00 OnedriveMapper now fully supports 'Modern' Authentication
By: Jos Lieben submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Mobile PowerShell Needed? (powershell.city)
I have always wanted to get my mittens on a mobile iteration of the prized management tool.
By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 22, 2020

Announcements!

Windows Package Manager Preview (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are thrilled to announce the Windows Package Manager preview!
By: Demitrius Nelon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Windows Terminal 1.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are incredibly proud to announce the release of Windows Terminal 1.0!
By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Azure ARM template deploymentScripts (yobyot.com)
After you finish reading this post and experimenting with the Azure sample template below, you may

never again have to write a nested or linked template.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Team May 2020 Update (devblogs.microsoft.com)
A great summary of what the PowerShell team at Microsoft has been up to.
By: Steve Lee submitted:Jun 16 2022

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Powershell in Azure Functions (kareldewinter.com)
In this first part of a multi-series blog, I will explain why and how we should use Azure Functions

and PowerShell together. Next, I will show you how to deploy a PowerShell based Function.

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By: Karel De Winter submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Az.Functions 1.0.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Microsoft Azure PowerShell - Azure Functions service cmdlets for Azure Resource Manager in Windows

PowerShell and PowerShell Core.

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Advanced PowerShell Debugging Techniques (youtube.com)
In this video, I show you how to use some advanced PowerShell debugging techniques. We look at how

to debug in the console, debug job, background runspaces, and remote processes. We also used some of the advanced debugging features of Visual Studio Code.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 16 2022

Automate Azure tasks using scripts with PowerShell (docs.microsoft.com)
Install Azure PowerShell locally and use it to manage Azure resources.
By: Microsoft Learn TV submitted:Jun 16 2022

TheShow:20:E3-VSCode-Enable ISE Mode (youtube.com)
PowerShell 7 is released! Wanna use the latest features AND get the best #PowerShell performance,

but wish it was in the ISE? I got something better for you! VSCode + PowerShell Extension + Enable ISE Mode.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

Friday Fun with PowerShell and ANSI (jdhitsolutions.com)
Ever since PowerShell 7 came along, I've been having a lot of fun exploring what I can do with ANSI

color escape sequences. And actually, even in Windows PowerShell you can use them. Although you need to use a different escape character. Run Get-PSReadlineOption to see what I'm talking about.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Mathematics, PowerShell and the Universe (twitter.com)

By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 16 2022

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

May 15, 2020

Announcements!

Free PowerShell weekend! (app.itpro.tv)
On May 16 - 17 , 2020, PowerShell Basics & PowerShell Scripting courses will be part of the free

membership. 40+ hours of free IT training!

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By: IT Pro TV submitted:Jun 16 2022

Release v7.0.1 Release of PowerShell (github.com)

By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

A PowerShell Network Monitor (jdhitsolutions.com)
I hope you've been trying your hand at the scripting challenges being posted on the Iron Scripter

web site. The challenges are designed for individuals to do on their own to build up their PowerShell scripting skills. A few weeks ago, a challenge was posted to create a network monitoring tool using PowerShell and the Write-Progress cmdlet. I thought I'd share my notes on the challenge and some of the code I came up with.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Remote Computer Inventory with PowerShell vNext, 2020 Edition – SignalWarrant.com (signalwarrant.com)
This is the successor to the first inventory script I put together in 2016

(https://www.signalwarrant.com/remote-computer-inventory-powershell/) This version uses the Get-CIMInstance CMDlet to get all the information from the WMI classes as opposed to the WMI CMDlets. I have also added some additional information that I thought was relevant. If you can think of anything else that may be good to add let me know, or submit a Pull Request on Github.

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By: David Hall submitted:Jun 16 2022

Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces (thomasmaurer.ch)
Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces.

Visual Studio Codespaces allows you to do cloud-hosted development for wherever you're working. While the new services support many different programming and scripting languages, it also supports PowerShell. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can write PowerShell code online in a web browser using Visual Studio Codespaces.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell 7 Video Series (devblogs.microsoft.com)
As a part of our PowerShell 7 release, the PowerShell Team put together a series of videos

explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group gatherings, we have decided to make these videos available publicly on the PowerShell Team YouTube channel.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 16 2022

Serverless Event-based Automation with PowerShell & Azure Functions (youtube.com)
Automate and manage your cloud-native, hybrid, and even on-premises resources using PowerShell.

Eamon O'Reilly, who's leading the efforts at Microsoft for serverless automation, shows you how to get started.

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By: Microsoft Mechanics submitted:Jun 16 2022

Fun

A PowerShell Counting Challenge (ironscripter.us)
It is time for a new PowerShell scripting challenge. Today's challenge is targeted at beginner and

intermediate skill levels, although everyone is welcome to try their hand. To get the most out of the challenge you should do as much of all challenges posted. And really do it. Commit code to a file and not merely in your head. The best learning comes by actually doing. As always, you are encouraged to post links to your work in the comments.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 16 2022

The face you make when someone says PowerShell is dead. (twitter.com)
Glad I don't know any of those people.
By: BC Security submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 8, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

C# to PowerShell an Introduction (blog.truesec.com)
I, like most C# developers, had heard about PowerShell since it came out. I originally shunned

PowerShell as 'just a scripting language' and assumed it could never do what I could do with a custom C# tool. Over the past year I have learned how very wrong I was. In this article I will try to highlight some information about PowerShell I found useful during my transition.

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By: Tim Davis submitted:Jun 15 2022

Excel Charts from PowerShell data (powershell.city)
Looking to make Reports more sharing friendly? Script Time!!!!
By: Xajuan Smith submitted:Jun 15 2022

Get Installed PowerShell Versions (jdhitsolutions.com)
The problem I had was to remotely query a Windows system and determine what versions of PowerShell

were installed. For servers, you can use Get-WindowsFeature to check if PowerShell-V2 is installed. But what about PowerShell Core, PowerShell 7, or even a preview build? My solution was to query the registry.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

OneDrive Known Folders and PowerShell Module Installations (office365itpros.com)
The OneDrive Known Folder Move feature has been around for a couple of years. Basically, this allows

you to redirect common (well-known) folders from your PC to OneDrive so that anything created in Documents, Pictures, and the desktop is automatically saved in your OneDrive for Business account. Generally, everything works well, and I have been very happy. Except until the time came to update the Azure Active Directory preview module from 2.0.2.77 to 2.0.2.89.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShell Helper Scripts for Windows Terminal (jdhitsolutions.com)
I've spent some time over the last few days getting my Windows Terminal setup in order. Hopefull you

saw my recent post about backing up my settings.json file. I've also put together a few other simple PowerShell scripts that I use to make Windows Terminal even easier to use and manage.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 16 2022

Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces (thomasmaurer.ch)
Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces.

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 16 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

A great reminder from skatterbrainzz (twitter.com)
Don't forget (on Windows at least) you can append "| clip" to output statements to go directly to

the clipboard for faster pasting into other things. Ex. "get-process | clip".

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By: skatterbrainzz submitted:Jun 15 2022

A PowerShell Windows Terminal Toolbox (jdhitsolutions.com)
Last week I shared some PowerShell code I had been using to manage different aspects of Windows

Terminal. I also had posted a script to backup my Windows Terminal settings file. With all that code, plus other ideas brewing, it only made sense to bundle everything together into a PowerShell module.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

BridgeConf videos (youtube.com)
If you're looking for the BridgeConf videos they not on the BridgeConf YouTube channel. They are

here.

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By: PNWPSUG submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Get-MomFlowers (reddit.com)
Don't forget Mother's Day is this Sunday. (In the US that is)
By: u/sleightof52 submitted:Jun 16 2022

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May 1, 2020

Announcements!

vscode-powershell Release v2020.4.3-preview (github.com)
Come check out what's new with the PowerShell extension for VS Code.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Checking for SQL Server Updates with dbatools (flxsql.com)
For the longest time, I've been checking my SQL Server instances to see what needs patching with

Test-DbaBuild from the dbatools PowerShell module. But the result was always the same - it never returned a Service Pack or Cumulative Update target. I glossed over it because I knew what the right answer was already, but recently I decided that wasn't good enough. We need a reliable report to give to other people.

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By: Andy Levy submitted:Jun 15 2022

Combine Two JSON Files With PowerShell (jonathanmedd.net)
Over the years I've used a few different methods to combine two JSON files using PowerShell, but

today I found a neat way to do it, so thought I would document it here for easy recall next time I need to do it.

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By: Jonathan Medd submitted:Jun 15 2022

Creating Azure DevOps WIKI Pages from within a pipeline – part 1 – Stefan Stranger (stefanstranger.github.io)
Everything you need to know to create really cool documentation directly from an ARM Template during

a pipeline build.

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By: Stefan Stranger submitted:Jun 15 2022

If you want to see all scheduled tasks in a single pane (twitter.com)
Another great sweet and slick tip from Guy.
By: Guy Leech submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell ternary operator tips (itluke.online)
Like you probably know, the PowerShell ternary operator ? : is the equivalent of the If/Then/Else

statement.

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By: Luc Fullenwarth submitted:Jun 15 2022

Teams PowerShell [001] (powershellgeek.com)
I've decided to see what I can do with PowerShell to manage and work with this setup . and blogging

about it! So this will be an entire series on Teams PowerShell - including interlocking aspects like Skype, Azure AD and Exchange PowerShell.

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By: Damian Scoles submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows: Find and eliminate Duplicate Files with PowerShell (sid-500.com)
We are living in a big data world which is both a blessing and a curse. Big data usually means a

huge number of files such as photos and videos and finally a huge amount of storage space. Files are accidentally or deliberately moved from location to location without first considering that these duplicate files consumes more and more storage space. I want to change that with you in this blog post. We will search duplicate files and then move them to a different storage location for further review.

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By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

A simple Health-check / Inventory Dashboard for WVD (v-desktops.com)
So, we thought, why not build a quick healthcheck dashboard using powershell.. and the result is a

powershell based healthcheck and / Or documentation dashboard. Customers may use this to perform their day to day checks before start of business to ensure the WVD availability. and at the same time be able to keep track of their inventory on WVD.

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By: Surendra Dhondale submitted:Jun 15 2022

List all Devices in Device Manager (twitter.com)
Nice, if you need the DeviceHardwareID + want/have to use your webcam as generic usb device in

Citrix.

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By: Thorsten E. submitted:Jun 15 2022

Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell 16.0.20017.12000 (powershellgallery.com)
New SharePoint Online Management Shell version available - April 2020 monthly release

(16.0.20017.12000)

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 15 2022

Never write a batch wrapper again (reddit.com)
The purpose of this post is to share a batch script wrapper for powershell scripts with the goal

that you don't have to reinvent the wheel and write one yourself.

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By: u/TheIncorrigible1 submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

The Anatomy of a PowerShell Command (freecontent.manning.com)
A great abstract from the book "Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches: Linux and macOS Edition" by

Travis Plunk. And a great refresher for those who've been using PowerShell for years.

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By: Travis Plunk submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Building a Network Usage PowerShell Monitor (ironscripter.us)
The Chairman has issued a new PowerShell scripting challenge if you feel you are worthy of accepting

it. These challenges are meant to not only prove your worth as a PowerShell Warrior but to also help educate and hone your skills. You are encouraged to post links to your work and solutions in the comments so that others may learn from your wisdom and experience.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 15 2022

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April 24, 2020

Announcements!

Release v7.1.0-preview.2 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
Come test out the latest build of PowerShell
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows Terminal Preview v0.11 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are back with one last major update before the 1.0 release of Windows Terminal! Releases between

now and then will be revisions of this version. This is the v0.11 release and you can download the Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's see what has changed with this update!

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automatically uploading applications to intune tenants (cyberdrain.com)
So I've been doubting if I should make this blog. I found that others had already done this and

maybe my method would just be redundant. After some slight convincing I figured my method does have its merits. One of them being that it uses the secure application model, and thus its easy to apply to all partner tenants for a CSP, the other benefit is that this could run headless as a completely automated solution.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 15 2022

Deploying the WVD POC under 30 minutes (v-desktops.com)
Creating a VDI infrastructure using traditional methods is a thing of the past! VDI the very word is

all about Efficiency, Speed, Productivity. Hence we have put together list of all powershell commands that should help you deploy a WVD infrastructure framework in just under 30 minutes! For this to work as claimed.. first! ensure that you have all of the pre-requisites setup and ready to go!

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By: Surendra Dhondale submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Restore an Office 365 Mailbox for Free [Tutorial] (adamtheautomator.com)
So an admin just accidentally removed one of your executives' Office 365 mailboxes or maybe an

automation script has gone awry that decided to "clean up" your Office 365 tenant unintentionally. In that case, you've got some mailbox restoration to do! Why pay big money for expensive software when you can do it for free using some knowledge and a little PowerShell?

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

New upcoming participant report feature on Microsoft Teams meetings is going to be disabled by default. (twitter.com)
Admins can enable it by setting Meeting Policy with #PowerShell: Set-CSTeamsMeetingPolicy - Identity

Global - AllowEngagementReport "Enabled"

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By: Matti Paukkonen submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Az.Functions 0.0.3-preview (powershellgallery.com)
New PowerShell module for Azure Functions now in preview.
By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 15 2022

Backup your TechNet Gallery contributions and migrate them to GitHub with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will share a script I created that allows you to backup all your Technet Gallery

contributions on your computer and then migrate them to your GitHub (if needed).

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 15 2022

Verbtionary (gist.github.com)
An API and script for searching Merriam-Webster's thesaurus for approved PowerShell verbs
By: Josh Holbrook submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

TheShow:20:E3-VSCode-Enable ISE Mode (youtube.com)
PowerShell 7 is released! Wanna use the latest features AND get the best PowerShell performance, but

wish it was in the ISE? I got something better for you! VSCode + PowerShell Extension + Enable ISE Mode.

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 15 2022

Understanding PowerShell Comparison Operators By Example (adamtheautomator.com)
Like many other programming languages, PowerShell has various comparison operators. However, unlike

other languages, those comparison operators can look a little odd. Instead of ==, you have eq. Instead of , you've got ne. It can be confusing to newcomers. Let's demystify PowerShell comparison operators in this article.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

Writing Your First Visual Studio Code Extension (youtube.com)
This is a virtual edition of our user group, with a special focus on PowerShell Developer

technologies, Azure and of course a deep dive into PowerShell. We have made the decision to host this event virtually for the first time, and we are excited to be able to open up our local user group to the global stage for the first time! We have an evening with diverse and advanced topics prepared for you presented by experienced speakers. Registration through Eventbrite is optional, with the benefit that you'll receive an email notification with the streaming link and a calendar invite.

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By: Thomas Rayner submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Fun with ASCII Art (twitter.com)
Can't sleep so here's a neat way to create ASCII text with PowerShell.
By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Left-Center-Right (jdhitsolutions.com)
Normally, I'd leave a post like this for a Friday Fun article. But given the situation these days, I

thought some of you might like to start your week off with a little fun. And maybe even learn a little PowerShell along the way. If your family is anything like mine, you are hopefully spending...

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Upcoming Events

Chicago PowerShell Users Group (CPUG) Virtual Meetup (secure.meetup.com)
Wed Apr 29 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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April 17, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Application Gateway Ingress Controller Deployment Script (buchatech.com)
In this blog post, I want to share a script I built that deploys the AGIC. There are many steps to

deploying the AGIC and I figured this is something folks will need to deploy over and over so it makes sense to make it a little easier to do.

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By: Steve Buchanan submitted:Jun 15 2022

Backup all your TechNet Gallery contributions with PowerShell (systanddeploy.com)
In this post I will show you a script I created that allows you to backup all your Technet Gallery

contributions on your computer.

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By: Damien Van Robaeys submitted:Jun 15 2022

DHCP scopes: Check their utilization with this PowerShell script (techgenix.com)
Whether you have implemented Windows DHCP servers or a third-party DHCP server, it is necessary to

monitor the utilization of DHCP scopes. While Microsoft provides System Center Operations Manager and necessary management packs to monitor all aspects of DHCP servers including monitoring of DHCP scopes, the System Center suite is very expensive and it requires a considerable amount of time to implement all of its components just to enable monitoring of a few servers. In this article, we learn how we can use simple PowerShell commands and a PowerShell script to check the utilization of DHCP scopes on multiple DHCP servers.

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By: Nirmal Sharma submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Create a Beautiful HTML Report with PowerShell (adamtheautomator.com)
PowerShell is a powerful tool that helps you simplify and automate tedious and repetitive tasks.

Administrators typically use PowerShell to extract information from a system or database when the data set required has to be presented as a report. But reports in text or CSV files usually lack the flare and fancy styling of HTML.

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By: Dan Dimalanta submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use cases for PowerShell Help Messages (itluke.online)
If you are like me, when you type a command line, you hit the TAB key to auto-fill parameters'

values. Or, when you don't know which value to enter, you hit CTRL + C and you use a search engine or the Get-Help -Name CmdletName -Parameter ParameterName command line to find out which value to enter.

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By: Luc Fullenwarth submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Introducing Data Mashup Cmdlets (bengribaudo.com)
Maybe you'd like to extract the Power Query mashups embedded in a folder full of Excel or Power BI

files without opening each file one by one. Perhaps you have an M function or query you'd like to mass import into a collection of files. Then there's version control-you'd like a mechanism to manipulate the mashups in files so that you can wire up a version control setup. If any of these possibilities perk your interest, Data Mashup Cmdlets may be a useful tool in your Power Query toolkit.

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By: Ben Gribaudo submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Core Concept: Regex for N00bs (youtube.com)
REGEX!!! It's often misunderstood and hated by many! But the truth is regex is super powerful and

sometime it's the best tool for the job! Ever wish you could learn Regex in a simple, straightforward tutorial with one of the best speakers in the PowerShell community? Thomas Rayner is Microsoft security engineer, blogger, Pluralsight author and Microsoft MVP. He is one of the brightest minds in the PowerShell community and he will be here showing us all how to use regex to solve complex tasks.

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By: Thomas Rayner submitted:Jun 15 2022

Shell of an Idea: The untold history of PowerShell (leanpub.com)
I can't wait to start digging into this. Author Don Jones was with PowerShell from the beginning,

and through a series of core team interviews, community discussions, and background research, he brings you this: the untold story of PowerShell, a Shell of an Idea.

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By: Don Jones submitted:Jun 15 2022

Slicing and Dicing with PowerShell on GitLab CI (youtube.com)
All the ways to use PowerShell on GitLab CI - including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core 7 on

Linux and Windows.

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By: Darwin Sanoy submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

How to log in to the Matrix in PowerShell (twitter.com)

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I made a color theme for ISE (reddit.com)
Hey there PoSh community, I have been working in the PowerShell ISE for a while at work and really

don't like the color theme, so I made a new one that matches my VSCode and wanted to share.

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By: u/Lyko5 submitted:Jun 15 2022

Pestering for a PowerShell Challenge (ironscripter.us)
Sadly, with the demise of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit in 2020, there will be no Iron

Scripter Game. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to hone your skills. The Chairman has been pestered the last several weeks for a new challenge. So be careful what you ask for.

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By: Iron Scripter submitted:Jun 15 2022

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April 10, 2020

Announcements!

Pester v5 – release candidate 1 (github.com)
Pester release candidate is finally here! As the name suggests this release is close to final and

most things that I wanted to get working actually work. This version is already stable enough to be used for new projects, and is the recommended choice if you just started learning Pester. If you own a larger project, please give it a try and report back.

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By: Jakub Jares submitted:Jun 15 2022

Regarding the change on PSGallery to require TLS1.2 (twitter.com)
Regarding the change on PSGallery to require TLS1.2, we're going to update the change so that 1.2 is

default, but 1.1 and 1.0 are still supported (for now). Sorry about that.

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By: Steve Lee submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

5 PowerShell tools to help simplify admin tasks and support (searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com)
Here, we examine five companies that offer products and services that focus on or heavily depend on

PowerShell. We'll examine each product's focus, target audience, pricing and how each PowerShell tool integrates into the bigger tech ecosystem. Note that product costs are listed in U.S. dollars.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring DNS record changes (cyberdrain.com)
At my company we use a dynamic DNS service for load balancing or failover. This is great because

clients don't notice downtime when a failover or load balancing action occurs. It makes everything smooth and fluent for clients and users of our systems. The only problem with this is that sometimes a failover occurs and you don't notice. Great for users, not so great for administrators; if a server crashes in the woods, did it really crash at all? To make sure we always get notified about these situations we use the following script via our RMM system.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 15 2022

Replicate your favorite VSCode theme in Windows Terminal (powers-hell.com)
Windows Terminal has been out for around 6 months now and it's safe to say it's a huge success. It's

a great way to handle working with multiple terminal applications in one space, and the ability to customize the environment to suit your needs (both aesthetic and functional) make it a perfect tool for anyone who lives in a shell environment for hours on end.

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By: Ben Reader submitted:Jun 15 2022

Understanding PowerShell Modules (powershell.one)
Almost all PowerShell commands live in modules, and by adding new modules to PowerShell, you can

easily add more commands. Here is all you need to know about PowerShell modules.

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By: Dr. Tobias Weltner submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PrimalScript 2020 adds PowerShell 7 support (sapien.com)
PrimalScript 2020 (7.7.139) adds PowerShell 7 support. While we have had the ability to run scripts

in a PowerShell 6 or 7 console for some time, support for new language elements, packaging, etc. was not implemented yet. Now that PowerShell 7 was released, we have added full support for it across the board. I should note here that we do not install PowerShell 7 for you.

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By: SAPIEN Technologies submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSQueue (github.com)
A PowerShell Class that uses Stacks and Queues to process/hold information.
By: Josh Rickard submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Getting started with Azure Automation and Power Automate (youtube.com)
In this video, I give a short interview about how you can get started using Azure Automation and

Power Automate to integrated PowerShell into your Flows and never leave the Microsoft Cloud!

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By: Intelligink submitted:Jun 15 2022

Why Powershell is SO Powerful (youtube.com)
PowerShell was my first programming language thanks to the book Learn PowerShell in a Month of

Lunches by Don Jones coupled with studying for my MCSE. Once I learned how powerful scripting and automating tasks could be, it set me on a path that changed my career. PowerShell is similar to other languages like Python, but the Pipeline is where it sets itself apart. Let's break down why the pipeline is so powerful!

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By: Knox Hutchinson submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

April Fools Day: PowerShell Tips, Tricks & Dad Jokes with Steven Judd (youtube.com)
Our speaker for this session is Steven Judd, who is a Digital Security Analyst at Devon Energy

Corporation. Steven's day to day focus is on DevOps and cloud focused solutions and infrastructure. Steven has amassed a bunch of fun and unusual tips and tricks over the years and he'll be sharing them with you!

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By: Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group submitted:Jun 15 2022

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