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April 3, 2020

Announcements!

PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 Call For Authors (powershell.org)
We are looking for one chapter per author on the topics of PowerShell, DevOps, WinOps, Open Source,

or IT Careers. Topic depths can range from novice to expert. Chapters can be technical or cover cultural aspects. Authors can be new or well established.

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By: Mark Kraus submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automatically alert your team when your tenant is running low or out of Office 365 license (insterswap.wordpress.com)
I would like to kick off this post with a question. Why would Microsoft create something so BB (big

and beautiful) and forget to add an alert to indicate when a license SKU is running low? I have not seen any feature within Office 365 that sends one a notification when a tenant license SKU is low.

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By: u/kdships submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Create Prompts in PowerShell (jeffbrown.tech)
In this post, I'm going to demonstrate two ways to create prompts in PowerShell and how to take

action on the response.

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By: Jeff Brown submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Upload Files to Azure Storage (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
In recent days there has been a push to move our team's in-person presentations online. In some

cases we've been asked to record our presentations. Storage has quickly become an issue and so I have been investigating ways to transfer the recorded presentations to the cloud. Now the transfer can take place via GUI however automating the transfer might be needed in future. Luckily uploading files to Azure Storage via PowerShell is an option.

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By: Anthony Bartolo submitted:Jun 15 2022

Microsoft pushed a new detection capability for AMSI/Defende (twitter.com)
Image on the left shows how executing a stored variable with IEX used to bypass AMSI and the right

shows how it's now detected. IEX now appears to have a new Fully Qualified Error ID.

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By: BC-Security submitted:Jun 15 2022

Oneliner to Tail the Windows Eventlog (cloudywindows.io)
Since switching focus to the cloud I am doing more and more pure CLI admin of Windows. One of the

pains of windows admin from a console is accessing the windows eventlog. Since they are not simple text files like Linux, special PowerShell CMDLets must be used to retrieve them. Due to the frequency of needing to do it, one of the biggest challenges is tailing an eventlog while waiting for results.

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By: Darwin Sanoy submitted:Jun 15 2022

Under The Stairs: Setting up an SMTP Relay using SendGrid (tfl09.blogspot.com)
Setting up both IIS and the email relay service which SendGrid provides are straightforward to set

up. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do this.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 15 2022

Using PowerShell to Delete Files [All the Ways] (adamtheautomator.com)
Maintaining free disk space is crucial when managing servers and systems. As admins, you wouldn't

want to get caught unaware of a 'disk full' situation. We all know where that situation leads - dismounted database, stopped services, inaccessible website, and the list goes on.

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Working Remotely – Different solutions for Small Businesses with Powershell and SSH Tunnels (scriptinglibrary.com)
The first quarter of 2020 changed our personal and professional life in a lot of ways. I've read a

lot of articles around the trends of adoption of cloud services and all software that should facilitate the challenge of enabling in every country the same practices and processes of working remotely.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Automating with PowerShell: Automating intune Autopilot configuration (cyberdrain.com)
So yesterday I was watching a webinar about intune and Autopilot. Autopilot is pretty cool for MSPs

because it becomes fairly simple to give users a nice OOBE. It also makes setup for devices a lot less of a hassle, the only issue that was spoken about during the webinar is that there is still a lot of manual clicking. This is why I took it upon myself to create some automation scripts for AutoPilot.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 15 2022

COV-ID-19 PowerShell Prompt (powershell.co.at)
Information sometimes helps. COV-ID-19 information is currently everywhere, so i thought, why not on

the PS Prompt ? This is a guide, on how to get current COV-ID-19 Data everytime you open a new PowerShell host.

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By: Roman Stadlmair submitted:Jun 15 2022

IntuneDocumentation 2.0.12 (powershellgallery.com)
Automatic Intune Documentation to simplify the life of admins and consultants.
By: Thomas Kurth submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell profile to add some functionality for Windows Terminal (gist.github.com)
PowerShell profile to add some functionality for Windows Terminal
By: Matt Graeber submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Linux and macOS Edition (manning.com)
Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Linux and macOS Edition is a task-focused tutorial for

administering Linux and macOS systems using Microsoft PowerShell. Adapted by PowerShell team members Travis Plunk and Tyler Leonhardt from the bestselling Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches by community legends Don Jones and Jeffrey Hicks, it features Linux-based examples covering core language features and admin tasks. Designed for busy IT professionals, this innovative guide will take you from the basics to PowerShell proficiency through 25 tutorials you can do in your lunch break.

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By: Travis Plunk and Tyler Leonhardt submitted:Jun 15 2022

PluralSight Offering 1 month free courses (pluralsight.com)
Build in-demand tech skills without leaving your house. Get free access to 7,000+ expert-led video

courses and more all month long.

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By: PluralSight submitted:Jun 15 2022

TheShow:20:E2 – ActiveDirectory (youtube.com)
PowerShell 7 is released! Let's start with one of the most common questions I get - Can I use the

Active Directory Cmdlets on PowerShell 7? Yes!

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Bored at home? I made a PowerShell Capture the Flag (reddit.com)
The objective is to read the contents of the text file located at

D:homesitewwwrootRunArbitraryCodeflag.txt

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By: u/DarrenDK submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerArcade: A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell (github.com)
Yes, you read that correct. A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell!
By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 15 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.

March 27, 2020

Announcements!

Microsoft and Facebook Are Helping to Organize a Giant Hackathon to Combat Coronavirus (inc.com)
Got tech skills? #BuildforCOVID19 is your chance to pitch in and potentially save lives.
By: Jessica Stillman submitted:Jun 15 2022

Power Lunch (twitter.com)
Hey PowerShell Fam! If you haven't heard already, during the COVID-19 pandemic, @MrThomasRayner and

I are combating Social Isolation with a weekly #PowerLunch on Zoom at Noon Wednesdays (PDT)! Come hang out!

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By: Adilio-vid-19 submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell 7.1 Team Investments and Preview.1 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes

that did not make it in time for the 7.0 release. It also includes .NET 5 preview 1!

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By: Steve Lee submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Add a PowerShell Remote Session in Windows Terminal (thomasmaurer.ch)
I am sure you have heard about the new Windows Terminal, which is in preview, and you can get it

from the Windows Store. In this blog post, I want to share how you can add a PowerShell remote session to the drop-down menu in the Windows Terminal when you open a new tab. The new Windows Terminal is highly customizable and it allows you to run different shells like the classic command prompt, Windows PowerShell, PowerShell 7, and also Windows Subsystem for Linux shells (I am using, for example, Ubuntu with the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2)).

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By: Thomas Maurer submitted:Jun 15 2022

Everything you wanted to know about ShouldProcess (powershellexplained.com)
PowerShell functions are very robust with several features that greatly improves the way users

interact with them. One important feature that is often overlooked is -WhatIf and -Confirm support and it is easy to add to your functions. In this article, we will dive deep into how to implement this feature.

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By: Kevin Marquette submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Up your Game with PowerShell Try Catch Blocks (adamtheautomator.com)
Have you ever run a script or a PowerShell cmdlet and get confronted with a screaming wall of text -

in red - like the one shown below?

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell 7 Cross-Platform Scripting Tips and Traps (jdhitsolutions.com)
One of the reasons you want to adopt PowerShell 7 on your desktop, is that it can be used

cross-platform. Theoretically, you can write a PowerShell script or function that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac. However, this is not without challenges. In some ways, it feels like we are back to the early days of PowerShell scripting where we are all trying to figure out what to do. Based on my experiences, let me share some thoughts on what I think you should keep in mind.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell Switch Statement: Much More than If/Then (adamtheautomator.com)
The concept of conditional logic in programming is not anything new. Conditional logic is a fancy

term for first checking for a condition (if something happened) and then doing something as a result of that condition.

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use cases for the new null coalescing operator in PowerShell 7 (itluke.online)
I was just watching the recent presentation from the Research Triangle PowerShell Users Group, in

which there is a demo about the new null coalescing operator in PowerShell 7 (by the way you should really subscribe to their Youtube channel!). And, someone asked what could be a use case for this operator.

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By: Luc FULLENWARTH submitted:Jun 15 2022

Use deployment scripts in templates (docs.microsoft.com)
Learn how to use deployment scripts in Azure Resource templates. With a new resource type called

Microsoft.Resources/deploymentScripts, users can execute deployment scripts in template deployments and review execution results. These scripts can be used for performing custom steps such as:

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By: Microsoft submitted:Jun 15 2022

What’s new with Select-String in PowerShell7? (networkadm.in)
Select-String is one of those commands that either you use it often or not much at all. There

doesn't seem to be a middle of the road for Select-String. I don't get called upon to use it that often, but when I do, it usually saves my bacon at work. The most typical use case for me is for searching flat log files for patterns of text or for all entries of a particular phrase across a bunch of files.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows Server DomainController find LDAP binds (blog.it-koehler.com)
Some time ago Microsoft announced the changing of default domain controller behavior for ldap and

ldap signing. See LINK. This affects every supported version of Windows Server (from 2008R2 till 2019). There is another LINK ADV190023 with detailed explanation.

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By: Alexander Koehler submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Fast Deploy Microsoft Teams for Education (github.com)
These set of scripts are designed to help small schools, co-ops, and tutors quickly get up and

running using Microsoft Teams

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By: Matthew Dowst submitted:Jun 15 2022

Managing Azure Functions via PowerShell (gist.github.com)
Some great examples of how to manage Azure Functions with PowerShell
By: Francisco Gamino submitted:Jun 15 2022

Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools 0.4.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Cross-platform Console Gui Tools for PowerShell
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSGuacamole (github.com)
PowerShell functions useful to manage Apache Guacamole
By: Matthieu C. submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows Virtual Desktop – Cleanup (mczerniawski.pl)
How to remove all artifacts from WVD using PowerShell
By: Mateusz Czerniawski submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

From Admin to DevOps (leanpub.com)
If you want to know a No BS way to 'do the DevOps' in Azure, you're in luck. You will not only learn

how to implement DevOps tools and strategies in Azure but more importantly why. Prepare yourself to embark on a DevOps in Azure journey!

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By: Adam Bertram and Michael Levan submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell Conference Book: Volume 2: Now Available in Print (amazon.com)
Forty subject matter experts have teamed up to bring you the ultimate collection of PowerShell

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: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

What’s a cmdlet that you use a lot or just have used before, that some on here might not have heard of before? (reddit.com)
I love when one of these threads come up. Even after all these years, I never fail to learn

something new.

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By: u/afbrh submitted:Jun 15 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.

March 20, 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.

March 13, 2020

Announcements!

A new kind of GridView right in your console: Introducing the early preview of ConsoleGuiTools (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools is a module that will contain a set of cmdlets that enable

console-based GUIs. Today, it contains one very important cmdlet: Out-ConsoleGridView.

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By: Tyler Leonhardt submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Changes to Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell 7 (tommymaynard.com)
As we continue, do keep in mind that Invoke-RestMethod can do much more than what we've seen so far,

and what we'll cover. It can do POST requests, handle pagination, handle multipart/form-data, and it can pass in multiple headers if required. Don't forget about authentication and credentials; it can handle those, as well.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 15 2022

Justin Grote on Twitter: Serverless is the future. (twitter.com)
My Azure Functions Powershell, which processed 496,000 tickets last month, including a peak of

14,000 tickets a second, georedundant across 8 azure regions, cost $8 to run last month

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell 7 Experimental Features (powershell.anovelidea.org)
Earlier today, I posted an article on experimental features of PowerShell 7. I go beyond the basic

commands and provide examples of two features and a demo module.

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By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell 7 Profile Paths and Locations (ridicurious.com)
Apart from these major feature releases there are some changes in directory paths as well if you are

coming from Windows PowerShell v5.1, like the default locations where your $Profiles are stored is changed.

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By: Prateek Singh submitted:Jun 15 2022

Searching for a string in half-a-million file names. What’s the fastest way? (reddit.com)
A great discussion on an often thought about topic.
By: u/shalafi71 submitted:Jun 15 2022

Staying up to Date on PowerShell Releases with Update Notifications (toastit.dev)
If you're not stalking the PowerShell team on Twitter, or obsessively refreshing the PowerShell repo

on GitHub, how are you meant to be aware of new releases?

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By: Josh King submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Using PowerShell Markdown Cmdlets (duffney.io)
The vast majority of the technical documentation written today is written in Markdown. From Jane's

dev blog to Microsoft's PowerShell documentation, markdown is behind it. Markdown is a light weight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax. Markup languages were designed to be easy to write using a generic text editor and easy to read in its raw from without rendering. Markdown's success is largely in part because it does this very well. It is easy to read without being rendered. It also does not require a bunch of opening and closing tags. Which are difficult to read and time consuming to type. Markdown has an extensive list of features that allow you to; style font, define headings, create tables, create hyperlinks, define code snippets, and much more. Recently, a few new Markdown cmdlets were introduced to PowerShell. These cmdlets allow you to work with Markdown from the terminal. They allow you to render the markdown as HTML or to view it within a terminal window using AsVT100 Encoding. In this blog post, you'll learn how to use these cmdlets to render and output Markdown using PowerShell.

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By: Josh Duffney submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Collaboration between Teams: PowerShell and .NET!
We're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Steve Lee and

Richard Lander discuss how the PowerShell and .NET Teams are working more closely together bringing better compatibility and performance.

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By: Rich Lander submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Norwegian PowerShell User Group on Twitter: (twitter.com)
Yes, there will be stickers
By: NorwegianPUG submitted:Jun 15 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.

March 6, 2020

Announcements!

Announcing PowerShell 7.0 GA (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before

anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue feedback. PowerShell 7 would not have been possible without your help.

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Visual Studio Code for PowerShell 7 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for

Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening months. If you are new to Visual Studio Code this article is helpful for getting started. If you already use Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension, read on to find out what is new.

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By: Sydney Smith submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Designing Professional Parameters (powershell.one)
With the help of the attribute [Parameter()], you can define sophisticated PowerShell parameters

that enhance usability and versatility of your functions.

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By: Dr. Tobias Weltner submitted:Jun 15 2022

Getting data from Power BI using PowerShell (powershell.no)
In this article, we are going to have a look at how to access data in Power BI from PowerShell.
By: Jan Egil Ring submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to rename Windows 10 devices in Intune using PowerShell | | System Center ConfigMgr (scconfigmgr.com)
With more and more organisations around embracing management through Endpoint Manager/Intune and

using provisioning technologies like Autopilot, sometimes small things like the computer naming conventions can be overlooked. Autopilot has methods to use to apply computer naming, but what happens if you were to deploy several hundred or thousands of devices and need to change their computers names?

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By: Maurice Daly submitted:Jun 15 2022

It’s Likely We’re Living in a PSSession (toastit.dev)
PowerShell remoting is a truly powerful tool, but sometimes your scripts need a little help finding

their way. How can you tell when you're in a PSSession and what info is available about the session itself?

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By: Josh King submitted:Jun 15 2022

Using PowerShell to generate and deploy Group Policies for non-domain environments (cyberdrain.com)

By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 15 2022

Why I use Visual Studio Code to write PowerShell (trevorsullivan.net)
Since 2009, PowerShell users have been rewarded with an improvement over Notepad, for authoring

PowerShell scripts and modules. That tool is called the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE), which was originally included out-of-box with Windows 7 and PowerShell version 2.0. Over the years, PowerShell developers have used tools like Quest PowerGUI and Visual Studio with the PowerShell Tools Extension to write, test, and debug their PowerShell code. In fact, not all that long ago, I wrote about moving from PowerGUI over to Visual Studio for your PowerShell development work. Since then, the momentum in the software field has gotten more and more agile, requiring developers to invest more and more time learning, and less time focusing on their business logic.

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By: Trevor Sullivan submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PoshBot 0.12.0 (powershellgallery.com)
v0.12.0 is out and ensures TLS1.2 is used for Slack websockets. Slack deprecated TLS 1.0/1.1 so

you'll want this update. Oh, and one more thing, it now supports Discord backends as well!?? Go and get your PowerShell ChatOps on!

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By: Brandon Olin submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Welcome To PowerShell 7! (channel9.msdn.com)
We're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Joey Aiello and

Sydney Smith, PowerShell PM's, stop by to introduce the latest news and features in PowerShell 7.

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By: Channel 9 submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

How many Services does Microsoft Azure Offer? (mikefrobbins.com)
I've recently wondered how many service offerings Azure has. I've read anywhere from 150 to 600 and

I even went so far as to ask an Azure Product Manager but still didn't receive a clear answer. What I did find out is that Microsoft maintains an Azure services directory on their Azure products website. I figured that was a good place to start looking and while the website is informative, it didn't provide a count of the service offerings. Manually counting them wouldn't be an efficient or accurate way of accomplishing the task of determining how many services are offered so I decided to use PowerShell for the task.

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By: Mike F Robbins submitted:Jun 15 2022

psweekly202010 on Twitter (twitter.com)
Clearing the recycle bin - the modern way ??
By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jun 15 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.

February 28, 2020

Announcements!

PowerShell v7.0.0-rc.3 Released (github.com)
Last Friday saw the newest release of PowerShell v7 with release candidate 3.
By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Release history of modules and cmdlets (docs.microsoft.com)
This article lists the modules and cmdlets that ship with various versions of PowerShell. This is a

summary of information found in the release notes. More detailed information can be found in the release notes:

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By: PowerShell Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

Reporting OneDrive for Business Storage (office365itpros.com)
A couple of years ago, retrieving information about OneDrive for Business sites with PowerShell

usually involved some gyrations. Then Microsoft updated the Get-SPOSite cmdlet with the IncludePersonalSite switch and things became easier. For instance, a reader asked if it was possible to generate a report listing all the OneDrive for Business sites in a tenant with the storage allocated and used for each site. No problem, we thought, as we scanned the internet to see if people had already solved the problem. As it happens, several example scripts are available, but we ended up writing our own because it was possible to simplify the code . We also store the output in a CSV file as it's a very flexible format for reporting or further analysis (like importing into Power BI).

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 15 2022

Right Tool For The Job (david-obrien.net)
A few years ago my focus shifted from on-premises to cloud (Azure and AWS) and this taught me that

my toolset must evolve in order for me to keep up with the industry. I, the Citrix and ConfigMgr / SCCM guy, started learning about infrastructure as code, CI/CD, C#, Python, NodeJS, Go and modern ways of managing infrastructure in a cloud environment. I am far off from being fluent in any of those other programming languages, but know enough to think I can pick the right tool for the job.

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By: David O'Brien submitted:Jun 15 2022

WMI Reference for PowerShell (powershell.one)
The most complete WMI Reference for PowerShell
By: TobiasPSP submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

PSScriptTools Updated (twitter.com)
I updated PSScriptTools to fix a few minor bugs in Get-FolderSizeInfo. While I was at it, I added a

new command.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

.NET PowerShell Notebooks – Using Pester (sqldbawithabeard.com)
Using Pester to validate that an environment is as you expect it is a good resource for incident

resolution, potentially enabling you to quickly establish an area to concentrate on for the issue. However, if you try to run Pester in a .NET Notebook you will receive an error. Now let Rob show you how to fix it.

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By: Rob Sewell submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerScripting Podcast : Episode 330 (powerscripting.libsyn.com)
With special guest PowerShell MVP Adam Driscoll
By: PowerScripting Podcast submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition (manning.com)
PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows

PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor-not on your bookshelf!

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By: Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

How to Get Beautiful Free Rotating Windows Backgrounds (hanswustrack.com)
I wrote a script to download high res images for my desktop background using Unsplash's free API.

Sort of like Spotlight, except for your desktop background. Check it out!

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By: Hans Wustrack submitted:Jun 15 2022

We got a mascot! Say hello to… uhm. (twitter.com)
We actually don't have a name. Any suggestions?
By: Norwegian PowerShell User Group submitted:Jun 15 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.

February 21, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

AWS Key Management Service (docs.aws.amazon.com)
PowerShell examples for AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
By: June Blender submitted:Jun 15 2022

Did you know both array and dictionary index accessors in #PowerShell supports array expressions as index values? (twitter.com)
I learned something very useful today, thanks to Mathias.
By: Mathias Jessen submitted:Jun 15 2022

Install PowerShell 7 On WSL and Ubuntu (saggiehaim.net)
With PowerShell 7, we get the best PowerShell edition, most importantly, it's cross-platform! While

last time we installed the latest PowerShell 7 on a container, sometimes we don't want just a plain environment with PowerShell, sometimes we want a to add other tools, change system configurations or use different Linux Distros.

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By: Saggie Haim submitted:Jun 15 2022

Microsoft Endpoint Manager Documentation and Export tool (deploymentresearch.com)
I have just published a tool (PowerShell script) on github to create a comprehensive documentation

of a tenant and also export all settings in JSON format that can also be used for importing settings again in the same tenant or even another. This can be very useful in a scenario where there is a DEV-tenant and then a production tenant to make sure the settings are the same in both.

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By: Mattias Benninge submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Scripting in Azure DevOps Pipelines (adamtheautomator.com)
Did you know you can natively run scripts like PowerShell in Azure DevOps (AzDo) pipelines? By using

the tips and techniques you'll learn in this article, you'll be well on your way to scripting your way to automation greatness.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSA: ActiveDirectory module works natively with PowerShell Core (6.2/7.0) (reddit.com)
I saw that a few people couldn't use PowerShell 7.0 because the ActiveDirectory module isn't

supported. You can totally run the ActiveDirectory module, natively, without using the WindowsCompatibility module! This is one of the most under-reported facts of PowerShell 7, even going as far back as 6.1

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By: u/Emiroda submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell Block Comment and Commenting Best Practices (adamtheautomator.com)
Learn how and when to create block comments in PowerShell and many best practices for writing

descriptive comments!

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Hyper-V Backup Utility – Stick To The Script (gal.vin)
This script will create a full backup of virtual machines, complete with configuration,

snapshots/checkpoints, and VHD files.

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By: Mike Galvin submitted:Jun 15 2022

New Machine Setup with PowerShell profile (github.com)
So happy that I wrote a script for setting up a new Windows machine last time Windows chrashed hard

. From nothing to usable in less than 30 minutes thanks to @chocolateynuget , #boxstarter and #powershell.

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By: Patrik Svensson submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSEmailRep PowerShell Module (kyleparrish.com)
PSEmailRep is a simple PowerShell module to interface with the EmailRep.io API.
By: Kyle Parrish submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Azure AD PowerShell Module Options (youtube.com)
In this video I walk through the key modules that can be used to manage Azure AD with PowerShell

including a look at the old and a focus on the new!

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By: John Savill submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Can we start a PowerShell project of the day?
Certainly an interesting idea, and a great way to continue learning for users at all levels.
By: u/iliketonukeitnukeit submitted:Jun 15 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.

February 14, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Cleaning data (reddit.com)
I've recently had to deal with some messy data, and put together a bunch of small regex-based

replace operations.

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By: u/akaBrotherNature submitted:Jun 15 2022

Monitoring the Network Load with Powershell (scriptinglibrary.com)
Monitoring is an important activity in IT operations, it's essential for correlating the state of

all the moving parts of our systems and applications and create a big picture of the health of the whole environment. Before going down the rabbit hole of complicated monitoring tools and techniques let's start with define a that monitoring can be subjective and on a case-by-case can be very basic or detailed and can let you choose a specific tool or strategy. There is no one-size-fits-all. This week I needed to implement a custom check to monitor the network load/usage on any Windows OS and instead of looking for a third-party tool and deploying maybe another agent on servers I wrote a Powershell script to perform this activity.

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By: Paolo Frigo submitted:Jun 15 2022

Obfuscating PowerShell Scripts in Packaged Executables (ironmansoftware.com)
In this post, we will look at what obfuscation is and how to obfuscate scripts in your packaged

executables using PowerShell Pro Tools.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Beginners Have to Start Somewhere (powershell.anovelidea.org)
Learn basic PowerShell concepts and apply them to the beginner's Iron Scripter challenge.
By: Dave Carroll submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Remoting Profiles with Windows Terminal (jdhitsolutions.com)
I have jumped in the deep end and fully committed to Windows Terminal as my default PowerShell

environment. I love having one interface with tabs for different terminal profiles. Windows Terminal makes it easy for me to have tabs open to PowerShell 7, Windows PowerShell, an Ubuntu instance or even a PowerShell session with no profile. The last piece I needed was an easy way to launch a Windows Terminal profile and connect to a remote computer. Want to see how I did it?

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Today, the .NET team shipped an exciting new preview of .NET Interactive. If you're unfamiliar, .NET

Interactive (within a Jupyter environment) provides the ability to write .NET Jupyter Notebooks which are a powerful tool that combines documentation and the ability to execute and see the output of code all in the same file.

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By: Tyler Leonhardt submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Release Notes – OSDSUS (osdsus.osdeploy.com)
OSDSUS 20.2.11 PatchTuesday for OSDBuilder OSDUpdate and WIMWitch is released with new updates for

just about everything.

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By: David Segura submitted:Jun 15 2022

SecretsManagement.KeePass (twitter.com)
I made a Powershell SecretsManagement Keepass provider extension proof of concept!
By: Justin Grote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell and Regular Expressions | Pluralsight (pluralsight.com)
If you are a PowerShell Pro who needs to know what regular expressions are and how to take advantage

of them in PowerShell, then this course is for you. Learn the regex fundamentals, from matching, splitting, replacing, to turning text into objects.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Drum Machine! (twitter.com)
Staying up until 3am sequencing a part of "New Order - Blue Monday" on a Drum Machine and a

Synthesizer using only #PowerShell was totally worth it!

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By: Lee Berg submitted:Jun 15 2022

Simple Number Guessing Game to teach my elementary aged children about coding (reddit.com)
I wrote this for my elementary aged children to teach them about how coding works. I'm slightly

proud of this and thought I'd share.

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By: u/tk42967 submitted:Jun 15 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.

February 7, 2020

Announcements!

PowerShell User Groups (social.technet.microsoft.com)
Thanks to a tweet from Joel Bennett the list of user groups has been updated. Be sure to check out

your local one soon.

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By: Joel Bennett submitted:Jun 15 2022

Who is your 2020 PowerShell Hero? (powershell.org)
Once again nominations are open for the 2020 PowerShell Community Heros. We want to know who in our

community has gone above and beyond. Be sure to submit those you feel make a real difference out there.

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By: powershell.org submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Microsoft Launches Preview PowerShell Module for Graph (petri.com)
In a September 2019 Petri.com article, I discuss how to use Microsoft Graph API calls with

PowerShell to expose information that can't be accessed with PowerShell cmdlets. In the example given, we use the PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to make Graph calls to fetch the email addresses of Teams channels because this is a property that you can't get with any of the cmdlets in any Office 365 PowerShell module.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jun 15 2022

PnP PowerShell in Azure Automation tips (msclouddeveloper.com)
A few quick tips for running PnP PowerShell in Azure Automation in this article.
By: Jurgen Wiersema submitted:Jun 15 2022

Powershell 7 Best Foot Forward.pptx (adslus-my.sharepoint.com)
The final version of Justin's awesome PowerShell 7 presentation.
By: Justin Grote submitted:Jun 15 2022

powershell import csv foreach (adamtheautomator.com)
Have you ever had to do the same task multiple times? Like, creating multiple Active Directory users

one user at a time using the GUI? Or how about logging in to a server to delete old logs from some selected folders? If your answer is yes, then know you're not alone. Most admins have gone through the same laborious process.

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Pester 4.10.0 (powershellgallery.com)
Pester version 4.10.0 has been released.
By: Pester Team submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSUnixUtilCompleters: PowerShell native command completers for core utils on *nix (github.com)
PowerShell parameter completers for native commands on Linux and macOS. This module uses completers

supplied in traditional Unix shells to complete native utility parameters in PowerShell.

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By: Rob Holt submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

The PowerShell Conference Book (leanpub.com)
The full book has been published. Grab a copy now. All (100%) of the royalties from this book are

donated to the OnRamp scholarship program. More information about the OnRamp track at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit and their scholarship program can be found on the PowerShell.org website. Plus (shameless plug) check out my chapter "Working with Dates".

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By: Michael T Lombardi et al. submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

ConvertTo-SpongeBob (github.com)
BeCaUsE wHo DoEsN't NeEd ThIs In ThEiR lIfE
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Do you think we could get away with t-shirts for the launch of PowerShell 7 (twitter.com)
I know I'd buy one
By: Joel Bennett submitted:Jun 15 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.

January 31, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Creating PowerShell GUIs in Minutes using Visual Studio (foxdeploy.com)
This post is part of the Learning GUI Toolmaking Series, here on FoxDeploy.
By: Stephen Owen submitted:Jun 15 2022

Ten ways of contributing to PowerShell on GitHub (joskw.gitbook.io)
I found the documentation on how to contribute to PowerShell/PowerShell a bit daunting. The more

links I followed, the more detailed and complex everything got. At that point I felt I was not ready to contribute. But eventually, I did. And I realized there may be more people willing to contribute to PowerShell, but don't know where to start, and there does not seem to be a guide of how to do so in an easy way. Also, there are ways to contribute apart from writing C# code.

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By: Jos Koelewijn submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell foreach Loop: Examples, Demos and Learning (adamtheautomator.com)
When you first begin writing PowerShell scripts, you'll inevitably come to a place where you need to

process multiple items from a collection. It is then you will need to dig into PowerShell foreach loops and learn what they're all about.

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By: June Castillote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Unit testing in PowerShell, introduction to Pester (dev.to)
When people (at least IT people) thinks about PowerShell, they think about some magic commands and

maybe about some scripts and sometime more. PowerShell is more than that. It's not only a sequential programming language it's also a functional language. You can create functions and modules, but not only you can use it as configuration management with DSC and other tools, you can use it in serverless platforms like AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, you can build cloud solutions either on Azure or AWS. You can build complete solutions with PowerShell.

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By: Olivier Miossec submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Keep AWS CLI on Windows up to date! (github.com)
Compares the currently installed version to the latest version. Downloads and installs the latest

version if an outdated version is detected.

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By: Tyler Applebaum submitted:Jun 15 2022

Monitor Scheduled Tasks (github.com)
We were having some odd problems with Scheduled Tasks, just not running when scheduled etc... I'm

pretty sure it was due to permissions. But that didn't stop me from writing something to monitor them! The script loops through all scheduled tasks and if it finds Tasks that haven't run in a day and aren't disabled, it will log it to a array, and then send off a email HTML Chart with relevant information.

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By: Mr Carter submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSScriptTools (github.com)
This PowerShell module contains a number of functions you might use to enhance your own functions

and scripts. The Samples folder contains demonstration script files.

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Update-WallpaperFromWindowsSpotlight.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Script to update your wallpaper to match what is on the Lockscreen Windows Spotlight.
By: Shannon Brooks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources