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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

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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

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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

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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

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

industry's two most recognized experts on the subject.

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By: Don Jones and Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Pop up a SimCity-style PowerShell loading screen (reddit.com)

By: u/weebsnore submitted:Jun 15 2022

Protip: from Adam for module developers (twitter.com)

By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 15 2022

Sneak Preview of my #Powershell 7: Best Foot Forward Presentation. (twitter.com)
A pretty cool graphic listing the new features in PowerShell 7.
By: Justin Grote submitted:Jun 15 2022

Watch out #PowerShell community, we have an up and comer! (twitter.com)
Too cute not to share.
By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

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January 24, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Four commands to help you track down insecure LDAP Bindings before March 2020 (evotec.xyz)
In March 2020, Microsoft will release its monthly updates. With those updates, Microsoft will

disable insecure LDAP Bindings, which is going to break a lot of your systems (hopefully not). But this was already communicated, and you know all about it, right? If not, you should read those two articles that can help you with understanding what is happening and when.

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By: Przemyslaw Klys submitted:Jun 15 2022

Send email from PowerShell with SendGrid (4bes.nl)
My previous blogpost described how you can use Logic Apps to send emails from a PowerShell script.

While this is a great tool, I want to show you an alternative method that might be more suitable if you have to handle a large volume of email. In this post, I will show you how to send email from PowerShell with SendGrid.

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By: Barbara 4bes submitted:Jun 15 2022

What does $_. mean in PowerShell? (techgenix.com)
If you follow my work on this site, then you know that I write a whole lot of PowerShell-related

content. One of the expressions that I tend to use in my PowerShell scripts on a regular basis is dollar sign underscore dot, (or $_.). Recently, I had someone ask me what those characters meant, and I realized that I have never really taken the time to explain the significance of this series of characters, or why they are used so frequently. So I want to take the opportunity to do that now.

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By: Brien Posey submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Microsoft Graph PowerShell Preview – Now on PowerShell Gallery – Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (developer.microsoft.com)
The Microsoft Graph PowerShell Preview 0.1.1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.
By: Darrel Miller submitted:Jun 15 2022

Monitoring Active Directory with the PowerShell module PSADHealth (4sysops.com)
The toolkit is a collection of scripts and tools that check the internal pieces of Active Directory

so you don't have to. It is not a replacement for tools already in place such as DCDiag. Instead, this toolkit comprises tools that my co-writers and I have found nowhere else. The goal of this module is to enable you to know when the core pieces of Active Directory aren't working as expected so you can take action.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 15 2022

TooManySecrets Module (github.com)
This module is useful for storing and retrieving passwords and secrets in Azure Key Vaults. This

allows for passwords and secrets to be shared among users via Azure AD authentication and policies with the relatively inexpensive Azure Key Vault resource. While communications are always encrypted and stored securely when working with the Azure Key Vault, further security can be utilized to independantly encrypting the passwords before they are transmitted to Azure.

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By: Kit submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Shell of an Idea – The Untold History of PowerShell (leanpub.com)
Introduced in 2006, Microsoft's PowerShell made an immediate, positive impact on its server products

and in the lives of the people who administer them. The world's first object-oriented shell, the first designed-from-scratch shell for the Windows operating system, and now a cross-platform management shell, PowerShell's technical achievement is significant. It's easy to look at where PowerShell is today, and not realize or remember the long and sometimes-difficult road it took to get there.

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By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

The PowerShell News Podcast Episode 025 – Interview with Jason Helmick of Microsoft (powershellnews.podbean.com)
In this episode, we interview Jason Helmick discussing PowerShell 7, the MVP Summit, the PowerShell

and DevOps Global Summit, and much more.

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By: Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

What are Some Obsure PowerShell Cmdlets that are Useful when Learned? (reddit.com)
A great thread on Reddit about some hidden gems you may not be aware of.
By: u/ImprovingPiano submitted:Jun 15 2022

Where-Object is “Adverb-Noun”; does not conform to “Verb-Noun” (reddit.com)
Many of you will hate me for littering the subreddit with this one, but anyone else ever notice

this? I wonder why they didn't use "Filter-Object" instead, since it's actually a verb...

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By: u/taylorblakeharris submitted:Jun 15 2022

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January 17, 2020

Announcements!

New PowerShell Version – v7.0.0-rc.2 Release of PowerShell (github.com)
PowerShell 7 Release Candidate 2 has been published and can be downloaded now!
By: Microsoft Github submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The release of the Windows Terminal preview v0.8 has arrived! You can download the Terminal from the

Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's jump into what's new!

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By: Kayla Cinnamon submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Azure virtual network service endpoints (yobyot.com)
This time it's a quickie PowerShell script to list all subnets in all virtual networks in all

subscriptions that have one or more Azure virtual network service endpoints assigned.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 15 2022

Background Jobs in PowerShell 7 (tfl09.blogspot.com)
With PowerShell 7, you have the option of running a job using either PowerShell 7 (ie the default)

or using Windows PowerShell 5.1.

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By: Thomas Lee submitted:Jun 15 2022

Get All The Aliases by Cmdlet in PowerShell (kpatnayakuni.com)
You can get the alias by name using Get-Alias with -Name parameter.
By: Kiran Patnayakuni submitted:Jun 15 2022

Jump Start: PowerShell Remoting (networkadm.in)
PowerShell remoting is a method you can use to connect securely to many machines with very little

effort. Using remoting, a user can quickly query information or deploy a change to multiple computers without ever having to login via a GUI or RDP. Here's a collection of content I have created on PowerShell remoting that you can use to learn how to configure and use PowerShell remoting:

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Remoting Kerberos Double Hop Solved Securely (docs.microsoft.com)
Are you facing issues with PowerShell remoting and credentials? You remote into your jump box, but

then any remoting beyond there gets a big red ACCESS DENIED. Maybe you've tried CredSSP, but people say that isn't safe. Read today's post for a completely legit, secure, safe, and easy way to enable Kerberos double hop for PowerShell remoting.

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By: Ashley McGlone submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Printer-Remapper (github.com)
Deletes network printers & their corresponding printer drivers, & then re-installs the printers
By: Justin Lund submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSGalleryExplorer: Search, explore, and discover PowerShell Gallery modules (github.com)
PSGalleryExplorer is a PowerShell module that lets you search, explore, and discover PowerShell

Gallery modules based on various criteria.

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By: Jake Morrison submitted:Jun 15 2022

PSpanner: Simple Network Scanner (reddit.com)
The idea was a simple, lightweight scanner that can be used as an alternative to tools like nmap.
By: secrascol submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Securing Windows with PowerShell Training (sans.org)
You will leave this course ready to start writing your own PowerShell scripts to help secure your

Windows environment. It's easy to find Windows security checklists, but how do you automate those changes across thousands of machines? How do you safely run scripts on many remote boxes? In this course you will learn not just Windows and Active Directory security, but how to manage security using PowerShell.

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By: Jason Fossen submitted:Jun 15 2022

Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition (manning.com)
Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is an end-to-end revision of the definitive guide to

PowerShell. Written by language designer Bruce Payette and MVP Richard Siddaway, this rich book offers a crystal-clear introduction to the language along with its essential everyday use cases. Beyond the basics, you'll find detailed examples on deep topics like performance, module architecture, and parallel execution.

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By: Bruce Payette and Richard Siddaway submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Learn Something Cool Every Day (reddit.com)

By: u/kewlxhobbs submitted:Jun 15 2022

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January 10, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Documenting with PowerShell: Active Directory domain and settings (cyberdrain.com)
Clients that still have a server on-site are become rare these days - Most of our client base is

either completely public cloud using AAD or they have hosted servers in our private cloud. For these clients I've made the following script to document their Active Directory server settings. I always I want to be in complete control of my clients environment. That means having up to date documentation at the ready.

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By: Kelvin Tegelaar submitted:Jun 15 2022

How to Revoke Azure AD Tokens from Expired AD Users (adamtheautomator.com)
Do you have an on-prem Active Directory (AD) environment and syncing to Azure Active Directory (AD)?

If so, you may have run across a frustrating problem - an on-prem AD user has expired but that user can still access resources protected with Azure AD.

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By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell’s Get-Date FileDateTime for Safe Filenames (tommymaynard.com)
This article covers using PowerShell's Get-Date cmdlet and its FileDateTime format option to create

safe filenames that include the date and time. If you're just starting this post now, then head over to PowerShell.org to read the beginning of this article. Otherwise, continue reading below.

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By: Tommy Maynard submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell’s Secret Wildcard (toastit.dev)
It's funny how you can be a daily PowerShell user for years and completely miss something about a

feature you regularly use... such as the "like" operators accepting more than two different wildcards.

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By: Josh King submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

IPCalculator: A Powershell Module for VLSM subnetting (github.com)
Whenever I am doing Cloud Foundation projects I need to design network segmentation, so I use VLSM.

Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM) consists of segregating subnets into smaller segments, allowing network engineers to divide an IP address space into a hierarchy of subnets of different sizes, making it possible to create very different host subnets without account. waste a large number of addresses. This in turn can be a pretty annoying task, especially when it needs to be done several times, so I decided to do a powershell module to just tell you how many hosts I need in a given segment and it will tell me what the addressing is.

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By: Guido Oliveira submitted:Jun 15 2022

WindowsFirewallRuleset – Windows Firewall Ruleset Powershell Scripts (kitploit.com)
A great collection of PowerShell scripts for working with Windows firewall rules.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

TheShow:20:E1-Foreach-Object -Parallel (youtube.com)
Welcome to the New Year! ...and as we work to release PowerShell 7 this month, I thought it would be

fun to start a series on the new features. For this episode of TheShow - Take a first look at Foreach-Object -Parallel

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By: Jason Helmick submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

New Year, New Scripts: What are your 2020 best practices and aspirations? : PowerShell (reddit.com)
A fun thread about people's New Years Resolutions for PowerShell.
By: submitted:Jun 15 2022

Taking a Shortcut Path in Your PowerShell Prompt (jdhitsolutions.com)
To kick off the new year I thought I'd take a shortcut and reclaim some wasted space in my

PowerShell prompt. I know I run into this issue during classes and conferences. Perhaps you encounter it as well. You are in in the PowerShell console and have ended up in a deep directory structure so that you prompt and console now look like this:

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By: Jeff Hicks submitted:Jun 15 2022

Upcoming Events

PowerShell User Group Berlin (twitter.com)
The newest member to the PowerShell user groups. It always great see new ones popping up.
By: Evgenij Smirnov submitted:Jun 15 2022

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January 3, 2020

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Automatically remind users to update iOS with e-mails and custom notifications using Microsoft Intune Powershell SDK (imab.dk)
The story here is, that iOS is getting updates quite frequently, and a lot of enterprises (including

myself), are managing those iOS devices as private BYOD devices enrolled through the Company Portal. As of such, keeping the devices up to date is the end-user's responsibility and something that's often forgotten and neglected. So what if we could send those devices and users a kind reminder automatically, both as a custom notification directly on the device, but also as an e-mail? Microsoft Intune Powershell SDK to the rescue!

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By: Martin Bengtsson submitted:Jun 15 2022

Building a better Group Policy backup with Powershell (networkadm.in)
The PowerShell script I discuss in this post creates a Group Policy backup in a different way than

with the Backup-GPO cmdlet of the Group Policy module. With my function, it will be much easier to identify the correct Group Policy Object (GPO) in case you have to restore Group Policy settings.

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By: Mike Kanakos submitted:Jun 15 2022

Starting Windows 10 “Store App” from the command line (answers.microsoft.com)
Store Apps are MS's "latest and greatest" take on application programming, primarily run from the

Windows 10 start menu. So they MUST be easy to start. Not so much. They are designed to be started from the start menu only. Even with a shortcut on the desktop you DO NOT have enough information to create the required command line.

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By: Rohn007 submitted:Jun 15 2022

What Is SHA-256 and How To Calculate In PowerShell (poftut.com)
Hash algorithms are the heart of the cryptography and security. SHA-256 is a Secure Hash Algorithm

which will generate an output hash value in 256 bit. SHA-256 is designed by the National Security Agency (NSA). SHA-256 is one of the cryptographic hash functions. SHA-256 is also named one-way function where the generated hash value cannot be reversed theoretically. This makes SHA-256 very useful for password validation, challenge hash authentication, anti-tamper, digital signatures, X.509, SSL/TLS certificates etc.

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By: Ismail Baydan submitted:Jun 15 2022

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

GetVulnerableGPO (github.com)
PowerShell script to find 'vulnerable' security-related GPOs that should be hardened
By: Darren Mar-Elia submitted:Jun 15 2022

Merging, splitting and creating PDF files (reddit.com)
It's that time of the year where this will be my last blog post and module for 2019. I had this

ready for a few weeks already but wanted to fix some minor bugs that were bugging me just a bit too much. I was thinking that it would be great to add a new PSWrite module into my portfolio so today I'm adding (officially) PSWritePDF.

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By: u/MadBoyEvo submitted:Jun 15 2022

PS-Remote-Support (github.com)
PowerShell Script for Remote Support & Administration. This script assists with user & computer

administration, launching programs, & remote troubleshooting.

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By: Justin Lund submitted:Jun 15 2022

Script to Install Chromium Based Edge from Intune (wpninjas.ch)
Be prepared the Chromium based Edge will be released in January
By: Thomas Kurth submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell Notebook Module – YouTube (youtube.com)
Let's you automate PowerShell Notebooks with PowerShell at the command line, exports to Excel and

more.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jun 15 2022

The Pester Book (leanpub.com)
Learn all about Pester, the testing framework for PowerShell.
By: Adam Bertram submitted:Jun 15 2022

Utilities: Command Line Utilities + PowerShell with Ryan Leap – YouTube (youtube.com)
Command-line utilities are great. But they don't follow PowerShell patterns. They don't produce

objects and they don't support the pipeline. They output to the console and that's the end of the line. Or is it? Learn how you can bring the benefits of PowerShell to your command-line utilities.

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By: Ryan Leap submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

Made a PSCore wallpaper (reddit.com)

By: u/-croz submitted:Jun 15 2022

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December 20, 2019

Announcements!

Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate (devblogs.microsoft.com)
After 6 previews, we're happy to announce the release of the PowerShell 7 Release Candidate (RC).

Whether you've been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you've been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better.

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By: Joey Aiello submitted:Jun 15 2022

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Curl vs. PowerShell: Comparing Use Cases (adamtheautomator.com)
Curl is a versatile tool that allows you to make HTTP calls across a wide range of situations. It's

been around mostly in the Linux world for many years but more recently in Windows 10. But the scripting language PowerShell can accomplish similar tasks that curl can. Is PowerShell a good alternative to curl? What are the differences? Let's find out!

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By: Devin Rich submitted:Jun 15 2022

Find Azure Marketplace VM images using PowerShell (yobyot.com)
With PowerShell 7 bringing back the endlessly useful Out-GridView (woot!), I wanted a simple script

to allow a DevOps architect to quickly locate a specific Azure VM Marketplace image. That script is posted below. You can use the output of the script to complete theimageReference property of Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines in an ARM template that deploys a VM.

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By: Alex Neihaus submitted:Jun 15 2022

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

post can be accomplished with Universal Dashboard Community. Only the section covering Authentication and Authorization will require Premium or Enterprise.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 15 2022

Using PowerShell Core 6 and 7 in the Windows PowerShell ISE (ironmansoftware.com)
PowerShell Core 6 and 7 are the way forward for PowerShell. The PowerShell team is no longer

investing in Windows PowerShell 5.1 or the PowerShell ISE. It's recommended that you should upgrade to the newest versions to get new features. That said, many people are still using Windows PowerShell and the PowerShell ISE. In this post, we will look at how to use the PowerShell ISE with PowerShell Core 6 and 7.

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By: Adam Driscoll submitted:Jun 15 2022

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Introduction to Kansa (PowerShell-based Incident Response) (youtube.com)
As a continuation of the "Introduction to Windows Forensics" series, this episode covers a powerful,

PowerShell-based incident response framework called Kansa. Kansa uses PowerShell Remoting to run user contributed modules across hosts in an enterprise to collect data for use during incident response, breach hunts, or for building an environmental baseline. This framework can be run across a single host, or even tens of thousands of hosts.

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By: 13Cubed submitted:Jun 15 2022

Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook (packtpub.com)
Make use of hands-on recipes for many tasks that are typically encountered in both the on-premises

as well as the cloud world.

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By: Jan-Hendrik Peters submitted:Jun 15 2022

PowerShell Deep Dives (manning.com)
Here's your chance to learn from the best in the business. PowerShell Deep Dives is a trove of

essential techniques, practical guidance, and the expert insights you earn only through years of experience. Editors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic hand-picked the 28 chapters in the book's four parts: Administration, Scripting, Development, and Platforms.

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By: Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, and Aleksandar Nikolic submitted:Jun 15 2022

Fun

PowerShell Web Search and Generating Word Cloud from Results (ridicurious.com)
This is a quick fun blog post to demonstrate how to perform a programmatical web search (A Bing

search! ??) and create a word cloud using the preview snippets any search engine generates, as you can see in the following image which can give you some context on the specific topic.

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By: Prateek Singh submitted:Jun 15 2022

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