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

improvements based on your feedback.

VS Code. All you need is a GitHub account. No trial. No subscription. No credit card required.

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

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

suggesting the Azure cmdlet to use with parameters and suggested values. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Az.Tools.Predictor.

customers start using these new cmdlets right away.

features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.

features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.

with new Windows resources, Bicep gRPC integration, WhatIf support, expression language improvements...

build PowerShell help files.

build PowerShell help files.

management of ReFS snapshots.

MAML XML for use as console help. MAML is cumbersome to edit by hand, and common tools and editors don't support it for complex scenarios like they do with markdown. Markdown is adopted widely by Open Source, supported by many editors including Visual Studio Code, and with minimal rules, easier to author. PlatyPS is provided as a solution to allow documenting PowerShell help in any editor or tool that supports markdown.

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.

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

(LTS) release of PowerShell. PowerShell 7.6 is built on .NET 10 (LTS), continuing the alignment between PowerShell and the modern .NET platform.

value transformation, the ability to bypass the output handler, and improved error handling.

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

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in preparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new capabilities, but also some breaking changes.

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

should your terminal miss out on the good stuff? Simply Install-Module PSWeekly, then run Get-PSWeekly to get the most recent addition.

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.

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

module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

Kubernetes Cluster (AKS) and reset the service principal of an existing AKS cluster !

default.

out and share your feedback!

deprecation of the Azure AD and MS Online modules.

The rich command set of Azure CLI expands capabilities of runbooks even further, allowing you to reap combined benefits of both, for automating and streamlining management of Azure resources. Azure Automation runbooks target orchestration on a wide array of resources such as Virtual Machines, Arc-enabled Servers, Databases, Storage, Azure Active Directory, and much more, along with complex workflows involving multiple resources.

priorities

production scenarios using the latest version of PowerShell.

deploying Azure Functions Apps for production scenarios using the latest version of PowerShell.

Storage!

environments.

PowerShell" book.

11:59 CDT Thursday, July 15th, 2021

removable "feature on demand" (FOD), and sometime in 2027 is expected to be turned off

$PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to Legacy on Windows (still Standard on non-Windows). We would keep the default as Windows on Windows for preview releases. This would be backported to 7.3.x

makes it more terse when taking action depending if something is $null or not.

functionalities of it.

(September 2022) and the deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol (December 2022). Today, we are announcing that starting April 1, 2023, we will start blocking RPS connections for all tenants c...

your Exchange Online audit logs. Starting from April 30, 2024, we will be deprecating the following four cmdlets in the Exchange Online V3 module:

Configuration (DSC), including plans for compatibility, transparency, cross-platform support, and more.

understand that it's important for developers to have a fast workflow. That's why we're excited to share with you the support of Dev Drives in Visual Studio!

are using the Docker images produced by the .NET team.

in Exchange Online management using EXO V2 Module. Today, we are delighted to announce general availability of this feature along with the support for macOS.

membership. 40+ hours of free IT training!

PowerShell, delivered to the local terminal experience.

existing discussions and threads will be migrated to the Devolutions forum - the new home for all PowerShell Universal conversations

affect how content searches work and are likely to affect many Microsoft 365 tenants. Administrators and eDiscovery investigators will both have to master new ways of working with eDiscovery cases, searching for information, reviewing search results, and exporting what's found. Changes to PowerShell cmdlets might affect scripts, so there's lots to consider.

reduced in size from ~2.1 GBs to ~1.1 GBs. Find out what this mean for you as a PowerShell user?

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

improvements based on your feedback.

product family.

improves your experience working with PowerCLI documentation.

written in PowerShell to process events. Using this runtime, you can run native PowerShell code in Lambda without having to compile code, which simplifies deployment and testing. You can also now view PowerShell code in the AWS Management Console, and have more control over function output and logging.

adding Windows Terminal Canary to the Windows Terminal family. Windows Terminal Canary is a new canary channel of Windows Terminal that ships nightly and includes "hot off the presses" features.

command to fetch web pages without special parameters.

Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience.

attackers to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) enforcements and gain access to plain text credentials.

Entra PowerShell module.

officially leaving Windows.

horrible job of announcing the news, but now that the SDK V2 is available, it's time to migrate scripts from earlier versions. Splitting the V1.0 and beta cmdlets into different modules is a big difference, as is renaming the beta cmdlets. But other points exist to consider as you migrate from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK V1 to V2.

issues. Alas, problems persist in PowerShell SDK cmdlets, including licensing failures and an issue that prevents the Connect-MgGraph cmdlet from being able to obtain an access token from Entra ID. My advice is to stay with V2.25 until Microsoft resolves the problems and generates a new stable version of the SDK.

Gallery. Initial tests show that the release is stable. However, it's recommended that you deploy V2.29 on a few workstations to test essential scripts before proceeding to a full-scale roll-out. V2.29 does not address the issue with PowerShell runtime in Azure Automation, but overall, first indications are that V2.29 is a good release.

with managed identities. I don't have any issue with the proposal because managed identities are more secure and a better overall solution. It would have been nice if Microsoft had communicated the change more broadly. I guess if you were in the know, you found out about this development, but maybe the average Microsoft 365 tenant administrator might have struggled to discover what's happening.

Exchange Online management PowerShell module. The change happens when you connect a new PowerShell session to Exchange Online and the cmdlets are downloaded into a session.

supported now. All earlier versions are fully retired since June 15, 2022 & will stop working (Message center post for reference - MC350371).

no major issues reported.

tools that are meant to help with working with text content.

PrimalXML 2024 are also now available for ARM64.

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

a federated social media platform, like Mastodon. However, while Mastodon is a Twitter clone, Lemmy is a Reddit clone. The entire programming.dev instance has been growing fast and is a very friendly and helpful community.

to the list to support Azure Open AI. Add function ConvertTo-JsonL

much faster than the previous one. Better integration with CI. More succinct output in Detailed mode. Option to control if stack trace is output for failed tests. Skipping tests after failure. "Mocking" for objects. And so many small fixes.

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.

and variables behind. It still leaves $script: scoped variables behind but I am researching how to fix that.

multi-tenant Entra ID app to a tenant-specific app. The change is scheduled for September 9, 2024, which doesn't leave a lot of time available for developers to review, update, and test PowerShell scripts based on PnP PowerShell. Some extra warning would have been nice.

3.0 has been released.

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

PowerCLI 12.4. The PowerCLI 12.4 is a very significant update with regards to how you will work with the REST APIs. Until now, we have had two major vSphere API bindings available for PowerCLI, and these are-

to various VMware products and solutions. Below are some of the key highlights out of this release-

the Downtown Marriott from 25-April to 28-April 2022. PowerShell and DevOps experts from all over the world including PowerShell team members will once again join together to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace in fast-paced, knowledge-packed presentations.

ready to elevate your PowerShell and DevOps skills to new heights? The wait is over!

2019 for a Release Candidate and January 2020 for General Availability and will be our first LTS (Long Term Servicing) release!

fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.

fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.

you starting trying out this preview.

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

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

explicitly enable them to use them:

I will highlight the critical changes and updates from the release notes.

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.

rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

Code a rich and productive cross-platform alternative for the PowerShell ISE. To that end, we have focused on two primary areas: bringing the PSReadLine experience to the Integrated Console, and improving the stability of the extension while editing and debugging. The goal of this blog post is to walk through how we have made efforts in these key areas, and what our next steps are to follow through on these efforts.

cumulative updates installed. CVE-2024-38047 and CVE-2024-38043 are also PowerShell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities included in the cumulative patches this month.

is now available on the extension marketplace.

Code is now available on the extension marketplace.

available on the extension marketplace.

Code. (sssh, nobody tell them it's December 🙂 )

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

Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from extension updates in the coming months.

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

hardened, meeting both Apple's security requirements and Microsoft's internal compliance standards.

installation method for PowerShell on Windows. We will no longer ship the MSI installer package for new PowerShell releases.

automation grows, how you source, validate, and distribute PowerShell packages becomes just as important as the scripts themselves. Modern security guidance increasingly treats package feeds as part of the software supply chain. For PowerShell, that means being deliberate about which repositories you trust

can now take advantage of the event-driven programming model for infrastructure management and scripting tasks across Azure and hybrid environments.

can now take advantage of the event-driven programming model for infrastructure management and scripting tasks across Azure and hybrid environments.

workflows, now supports PowerShell. Common scenarios made possible by Durable Functions include orchestrating the management of complex Azure Resource deployments involving sequential and parallel steps. Long-running workflows are supported, and Durable Functions provides built-in HTTP endpoints for monitoring their progress.

Functions: Two new backend storage providers, and the General Availability of Durable Functions for PowerShell. In this post, we'll go into more details about the new capabilities that Durable Functions brings to PowerShell developers.

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

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

Studio Code Extension! This extension provides some features to make it easier to get up and running with Universal and initially aids in authoring dashboards.

your local one soon.

improvement I developed, you should see stepping through code work *much* faster. Please try to break this feature before release!

current understanding of customer and community needs, but is subject to change based on emerging priorities throughout the year.

available on the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

the PowerShell Gallery!

version of PowerShellGet, PowerShellGet is a compatibility module that allows use of PowerShellGet 2.x (and below) cmdlet syntax with PSResourceGet functionality by making a best effort mapping between the cmdlet interfaces of both versions of the module.

5) with the following updates. These changes include important plans to address migration and compatibility, and we would like to request feedback.

bunch of bugs and made some small quality of life tweaks, but we've also packed in some bigger, exciting changes you'll want to check out.

looking for, spot shortcut conflicts, and even adding a new way to move your mouse cursor. Get the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or heading to the release page.

automations to be reusable, resilient, and flexible enough to handle any unforeseen complexities. Save 50% by using the code 'mldowst'

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

ever to update on Windows 10 and Server.

with other modules using the same assemblies. Assemblies are no longer loaded during module import, instead its relying on the nested module BicepNet that wraps Bicep.

editing experience in the PowerShell terminal. This release is supported for PowerShell 7.x and downlevel to Windows PowerShell 5.1.

command-line editing experience in the PowerShell terminal.

available.

PowerShell Gallery! We have added a brand new tool tip feature to help give more descriptions to predictor results.

preview release of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains improved publish support, new aliases and many bug fixes. This is the last planned preview release before we release a "Release Candidate (RC)"

preview release of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains the module rename, and reintroduces support for Azure Artifacts, GitHub packages,

candidate of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains a number of bug fixes. This release is considered "go live" meaning that it is a fully supported release and expected to be of GA quality.

user-reported bugs and introduces a new rule (which is disabled by default) for avoiding using double quotes for constant strings. To install this version of the module, open any PowerShell console and run: Install-Module PSScriptAnalyzer -Force -Repository PSGallery

runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is a light weight source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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

solution before we can ship another MSIX. In the meantime, please use the MSI packages.

details!)

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

changes, one of which is a potentially breaking change for extension authors. For more information on the changes in this release, see the CHANGELOG document. This blog discusses the primary changes, why one is potentially breaking, and is especially relevant for extension vault owners who may want to test their vault and make any changes while these updates are in a preview state.

SecretManagement 1.1.0.

to add PowerShell semantic highlighting support in VS Code allowing for more accurate highlighting in the editor. I'm excited to share that the first iteration has been released.

topics that's 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....

in April of 2021.

using Remove-AzureADUser as a replacement. It's a bad call because that cmdlet is part of a now-retired and soon to be deprecated module. Overall, recommendations like this make you think that Microsoft doesn't know what's happening across the whole of Microsoft 365. And you might be right.

of years. Now the time has come when things happen. Cmdlets that set licenses for Azure AD accounts are now retired and will stop working on or before June 30, 2023. If you haven't already upgraded scripts, it's time to do so.

high-performance, secure & ready-to-code workstations in the cloud. It gives companies the ability to pre-configure the development environment with all the tools needed to build, test, and deploy applications making developers more productive,

encouraging community of people passionate about PowerShell

in versions 7.0 and 7.1. We recommend that you install the updated versions as soon as possible. Windows PowerShell 5.1 isn't affected by this issue.

out by the end of the week. Added Windows 10 1909 support, new Microsoft Surface device support and other tweaks/fixes.

PowerShell 7 executables that support Windows Forms. No need to install PWSH first.

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

.NET 5.0.0-rc.1. Given the impact of these regressions, particularly in interactive scenarios on non-Windows systems, we will only be publishing PowerShell v7.1.0-rc.1 packages for Windows and Linux, skipping macOS until v7.1.0-rc.2 is available with the proper fixes.

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.

designed to help you write the code you want. Visual Studio helps you ensure your code compiles and can even help with code styling.

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

arcane knowledge about PowerShell locked in peoples brains, hidden in blog posts, or buried in long issue or RFC discussions. With this wiki, I want to begin to capture that raw information, curate it, polish it, and eventually create published documentation.

community.

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

Following our release cadence, this is the second breaking change release for 2021. Because this release includes updates related to security and the switch to MS Graph, we recommend that you review the release notes before upgrading.

support for .zip-based packages. WinGet can now extract and run an installer inside of a .zip archive or install one or more portable packages from an archive.

part of our Package Manager Insider program, you should already have the latest version. Launch the store and check for updates if you're an insider and you don't have it. If you prefer to just download the client, head on over to GitHub releases page and take it for a spin. You can also join the Windows Package Manager Insider Program if you'd like automatic updates from the store, and you want to run on the released version of Windows 10.

correctly. Our goal is to make it easier to install software on Windows. We also recently released tab completion in PowerShell, and a feature toggle.

22H2! ?? This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled,

and Windows Terminal will be updated to version 1.9 soon.

and Windows Terminal up to 1.10.

to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store,

1.17 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.18 and will include all the features detailed here,

introduces new features such as Broadcast Input, Web Search, the Suggestions UI and more!

August. You can download Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's dive into what's new!

Windows Terminal Preview 1.20 introduces several changes such as the automatic deferral of package updates while Windows Terminal is running, support for colorful and crazy line styles, changes to the way search results are highlighted and LOTS of usability updates and bug fixes!

long-awaited features like Buffer Restore and fontfall back as well as new experimental features like Scratchpad and the ability to load up an image as a texture. There's also a LOT MORE stuff so check out the rest of this blog post to learn more!

large release that contains new features such as Sixel image support (a LARGE community contribution!), Grapheme Cluster Support, the Snippets Pane, Quick Fixes in CMD, and a new Cooked Read popup in CMD to name a few!

quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features to call out are: 🌟 A completely new [...]

adds all of the 1.2 features into Windows Terminal and introduces new features described below for Windows Terminal Preview 1.3. Both builds of Windows Terminal can be installed from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. Let's check out what's new this month!

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

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

version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8. As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from the GitHub releases page. Let's get into what's new!

Terminal from the Microsoft Store, the Microsoft Store for Business, and GitHub.

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!

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

palette entries and key bindings with a rich editor--rather than just their key bindings--support for Kitty's keyboard protocol and two completely new community translations!

does.

also might face now or in the future its worth writing about. It is about the switch from the old Module based CmdLets to the PSResource-based CmdLets with Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet.

supported after March 30, 2025. So looks like this will be our last year to give them a Valentine's day card for all the times they've been there for us in!

them effectively for system diagnostics.

thought to show you 10 real examples of Select-String in PowerShell.

workforce. For Always On VPN administrators, PowerShell is an indispensable tool for achieving this goal. Not only can PowerShell be used to automate the installation and configuration of Windows Server Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) server

list. To avoid creating SharePoint lists and manually adding different types of columns, I wrote a PowerShell script. While adding different types of columns to the SharePoint lists

learning PowerShell, I kept creating complicated scripts to handle things easily handled by those automatic variables.

use cases. They are capable to store one or more Key-Value pairs and today we are going to looking into various approaches and methods to create a Hashtable in PowerShell.

.NET directly when writing PowerShell scripts. This post includes 16 classes that are helpful to PowerShell scripters.

PowerShell moments that happened this year.

the Secure Boot boot certificate information from all domain computers and checks whether they contain the CA

experience managing it with PowerShell in this blog post.

collection of CMDLets available to perform SCCM administration tasks.

this useful, so I created a gist. I have an example for sorting a) with an IComparer, b) with LINQ and c) with [array]

announcement that you can no longer create new Free 365 Dev Tenants. I'm really hoping they revert that decision, or make the Dev Tenant even better. I honestly don't think it's a money grab, but more for security. If it is toot easy to create a temp tenant it is a great tool for bad actors. I'll leave it at that for now, and will probably do a bigger blog post on it in the future.

copy-and-paste commands.

store and manipulate information instead of text. But are you aware that there are 4 ways to create objects in PowerShell

just for system administrators. But what if you don't know what you don't know yet? In that case, this combination of various PowerShell script examples will help jumpstart your PowerShell scripting adventure.

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.

provides his 5 reasons why he recommends using PSReadLine.

a bunch of buttons, and finally receive the information you were trying to retrieve on an AWS service? Perhaps the metadata on an EC2 instance? Now you can do it all automatically!

Without a doubt, PowerShell 7 is the future.

being the command line experience using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. In this blog post we are going to have a look at 6 tips & tricks for managing your Microsoft Azure resources using the command line with Azure

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

organizational collaboration. However, with great connectivity comes great responsibility, particularly in safeguarding our digital ecosystem. Data breaches, excessive access rights, oversharing, etc., pose significant challenges in maintaining security in SharePoint Online. Recognizing that security is...

basic building blocks we use to separate and abstract our code away. Without them, our scripts would be just a tangled mess of if statements, while and for loops, and duplicated code.

example-based approach to help inspire you to learn the skills you need to wrangle files.

use PowerShell to check if a file exists, along with other file examples, stay tuned.

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

Graph? That's rate limiting - the API's polite way of telling you to slow down. In this post, we dig into Graph's global and Intune-specific limits, how to read the Retry-After header when it appears (and what to do when it doesn't), and how to build exponential backoff into your scripts so your automations stay smooth, resilient, and throttle-friendly

within PowerShell!

what if I told you, creating a module can be as simple as grouping multiple functions together and renaming the extension to psm1. It sounds a lot less complicated when you put it that way.

netstat is not very complex. The goal of the post was to introduce some parsing strategies that you can use to create a full Crescendo module. In this post, I explain the details of a more complex parsing function that I created for my VssAdmin module.

PowerShell. You can save time by doing it with PowerShell especially, if you want to create multiple sites as part of a backend process.

Get-WinEvent cmdlet can retrieve classic Windows event logs like the System and Application logs, logs generated by Windows Event Log technology, and even Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logs!

you to start

sometimes, when there is a lot of code...I think to myself, this would be better in a .NET app, for testability

but this is different... And very useful! In this blog post, I will show you how it works.

whether it's necessary for your Intune automation needs if you're already using the Microsoft.Graph.Authentication module, part of the Microsoft Graph SDK, to handle your tokens.

Kazakh Ministry of Health Care, leading us to believe it targets Kazakhstan.

ScriptBlock, we can create a function to avoid constantly rewriting the same retry logic again and again.

powershell-gui-aws-lambda-start-functions.ps1

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.

function. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to do that as it was a part of a written, and timed, test. Sadly, I didn't even really have time to review the other 50-some answers I had already provided. I mostly knew that might happen.

recall the exact syntax inside the parameter block. Even though I've created hundreds of scripts in my day, I always use a template because its much easier. Today I'm going to share with the exact Powershell template I use when creating my Powershell Scripts.

less work than you think.

things out, or for projects that I know will be around for a while. There's a few basic things that I like all my scripts to have, so I've created a simple template that I use when creating new scripts.

server. The script appears to be the client component of a novel C2 framework we named "Slopoly."

Windows versions. Updating lists everywhere was a pain. PowerShell flavored Azure Functions to the rescue! Now I just have to update it once, and it's available everywhere.

encryption. Similarly, it doesn't create the configured protectors that are necessary for activating BitLocker. Manage-bde, PowerShell, or the WMI class Win32_EncryptableVolume serve this purpose.

Identity Management (PIM) using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. However recently we secured these role activations to require a conditional access authentication context with MFA. This basically requires me to MFA when I activate a role with PIM. Problem is, by ... Continue reading Activating PIM Roles that require MFA or Conditional Access Authentication Context with PowerShell ?

Securing Active Directory is a massive part of the overall organization security, configuration, and permission and Access Control List (ACL).

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

how well does it scale? Not very well.

Ensuring its health is pivotal for the seamless operation of various services. Today, I decided to look at Microsoft Entra Connect Health (Azure AD Connect Health) service, which allows monitoring Azure AD Connect, ADFS, and Active Directory. This means that under a single umbrella, you can have an overview of three services health. But is it worth it?

about computers in our Active Directory domain. Then, we will update our dashboard and take advantage of the charting capabilities of Universal Dashboard to show the information in an easy to digest manner.

overview of their environment I always check a lot of things before writing a report and a recommendation about which steps we need to take. In this blog post, I will show you a script that gathers information about the Active Directory Domain which saves a lot of command-line checking and starting up Management Consoles 😉

units don't refer to the site where the users work.

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)).

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

vendors and so on. Often telemetry includes PII, personally identifiable information, which of course is a no-go. This post aims to explain how you can responsibly collect telemetry for your PowerShell module to track its usage, version distribution and much more. I will show you the steps you need to take to use Azure ApplicationInsights to collect and Power BI to visualize your telemetry.

module in PowerShell, you can add .msu updates, apps, and drivers to a Windows image offline without the need to boot it up.

many network security groups (NSG) in Azure.

Exchange. Setting the value to $null didn't work, and I showed him how to remove it another way. This blog post will show a few ways to add, remove, or replace a value using Active Directory and Exchange Online as examples.

ICSWEEP "is a command-line utility to clear the Temporary Internet Files Cache and/or the TEMP files folder of ALL user profiles that are NOT in use when this command is executed." ICSWEEP Information.

sprints. Depending on the length of your sprints, and the fact that you can bulk add sprints, you probably either end up creating the next sprint during sprint planning or create every sprint manually.

brackets match and which do not. For people with color blindness or other optic maladies, the problem can be even worse. By color-coding bracket pairs,

for user accounts. V1.3 expands the amount of detail reported for each method, such as the phone number used for SMS challenges, or the email address used for SSPR. It's a small but important detail that's useful to administrators. However, it also comes with a potential privacy issue, so the script must handle that too.

more difficult for users to add printers to their workstation, this blogpost describes how you can add printers using Endpoint Manager and PowerShell in a easy way.

show you now how to do that and how to access HKCC with PowerShell. Let's get started.

build on. It's not about doing wonderful things, it's about basics.

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

title of this post, AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI. One key component of my talk was on Recursive AI.

when accessed via the OpenAI API. With the free OpenAI Python Library, you can enhance your terminal AI by adding online search features, overcoming the limitations of LLM cutoff dates, and eliminating the frustration of outdated instructions.

Function allows you to execute queries in natural language to fetch Azure resource information without requiring a deep knowledge of the Azure Resource Graph Query Language (KQL).

retirement is not big news because it's been coming for a while. If you want to get ahead of the game, you can remove the Kaizala service plans from the Office 365 licenses assigned to user accounts. We explain how to do the job in an example PowerShell script.

from queries than is available. In this article, we explain how to use pagination to retrieve data using Graph queries and SDK cmdlets.

critical for configuring supporting infrastructure services, such as Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) and Network Policy Server (NPS), as well as provisioning and managing Always On VPN client configuration settings on endpoints.

remote network access for Windows clients. However, Always On VPN is provisioned to the user, not the machine as it is with DirectAccess. This presents a challenge for deployment scenarios that require the VPN connection to be established before the user logs on.

Active Directory. The code used PowerShell and CIM events to notify you, for example, when a new user account is created. This can be helpful when you need alerting. But perhaps you only need reporting. What has changed in Active Directory since a given date and time, such as in the last 24 hours? And wouldn't it be nice to have a pretty report? Let me help. Here's how I approached the prob lem using PowerShell and the ActiveDirectory module.

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

already left before I started, and I had to search far and wide for documentation on how they had set up the systems.

Pipeline for PowerShell modules. I told everyone I?d get a blog post up ?soon? with more information, so here it is; better late than never! I?ll go over the goals for the example PowerShell Module, then break down the Build Pipeline tasks for Azure DevOps.

without requiring sensitive information such as secrets, credentials, and certificates to be handled. Microsoft Entra ID manages these identities, enabling applications to obtain tokens for authentication. In this post, I will provide an example that illustrates how to use system and user-assigned managed identities with PowerShell.

troubleshooting mail flow. The SpfAnalyzer module from Jiri Formacek can help with that. In this blog post, I will show you how it works.

Graph module) comes in two versions. The general availability version is intended for production while the preview version (AzureADPreview) contains the cmdlets from the general availability version plus some new cmdlets under development group. The current version of the AzureADPreview module is 2.0.2.105, released in July.

samples browser. You can check it out on docs.microsoft.com/samples. With this release, they aim to make it easier for you to discover relevant code examples to get started, no matter what Microsoft product or service you’re using.

support (yet). The Az PowerShell module is now the recommended PowerShell module for interacting with Azure.

(certificate-based authentication) for the Connect-SPOService cmdlet. In other words, applications can now connect to SharePoint Online to run administrative cmdlets by presenting a registered Entra ID app and an X.509 certificate instead of the credentials for a human SharePoint administrator. It's a good change, even if I still prefer using the Graph APIs for SharePoint automation.

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.

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.

tenant administrators cope with common tasks. The early signs are there with Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin center. However, the current state of the art depends on what's gone before and can't handle the kind of complex automation that tenants sometimes need, like generating a licensing report from Entra ID, product information, and license costs.

is at an end. I was on the road a lot this summer and feel I didn't have enough time to enjoy it properly. Maybe next year. In the meantime, let's see what we have to wrap up August.

thing or two. As has been the custom here, let's wrap up with grab bag of tips and suggestions.

a potpourri of tips and tricks that you can use to improve your console experience and add a little pizzazz to your PowerShell scripts and functions.

2023. I guess we'd better get right to the monthly wrap-up.

runbook, it must have the permission to act as an administrator. In this article, we cover how to assign the necessary role to a service principal.

pulling some data from other sources.

undesired effects, including remote code execution. We will also see that widely used solutions, like PowerShell Remoting and PowerShell Direct (Hyper-V), rely on such deserialization and could make you vulnerable to this kind of attack.

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

(2022-09-13) A quick post - I just published a new script for retrieving activity log events for an Azure subscription as the current options for searching and retrieving events didn't satisfy me.

criteria. However, these filters do not assess the content of the log entry messages. To evaluate the log messages, you can extend filters using an XPath query. The examples below demonstrate how to audit Group Policy changes with XML queries, which you can further process with PowerShell.

organizations. As team owners can add or remove members from MS Teams, it is important for admins to track membership changes to ensure authorized individuals have access

vulnerabilities in on-premises Active Directory environments. When multiple privileged accounts share the same password, a single compromise can cascade across your entire infrastructure. In this post, I'll demonstrate how to audit your Active Directory environment for shared passwords using PowerShell and the DSInternals module.

Configuration (DSC) v3.0.0 provides powerful feature that enhance the authoring experience. Shell completion Schema-based validation Support for modern DSLs like Azure Bicep DSC command completer The completer command returns a shell script that, when executed, registers completions

machines using either PowerShell or Microsoft Intune. You may want to do this for users with frontline licenses that grant them web apps but not full desktop application's.

encourage you to try the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK is where all our current and future investments are being made.

find it here. This post is a prequel to that post. This post shows you how to automate your Applocker configuration which you can upload with the previous post to Microsoft Intune.

automation and DevOps tasks. I also create reporting dashboards from the data within the work items. One such metric I report on is how much time we save when implementing a new automation.

script can be used to help provide an automated method which can encrypt your OS and Data disks as well as automatically creating a Key Vault if one does not exist including the Access Policy configuration.

security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.

mean, you can back up SQL server or NoSQL databases, and you can back up storage blobs and Azure files, so why not table storage? Microsoft do not provide any native backup solution for Azure table storage

Let's Encrypt and PowerShell Awhile back I was playing around with Let's Encrypt in order to get as much of my home lab working properly with HTTPS and minimal client configuration. I found many Linux resources and Docker containers to [...]

PowerShell to automate GUIs. Since the UIAutomation assembly already comes with .Net it also can be accessed directly through PowerShell.

on-premises or Azure VMs to the fully-managed PaaS database service Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. In this post you will see how to create PowerShell scripts that automate migration to Managed Instance using Azure PowerShell and DbaTools.

PowerShell, Windows commands, and Azure management solutions for Windows Server on-premises. At the Windows Server Summit 2024, I had the chance to deliver a session with Ryan Willis Product Manager for Azure Arc and we went through different automation options ...

resources depending on the resource in question and the pricing tier used. A common scenario where you might want to restrict traffic is with an API flow where you may want some of your resources to ... Continue reading Automate Public IP Address Change Notifications for Azure Services ?

evidence collection, enforce controls across subscriptions, and build a continuous audit trail.

API.

Manager 1902, complete with the actual scripts.

in maintenance mode.

aspect of maintaining robust security and ensuring uninterrupted service. When application secrets expire without timely renewal, it can disrupt business operations by causing application failures. Proactive management of application secret expirations helps enterprises avoid last-minute issues, enabling a more secure and efficient operational environment.

whitelisted IP address. While this is generally a good idea, a problem arises when you need an Azure Automation Account to access one of these Storage Accounts.

error handling, prompts for input, and more. You will be able to use these scripts to provision your Entra ID joined Cloud PCs for various scenarios, be it using a Microsoft Hosted network or an Azure Network Connection, Enterprise or Frontline builds, or choosing your Cloud PC image, language, or region etc.

documentation with a new option to also document Azure AD Conditional Access policies.

of Intune Devices and ActiveDirectory Computer Accounts with PowerShell.

users give permissions consent to any Azure application that is in the wild. Because it can lead to illicit consent grant attack which seems to be more and more popular among the hackers.

like Git. Pull requests allow developers to propose...

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.

For example, you want to convert the following command for

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!

that's considered the crown jewels. This is due to Active Directory still being the bread and butter for most organizations in regard to authentication and authorization. When it comes to security, automation is your best friend and keeping a close eye on privileged group membership should be on top of your list. This post will walk you through, how you can make sure no unwelcome objects make their way into privileged groups in on-premises AD, by leveraging Microsoft Sentinel and its option to run playbooks automated. This breaks down to Microsoft Sentinel generating an alert, which triggers the associated Playbook, which triggers a Logic app, which triggers a Runbook in an Automation Account, which ultimately runs a PowerShell script on an on-premises server.

continues now with PowerShell 7.4.

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.

security-conscious professionals, we need to be proactive about monitoring whether our users' credentials have been compromised. That's why I built an automated PowerShell tool that checks Entra ID (Azure AD) group members against the Have I Been Pwned database.

different. By downloading a freely available PowerShell module, an IT admin can manage every facet of AD and build powerful scripts to save time on all kinds of tasks. The best part is that knowledge of LDAP, ADSI and other typically developer-focused terms is not necessary. The PowerShell cmdlets take care of that stuff for you.

three part series.

you do that is through tracking resource usage with an Azure usage report. In this article, you?ll learn how to create a PowerShell script to easily query resource usage across all of your Azure resources by date.

monitoring and security, but doing it manually can be time-consuming and error-prone.

standards can be challenging during the pull request (PR) process. In this article, we explore how to build an AI-powered style enforcement pipeline using modern tools like GPT-4 and CI/CD workflows.

to download. The eBook is now over 300 pages long and includes extensive coverage of using PowerShell to interact with Exchange Online, Teams, Planner, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business data using workload modules or the Graph APIs (and Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK).

plan without creating a new plan from scratch. This is particularly useful when the same basic plan is used on multiple occasions. In this article, Sean Mcavinue shows you how to do this with some PowerShell Automation!

Globalping PowerShell Module is here to save the day! With its easy-to-use cmdlets, you can automate measurements from probes distributed across the globe.

combo has been my go-to solution for many automation tasks.

keeping Azure organized is managing role assignments. Over time, you might end up with unused or "Unknown" role assignments, which can make management more challenging and potentially introduce security risks.

Task Scheduler to run my Powershell scripts.

Entra using the Developer Tools in your browser. The purpose of this walkthrough is to demonstrate how you can identify and extract the necessary Microsoft Graph API calls directly from the Entra portal, providing a foundation for automating this process with PowerShell.

Sysmon (System Monitor) from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite is an essential tool for detailed system monitoring and security analysis. However, traditional installation can be time-consuming, especially in urgent situations. This blog post introduces a PowerShell script that automates the download, extraction, and installation of Sysmon, along with applying a pre-configured setup.

PowerShell code required to build a scalable solution.

network setup, NSG rules, and IIS installation.

PC's using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. This mini series should help you get started with automating

PC's using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. This mini series should help you get started with automatingContinue reading

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.

kind of strange of relying on a third party closed service to generate and send passwords to clients. You're not 100% in control and often it misses some form of functionality like a password generator or somesuch.

infrastructure has been the development of Teams. Teams is amazing tool on it's own but there is a risk regarding governance and training, but also explosive growth of teams and the way these are implemented. Especially because Teams makes self-services super easy.

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

deploy the Secure Defaults centrally, so I figured I would try to help with this.

PowerShell Module. If you're not familiar yet I've blogged about the module and warranty reporting before here. Most of the module has been left the same so you can reference that blog for more information.

course just one part of the new beta Secure Score module. The next one is actually the more fun part; applying the correct security settings to a tenant.

blog really. The great thing is that all of the stuff I normally blog about is pretty easy to integrate into CIPP

had to jump through many hoops and had an issue with running changes headless because the PowerShell modules didn't support it. Recently I've been in contact with the SharePoint team and we now have a functional API for most of the important admin settings.

always felt like magic. I could cast a charm simply by typing a few characters on a keyboard. Naturally, my magic skills went from batch files to VBScript to PowerShell. Throughout it all, I've also had an internal decision tree regarding automation. Over the years, I've seen IT pros new to scripting and automation needlessly struggle. Often it is due to a deficiency in their decision tree. Today, I thought I'd help you nurture yours.

great Graph PowerShell scripts, the product of hard-won experience and many mistakes. Filtering, properties, permissions, and pagination all make the list.

it creates a dependency on a specific workstation and isn't as secure as you might like. Running Microsoft 365 PowerShell scripts in Azure Automation is a much better idea. It's time to dump the Task Scheduler!

update, deletions of such resources or on a schedule. They are used to audit resources for compliance with some defined policy. They don't prevent you from deploying in-compliant resources as this is the realm of service control policies.

supporting some EC2 in the cloud testing some new AWS features and services and I found my self locked out and released this machine was not domain joined but I couldn't login. With the windows PowerShell cmdlets swirlingContinue reading "AWS EC2 powerShell tips"

called from just about anywhere in AWS (or outside for that matter). Even better lambdas don't require a server to run, this means that you only pay for the compute that you actually use. Don't worry the first 1M hits per month are free. Let's dive in and see how we can start using our existing PowerShell skills to start building lambdas.

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

great feature like AI-powered PowerShell module called Az Predictor Module (Azure PowerShell Predictions), which does what the name says, predict PowerShell commands. Now with az next, the team also brought a similar feature to the Azure CLI. The team's goal with az next is to guide users through their scenarios or sequence of jobs-to-be-done in tool, so that they could remain focused and avoid unnecessary external documentation searches.

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

expiration. In other words, the default lifetime of tokens issued by Azure AD is too short to allow the script to complete before the token expires. Two solutions exist. Use a token lifetime policy to prolong access token lifetimes or check in code for potential expiration and renew when necessary.

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

lot. If you want to restrict the number of devices then you came to the right place.

Server. This allows you to onboard your Windows Server through a graphical wizard. With the wizard, you can easily onboard your Windows Server machine to Azure Arc. The wizard takes care of the following steps for you: verifying ...

SCVMM, which is hardening

way to leverage Azure Arc is by automating script execution

PowerShell script.

Security License (ESU)