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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manager 1902, complete with the actual scripts.

of Intune Devices and ActiveDirectory Computer Accounts with PowerShell.

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.

PowerShell code required to build a scalable solution.

Azure Functions

helper functions to gather configuration information of your tenant e.g. logs and reports of licenses, apps (incl. expired secrets).

when I quickly commented and uncommented lines in my PowerShell script in VS Code. This is very easy to do with the built in keyboard shortcuts.

screen wallpaper without having Enterprise or Education by using a PowerShell script and Intune. Now learn how to configure the Windows accent color to also match your corporate branding.

into a comma-separated string [and replace the array with the converted string in the JSON file]. I have tried converting from JSON, but I am struggling to convert the array into string in a clean way.

app

PowerShell Function App and trigger from Kudu and Logic Apps. The things he shows here are a great primer for multiple different scenarios, even if you aren?t using Kudu.

folders/files in advance, Veronique lays out the entire process using PowerShell PnP in this blog post.

easy to follow and will get you results while we wait for the ability to enable a communication site experience at the root.

can create code-signing certificates. With code-signing certificates, you can digitally sign PowerShell scripts and use the signature to detect when people tamper with your script content.

quite some time, things can, and occasionally do go wrong. Thankfully, there are a number of different diagnostic and troubleshooting tools built into the operating system. In fact, you can diagnose a wide variety of Windows problems through PowerShell by leveraging the built-in troubleshooting packs.

like me and prefer PowerShell just type pwsh. Now you are in PowerShell!

a free download from Microsoft (version 5.6.2019) and includes icons for almost all Azure services and Microsoft cloud related technologies currently available.

power settings of the network adapters. Since I like to start both my PC and notebook from a remote location or from within the same network, I wrote a little PowerShell function to enable Wake-on-LAN (WoL) again.

scripts. One of those statements is the?if?statement. Today we will take a deep dive into one of the most fundamental commands in PowerShell.

scripts.

configurations, Compliance Policies, Exchange Connector, and may more areas. Check out his blog and Github for the complete list.

thanks to Alex.

how to use PowerShell find accounts that have an Office365 Admin role that don’t use MFA.

session at this year’s PowerShell Summit.

patches installed in the last three months.

enabled or not.

Littlejohn and James Petty. We discuss the speakers and topics at the event, while also talking about future PowerShell events across the country. We also discuss the OnRamp program and its value to both the industry and the students.

Here’s how IT can simplify the process with Chocolatey’s command-line input.

interfaces? Sometimes command-line isn’t the best kind of interface for a particular instance. Building a PowerShell GUI for for your service desk is a great example. This is one of those times when it is more appropriate to build graphical tools instead.

Since PowerShell ties into the .NET Framework, you can change these restrictions with a script. In this post, you’re going to learn how to change registry permissions with PowerShell using the?Get-Acl?and?Set-Acl?cmdlets.

script. 

Directory. Well wonder no longer with this tutorial from Windows OS Hub showing you every step of the process, from enabling logging, to how to search the logs with PowerShell.

access capabilities for app service. More organizations are now harnessing the security capabilities of Azure AD into the apps they create for an additional layer of authentication. This post will cover how to register an app to Azure AD via PowerShell to take advantage of this.

you?re going to learn how to start from scratch; downloading, installing and understanding how PowerCLI can help you get more done.

using WPF.

member of with PowerShell.

you have a new server on which you want to deploy DHCP, just run the PowerShell command:

discuss why organizations should care about malicious PowerShell activity, how attackers use PowerShell to steal credentials (e.g., Mimikatz), and how to prevent and detect malicious PowerShell activity.

extension for VScode.

tasks such as managing servers, endpoints or processes, more streamlined and efficient. However, since the proliferation of cloud technology, we’re now facing a new challenge, managing and automating the cloud environment.

we can automate this process allowing you to go home early.

ingesting around 4,000 new files per hour. This job was for a single client, and my company has multiple customers with similar needs. Keeping the data organized and available has been a challenge for over a year, and we have been working toward a solution for some time now.

classes, functions and enums.

PowerShell Direct. PowerShell Direct lets you remotely connect to a Virtual Machine running on a Hyper-V host, without any network connection inside the Virtual Machine. PowerShell Direct uses the Hyper-V VMBus to connect inside the Virtual Machine. This feature is convenient if you need it for automation and configuration for Virtual Machines or if you for example messed up network configuration inside the virtual machine and you don?t have console access.

how I managed to run PowerShell on my Android device.

MSIntune PowerShell Autopilot

PowerShell and the Intune GraphAPI

and Install-Module -Name ImportExcel.

on their automation journey, but for more advanced practices, it helps to attend a conference, such as the PowerShell Summit.

learn more about this capability on the Hybrid Connections documentation. The following information describes how to use this capability to run PowerShell functions targeting an on-premises server. This server can then be used to manage all resources within the on-premises environment from an Azure PowerShell function.

operating systems, hardware and of course software. Typically, machines are managed and configured with group policy and SCCM, or perhaps other more modern methods like Chef or Puppet. One of the symptoms of an unhealthy Windows computer is the amount of time it takes to boot up.

and/or your team know PowerShell and, perhaps, already have some PowerShell scripts to manage web services, using PowerShell to monitor uptime may be a good option.

bad idea.

iPerf with the help of PowerShell.

show you how with a little PowerShell and RegEx.

PowerShell Remoting

properties in the?Export-MailboxDiagnosticLogs?cmdlet. The properties record different kinds of mailbox activity and I included a script to generate a report based on the properties. The output is a CSV file that can be opened in Excel or imported in Power BI. All is well.

a road map of what to expect with PowerShell 7.0.

though, to be mindful of PowerShell’s quirks so you get the best data protection.

system properties.

all about PowerShell data types. What is a PowerShell data type? Data Types define what you can do with a PowerShell object. For example, a datetime object supports adding years, with a bool object you can figure out whether something is true or false.

Parallel Experimental feature. This feature is a great new tool for parallelizing work, but like any tool, it has its uses and drawbacks.

PowerShell performance even if the module is not used in a session.

use back ticks. Roberth Strand has quick and easy to follow example on how you can start splatting too.

Movie Database API.

that you can use over and over.How to Write Serverless PowerShell Code for AWS LambdaChris Wahl gives you everything you need to know to start moving to a serverless world with AWS Lambda.PowerShell Universal Dashboard – Getting Started with Universal DashboardLee Berg gives a great presentation on getting started with Universal Dashboard. Be sure to follow him on Twitch for more great content and livestreams.

at?$null?so you know what happens when you unexpectedly run into a?$nullvalue.

Virtual Machines.

power up those scripts into PuppetBolt Tasks so you can easily automate and share to any Windows environment at scale.

structures and can’t be parsed easily. This the case when you need to extract all the member of an Active Directory group where member can be users and also groups that contains user and groups ?. It’s also the case with data coming from web services and API.

companion tool to the Group Policy backup tool he shared earlier this year.

win_shell and you wish to consume the PowerShell output later on in the playbook. Well, you’re in luck because Jonathan can show you the quick and easy to way how.

excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.

SCCM client health.

to the Company Portal app to Android and iOS devices. If you?re like Timmy (and me) and don?t want to use the Intune Portal more than absoloutly necessary, there is also the option to send notifications using the Intune PowerShell SDK.

series on doing so with Intune.

extensive use of classes introduced in PowerShell 5.0. PowerShell modules are loaded into PoshBot and instantly become available as bot commands.

remote management needs between Windows, Linux, and macOS.

to your end users during scripted installs. A must read for those using Intune or Chocolatey.

your Intune packaging pipeline

hard disks. It falls under physical data security and it prevents data breaches from stolen hard disks (physical & virtual). If it is a Windows machine, we can simply use BitLocker for disk encryption. Also, there are other third-party vendors such as Thales e-Security which provides disk encryption solutions for organizations.

PowerShell for Graph module. It provides you everything you need to know to get started, quickly and easily.

PowerShell programmatically for Online and On-Prem 2019.

Calendar to control when your VMs should power on and off.

generally down for everyone else, too. PowerShell can ask a web service to check web site availability for you. Here is a simple wrapper function.

and GitHub Actions. I mentioned one way to test ARM templates in a pipeline there (the WhatIf module). But there are other options available. And how about testing locally? In this post we will look at different tools that can help you with testing ARM templates.

PowerShell (PowerShell version 7).

us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell!

This is not your typical Getting Started with PowerShell type video series. This series is going to focus on the happenings and goings on around PowerShell and beyond.

Directory? Check out Anthony Howell’s walkthrough of a PowerShell function to easily do just that.

Fiddler .

introduction to Pester.

cmdlets.

them with PowerShell.

and set the Office theme using PowerShell as well.

PowerShell to get a history of USB drive usage.

can use to organize and control access to your packages. In other words it is a place for storing and sharing packages with controlled access through Azure Dev Ops.

GitHub. Some tasks would include:

you stay up-to-date with PowerShell releases

your Exchange Online resources in Azure Cloud Shell.

check out the following command.

VDI environment.

Technically, it is the .NET Framework that provides for form handling, but with the latest Preview.2 of PowerShell 7, this is now possible!

easier and quicker than before.

available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub!

of Windows in your domain. It will also break down the versions of Windows 10.

scripts.

all platforms (PowerShell Core). With PowerShell 7 (which is the latest PowerShell version as of this writing), we’re now looking for all platforms to be equal in the PowerShell they can deliver (both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core).

against a Windows Active-Directory domain.

updates in the Network and EventGrid modules, read more: s://t.co/Jxv01aCglT

their powershell automation to their teams. And it’s free!

menu and sub menus in the systray bar.

around how modules see things.

script to perform a fully automated unattended setup of Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016 or Exchange Server 2019 (Desktop and Core) is supported).

repeatedly.

defining an FSLogix App Masking rule set.

authentication necessary.

migrations, backup & restore.

users. So here is my first module for Remotedesktop Messaging. If you liked it you may also want to have this cmdlet permanently on your rdserver for notifying your users every time there is a problem or maintenance. I?ve converted the PS Script into a module so that it is much easier to import and use it. In this article I ?ll describe how to install it.

declarative automation of some of the tasks required to install and configure the Azure File Sync agent on Windows Server.

fixed!

Module to display performance metrics.

launched processes & if a browser (configurable) & is elevated then it will be terminated & written to the event log. Script itself must be run elevated, obviously.

Scripts written for the AzureRM cmdlets won’t automatically work with the new module. To make the transition easier, Az offers tools to allow you to run your existing scripts using AzureRM. No migration to a new command set is ever convenient, but this article will help you get started on transitioning to the new module.

information in your MSI/MSTs? I?ve developed a Powershell script in which you can configure a template (properties and summary information) and apply it to MSIs, already done MSTs or you can create an MST with this script.

the latest updates to the modules for Horizon, vSAN, and HCX.

PowerShell Gallery. List of new cmdlets included in the CSOM update.

cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited to announce that?Out-GridView?is debuting on all Core-supported platforms through the?GraphicalTools Module.

on your system. No need to bother with the cumbersome Excel COM-object. Creating Tables, Pivot Tables, Charts and much more has just become a lot easier. It has recently been updated to run much faster.

PowerShell Core v6 so there is no longer a need to use the JSON.Net libraries.

tasks by using automation with Windows PowerShell. The module provides features and capabilities for managing and configuring Certification Authorities

with PowerShell and the selected text.

the ones that are out of date.

Register-LumosScheduledTask cmdlet to automate Light/Dark switch on Sunrise/Sunset based on your locale.

PowerShell modules. Checkout out the blog post for more information.

care of downloading, packaging, distributing and deploying the applications described in XML “recipe” files. The goal is to be able to package any frequently updating application with little to no work after creating the recipes.

objects in AD.

Cody wrote a function to do it! Just need to trigger the WMI Method.

here.

focuses on enumerating different parts of a Windows machine to identify security weaknesses and point to components that need further hardening.

professionals and system administrators deal with every day.

Dive Workshop starting August 20th. Come hang out with them, learn something new, and get your questions answered!

ecosystem. It?s designed to be followed in order, with each exercise introducing the basic concepts. If you complete all of the exercises you should be well on your way to understanding how you can use Bolt and Bolt Tasks to help manage your infrastructure.

Olin.

can learn something from this video.

great content and easy to follow tuturials.

over 500 commands, this free and open source PowerShell module has the horsepower to automate just about every task you can imagine?and then some! Written by dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire and dbatools advocate Rob Sewell, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you techniques that will make you more effective?and efficient?than you ever thought possible.

series is designed to get you ramped up and using PowerShell quickly. Learn how to use PowerShell quickly via your preferred format. If you prefer reading based training, a blog post is available for each PowerShell topic. If you prefer video format, there is a corresponding training video for each PowerShell lesson.

install-free option, Jupyter Notebooks, Kata hands-on training, VisualStudio 2019 and VSCode integration – even my favorite PowerShell!

tool, managing packages with PowerShell, and much more. Create an MSIX package for any Windows app – old or new.

Snover’s very popular MVA: Getting Started with Microsoft PowerShell is now available on CH9

both the MS Windows desktop and enterprise devices and Python’s rich scripting environment allowing for the rapid development of new tools for investigation, automation, and deep analysis.

PowerShell for Office 365.

to identify chars or chains of text by including them into the scripts. There are basic examples where the regex are applied like in the credit cards or maybe in power ingestors, that are used to search through emails. The application of these regular expressions reaches several levels within the operating system while using them in PowerShell, allowing the users to set instructions to interact with almost any section of the software.

approach it? Then this is the book for you. Created by two experienced Microsoft Exchange (now Office and Apps) MVPs just for you.

you go from blinking cursor to knowing how to use PowerShell well enough to get your day jobs done!

possible for you to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to deliver and maintain services.

validating that your infrastructure is operating how you expect.

on the prerequisite skills and technologies needed to succeed with Azure DevOps as the preferred method for deploying applications into Azure, and is all self-paced.

basic architecture, how to write configurations, and how to author your own DSC resources.

goodness is now in it along with a ton of reorganization and editing! Enjoy! Free update to existing buyers.

write PowerShell script, What are the advantages of using Windows PowerShell? And also this tutorial contains 51 top useful PowerShell examples with scripts.

bookauthority.org.

show you how it is done.

getting Production, Consumption, and Net Usage information.

coming soon.

after we finished all the work the teach gave us, I decided to make him some extra work. Since they are learning double digit addition I wrote a quick script that will generate a page with 25 problems on it. I kept printing him off new sheets until the end of the regular school day. I posted the script to r/PowerShell if others had done something similar, and it turned into a pretty fun post.

with the Jeopardy "board game". The solution? 25 lines of PowerShell using PowerShell UniversalDashboard, that allows our contestants to use their phones as buzzers.

solution to the Dark Faction?s challenge.

Alexander’s fun weekend scripting project.