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!

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.

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Using a concept called Adaptive Cards, Teams allows you to create and customize various cards in Teams via JSON. You could create them by typing up some JSON but it's much more fun to create them with incoming Teams webhooks and a little PowerShell!

slow down execution speed, or wait for another process to conclude before moving forward. As with most tasks in Powershell, there is more than one way to pause a script. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, the method of pausing you choose will have its strengths and weaknesses.

Unauthenticated email has become difficult to pass in many mail systems. You don't want to miss an important email notification because you relied on outdated PowerShell cmdlets. The built-in cmdlet Send-MailMessage no longer covers sending email securely.

through the user interface, PowerShell provides several methods for rebooting a computer remotely.

it's needed and when to use it. As in most cases, the answer is maybe and dependent on your needs.

has been around for decades and is crucial to any administrators toolbelt. Grep's core is simply the ability to search plain text for a RegEx pattern. Grep can search files in a given directory or streamed input to output matches.

need to secure that sensitive information! One way to do that is with the PowerShell SecretManagement module. Offering a convenient way for a user to store and retrieve secrets using PowerShell, the SecretManagement module also has the ability to interface with different back-end systems such as Azure KeyStore or KeePass too using an extension vault!