Topics include PowerShell Secrets Management, Regex, DBA Tools and More.
Special thanks to Robin, Kevin, Prasoon and Kiran.
Setup Azure VM with user assigned managed identity to access Azure Key Vault.
by Kiran Patnayakuni on 4th February
Kiran talks about securing your Azure key vault by using a managed identity
Intune + Chocolatey: A Match Made in Heaven
by Brad Wyatt on 5th February
One time consuming task of Microsoft Intune is packaging up applications. Brad goes into how he uses Chocolatey to simplify this process
Publishing NuGet Packages to Azure Artifacts
by Adam Bertram on 6th February
Learn how to publish Azure Artifacts NuGet packages automatically with Azure Pipelines in this step-by-step tutorial!
Learn More about PowerShell and Regular Expressions
by Jeff Hicks on 5th February
If you’ve never used regular expressions before you are missing out. Regex is a valuable tool for parsing strings, get a quick overview of it in this post.
Secrets Management Development Release
by Sydney Smith on 6th February
Microsoft released a development version of their secrets management module. Check out this article to find out more.
Reddit /r/PowerShell – Most Popular Weekly Post
Learn about using Try Catch and providing valuable feedback to your users with error messages.
Tweet of the Week
RTPSUG is continuing to release content from their PowerShell Saturday 2019, if you’ve never used DBA tools you should check it out.
Youtube: Handling Errors in PowerShell with Try..Catch..Finally
The try..catch..finally statements in PowerShell allow you to handle exceptions (errors) in your scripts. One of the unique concepts in PowerShell exceptions is the notion of a terminating error versus a non-terminating error. In this video, we’ll explore the difference between both types of exceptions, and learn how to effectively use try..catch..finally to handle exceptions in a calculated manner. In addition, we’ll take a look at how to use multiple catch blocks to handle specific types of errors uniquely.
