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The real purpose of the Finally statement in PowerShell
by Luc Fullenwarth on 10th February
You've heard of try/catch but there is another part to it, try/catch/finally. A lot of people struggle with the purpose of 'finally' but Luc tries to help out in this post.
PowerShell Remoting Profiles with Windows Terminal
by @JeffHicks on 10th February
Configuring the Windows Terminal as a PowerShell console and creating profiles for remote sessions.
Monitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring psexec execution
by @KelvinTegelaar on 10th February
A nice way to monitor psexec execution using certificate thumbprint
How to Apply DSC Configurations to VMs in Azure ARM Templates
by Adam Bertram on 12th February
If you're deploying Azure Windows virtual machines (VMs) via ARM templates and need to configure Windows, this article is for you. In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to use the Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension for ARM templates to seamlessly deploy and configure an Azure VM Scale Set with a single template.
Monitoring the Network Load with Powershell
by Paolo Frigo on 13th February
Paolo shares a script he created for monitoring Network usage using PowerShell
Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post
User akaBrotherNature shared some great RegEx that helped him clean up data by removing trailing spaces, multiple spaces and more.
Tweet of the Week
Announcement of Pester v5 beta release.
YouTube: Register for Filesystem Events with PowerShell
In this video, you'll learn about the Docker, PowerShell, and Remote-Containers extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Once we review the essentials of these useful extensions, we'll use them to explore the process of registering for filesystem events using native PowerShell code.
