ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-September-18
Topics Azure Pipelines, PowerShell Core 6.1, PowerShell on Arch Linux, and the PSPowerHour.
Special thanks to our PowerShell.org volunteers Mark Roloff, Brett Bunker, and Robin Dadswell.
If you’d like to become part of the ICYMI team then send a request to willa@powershell.org.
Announcing PowerShell Core 6.1
by Joey Aiello on September 13th
The latest major release of PowerShell introduces compatibility with in-box modules for Windows PowerShell v5, performance improvements, and markdown cmdlets. PSCustomObject now has a count property and supports the Where and ForEach methods.
Powershell + Arch Linux = AWESOME!
by Rob Pleau on September 17th
Arch Linux is known as being for geeks that love to tinker (or masochists, depending on who you ask) and now you can tinker with Core on Arch. Rob has put together a great guide on getting the cross-platform PowerShell Core to run on his favorite distribution.
Fun with Select-Object (and ProxyCommand)
by Mathias Jessen on September 19th
Suppose there’s a cmdlet that just doesn’t quite work the way you need. If only you could tweak the behavior a little… Or a lot. Mathias wrote a great introduction to using .NET’s ProxyCommand class to create customized versions of PowerShell cmdlets. This opens the door to some pretty cool and fun possibilities.
Converting a PowerShell Project to use Azure DevOps Pipelines
by Daniel Scott-Raynsford on September 20th
Learn how to hook up your GitHub account to an Azure DevOps organization and use Azure Pipelines for PowerShell Core projects across Windows, Linux, and macOS!
PowerShell: Building Modules with the Azure DevOps Pipeline
by Kevin Marquette on September 20th
Kevin provides a separate take on using Azure DevOps Pipelines to enable continuous integration with GitHub.
PSWinReporting - Monitoring Active Directory Events and Sending it to Email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, SQL
by u/MadBoyEvo on September 17th
The top post on Reddit this week covers an interesting module that notifies you for event changes in Active Directory, such as adding users to Domain Admins. There are options for recording these events in Microsoft Teams and SQL!
Get a Free T-shirt!
by @TylerLeonhardt on September 19th
Submit a pull request to a Microsoft repo in October and get a limited edition t-shirt!
PSPowerHour Episode 4
by PSPowerHour on September 19th
The fourth edition of PSPowerHour includes the following topics:
- ProxyCommands (Joel Bennett)
- PSReflect-Functions (Jared Atkinson)
- VaporShell (Nate Ferrell)
- Implicit remoting (Stepehn Valdinger)
- Docker Compose (Fancisco Navarro)
- VSTS Extensions (Thomas Rayner).
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PowerShell Escape Room
PowerShell Escape Room by Michiel Hamers
by Michiel Hamers
https://about.me/michielhamers/
Why on earth you want to create an Escape Room with PowerShell as backend?
I’ve always been a fan of escape rooms, so I decided to create my own for my kids. I wanted to make it something that would be challenging and fun for them, but also educational. I decided to use PowerShell as the backend for the escape room, as I’m a PowerShell developer and I thought it would be a great way to learn more about the language.
The first step was to design the rooms. I wanted to make sure that there were a variety of puzzles and challenges that my kids would have to solve. I also wanted to make sure that the rooms were visually appealing and engaging. Once I had the rooms designed, I started building them.
I used a variety of materials to build the rooms, including wood, cardboard, and fabric. I also used a few electronic components, such as a USB extension cable with a switch and a 3-button keyboard. The USB extension cable with a switch was used to create a physical button that my kids could press to solve one of the puzzles. The 3-button keyboard was used to enter the code that my kids had to find to solve another puzzle.
I also used a few websites to create rebus puzzles that my kids had to solve. I printed out the rebus puzzles and placed them around the rooms. Once my kids had solved all of the puzzles, they were able to enter the code on a single screen to escape the room.
In this blog post, we’ll delve into the process of creating an engaging PowerShell escape room for the global PowerShell community. We’ll emphasize the significance of storytelling and provide a detailed breakdown of the PowerShell structure used for the escape room.
Microsoft Graph PowerShell Module: Getting Started Guide
Microsoft Graph PowerShell Module: Getting Started Guide
by Jeff Brown
Microsoft is retiring the Azure AD Graph API sometime after June 30, 2023 (announcement). This retirement includes the Azure AD PowerShell module. In its place, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module. The Microsoft Graph PowerShell module is the next-generation way of managing Microsoft cloud services using PowerShell. If you have used MSOnline or Azure AD PowerShell in the past, you’ll need to read on to learn about this new module.
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 08-October-2021
Topics include VMWare, Windows 11, Web Reports and more…
Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux
How to gather your vCenter inventory data with this VMware PowerShell script
by Scott Matteson on 7th October
Inventory reports are a common request when administering a VMware vCenter environment. Learn how this VMware PowerShell script can make such requests quick and easy
Building a Web Report in PowerShell, use the -Force Luke
by Chris Noring on 8th October