ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-November-2018
Topics include pizza and wildcards, getting involved with the community, a new PowerHour, making your scripts pipeline friendly, and more…
Content assembled between mouthfuls of turkey by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff
Adding Pipeline Support to Your Scripts!
by Stephen Valdinger on November 18th
Stephen debuted his PS blog just last week and he’s already racking up some great content. In this post, he lays out what you need to know to get your functions working in a pipeline, a central component in building great tools for the shell.
Controlling Guest access in Office365 with MS Graph and Powershell
by Alex Asplund on November 18th
The job was supposed to be simple; just enable guest access on some groups in O365. Follow Alex on a journey of discovering that the documented method is incorrect, he needs to make his own tools to get the job done, and then finally implements an automated solution on a schedule.
PowerShell – Working with Format-Table in Verbose, Debug, Output Streams
by Przemyslaw Klys on November 18th
There’s a lot of flexibility in PowerShell for displaying information in nice tables or lists, but it all revolves around your standard output. Format-Stream is a fancy little function that Przemyslaw made, which can allow you to easily apply nicer formatting to other data streams, such as Verbose and Debug.
10 Ways Anyone Can Easily Contribute to the PowerShell Community
by Mike Kanakos on November 18th
Have you been bitten by the desire to start contributing to the community? It can be an intimidating step. Thankfully, guys like Mike are here to offer some great ideas for taking that first plunge.
Powershell wildcard in pizza shop???
by Damian Garbus on November 19th
For a while now, Damian has been helping newcomers to PS get acquianted with the basics using concise visual lessons. This week, a demonstration on how to use wildcards.
Reddit /r/PowerShell - Popular Weekly Post
Admins and the like might dominate the population of PowerShell users, but it’s not just for us. Retail, banking, finance, and even a chef are all examples of people chiming in with their experiences in this thread.
Tweet of the Week
Pester’s companion module, Assert, gets a little love with a new update this week. This was the first we’d heard of a function that could easily determine equivalence between two objects, so it’s definitely on our list to check out on Monday.
Youtube: PowerHour 005: 2018-11-20
This month’s PS PowerHour had a round of great demos ranging from using PS Core in AWS Lambda, getting started with ChatOps in MS Teams, and reason why you should consider sharing your experiences with the community.
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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