&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Articles from July 2018 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018/07/</link><description>Recent content in Articles from July 2018 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://powershell.org/articles/2018/07/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>PowerHour: Community Lightning Demos!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-31-powerhour-community-lightning-demos/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-31-powerhour-community-lightning-demos/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It&amp;rsquo;s a fun format:&lt;br&gt;
For the audience:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fast paced (max 10 minutes)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Many speakers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Topic or speaker not what you&amp;rsquo;re looking for? They&amp;rsquo;ll change in a few minutes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Demos offer enough material to give you ideas and point out where to learn more&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Content is more likely to have a high signal-to-noise ratio given the time constraints&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For the speakers:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It&rsquo;s a fun format:<br>
For the audience:</p><ul><li>Fast paced (max 10 minutes)</li><li>Many speakers</li><li>Topic or speaker not what you&rsquo;re looking for? They&rsquo;ll change in a few minutes</li><li>Demos offer enough material to give you ideas and point out where to learn more</li><li>Content is more likely to have a high signal-to-noise ratio given the time constraints</li></ul><p>For the speakers:</p><ul><li>No need to come up with a full length session and the content behind it</li><li>It can be comforting knowing you have a bunch of peers joining you</li><li>You can get enough info to the audience for them to get excited and want to learn more</li><li>You get a platform to share something awesome with the PowerShell community</li></ul><p>So! This isn&rsquo;t about the summit. We&rsquo;re starting a new thing,<em>PowerHour: An Hour of Community Lightning Demos</em>.</p><h3 id="powerhour" class="ps-heading">PowerHour<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powerhour" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><em>PowerHour</em> will be like a virtual PowerShell User Group, with a lightning demo format, and leeway for other topics not directly related to PowerShell.<br>
This adds some more fun:</p><ul><li>No need to stand on stage (yet!), with Jeffrey Snover sitting right in front of you</li><li>Folks reviewing CFPs for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit will likely see these&hellip; You could give a condensed demo of a CFP topic, or just showcase something cool to give us an idea of how you prepare and present</li><li>More time! We always run short on time at the summit; we&rsquo;ll hold these on a regular basis to give more folks a chance to show something fun!</li><li>Everything is recorded</li></ul><p>So! Where can you go to find out more?</p><ul><li>Proposals, FAQs, materials, links to demos, agendas, and more will be available at the<a href="https://github.com/pspowerhour/pspowerhour">PSPowerHour GitHub repo</a></li><li>Demos and live stream at<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHKcGei3EjxBNYQCFZ3WNQ">PSPowerHour YouTube channel</a></li></ul><h3 id="when-does-it-start" class="ps-heading">When does it start?<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#when-does-it-start" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>Our first session is scheduled for<strong>Tuesday</strong> <strong>August 21st @ 6:00 PM EST</strong>!</p><ul><li>If you want to propose a demo, just<a href="https://github.com/PSPowerHour/PSPowerHour/issues/new">submit an issue</a>! We&rsquo;ll work on timing for your demo from there</li><li>We need more proposals, but<a href="https://twitter.com/dfinke">Doug Finke</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/cl">Chrissy LeMaire</a>, and<a href="https://twitter.com/GlennSarti">Glenn Sarti</a> (if he can wake up early enough!) will join us for our first session</li></ul><p>We hope you&rsquo;ll join us - feel free to drop by the #powerhour channel in<a href="https://bit.ly/psslack">powershell.slack.com</a>!</p><p>PS: a huge thanks to<a href="https://twitter.com/barbariankb">Michael Lombardi</a> for his help with the summit community lightning demos, and partnering up to make PowerHour a thing!</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-27-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-3/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-27-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-3/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;h2 id="blogs" class="ps-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#blogs"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Blogs&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#blogs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"&gt;&lt;i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package" class="ps-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/07/20/powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PowerShell Core Now Available as a Snap Package&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"&gt;&lt;i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;by The PowerShell Team on July 20th&lt;br&gt;
Oh, Snap! Core&amp;rsquo;s support matrix on Linux grows broader with the inclusion of a Snap Package to the line-up. Check out the PS team&amp;rsquo;s blog for details on what this means and how you can try it out.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<h2 id="blogs" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#blogs"/>Blogs<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#blogs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package"/><a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/07/20/powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package/"><em>PowerShell Core Now Available as a Snap Package</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by The PowerShell Team on July 20th<br>
Oh, Snap! Core&rsquo;s support matrix on Linux grows broader with the inclusion of a Snap Package to the line-up. Check out the PS team&rsquo;s blog for details on what this means and how you can try it out.</p><h3 id="powershell-modules-in-azure-functions" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-modules-in-azure-functions"/><a href="https://agazoth.github.io/blogpost/2018/07/22/Powershell-Modules-in-Azure-Fuctions.html"><em>PowerShell Modules in Azure Functions</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-modules-in-azure-functions" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Axel Bøg Andersen on July 22nd<br>
Hit a snag taking your modules to Azure Functions? Eliminate the hassle of using extra tools and learn how to load your modules directly to Azure Functions.</p><h3 id="using-pester-for-infrastructure-testing" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#using-pester-for-infrastructure-testing"/><a href="http://powershellpr0mpt.com/2018/07/24/using-pester-for-infrastructure-testing/"><em>Using Pester for Infrastructure Testing</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#using-pester-for-infrastructure-testing" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Robert Prüst on July 24th.<br>
If you&rsquo;re looking for interesting use-cases for Pester, this one&rsquo;s for you. Robert gives us a look at using the mocking and testing framework to suss out performance issues in his environment. Hint: It&rsquo;s not DNS.</p><h3 id="powershell-threadjobs" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-threadjobs"/><a href="https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/powershell-threadjobs/"><em>PowerShell ThreadJobs</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-threadjobs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Richard Siddaway on July 24th<br>
There&rsquo;s a new cmdlet in PowerShell Core v6.1 preview 4 that allows you to run jobs on separate threads. This allows you to run more jobs simulatenously as ThreadJobs are lighter in resource consumption than standard jobs.</p><h3 id="displaying-toast-notifications-for-a-different-user-when-powershell-module-updates-are-available" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#displaying-toast-notifications-for-a-different-user-when-powershell-module-updates-are-available"/><a href="https://mikefrobbins.com/2018/07/26/displaying-toast-notifications-for-a-different-user-when-powershell-module-updates-are-available/"><em>Displaying Toast Notifications for a Different User When PowerShell Module Updates are Available</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#displaying-toast-notifications-for-a-different-user-when-powershell-module-updates-are-available" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Mike Robbins on July 26tth<br>
Learn about a number of useful techniques in this article. Use the BuntToast module to display toast notifications in Windows. Use the BetterCredentials module to read credentials from CredentialManager (rather than prompting or reading from a password file). And use the Find-MrModuleUpdate function from MrToolkit module to determine if any updates are availble for your PowerShell modules.</p><h2 id="forums" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#forums"/>Forums<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#forums" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post"/>PowerShell.org Challenge - Unanswered Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/azurehow-to-change-retention-period-of-each-policy-in-recoverservices-vault/"><em>How to Change Retention Period of Each Policy in Azure Recovery Services Vault</em></a> by Avinash on July 22nd<br>
Avinash&rsquo;s question has been out there for a week and he hasn&rsquo;t gotten any help yet. He&rsquo;s on the right track but needs a little guidance. Please jump in if you can help!</p><h3 id="reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-post"/>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/92416c/windows_admin_center_formerly_project_honolulu/"><em>&ldquo;Widnows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu) Functions on Github&rdquo;</em></a> by ufourierswager on July 26th<br>
This author grabbed all the functions from Windows Admin Center and posted them on GitHub for the rest of the community to use. Fork your own copy and get your hands on a nice set of useful functions!</p><h2 id="media" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#media"/>Media<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#media" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="twitter" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#twitter"/>Twitter<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#twitter" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SadProcessor/status/1022080105345114112"><em>The Ultimate PowerShell Cheat Sheet</em></a> by @SadProcessor on July 25th<br>
If only every cheat sheet were this simple!</p><h3 id="youtube" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#youtube"/>Youtube<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#youtube" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eu--5muiLI"><em>PowerShell Core Community Call</em></a> by The PowerShell Team on July 19th<br>
Topics include discussion on two preview releases, the compatibility for the Active Directory module in RSAT with PowerShell Core, and the release cadence of PowerShell Core.<a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/CommunityCall/20180719_Notes.md">Link to call notes</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-20-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-2/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-20-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-2/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;h2 id="blogs" class="ps-heading"&gt;Blogs&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#blogs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"&gt;&lt;i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date" class="ps-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://tfl09.blogspot.com/2018/07/keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Keeping PowerShell Modules Up To Date&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"&gt;&lt;i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;by Thomas Lee on Saturday July 14th, 2018&lt;br&gt;
Learn a simple technique for checking which of your modules from the PowerShell Gallery have an update.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest" class="ps-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://poshsea.blogspot.com/2018/07/when-tls-12-break-invoke-webrequest.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When TLS 1.2 Breaks Invoke-WebRequest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"&gt;&lt;i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;by Lawrence Hwang on July 15th, 2018&lt;br&gt;
In Windows PowerShell, there&amp;rsquo;s a limitation with Invoke-WebRequest and sites that only use TLS 1.2. This article covers a workaround for this problem. This issue is not present with Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell Core.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<h2 id="blogs" class="ps-heading">Blogs<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#blogs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date"/><a href="https://tfl09.blogspot.com/2018/07/keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date.html"><em>Keeping PowerShell Modules Up To Date</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Thomas Lee on Saturday July 14th, 2018<br>
Learn a simple technique for checking which of your modules from the PowerShell Gallery have an update.</p><h3 id="when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest"/><a href="https://poshsea.blogspot.com/2018/07/when-tls-12-break-invoke-webrequest.html"><em>When TLS 1.2 Breaks Invoke-WebRequest</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Lawrence Hwang on July 15th, 2018<br>
In Windows PowerShell, there&rsquo;s a limitation with Invoke-WebRequest and sites that only use TLS 1.2. This article covers a workaround for this problem. This issue is not present with Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell Core.</p><h3 id="start-job-like-a-boss" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#start-job-like-a-boss"/><a href="https://mkellerman.github.io/Start-Job_like_a_boss/"><em>Start-Job Like a Boss</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#start-job-like-a-boss" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Marc Kellerman on July 16th, 2018<br>
Load your user session functions and invoke them as jobs on remote systems using throttling and timeout controls.</p><h3 id="parse-html-and-pass-to-cognitive-services-text-to-speech" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#parse-html-and-pass-to-cognitive-services-text-to-speech"/><a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2018/07/16/parse-html-and-pass-to-cognitive-services-text-to-speech/"><em>Parse HTML and Pass to Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#parse-html-and-pass-to-cognitive-services-text-to-speech" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Sean Kearney, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft on July 16th<br>
Use Text-to-Speech in Azure to read a web page outloud in Windows 10.</p><h3 id="powershell-by-mistake" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#powershell-by-mistake"/><a href="https://leanpub.com/powershell-by-mistake"><em>PowerShell By Mistake</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-by-mistake" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Don Jones on July 18th, 2018<br>
Don started a new book on Leanpub which helps you learn PowerShell by reviewing &ldquo;broken code&rdquo; and discovering the answers.</p><h2 id="forum-topics" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#forum-topics"/>Forum Topics<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#forum-topics" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post"/>PowerShell.org Challenge - Unanswered Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/configuration-manager-new-cmprogram/"><em>Configuration Manager New CMProgram</em></a><br>
Amir Atary needs guidance with usage on a ConfigMgr cmdlet. Please assist if you can help.</p><h3 id="powershellorg---most-popular-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#powershellorg---most-popular-post"/>PowerShell.org - Most Popular Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershellorg---most-popular-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/find-commands-with-parameter-names/"><em>&ldquo;Find Commands with Parameter Names&rdquo;</em></a><br>
The response by postanote contains a useful list of commands for newcomers.</p><h3 id="reddit---most-popular-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#reddit---most-popular-post"/>Reddit - Most Popular Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit---most-popular-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/8z6t3h/captureit_a_powershell_module_to_generate_gifs_of/"><em>&ldquo;CaptureIT: A PowerShell Module to generate GIFs of the actively selected window or your entire desktop screen</em></a> by u/_Unas on July 16th, 2018<br>
Create gifs of an active window or your desktop with one easy command.</p><h2 id="media" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#media"/>Media<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#media" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="sliding-windows-audiocast--" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#sliding-windows-audiocast---automation-with-jeffrey-snover"/><a href="https://www.slidingwindows.de/slw10/"><em>Sliding Windows Audiocast - &ldquo;Automation with Jeffrey Snover&rdquo;</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#sliding-windows-audiocast--" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Thorsten Butz on July 11th, 2018<br>
Take 45 minutes and listen to this excellent podcast with Jeffrey Snover. Recorded during the PowerShell Conference Europe in April, Jeffrey provides insight to a number of thoughtful questions that cover a wide range of topics, including the history of PowerShell, how certain decisions came to be, some regrets, and the future of PowerShell.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-13-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-13-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This week we&amp;rsquo;re starting a new series of blog posts called (obviously) &amp;lsquo;What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!&amp;rsquo;.  Our team of volunteers is scouring the web to find interesting articles, and forum posts related to our favourite topic!  In the meantime, I want to give a &amp;rsquo;thank you&amp;rsquo; to everyone that pulled together to make this possible.  Many thanks to Greg Tate, Evgeny Fedorov, Patrick Singletary, Brett Bunker, Mark Roloff, and Robin Dadswell for your hard work on getting this started!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;-Will&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p><em>This week we&rsquo;re starting a new series of blog posts called (obviously) &lsquo;What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!&rsquo;.  Our team of volunteers is scouring the web to find interesting articles, and forum posts related to our favourite topic!  In the meantime, I want to give a &rsquo;thank you&rsquo; to everyone that pulled together to make this possible.  Many thanks to Greg Tate, Evgeny Fedorov, Patrick Singletary, Brett Bunker, Mark Roloff, and Robin Dadswell for your hard work on getting this started!</em><br><em>-Will</em></p><h2 id="blogs" class="ps-heading">Blogs<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#blogs" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="cross-platform-powershell-unit-testing-and-automatic-variables" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#cross-platform-powershell-unit-testing-and-automatic-variables"/><a href="https://andrewpearce.io/powershell/2018/07/10/cross-platform-pester-gotcha/"><em>Cross-Platform PowerShell, Unit Testing and Automatic Variables</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#cross-platform-powershell-unit-testing-and-automatic-variables" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Andrew Pearce on July 10th, 2018<br>
Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core are two different products. When using continuous integration tooling to write unit tests you will likely encounter an issue when testing for platform-specific logic paths. Understand a limitation with the $PSEdition automatic variable and how to work around this limitation so that you can achieve bliss when writing unit tests for modules that support both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core.</p><h3 id="generating-random-data-with-nameit" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#generating-random-data-with-nameit"/><a href="https://kevinmarquette.github.io/2018-07-09-Powershell-NameIt-generate-random-data/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_content=rss"><em>Generating Random Data with NameIT</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#generating-random-data-with-nameit" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Kevin Marquette on July 10th, 2018<br>
Generate random data for testing and presentations with the NameIT PowerShell module. Scenarios include generating random user names, random computer names, and even random objects with - gasp - random property values! This module was written by Doug Finke and is available in the PowerShell Gallery. Refer to Kevin&rsquo;s article for a number of useful scenarios.</p><h3 id="returning-rich-objects-from-functions-part-2" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#returning-rich-objects-from-functions-part-2"/><a href="http://community.idera.com/powershell/powertips/b/tips/posts/returning-rich-objects-from-functions-part-2"><em>Returning Rich Objects From Functions (Part 2)</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#returning-rich-objects-from-functions-part-2" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Idera on July 9th<br>
Control the output of objects so that preferred properties, i.e. first-class citizens, appear at the top of a property list. This is must read for those of you who live in the camp of using PSCustomObject!</p><h3 id="announcing-the-powershell-conference-book" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#announcing-the-powershell-conference-book"/><a href="https://mikefrobbins.com/2018/07/06/announcing-the-powershell-conference-book/"><em>Announcing the PowerShell Conference Book</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#announcing-the-powershell-conference-book" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Mike Robbins on July 6th, 2018<br>
Now available on LeanPub, the &ldquo;PowerShell Conference Book&rdquo; presents a series of advanced PowerShell topics where each chapter embodies a session at a PowerShell conference. Targets intermediate and advanced PowerShell users.</p><h3 id="the-scriptstoprocess-and-requiredmodules-order" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#the-scriptstoprocess-and-requiredmodules-order"/><a href="https://tommymaynard.com/the-scriptstoprocess-and-requiredmodules-order-2018/"><em>The ScriptsToProcess and RequiredModules Order</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#the-scriptstoprocess-and-requiredmodules-order" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Tommy Maynard on July 2nd, 2018<br>
Control the order of sections in the module manifest file. By default the &ldquo;RequiredModules&rdquo; section runs before the &ldquo;ScriptsToProcess&rdquo; section, and this may not be ideal. By switching this order you gain the ability to properly set up your environment prior to validating module dependencies.</p><h2 id="forum-topics" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#forum-topics"/>Forum Topics<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#forum-topics" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post"/>PowerShell.org Challenge - Unanswered Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershellorg-challenge---unanswered-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/testing-for-srv-records-need-help-pulling-data-out-of-hashtable/"><em>Testing for SRV records - need help pulling data out of a hashtable</em></a> by Mike Kanakos<br>
Mike needs your help! Please visit the forums and respond to his question on hash table usage.</p><h3 id="powershellorg---most-popular-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#powershellorg---most-popular-post"/>PowerShell.org - Most Popular Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershellorg---most-popular-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/securing-powershell-on-your-domain/"><em>&ldquo;Securing PowerShell On Your Domain&rdquo;</em></a> by Allan Williams<br>
For you folks in the security space, a reply on this post contains numerous useful links related to Windows PowerShell and security.</p><h3 id="reddit---most-popular-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#reddit---most-popular-post"/>Reddit - Most Popular Post<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit---most-popular-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/8xyfx2/powershell_koans/"><em>&ldquo;PowerShell Koans&rdquo;</em></a> by u/Ta11ow on July 12th, 2018<br>
Check out a simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.</p><h2 id="media" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#media"/>Media<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#media" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><h3 id="devops-enterprise-summit---digitial-transformation---thriving-through-the-transition" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/12July2018.md#devops-enterprise-summit---digitial-transformation---thriving-through-the-transition"/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyF8fzed0w"><em>DevOps Enterprise Summit - Digitial Transformation - Thriving Through the Transition</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#devops-enterprise-summit---digitial-transformation---thriving-through-the-transition" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h3><p>by Jeffrey Snover on July 3rd, 2018<br>
Catch Jeff&rsquo;s session on how digitial transformation provides an opportunity to supercharge your career!</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Help Us Improve our Ebooks – Your Chance to Contribute!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-11-help-us-improve-our-ebooks-your-chance-to-contribute/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-11-help-us-improve-our-ebooks-your-chance-to-contribute/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:33:56 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;We recently re-launched all of our free ebooks at &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective"&gt;https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective&lt;/a&gt;. These books have all been authored by a variety of people, myself included, and most were originally authors in Word. As we translated them into Markdown (which is what Leanpub uses for its source), a few snafus tend to come up here and there.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>We recently re-launched all of our free ebooks at <a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective">https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective</a>. These books have all been authored by a variety of people, myself included, and most were originally authors in Word. As we translated them into Markdown (which is what Leanpub uses for its source), a few snafus tend to come up here and there.</p><p>Note that these books create no profit for anyone: all authors donated them to The DevOps Collective. When someone chooses to pay for an ebook during checkout (they&rsquo;re priced at $0.00, but you can pay anything you like), those funds go to help The DevOps Collective&rsquo;s programs, including our operational costs, OnRamp Scholarship, and more. So the books are entirely a volunteer effort, owned and maintained by the community at large.<br>
For example, in the table of contents for <a href="https://leanpub.com/thebigbookofpowershellgotchas/read">https://leanpub.com/thebigbookofpowershellgotchas/read,</a> you&rsquo;ll see a lot of &ldquo;I&rdquo;™" type nonsense, which typically comes from Word&rsquo;s &ldquo;smart quotes&rdquo; feature when those get translated into plain ASCII. You&rsquo;ll also find the odd formatting issue, like backslashes at the end of code lines, which are meant to represent line breaks, or missing backslashes in paths, because backslashes need to be doubled in order to prevent them from being seen as an escape character.<br>
Anyway - they&rsquo;re all minor snafus, but it&rsquo;s difficult for me to carve off time to go through all the books and fix every little one.<br>
Which is where you can help!<br>
These books are all open source, and hosted at <a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc">https://github.com/devops-collective-inc</a>. Anyone can use GitHub to clone the book repo, make whatever changes they want, commit those changes to their local repo, and then submit a pull request back to the main online repo. I review those PRs weekly.<br>
So this is a <em>great</em> chance for you to contribute to the community. If these ebooks have ever helped you, then you can &ldquo;give back&rdquo; a bit by helping us fine-tune them.<br>
And here&rsquo;s a tip: if you make a change, please also clone the Spanish version of the ebook and make the same change. That way we can keep the Spanish versions updated as well. Thanks again to community contributor Alvaro Tatis Torres for creating those Spanish versions entirely on his own time!<br>
You&rsquo;re also welcome to make more substantive contributions. For example, <em>Secrets of PowerShell Remoting</em> could use a chapter on setting up Remoting-over-SSH for both Windows and Linux/macOS. Once more folks start contributing, I&rsquo;ll be updating the credits on the book to reflect the broader, community-based authorship of each.<br>
Please help spread the word - even if you can&rsquo;t carve off the time to help, maybe someone you know could proofread a chapter or two. Scanning the online reader or the PDF version will reveal most of the oddities, and you can then dive into the source on GitHub to make corrections.<br>
THANK YOU!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Re-Launch of the PowerShell.org Free eBooks (now in Spanish, too!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-04-the-re-launch-of-the-powershell-org-free-ebooks-now-in-spanish-too/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-04-the-re-launch-of-the-powershell-org-free-ebooks-now-in-spanish-too/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the re-launch of our &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective"&gt;Free eBook Store&lt;/a&gt;, now hosted exclusively on Leanpub. This re-launch includes 7 titles translated into Spanish by community contributor Alvaro Torres.&lt;br&gt;
All eBooks are free, although you can also choose to pay any amount of $5 or more, which becomes a donation to The DevOps Collective, Inc. Leanpub offers a web-based reader and, if you &amp;ldquo;buy&amp;rdquo; the book, options to download in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.&lt;br&gt;
We used to dual-publish on Leanpub and GitBook; GitBook no longer supports ebook downloading (they&amp;rsquo;re online-only, now) and Leanpub now offers a free online reader mode, so we&amp;rsquo;re moving exclusively to Leanpub. Leanpub does offer a smartphone app as well, which you can use to manage your entire Leanpub library.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t forget that all of the books&amp;rsquo; &amp;ldquo;source&amp;rdquo; is &lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc"&gt;hosted at GitHub&lt;/a&gt; in public open-source repositories. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to fork the repos, submit pull requests, and so on. Note that we don&amp;rsquo;t provide technical support for the books at GitHub; please use the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums"&gt;Forums&lt;/a&gt; for that. Further, while everyone appreciates suggestions for improving the books, what we &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; appreciate are community members who can fork the repo, implement their suggestions, and submit a pull request!&lt;br&gt;
Please help us spread the word so more people can use these great, entirely-free resources!&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>We&rsquo;re pleased to announce the re-launch of our<a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective">Free eBook Store</a>, now hosted exclusively on Leanpub. This re-launch includes 7 titles translated into Spanish by community contributor Alvaro Torres.<br>
All eBooks are free, although you can also choose to pay any amount of $5 or more, which becomes a donation to The DevOps Collective, Inc. Leanpub offers a web-based reader and, if you &ldquo;buy&rdquo; the book, options to download in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.<br>
We used to dual-publish on Leanpub and GitBook; GitBook no longer supports ebook downloading (they&rsquo;re online-only, now) and Leanpub now offers a free online reader mode, so we&rsquo;re moving exclusively to Leanpub. Leanpub does offer a smartphone app as well, which you can use to manage your entire Leanpub library.<br>
Don&rsquo;t forget that all of the books&rsquo; &ldquo;source&rdquo; is<a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc">hosted at GitHub</a> in public open-source repositories. You&rsquo;re welcome to fork the repos, submit pull requests, and so on. Note that we don&rsquo;t provide technical support for the books at GitHub; please use the<a href="https://powershell.org/forums">Forums</a> for that. Further, while everyone appreciates suggestions for improving the books, what we <em>really</em> appreciate are community members who can fork the repo, implement their suggestions, and submit a pull request!<br>
Please help us spread the word so more people can use these great, entirely-free resources!</p>
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