&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 November 2018 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018/11/</link><description>Recent content in Articles from November 2018 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://powershell.org/articles/2018/11/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 30-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-november-2018/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-november-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Of note this week&amp;hellip; Managing credentials in your scripts, PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s constrained language mode, why you should absolutely reinvent the wheel, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Of note this week&hellip; Managing credentials in your scripts, PowerShell&rsquo;s constrained language mode, why you should absolutely reinvent the wheel, and more.</p><p>Content curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff</p><h6 id="powershell-constrained-language-mode-and-the-dot-source-operator" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#powershell-constrained-language-mode-and-the-dot-source-operator"/><a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/11/26/powershell-constrained-language-mode-and-the-dot-source-operator/"><em>PowerShell Constrained Language mode and the Dot-Source Operator</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-constrained-language-mode-and-the-dot-source-operator" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Paul Higinbotham on November 26th<br>
Deep dive blogs are some of our favorite things to read and Paul, from the PowerShell team, has a good one for everybody this week. He takes us on a brief exploration of how PowerShell handles dot-sourced scripts when you&rsquo;re using Constrained Language mode.</p><h6 id="learning-powershell-by-reinventing-the-wheel" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#learning-powershell-by-reinventing-the-wheel"/><a href="https://winsysblog.com/2018/11/learning-powershell-by-reinventing-the-wheel.html"><em>Learning PowerShell by Reinventing the Wheel</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#learning-powershell-by-reinventing-the-wheel" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Dan Franciscus on November 26th<br>
Finding projects to advance your knowledge can be a little rough sometimes. But you don&rsquo;t need to be novel. Dan offers some rock solid advice as to why you <em>should</em> attempt to build things that others already have.</p><h6 id="using-credentials-in-production-scripts" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#using-credentials-in-production-scripts"/><a href="https://www.randomizedharmony.com/blog/2018/11/25/using-credentials-in-production-scripts"><em>Using Credentials In Production Scripts</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#using-credentials-in-production-scripts" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Paul DeArment on November 25th<br>
Securely handling the storage of credentials for a scheduled script to use is something thats frequently asked about. Paul has wrote a couple of functions to help make this easier for people with the additional requirement of hiding the username.</p><h6 id="importing-enriched-data-into-azure-data-lake-storage-adls-with-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#importing-enriched-data-into-azure-data-lake-storage-adls-with-powershell"/><a href="https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5811/importing-enriched-data-into-azure-data-lake-storage-adls-with-powershell/"><em>Importing Enriched Data into Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) with PowerShell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#importing-enriched-data-into-azure-data-lake-storage-adls-with-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by John Miner on November 26th<br>
If your work is more on the SQL-side, or you&rsquo;re just inquisitive, this is a great write-up on using PowerShell to migrate the migration of data up to Azure Data Lake.</p><h6 id="creating-dynamic-sets-for-validateset" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#creating-dynamic-sets-for-validateset"/><a href="https://vexx32.github.io/2018/11/29/Dynamic-ValidateSet/"><em>Creating Dynamic Sets for ValidateSet</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#creating-dynamic-sets-for-validateset" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Joel Sallow on November 29th<br>
Thinking of using a dynamic parameter in your next function? Joel might have an interesting and much simpler alternative for you to look at.</p><h6 id="reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post"/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/9zyrg1/jottey_a_notepad_written_in_powershell"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Popular Weekly Post</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>This week, /u/dolorfox shared a cool little notepad app that they wrote in PowerShell. Say hello to Jottey!</p><h6 id="tweet-of-the-week" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#tweet-of-the-week"/><a href="https://twitter.com/guyrleech/status/1067049809398382593"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#tweet-of-the-week" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>@guyrleech shows off a pretty cool little script that adds a checksum option to your file explorer&rsquo;s right-click context menu.</p><h6 id="youtube-mvpdays---essential-powershell-for-office-365" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181130.md#youtube-mvpdays---essential-powershell-for-office-365"/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzA9n4NSals"><em>Youtube: MVPDays - Essential PowerShell for Office 365</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#youtube-mvpdays---essential-powershell-for-office-365" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Vlad Catrinescu demonstrats some essential PowerShell for anyone working with O365. The icing on this particular cake is that he uses the new AzureAD module, which is replacing the MSOnline module.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2018/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include pizza and wildcards, getting involved with the community, a new PowerHour, making your scripts pipeline friendly, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include pizza and wildcards, getting involved with the community, a new PowerHour, making your scripts pipeline friendly, and more&hellip;</p><p>Content assembled between mouthfuls of turkey by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff</p><h6 id="adding-pipeline-support-to-your-scripts" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#adding-pipeline-support-to-your-scripts"/><a href="https://steviecoaster.github.io/Pipelines-in-scripts/"><em>Adding Pipeline Support to Your Scripts!</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#adding-pipeline-support-to-your-scripts" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Stephen Valdinger on November 18th<br>
Stephen debuted his PS blog just last week and he&rsquo;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.</p><h6 id="controlling-guest-access-in-office365-with-ms-graph-and-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#controlling-guest-access-in-office365-with-ms-graph-and-powershell"/><a href="https://automativity.com/Controlling-Guest-access-in-Office365-with-MS-Graph-and-Powershell/"><em>Controlling Guest access in Office365 with MS Graph and Powershell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#controlling-guest-access-in-office365-with-ms-graph-and-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Alex Asplund on November 18th<br>
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.</p><h6 id="powershell--working-with-format-table-in-verbose-debug-output-streams" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#powershell--working-with-format-table-in-verbose-debug-output-streams"/><a href="https://evotec.xyz/powershell-working-with-format-table-in-verbose-debug-output-streams/"><em>PowerShell – Working with Format-Table in Verbose, Debug, Output Streams</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell--working-with-format-table-in-verbose-debug-output-streams" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Przemyslaw Klys on November 18th<br>
There&rsquo;s a lot of flexibility in PowerShell for displaying information in nice tables or lists, but it all revolves around your standard output. <em>Format-Stream</em> 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.</p><h6 id="10-ways-anyone-can-easily-contribute-to-the-powershell-community" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#10-ways-anyone-can-easily-contribute-to-the-powershell-community"/><a href="https://www.networkadm.in/how-anyone-can-easily-contribute-to-the-powershell-community/"><em>10 Ways Anyone Can Easily Contribute to the PowerShell Community</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#10-ways-anyone-can-easily-contribute-to-the-powershell-community" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Mike Kanakos on November 18th<br>
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.</p><h6 id="powershell-wildcard-in-pizza-shop" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#powershell-wildcard-in-pizza-shop"/><a href="http://powershell.damiangarbus.pl/powershell-wildcard-in-pizza-shop/"><em>Powershell wildcard in pizza shop???</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-wildcard-in-pizza-shop" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Damian Garbus on November 19th<br>
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.</p><h6 id="reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post"/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/9xs6hj/anyone_else_not_in_it_and_still_use_powershell/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Popular Weekly Post</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Admins and the like might dominate the population of PowerShell users, but it&rsquo;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.</p><h6 id="tweet-of-the-week" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#tweet-of-the-week"/><a href="https://twitter.com/nohwnd/status/1065304273376997376"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#tweet-of-the-week" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Pester&rsquo;s companion module, Assert, gets a little love with a new update this week. This was the first we&rsquo;d heard of a function that could easily determine equivalence between two objects, so it&rsquo;s definitely on our list to check out on Monday.</p><h6 id="youtube-powerhour-005-2018-11-20" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181122.md#youtube-powerhour-005-2018-11-20"/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt-nrHbgTns"><em>Youtube: PowerHour 005: 2018-11-20</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#youtube-powerhour-005-2018-11-20" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>This month&rsquo;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.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-november-2018/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-november-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include pie charts, flattening your modules, selecting unique items, the WindowsCompatibility module goes GA, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include pie charts, flattening your modules, selecting unique items, the WindowsCompatibility module goes GA, and more&hellip;</p><p>Curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff</p><h6 id="convert-powershell-output-into-a-pie-chart" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#convert-powershell-output-into-a-pie-chart"/><a href="https://4sysops.com/archives/convert-powershell-csv-output-into-a-pie-chart/"><em>Convert PowerShell output into a pie chart</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#convert-powershell-output-into-a-pie-chart" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Graham Beer on November 9th<br>
Piping information to CSVs and turning it into pretty tables or charts with Excel seems like a staple of admin work sometimes. Lucky for us, Graham has worked out a function for quickly creating pie charts from PowerShell data. Display them right away for a quick visualization or save them to file for use later, and if you dig into the function a little you might find a way to generate even more chart types.</p><h6 id="azure-blueprint" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#azure-blueprint"/><a href="https://agazoth.github.io/blogpost/2018/11/11/Azure-Blueprint.html"><em>Azure Blueprint</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#azure-blueprint" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Axel Anderson on November 11th<br>
Blueprint is an interesting new tool in the world of Azure; it pretty much works to orchestrate policies, roles, ARM templates, and resource groups across multiple subscriptions. Axel&rsquo;s blog post gives a brief introduction to this service before jumping into a module that he wrote for applying a little automation around it.</p><h6 id="create-custom-reports-using-the-updated-teams-powershell-module" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#create-custom-reports-using-the-updated-teams-powershell-module"/><a href="https://practical365.com/teams-2/create-custom-reports-using-the-updated-teams-powershell-module/"><em>Create custom reports using the updated Teams PowerShell module</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#create-custom-reports-using-the-updated-teams-powershell-module" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Steve Goodman on November 12th<br>
Teams is soon replacing Skype for Business and it&rsquo;s PowerShell module is slowly coming into its own. A recent update added in a little extra functionality and Steve decided to explore that by showing us a handy script to assist with auditing Teams in a tenant.</p><h6 id="powershell--single-psm1-file-versus-multi-file-modules" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#powershell--single-psm1-file-versus-multi-file-modules"/><a href="https://evotec.xyz/powershell-single-psm1-file-versus-multi-file-modules/"><em>PowerShell – Single PSM1 file versus multi-file modules</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell--single-psm1-file-versus-multi-file-modules" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Przemyslaw Klys on November 16th<br>
Flattening your modules into a single file before deploying to the PowerShell Gallery seems to be trending a bit. Przemyslaw tested the idea on one of his modules that previously took 12 seconds to load. Now? Less than 1 second. To call that impressive would be putting it mildly.</p><h6 id="announcing-general-availability-of-the-windows-compatibility-module-100" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#announcing-general-availability-of-the-windows-compatibility-module-100"/><a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/11/15/announcing-general-availability-of-the-windows-compatibility-module-1-0-0/"><em>Announcing General Availability of the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#announcing-general-availability-of-the-windows-compatibility-module-100" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Steve Lee on November 15th<br>
After a lot of hard work, the WindowsCompatibility module is now GA! This bad boy (<em>slaps module</em>) will let PS Core access Windows PS modules via implicit remoting. If a lack of native support for your favorite modules in Core has been holding you back, give this a shot.</p><h6 id="reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post"/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/9w61lj/lord_i_feel_dumb_i_just_want_to_compare_two"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Popular Weekly Post</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---popular-weekly-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Help with CSVs is a pretty common request, so this seems fitting. Want to know how to compare values from two columns? Look no further for a simple solution, plus some other tidbits on working with CSVs.</p><h6 id="youtube-5-ways-to-select-unique-items-in-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181116.md#youtube-5-ways-to-select-unique-items-in-powershell"/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfXck_NAX4"><em>Youtube: 5 ways to select Unique items in PowerShell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#youtube-5-ways-to-select-unique-items-in-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Prateek Singh has put out a nice and short video to demonstrate 5 ways that you can select unique items in PowerShell. All of us learned at least one new technique from this, so hopefully you do too.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;h1 id="icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018" class="ps-heading"&gt;ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018" 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;Topics include replacing the MDT final summary, Azure Functions, dumping wifi passwords from your computer, code golf, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="transferring-functions-with-psremoting" class="ps-heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#transferring-functions-with-psremoting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://vexx32.github.io/2018/11/02/Transferring-Functions"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transferring Functions with PSRemoting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#transferring-functions-with-psremoting" 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 Joel Francis on November 2nd&lt;br&gt;
What do you do when you&amp;rsquo;re in a remote session and you need to bring a custom function over? You could write it up on the remote side but that sounds a lot like work. What about passing it through as an object? Joel shows us how we can earn some street cred at the water cooler with these cool tricks.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<h1 id="icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018" class="ps-heading">ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h1><p>Topics include replacing the MDT final summary, Azure Functions, dumping wifi passwords from your computer, code golf, and more&hellip;<br>
Curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.</p><h6 id="transferring-functions-with-psremoting" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#transferring-functions-with-psremoting"/><a href="https://vexx32.github.io/2018/11/02/Transferring-Functions"><em>Transferring Functions with PSRemoting</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#transferring-functions-with-psremoting" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Joel Francis on November 2nd<br>
What do you do when you&rsquo;re in a remote session and you need to bring a custom function over? You could write it up on the remote side but that sounds a lot like work. What about passing it through as an object? Joel shows us how we can earn some street cred at the water cooler with these cool tricks.</p><h6 id="create-your-own-mdt-final-summary-wizard-with-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#create-your-own-mdt-final-summary-wizard-with-powershell"/><a href="http://www.systanddeploy.com/2018/11/create-your-own-mdt-final-summary.html"><em>Create your own MDT Final Summary wizard with PowerShell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#create-your-own-mdt-final-summary-wizard-with-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Damien Van Robaeys on November 5th<br>
When&rsquo;s the last time you thought of PowerShell and MDT together? Kicking off a series, Damien demonstrates how we can replace that boring final summary with a jazzed-up PowerShell one.</p><h6 id="creating-an-azure-sql-database-with-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#creating-an-azure-sql-database-with-powershell"/><a href="https://mcpmag.com/articles/2018/11/06/azure-sql-database-with-powershell.aspx"><em>Creating an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#creating-an-azure-sql-database-with-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Adam Bertram on November 6th<br>
If you sometimes find yourself in need of a database and don&rsquo;t have an instance on hand, or maybe you just want to show how quick and easy it is to stand one up in Azure, Adam&rsquo;s got you covered. Using just three cmdlets, you can have a SQL database in the cloud ready to go faster than a finance intern locking their AD account after a password change.</p><h6 id="an-azure-powershell-trigger-function-for-mac-address-vendor--manufacturer-lookup" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#an-azure-powershell-trigger-function-for-mac-address-vendor--manufacturer-lookup"/><a href="https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com/an-azure-powershell-trigger-function-for-mac-address-vendor-manufacturer-lookup/"><em>An Azure PowerShell Trigger Function for MAC Address Vendor / Manufacturer Lookup</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#an-azure-powershell-trigger-function-for-mac-address-vendor--manufacturer-lookup" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Darren Robinson on November 6th<br>
Darren is working on an IoT project that requires looking up vendor names from MAC addresses. In this post, he details his approach to creating a list of vendors easily consumable by PowerShell, plus setting up an Azure Function to handle querying this list with a REST API.</p><h6 id="get-known-wifi-networks-passwords-powershell" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#get-known-wifi-networks-passwords-powershell"/><a href="https://itfordummies.net/2018/11/05/get-known-wifi-networks-passwords-powershell/"><em>Get Known Wifi Networks Passwords PowerShell</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#get-known-wifi-networks-passwords-powershell" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Emmanuel Demillière on November 5th<br>
If you&rsquo;re running a Windows machine, it&rsquo;s exceedingly easy to retrieve the passwords for any remembered wireless networks. Whether you&rsquo;re pen-testing or you just forgot the password and somebody needs it, Emmanuel has written up a nice PowerShell function that wraps around the <em>netsh</em> command to give you a nice collection of objects containing network names and their passwords.</p><h6 id="reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post"/><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/9u2ynr/shortest_script_challenge_make_a_maze/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>For all you code golf fans, the PowerShell subreddit hosts occasional &ldquo;Shortest Script Challenges&rdquo; that always bring out some interesting solutions. The latest is no exception. Browse through to see the various methods people used to randomly generate mazes.</p><h6 id="tweet-of-the-week" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#tweet-of-the-week"/><a href="https://twitter.com/IISResetMe/status/1060164938822500352"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#tweet-of-the-week" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Mathias Jessen has made a handy little tool for folks that have a need to consume Event Logs with PowerShell. His function will take your event log records and convert them into easy-to-work with objects.</p><h6 id="youtube---socal-powershell-advanced-functions" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#youtube---socal-powershell-advanced-functions"/><a href="https://youtu.be/3gDa5xQynZA?t=1740"><em>YouTube - SoCal PowerShell: Advanced Functions</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#youtube---socal-powershell-advanced-functions" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>Coming from the SoCal PowerShell user group this week, Kevin Marquette gives a presentation on advanced functions. This is great material to familiarize yourself with if you&rsquo;re looking to take your functions up a notch or two.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 2-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-november-2018/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-november-2018/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include analyzing your scripts for code injection, configuring DSC with SQL, presentations from PSConfAsia, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include analyzing your scripts for code injection, configuring DSC with SQL, presentations from PSConfAsia, and more&hellip;</p><p>Intertubes scoured for content by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.</p><h6 id="how-to-secure-powershell-remoting-in-a-windows-domain" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#how-to-secure-powershell-remoting-in-a-windows-domain"/><a href="https://www.networkadm.in/securing-powershell/"><em>How To Secure PowerShell Remoting In A Windows Domain</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#how-to-secure-powershell-remoting-in-a-windows-domain" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Mike Kanakos on October 27th<br>
Digging into the security considerations surrounding PowerShell remoting can be a bit daunting. Fortunate for the rest of us, Mike was recently tasked with defining PowerShell&rsquo;s security posture in his organization and has written about his findings in this blog post. This is a great place to dive in for anyone looking to learn about it.</p><h6 id="using-powershell-injection-hunter-at-scale" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#using-powershell-injection-hunter-at-scale"/><a href="https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/using-powershell-injection-hunter-at-scale/"><em>Using PowerShell Injection Hunter at Scale</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#using-powershell-injection-hunter-at-scale" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Emin Atac on October 30th<br>
Malicious code injection probably isn&rsquo;t something many of us think about often, but we probably should. The InjectionHunter module can help you spot these in your scripts, but only if you pass them in as a ScriptBlockAst. Emin wanted something more accessible. This is a pretty cool write up about how Emin wrote a function to extend the inputs for this module, making it easier to analyze your code for these particular issues.</p><h6 id="powershell-script-module-design-building-tools-to-automate-the-process" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#powershell-script-module-design-building-tools-to-automate-the-process"/><a href="https://mikefrobbins.com/2018/11/01/powershell-script-module-design-building-tools-to-automate-the-process/"><em>PowerShell Script Module Design: Building Tools to Automate the Process</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#powershell-script-module-design-building-tools-to-automate-the-process" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Mike Robbins on November 1st<br>
Mike is up to the fourth part in his series on PowerShell&rsquo;s AST. In this post, he pulls together knowledge from the previous three to build an advanced function which can pull in code from a variety of sources and output an AST from it.</p><h6 id="dsc-pull-server-reloaded-part-3-pre-create-the-pull-server-database" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#dsc-pull-server-reloaded-part-3-pre-create-the-pull-server-database"/><a href="https://bgelens.nl/dsc-pull-server-reloaded-part-3-precreate-pull-server-database/"><em>DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 3: Pre-create the Pull Server Database</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#dsc-pull-server-reloaded-part-3-pre-create-the-pull-server-database" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Ben Gelens on November 1st<br>
Windows Server is introducing the capability for a SQL-backed DSC pull server, and Ben has been working on a series to explore that. In his third post, he dives into configuring an Azure SQL instance, setting up the pull server, and registering a node. All with PowerShell!</p><h6 id="how-to-use-internal-powershell-gallery-app" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#how-to-use-internal-powershell-gallery-app"/><a href="https://practical365.com/blog/how-to-use-internal-powershell-gallery-app/?utm_content=79231324"><em>How to use Internal PowerShell Gallery App</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#how-to-use-internal-powershell-gallery-app" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>by Daler Sayfiddinov on November 2nd<br>
Here&rsquo;s an interesting way to store and distribute your scripts internally. Daler shows us how to use a SharePoint list as a backend repository with PowerApps acting as a frontend. Search, filtering, and the ability to submit new scripts all built-in.</p><h6 id="reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post"/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/9sxkzh/i_just_want_to_thank_the_whole_community_for/?st=jnzk5fyx&amp;sh=44be7d78"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#reddit-rpowershell---most-popular-weekly-post" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>/u/WhatTheHomePod just wants to spread a little love and appreciation by thanking /r/PowerShell for being such an awesome community that helped them to get started learning this great tool.</p><h6 id="tweet-of-the-week" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#tweet-of-the-week"/><a href="https://twitter.com/cyberhayden/status/1057098123720310785"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#tweet-of-the-week" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>If cloud security is part of your jam, Azure ATP can now help you monitor for remote PowerShell execution.</p><h6 id="livestream-manage-your-heterogeneous-environments-with-powershell-core" class="ps-heading"><a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181102.md#livestream-manage-your-heterogeneous-environments-with-powershell-core"/><a href="https://livestream.com/gaelcolas/PSConfAsia/videos/182706737"><em>LiveStream: Manage Your Heterogeneous Environments with PowerShell Core</em></a><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#livestream-manage-your-heterogeneous-environments-with-powershell-core" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p>At this year&rsquo;s PSConfAsia, Steve Lee gave a great presentation that shows off some of the great cross-platform features that he and his team have brought to PS Core.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>