ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-March-2019
Topics include PowerShell IoT, Nmap in PS, and some livestreamed contributions to PSHTML.
Special thanks to Robin Dadswell and Mark Roloff.
List and change BIOS settings with PowerShell
by Damien Van Robaeys on March 19th
Methods covered are specific to 3 of the major hardware manufacturers, which makes this especially handy.
PoshNmap
by Justin Grote
Not a blog but this was announced a few days ago and seemed worth sharing. PoshNmap is a wrapper for the ubiquitous Nmap tool.
Getting Started With PowerShell (Core) on Raspian (Raspberry Pi) – Light Up a LED
by Daniel Silva on March 20th
I mean… The title really says it all. If you’re curious about IoT, this is a great little practical exercise to get you introduced to it.
PowerShell Crash Course
by jeikabu on March 15th
A different kind of crash course. It’s really more of a quick primer to PowerShell Core for *nix admins/developers.
SQL Database Backups using PowerShell Module – DBATools
by Rajendra Gupta on March 21st
There’s apparently plenty of different configurations for backing up databases with the DBATools module, and Rajendra demonstrates a good number of them here.
Youtube: Closing an issue in PSHTML to improve charting in HTML with PowerShell
Anthony livestreams his journey into writing an improvement to a public module.
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