ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-May-2019
Topics include PowerShell Summit, finding account lockouts, certs, and learning PS via Pester.
Content curated by Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan, and Mark Roloff.
Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019
by Matt Bobke on May 2nd
If you couldn’t make it to Summit, fret not! While waiting for videos you can read about it from attendees, like Matt, whom participated in the OnRamp track.
Execute a script block accepting pipeline input and show your progress
by Yves Rosius on May 5th
Show-Progress is essentially a clever little wrapper around Write-Progress but it works in the pipeline. Handy for those long-running one-liners.
Tracking down bad password attempts with PowerShell
by Anthony Howell on May 9th
Keeping an eye on account lockouts can give you a heads up in case of malicious shenanigans or just incoming help desk calls. Anthony walks us through writing a function that can quickly pull that information together.
Powershell Generate Self-signed certificate with Self-Signed Root CA Signer
by Kunal Udapi on May 5th
If self-signed certs are on your agenda, Kunal has your quick and dirty intro to making and installing them.
Reddit /r/PowerShell - Popular Weekly Post
Curious about complementary languages or knowledge-areas once you’re comfortable with PowerShell? Stop in this thread for a few ideas.
Youtube: Learn PowerShell concepts using Pester! with Joel Sallow
Learning PowerShell almost goes hand-in-hand with Pester these days. Since you need to learn both, why not all at once?
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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