ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-June-2019
Topics include security tools, security fixes, operation validation and module updates and open source UI creation.
Special thanks to Prasoon Karunan V,Mark Roloff and Robin Dadswell.
WINSpect - Powershell based Windows Auditing Tool
by Bala Ganesh on June 20th
An over view of the WINSpect Tool.
PSAvalonia – Open source PowerShell bindings for Avalonia
by Adam Driscoll on June 17th
Avalonia is a WPF-style cross-platform UI library. Today, we are open sourcing a PowerShell module to create UIs using the Avalonia library. The Avalonia bindings that were once part of PowerShell Pro Tools are now open source and up on GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery.
Distributed and Flexible Operations Validation Framework – Introduction
by Ravikanth Chaganti on June 17th
Learn about the various options for operation validations are, and the limitations each come with.
New Release: VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0
by Kyle Ruddy on June 20th
See what updates have been made in PowerCLI 11.3.0 from speed improvements to new cmdlets.
Mitigating BlueKeep with PowerShell
by Mike F Robbins on June 14th
Ways to mitigate the BlueKeep vulnerability using remote PowerShell
Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post
Help out in a discussion about SSL PowerShell Remoting, should it be done, or shouldn’t it?
Youtube: Tyler Leonhardt - Simply REST API testing with Autorest and PowerShell
Simplify testing of REST APIs using PowerShell and AutoRest
Testing REST APIs can be a pain. First you must construct you URI, then you decide what headers you need, maybe it needs a body… Then you’ll throw it in tools like cURL or Postman and hope you’ve formatted it correctly. What if it didn’t have to be that way? What if you could interact with your REST API from the comfort of your terminal without having to build a single URL.
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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