&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 October 2019 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019/10/</link><description>Recent content in Articles from October 2019 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://powershell.org/articles/2019/10/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 25-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-october-2019/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-october-2019/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include RepAdmin, Certificates and Testing Teams connections.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include RepAdmin, Certificates and Testing Teams connections.</p><p>Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Kevin Laux.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://msunified.net/2019/10/22/my-current-powershell-pomodoro-timer/?utm_content=buffer8f30b&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer"><em>My current #PowerShell #Pomodoro timer</em></a></p><p>by Ståle Hansen on 22nd October</p><p>Since Microsoft Teams arrived, I have had some issues adjusting and it has taken some time. But now I have incorporated Teams in my PowerShell Pomodoro timer, by simply closing it during my focus session and opening it again. I found that even if I used the newly implemented focus time in Teams, I still saw the number of unread notifications in the client. This was disturbing enough to bring me out of flow.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.shellandco.net/blog/2019/10/22/copy-certificate-to-the-windows-services-store/"><em>Copy certificate to the Windows Services store</em></a></p><p>by Nicolas Hahang on 22nd October</p><p>Find out how to locate a certificate and utilise them for a Windows Service.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://tomtalks.blog/2019/10/microsoft-teams-direct-routing-sip-tester-powershell-script/"><em>Microsoft Teams Direct Routing SIP Tester PowerShell Script</em></a></p><p>by Tom Arbuthnot on 21st October</p><p>“SIP Tester” is a sample PowerShell script from Microsoft that you can use to test Direct Routing Session Border Controller (SBC) connections in Microsoft Teams. This script tests the basic functionality of a customer-paired Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunk with Direct Routing.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://4sysops.com/archives/repadmin-vs-powershell-replication-cmdlets/"><em>Repadmin vs. PowerShell AD replication cmdlets</em></a></p><p>by Krishnamoorthi Gopal on 21st October</p><p>When it comes to fixing Active Directory replication issues, the Repadmin tool has been your first choice since the launch of Windows 2003. However, the PowerShell replication cmdlets are now offering more flexibility. Find some pros and cons in this article.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/copy-multi-valued-active-directory-attributes-from-one-user-to-another-with-powershell/"><em>Copy multi-valued Active Directory attributes from one user to another with PowerShell</em></a></p><p>by Doctor Scripto on 23rd October</p><p>We are in the middle of an Active Directory migration and need to copy the multi-valued attribute “ProxyAddresses” from old user accounts to new ones. Can you do with a few lines of code?</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/dlgf7f/thanks_to_this_subreddit_i_finally_finished_my/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a></p><p>User shares his success story of building a GUI template cloning tool for VMs with the help of the PowerShell subreddit.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://twitter.com/PowerShell_Team/status/1187084663346454528"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a></p><p>PowerShell 7 Preview 5 is officially released check out the post to get details on new features.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMDZt7bC6XE"><em>Youtube: From Scripting to Toolmaking- Taking the Next Step with Powershell</em></a></p><p>A recent session from Spice World ATX.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-october-2019/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-october-2019/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include idempotency, Jenkins, PowerShell for beginners and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include idempotency, Jenkins, PowerShell for beginners and more.</p><p>Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Kevin Laux.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://powershell.anovelidea.org/powershell/iron-scripter-challenge-beginner-walk-through/"><em>PowerShell Beginners Have to Start Somewhere</em></a></p><p>by Dave Carroll on 13th October</p><p>A nice beginners guide to learning PowerShell with an overview of many concepts.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://robindadswell.github.io/blog/2019/10/14/writing-idempotent-powershell-scripts"><em>Writing Idempotent PowerShell scripts</em></a></p><p>by Robin Dadswell on 14th October 2019</p><p>An insight into how to write idempotent PowerShell scripts using a file as a simple example.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://community.idera.com/database-tools/powershell/powertips/b/tips/posts/encrypting-text-part-1"><em>Encrypting Text (Part 1)</em></a></p><p>by Idera website on 15th October 2019</p><p>Let’s take a look at a safe way of encrypting text on a computer. The Protect-Text function in this article takes any text and encrypts it automatically, no password needed. Instead of a password, it uses either your user account and machine, or just your machine as a secret.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://adamtheautomator.com/jenkins-powershell-git/"><em>Running PowerShell Scripts With Jenkins and Git</em></a></p><p>by Phillip Marshall on 17th October</p><p>Learn how to integrate Git version control with Jenkins to set up and schedule PowerShell scripts to run at predefined schedules.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.pipehow.tech/invoke-webscrape/"><em>Web Scraping with PowerShell</em></a></p><p>by Emanuel Palm on 17th October</p><p>Sometimes you end up in situations where you want to get information from an online source such as a webpage, but the service has no API available for you to get information through and it’s too much data to manually copy and paste. Or maybe you need to register a lot of entries on a website, but don’t have a bored friend to help out. Fear not, PowerShell can be your bored friend if you ask nicely!</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/dgqty6/list_of_best_online_courses_to_learn_powershell/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a></p><p>User gandhiN puts together a list of the best courses online to learn PowerShell, linking to sites like Pluralsight, Skillshare and Udemy.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://twitter.com/PSConfEU/status/1183628841828474881"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a></p><p>A call for speakers for PSConf Europe June 2020.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6afjA5Q9eM"><em>Youtube: PowerShell Errors and Exceptions Handling</em></a></p><p>Learn how to handle PowerShell Errors and Exceptions. See how to recognize and deal with non-terminating and terminating PowerShell errors. Take control and handle various errors with try catch. Explore rich PowerShell error objects and see how to drill down into error properties. Wrap up with a practical example where you can provide better feedback to your users when your PowerShell code encounters the unexpected.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2020 Conference Recording Changes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-15-2020-conference-recording-changes/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-15-2020-conference-recording-changes/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi all!&lt;br&gt;
So!  You might have seen that the way the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit records and distributes sessions will be changing.  Long story short:  The presenter will maintain all rights to the material and intellectual property, and Pluralsight will own distribution rights to the recording.&lt;br&gt;
There are many valid reasons to be upset about this.  Let&amp;rsquo;s walk through (1) what we gain from this, and (2) how we can work around some of the valid concerns&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Hi all!<br>
So!  You might have seen that the way the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit records and distributes sessions will be changing.  Long story short:  The presenter will maintain all rights to the material and intellectual property, and Pluralsight will own distribution rights to the recording.<br>
There are many valid reasons to be upset about this.  Let&rsquo;s walk through (1) what we gain from this, and (2) how we can work around some of the valid concerns</p><h2 id="why-use-pluralsight" class="ps-heading">Why use Pluralsight?<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#why-use-pluralsight" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><p>Money.  I know.  Disappointing.  In 2020, we&rsquo;ll be saving over $100k by using Pluralsight for the two conferences. But&hellip; what does this actually mean? Are we trying to turn a profit? Nope! Let&rsquo;s look on the bright side:</p><ul><li><strong>More speakers</strong>.  We had 39 last year.  We have 50 this year, pending speaker confirmations (<a href="https://sessions.eventraft.com/PowerShell2020">tentative agenda</a>).  This means more new speakers!</li><li><strong>Fewer multi-session speakers</strong>.  We needed 16 in 2019.  We have 5 this year.  This means less stress</li><li><strong>More scholarships</strong>.  Excluding conference book funded scholarships, we had 5 scholarships in 2019, up to 10 ~$4,500 scholarships in 2020</li><li><strong>Same small conference.</strong>  We don&rsquo;t need to add seats and can maintain the higher speaker-and-PS-team-to-attendee ratio</li></ul><p>So!  These are all good things, and we should keep them in mind, but let&rsquo;s dive into some of the complaints about this change.</p><h2 id="why-are-you-taking-away-our-recordings" class="ps-heading">Why are you taking away our recordings!<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#why-are-you-taking-away-our-recordings" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><blockquote><p>Given the response from the community, it seems prudent for the organisers to at least state their intent.  To help stop the perceived (or real) conflict of interest here.  Both with Don and other PluralSight employees in the conference committee</p><ul><li>Glenn Sarti</li></ul></blockquote><p>Yep, thanks for getting us to write this, we probably should have had something like this ready.  Next year.  Unless something changes - we do read conference feedback!<br>
Oh!  In case anyone missed<a href="https://powershell.org/2019/07/a-farewell-and-a-bunch-of-hellos/">the announcement</a> - while we do occasionally pester Don for advice, he is no longer involved in running the conference.  Of those of us running the conference, Missy authored a course for Pluralsight three years ago, but had no involvement in the decision, and that&rsquo;s the extent of our direct relationships to Pluralsight.  And just to re-iterate - both sides benefit from this contract, assuming you see the bright sides we listed as benefits!</p><blockquote><p>Lotta folks in the community going to that event (even some of the speakers, I&rsquo;m sure) are there because the yt vids of times past helped them immensely along their way</p><ul><li>Joel Sallow<br>
That&rsquo;s very unfortunate. I&rsquo;m still in talks with the wife about being in a financial position to be able to attend this time around. Pluralsight is expensive and my current company isn&rsquo;t keen on paying for anything that they don&rsquo;t deem as necessary.</li><li>Matt Bobke<br>
I&rsquo;m against these sessions which are not only produced for free, but at significant cost for the speakers, being put behind a pay wall</li><li>Thomas Rayner</li></ul></blockquote><p>Totally!  I won&rsquo;t lie - this will gate off some of the material.  That said,<br>
(1) speakers can, and should, upload all materials.  These will still be available to everyone, and<br>
(2), speakers are<em>encouraged</em> to get practice speaking ahead of the conference, and would likely be in demand from one of the several PowerShell user groups who do recorded presentations, before or after the conference.<br>
Ultimately, a good portion of these sessions will end up out there in some form or another.</p><blockquote><p>This goes against the historical nature of the community and will be detrimental to the conference/s in future<br>
&hellip;<br>
it feels like a sell out tbh and will damage your event&rsquo;s reputation going forward</p><ul><li>Ryan Yates</li></ul></blockquote><p>I get it - I&rsquo;d prefer the recordings be out there in the open as well.  Here&rsquo;s the thing though:  If you balance getting new speakers involved, the several all-costs-paid scholarships we&rsquo;ve added, the reduced stress from fewer multi-session speakers, that the session materials can and should be distributed openly, and the potential workaround that any user group may record these before or after the fact - is this detrimental to the conference or damaging to the event&rsquo;s reputation?  I guess it depends on who you ask, but it seems a little more nuanced.</p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;, and that a talent release form may be required 30 days prior to the show.&rdquo;<br>
Not sure how enforcable or even legal for non-US people. This is risk for speakers with only 30 days, given how far out the CFP and acceptance process is. We would do all this work &hellip; to find out we can&rsquo;t sign the release form.</p><ul><li>Glenn Sarti</li></ul></blockquote><p>Totally.  As soon as details are finalized we&rsquo;ll be in touch with speakers, the 30 day thing is just a deadline.  I&rsquo;m hoping they can live with just the e-mail acks, but there&rsquo;s a chance we&rsquo;ll need signatures as mentioned there.</p><blockquote><p>Sorry if you&rsquo;re feeling attacked @psjamesp. I know you and the crew work hard to put on a good event.</p><ul><li>Chris Hunt<br>
Echoing @cdhunt it&rsquo;s the decision that I disagree with, not the people that collectively make said decision</li><li>Ryan Yates<br>
Yeah, we love and appreciate you guys. Just concerned about the impact on the wider community 🙂</li><li>Joel Sallow</li></ul></blockquote><p>&lt;3.  Thank you all for bringing up these points without bringing too many pitchforks : )</p><h2 id="what-now" class="ps-heading">What now?<a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#what-now" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h2><p>So!  Yes, it&rsquo;s sad.  But some good will come out of this, and you can help ensure folks without access to Pluralsight or the conference can still access the content:</p><ul><li>Are you a speaker?  Want to talk at a user group to ensure you are recorded in a publicly available format?  Ping Warren</li><li>Are you interested in a session that is only available on Pluralsight?  Ping the speaker to see if they would be interested in speaking and recording at a user group</li><li>Are you hoping we change this for next year, even with the benefits it gives us?  Be sure to tell us in the conference feedback, or ping<a href="mailto:summit@powershell.org">summit@powershell.org</a></li><li>Do you want to convince PluralSight to open these up beyond subscription or conference-goer gates?  This likely won&rsquo;t be possible, but give Thomas Rayner a ping in Discord</li></ul><p>We&rsquo;ll update this post with specifics on how access to the content will work, once this has been finalized.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-october-2019/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-october-2019/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell GUIs, New PS 7 features and more&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include PowerShell GUIs, New PS 7 features and more</p><p>Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Kevin Laux.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/powershell/6840/making-sense-of-parallel-foreach-object-in-powershell-7/"><em>Making Sense of Parallel FOREACH-OBJECT in Powershell 7</em></a></p><p>by Jeffery Hicks on 7th October</p><p>Having this feature as part of the language is a welcome addition. But this isn’t magic and there are real-world consequences when you use it. The -Parallel parameter will spin up a collection of runspaces and run your scriptblock in each one. Running something in parallel does not mean in order.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.yobyot.com/cloud/select-azure-subscription-easily/2019/10/08/"><em>Select an Azure Subscription Easily</em></a></p><p>by Alex Neihaus on 8th of October</p><p>You can use the power of the PowerShell pipeline with OGV to actually make it easy to select the active Azure subscription you want.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.jonathanmedd.net/2019/10/ansible-windows-and-powershell-the-basics-part-3-windows-roles-and-features.html"><em>Ansible, Windows and PowerShell: the Basics – Part 3, Windows Roles and Features</em></a></p><p>by Jonathan Medd on 8th of October</p><p>Part 3 of a multipart post about using Ansible and PowerShell to prepare servers with Windows Roles and Features.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://community.idera.com/database-tools/powershell/powertips/b/tips/posts/simple-powershell-chat"><em>Simple PowerShell Chat</em></a></p><p>posted on Idera on 9th of October</p><p>Here’s a fun PowerShell script that you can use to create a simple multi-channel chat room. All you need is a network share where everyone has read and write permissions.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://ridicurious.com/2019/10/10/powershell-loops-and-iterations/?fbclid=IwAR0vPLDIlpyXEwmxcIkPJlhA5ISk7I_EvCDSZoTJapF1jjVHdqj0ARmF_ig"><em>Deep Dive: PowerShell Loops and Iterations</em></a></p><p>by Akshi Srivastava on 10th of October</p><p>PowerShell supports many different types of loops Akshi does a great job of explaining them all.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/dfa89u/psscriptmenugui_use_a_csv_file_to_make_a/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a></p><p>User Weebsnore shares a way to turn a csv file into a GUI for launching multiple powershell scripts.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Steve_MSFT/status/1181950525832495104"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a></p><p>Stevelee demos a new feature of Select-String in PS 7 Preview 5, text highlighting.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHlI2_0oiws"><em>Youtube: LetsPlay Powershell: PSKoans #14</em></a></p><p>If you&rsquo;ve never used PSKoans before this video shows how it can be a fun way to learn PowerShell with Pester tests.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://powershellnews.podbean.com/e/episode-021-interview-with-david-littlejohn-and-james-petty-at-powershell-on-the-river/"><em>Podcast</em></a></p><p>This episode was recorded at the PowerShell on the River event. It is a sitdown interview with David Littlejohn and James Petty. We discuss the speakers and topics at the event, while also talking about future PowerShell events across the country. We also discuss the OnRamp program and its value to both the industry and the students.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 4-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-4-october-2019/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-4-october-2019/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell GUIs, Azure, Exchange and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Topics include PowerShell GUIs, Azure, Exchange and more.</p><p>Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Mark Roloff, Prasoon Karunan V, and Kevin Laux.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tutorial/How-to-work-with-the-WSUS-PowerShell-module"><em>How to work with the WSUS PowerShell module</em></a></p><p>by Dan Franciscus on 27th September</p><p>The PoshWSUS module automates the process to synchronize and approve Windows updates. You can also use it to perform essential maintenance on the WSUS server.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://office365itpros.com/2019/09/30/report-exchange-online-mailbox-quota-usage-over-threshold/"><em>Report Exchange Online Mailbox Quota Usage Over Set Threshold</em></a></p><p>by Tony Redmond on 30th September</p><p>A new twist to an old script, find a way to report on Mailbox quota&rsquo;s using PowerShell!</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://medium.com/wortell/azure-sentinel-automating-your-use-cases-with-powershell-and-the-azsentinel-module-380606e601f5"><em>Azure Sentinel: automating your Use Cases with PowerShell and the #AzSentinel module</em></a></p><p>by Maarten Goet on 30th September</p><p>Say hello to our open-source PowerShell module called AzSentinel. The goal is to provide programmatic access to Azure Sentinel.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="http://eskonr.com/2019/10/use-powershell-to-create-azure-ad-dynamic-security-group-for-azure-ad-joined-aadj-devices-only/"><em>Use powershell to create Azure AD dynamic security group for Azure AD joined (AADJ) devices only</em></a></p><p>by Eswar Koneti on 2nd October</p><p>Need to have a group which is based on attributes which cannot be used in Dynamic AAD groups, well with PowerShell we can make it so!</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-menu-gui/"><em>How to Build a PowerShell Menu GUI for your PowerShell Scripts</em></a></p><p>by Nathan Kasco on 3rd of October</p><p>It&rsquo;s weekend project time again and today you will learn how to build a lightweight system tray context menu where you can quickly and easily launch your most coveted PowerShell scripts.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/darvhv/i_made_a_module_to_download_depressing_lock/"><em>Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post</em></a></p><p>User <em>stib</em> shares with us his module in the PowerShell Gallery to update lockscreen images with some that are a bit less cheery.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Jaykul/status/1179479231769784327"><em>Tweet of the Week</em></a></p><p>An interesting thread on interview questions that understand enumerations.</p><h6 id="" class="ps-heading"><a class="ps-heading-anchor" href="#" aria-label="Link to this section" title="Link to this section"><i class="fas fa-link" aria-hidden="true"/></a></h6><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wtAezZ9x0&amp;feature=youtu.be"><em>Youtube: Basic Powershell Commands For Beginners</em></a></p><p>In this video we will be taking a look at some basic powershell commands which are essential when using powershell.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>