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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 09-October-2020

Robin Dadswell
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Topics include GitHub actions, Azure Functions, WVD, Pentesting and more!

Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux.

Using GitHub actions to run automatic Pester tests

by Roberth Strand on 4th October

But as soon as I started creating PowerShell modules that was more than just small time projects, I had to step up the production quality. As soon as I had written some tests, I wanted to have those tests run every time I did a pull request. This helps me catch bugs before publishing the new version of my module, and saves me from a ton of stress.

Automating with PowerShell: Deploying Azure Functions

by Kelvin Tegelaar on 5th October

Kelvin shares come of his Azure Functions and gives the ability to deploy them in a single click.

Save WVD image with Sysprep as Image Gallery version (part 2)

by Sander Rozemuller on 6th October

Join Sander as he shows us how to automate setting up a WVD Image using PowerShell.

Creating Your First Azure PowerShell Function App

by June Castillote on 7th October

In this article, you will learn how to create an Azure PowerShell Function App, develop, test, and execute the code. You’ll also get the chance to build a mini-project where you’ll create a function for getting the status of Azure VMs and display the result on the web.

Automate Azure Sentinel Deployment

by Saggie Haim on 8th October

In this post, Saggie Haim will walk us through how to automate the core components of Azure Sentinel using PowerShell

Reddit /r/PowerShell - Most Popular Weekly Post

Redditor shares his PowerShell success story.

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Level up your #PowerShell skills with this FREE training (one week) over @CBTNuggets.

Youtube: Using PowerShell For Basic Pentesting Tasks | Looking WebDAV requests

An overview of how to use PowerShell when pentesting.

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