📦 SecretManagement Preview 3

A big update to SecretManagement is out! This includes new SecretStore vault extension! Both are on PSGallery.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secretmanagement-preview-3/

💡 New Pluralsight Course - Extending PowerShell

The course is aimed at helping you learn and understand PowerShell Modules and is part of a larger learning path for PowerShell 7 that is being produced currently on PowerShell.

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/powershell-extending

🎬 Git from the PowerShell Prompt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Qe-5MjTX8
#video

📌 Tiny PowerShell Projects

Powershell port from the Manning Publications book, Tiny Python Projects, by Ken Youens-Clark.

https://github.com/dfinke/Tiny-PowerShell-Projects

📚 Configure PowerShell Secret Management Module

https://connorcarnes.com/posts/pwshsecrets/

💡 Metalize!

PowerShell 6.1,7 versions:
PS C:\> function metalize {$input-replace'[aeiou]',{"$_`u{0308}".Normalize('FormC')}}

PS C:\> "Svyatoslav" | metalize

Svyätösläv

PowerShell 5 version:
$callback = {
 param($match)
 "$match$([char]0x0308)".Normalize('FormC')
}

$re = [regex]'[aeiou]'
$re.Replace("Svyataslav", $callback)

Svyätäsläv

Revert back:
"Svyätäsläv".Normalize('FormD') -replace '\p{Mn}'

Svyataslav
#fun

🎬 Ignite 2020: Ask the Expert: Everything you ever wanted to know about PowerShell

https://medius.studios.ms/Embed/video-nc/IG20-ATE412
#video

🎬 PowerShell Unplugged - Challenge Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0fmyX_HI2MQ
#video

❗ PowerShell 7.1 RC1 is out.

Breaking change:
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 were retired from the default on Linux machines where OpenSSL 1.1 and above is used.

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:
- Fix case where exception message contains just "`n" on Windows.
- Recognize CONOUT$ and CONIN$ as reserved device names.
- Fix ConciseView for interactive advanced function when writing error.


https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.1.0-rc.1

🎬 Module Monday: PSGraph

Module for creating diagrams with Graphviz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuTXStTAj_E&feature=youtu.be
#video

❗ Excellent PowerShell question on SO

Excellent opportunity to showcase closures in PowerShell, as well as the IComparable interface with PowerShell Classes

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63637157/reusable-custom-sort

🗓️ Teaching PowerShell - Jeff Hicks

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT

https://www.meetup.com/NycPowershellMeetup/events/271803590/

#meetup

📦 SecretManagement extension for LastPass

https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt/SecretManagement.LastPass
#module

🎬 DSC Resource Kit Community Call - September 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toTwph350zY&feature=youtu.be

#video

🎬 PSPowerHour - Episode 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTgyPB5SYSg
#video

💡 Function name can contain white spaces:

new-item function:"get-process -name chrome" -Value "'hello'"

& "get-process -name chrome"

(most certainly a bad practice)

📘 Announcing the AzureRM to Az PowerShell Module Migration Toolkit

Toolkit for automatically migrating your PowerShell noscripts and modules from AzureRM to the Az PowerShell module.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-tools/announcing-the-azurerm-to-az-powershell-module-migration-toolkit/ba-p/1724992

🎬 Module Monday: ConsoleGuiTools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpSRW1G2N7Y
#video

You can assign a .NET type to a Powershell variable and use its static methods from the variable:

PS C:\> $list = [Collections.Generic.List[int]](1..10)
PS C:\> $linqe = [Linq.Enumerable]
PS C:\> $linqe::Take($list,3)
1
2
3

🤡 PowerShell Hero.
#fun

📘 New PowerShell documentation (Q3)

- About_Calculated_Properties
- Writing Progress across multiple threads with Foreach Parallel
- Extended Type System Overview
- Create XML-based help using PlatyPS