📘 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

🎬 How to use WPF with Powershell and create Metro Design GUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCEk8Smvg4&feature=youtu.be
#video

📘 PowerShell Working Groups
New approach to managing the PowerShell repository, engine, and Committee

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/18658-2/

CVE-2020-16886: PowerShellGet Module WDAC Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in the PowerShellGet V2 module. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass WDAC (Windows Defender Application Control) policy and execute arbitrary code on a policy locked-down machine.

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16886

🎬 Module Monday: Unix Completers

PSUnixUtilCompleters - PowerShell parameter completers for native commands on Linux and macOS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_NyHqLom6g&feature=youtu.be
#video

📘 Free eBook - Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

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📦 PSCVSS

PowerShell & PowerShell Core Module to calculate a CVSS3 Score based on a Vector string.

https://github.com/swimlane/PSCVSS

❗ PowerShell 7.1-RC2 is out!

Engine Updates and Fixes:
- Rename Get-Subsystem to Get-PSSubsystem and fix two related minor issues
- Add missing PSToken token table entries to fix the PSParser API
- Add additional PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list
- Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application)
- Revert PSNativePSPathResolution to being an experimental feature

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes:
- Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value

Build and Packaging Improvements


https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.1.0-rc.2

📌 24-hour recorded stream of the best PowerShell & DevOps content

- Irregular: Regular Expressions Made Strangely Simple
- Toast Notifications with PowerShell: From Noob to Master Baker
- vSphere DSC: Configure vSphere environment at scale
- Monochrome Investigation: Debugging from the command line
- Introduction to C# for PowerShell Devs
- Ogling the Next Normals in Modern Engineering: A DevOps Walkthrough!
- Beyond Pester 101: Applying testing principles to PowerShell
- Pester 5, looking back and forward

... and many more!

https://www.twitch.tv/devopsorg

🎬 Manage SharePoint & Microsoft Teams on PowerShell Core using the PnP.PowerShell module

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=732_mHRKfcw&feature=youtu.be

#video

📘 Building Better PowerShell Code: Applying Proven Practices One Tip at a Time

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-PowerShell-Code-Practices-dp-1484263871/dp/1484263871/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

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🎬 PSPowerHour Episode 12 With Sarah Lean: From pushing server cage nuts to pushing code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VWHkEE6LA8
#video

🎬 Pester 5 looking back and forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRZ9d6tDD4&feature=youtu.be
#video

🎬 Module Monday: pypsrp - Python PowerShell Remoting Protocol Client

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD9lJ1cgGwA&feature=youtu.be
#video

📌 Sanitize GUID's in documentation with PowerShell.

PS C:\> "0e53b2e7-cd7a-4f0f-a7f2-2f71353d7682" -replace "\w","0"
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

📘 Writing an Extension Vault for PowerShell SecretManagement

In this article, we create an extension vault that is backed by the open-source .NET database LiteDB.

https://adamtheautomator.com/writing-an-extension-vault-for-powershell-secretmanagement-preview-4/

❗ Example of usage 'FlagsAttribute' in Enum

PS C:\> [Flags()]
>> enum AccessFlags
>> {
>> None = 0
>> Execute = 1
>> Write = 2
>> Read = 4
>> FullAccess = 7
>> }
PS C:\>
PS C:\> [AccessFlags]$access = 'none'
PS C:\> $access = 'Read'
PS C:\> $access
Read
PS C:\> $access = 'Write'
PS C:\> $access
Write
PS C:\> $access = 'Read,Write,Execute'
PS C:\> $access
FullAccess

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8447/what-does-the-flags-enum-attribute-mean-in-c

📚 pwshop: A PowerShell 101 Workshop

A self paced workshop to teach you the fundamentals of PowerShell and leave you ready to use those fundamentals in the prompt.

https://leanpub.com/c/pwshop
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