📘 Using the PowerShell formatting system to your advantage

https://joskw.gitbook.io/blog/object_formatting

🎬 Run PowerShell in Windows Containers with Docker Desktop

https://youtu.be/Bf7FlKruWCY

❗ PowerShell 7.2-preview.1 is out!

Engine Updates and Fixes:
- Change the default fallback encoding for GetEncoding in Start-Trannoscript to be UTF8 without a BOM

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Update pwsh -? output to match docs
- Fix NullReferenceException in Test-Json
- Make Dispose in TrannoscriptionOption idempotent
- Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list
- Relax further SSL verification checks for WSMan on non-Windows hosts with verification available
- Add the OutputTypeAttribute to Get-ExperimentalFeature
- Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application
-Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value

Code Cleanup

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.2.0-preview.1

🎬 PowerShell Lightning Talk: Disk Speed Test on PowerShell with Jeremy Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWQaFe5MtQk
#video

📘Disaster recovery plan for Azure Key Vault using tags, PowerShell and Azure Function

In this article Sander Rozemuller will describe a way how to backup and restore a Key Vault when deleted.

https://rozemuller.com/disaster-recovery-plan-for-azure-key-vault-using-tags-powershell-and-azure-function/

🎬 AzUpdate: PowerShell and Azure Migrate, Managing User Authentication Updates and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDN6q_2oiEI
#video

🎬 Clash of the Titans in Automation: Python vs PowerShell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98H6iS0EG4s
#video

📦 PoshBot.

Connect to Servers & Report Status, Deploy Code, Execute Runbooks, Query APIs If you can write it in PowerShell, PoshBot can execute it

🎬 PowerShell Lightning Talk: Manipulating data using JSON and PowerShell with Terrance Copling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQQMkLSfkFo

🎬 PowerShell Splatting | Breaking Changes in 7.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTjIuTmV57U

📦 Pester 5.1.0 is out!

New features
- BeforeDiscovery block
- "TestCases" for Describe and Context
- "TestCases" can take any array, not just arrays of hashtables
- Templates expand to all variables and allow dot-notation
- Smaller improvements

https://github.com/pester/Pester/releases/tag/5.1.0

📘 Measuring PowerShell Profile Performance

https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/powershell/7908/measuring-powershell-profile-performance/

📌Incident Report – PowerShell Gallery Downtime October 30, 2020

TL;DR - The downtime was a result of an attempt to fix ongoing statistics errors with the gallery.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/incident-report-powershell-gallery-downtime-october-30-2020/

Any idea? :)

📚 If you want to learn powershell here we begin from scratch.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/introduction-to-powershell/

#free #course

📦 Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1

The Crescendo module is an experiment to provide a novel way to create functions which invoke native commands by using a JSON configuration file.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-powershell-crescendo-preview-1/

📌 Here is how PowerShell see your noscript.

📘 PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals

Take advantage of everything Microsoft’s new PowerShell 7 has to offer.

#ebook

❗ PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release.

Experimental Features:
- PSAnsiRendering: Enable ANSI formatting via $PSStyle and support suppressing ANSI output

Now we can have text contains ANSI escape codes which control text decorations like color, bold, italics, etc…

See other updates and improvements in Github repo below.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-7-2-preview-2-release/

📘 Hosting and Protecting Your Own NuGet Feed with ProGet

Why might you want to do this? Remember when PowerShell Gallery went down for a while in October? That’s a pretty good reason. Another reason might be if you like or need the use of the PowerShellGet cmdlets when interacting with the PowerShell Gallery, but do not want to store your code publicly.

https://adamcook.io/p/hosting-and-protecting-your-own-nuget-feed-with-proget/