🎬 Basics of Powershell For Pentesters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pvERj9GtgI&feature=youtu.be

💡 SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates

This is a “go live” release, which means that we feel that this RC is feature complete and of GA quality.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secretmanagement-and-secretstore-release-candidates/

Vault extensions that are available:
KeePass
LastPass
Hashicorp Vault
KeyChain
CredMan

❗ New VMware PowerCLI Home Page

1.   PowerCLI Home Page
2.   Re-organization of cmdlets
3.   Global Search Bar
4.   Data Structure
5.   Categories
6.   CMDLET Reference Page

More details:
https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2021/01/introducing-the-new-powercli-home-page.html

📌 Copy request from Chrome network tools as PowerShell

It will produce nice output:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://www.microsoft.com/" -Headers @{
"method"="GET"
 "authority"="www.microsoft.com"
 "scheme"="https"
 ...
}

❗ PowerShell v7.1.1 now released.

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Avoid an exception if file system does not support reparse points
- Make AppLocker Enforce mode take precedence over UMCI Audit mode

Code Cleanup
- Fix syntax error in Windows packaging noscript

Build and Packaging Improvements

📌 Index accessors in PowerShell support multi-key access (read-only):

PS > @(1..5)[2,1]
3
2

Same with dictionaries:

PS> @{ A=1; B = 2; C = 3 }[-split 'A C']
1
3

💡 A Powershell Template For Creating The Perfect Function

Powershell Template
Comment Based Help
CmdletBinding and the Param Block
       SupportsShouldProcess
Create Powershell Function Parameters
       How To Use Alias
       How To Use ValidateSet and ValidateRange
       How To Use ValidateScript
       How To Use ParameterSetName
Begin, Process And End Blocks
       Begin and End Blocks
       Process Block

https://thesysadminchannel.com/powershell-template/

❗ Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 Release

- IN PREVIEW TODAY: Terminal now has an optional graphical settings editor! Until it's ready for prime time, it's hidden behind a NON-DEFAULT key binding.
- Terminal now supports "Startup Actions"
- Terminal 1.6 has gained experimental support for HLSL pixel shaders
- We've gained support for application progress reports on OSC 9;4
- Terminal has gained two new visual bell features
- The italic graphic rendition (SGR 3) is now supported
- Terminal has learned a new cursor style: double underscore
- Tabs can now be moved left/right with the keyboard with action binding moveTab

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-6-release/?WT.mc_id=WDIT-MVP-5002293

📦 Code coverage for PowerShell module development

We’re going to explore how to create code coverage metrics and automatically send the results to the service codecov.io

https://robstr.dev/code-coverage-PowerShell-module-development/

💡Reddit: I finished a noscript for work but I'm not comfortable showing it to others, what can I do to make it look professional?

🎁 The Ultimate Guide to Terminal User Interfaces in PowerShell

Why not...

https://blog.ironmansoftware.com/tui-powershell/

📌 First VScode release of the year! Check out what's new

🎬 Notebooks in VS Code revamped. ToC, Diffing, Gather, LiveShare, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5EykzAsCC0

📌 PowerCLI now supports parallel operations on PowerShell foreach-object commands!

Happy to inform you all that foreach-object -Parallel is now supported with PowerCLI. This can be achieved by 2 ways.
- Inline -Server parameter
- Use PowerCLI Context

More details in the announcement:

https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2021/02/new-release-vmware-powercli-12-2.html

🎬 Writing Robust PowerShell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHqN9Nt5oCY

📘 PowerShell Sleep Duration Accuracy and Windows Timers

TL;DR
When high accuracy is desired, change the timer resolution and use the [System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep()

Long read with lot of details here:

https://xkln.net/blog/powershell-sleep-duration-accuracy-and-windows-timers/

🎬 Thomas reacts to PowerShell Deep Dive

Take a serious look at Learning PowerShell with PowerShell, at Predictive IntelliSense, at the VS Code extensions, at Crescendo, and secret management with PowerShell

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

Starting from next week PSScriptAnalyzer will be pre-installed on all Windows and Mac images and Ubuntu 20.04 in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions

https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2659

❗ Just add "1s" after "github" when viewing code on http://github.com and VS Code loads up instantly

❗PowerShell 7.0.5 , 7.1.2 and 7.2.0-preview.3 are out!

💡 Proposal. Handling Parameter Binding in Native Executables

PowerShell team's making a change on how PowerShell7 passes arguments to native commands to work more predictably.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14747