🎬 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

📌 Supercharge Your Docker Development with VS Code

Richard chats with Sydney Smith who is the product manager for Secrets Management about how this PowerShell extension helps you access and manage multiple key stores in your organization and provides secrets for your PowerShell noscripts.

📌Useful. The Trim method removes from the current string all leading and trailing characters that are in the parameter.

PS C:\> "123abc456xyz789".Trim([char]'0'..[char]'9')
abc456xyz

💡 Adversary Tactics: PowerShell

SpecterOps offers their retired Adversary Tactics: PowerShell course material online for free (PDF).

- PowerShell Basics Refresher
- PowerShell Remoting
- PowerShell Without PowerShell
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Active Directory
- PowerShell Prevention - Implementation, Auditing, and - Bypasses
- Reflection
- Low-level, Win32 Interop

https://github.com/specterops/at-ps
#course #free

🎬 Use VS Code and GitHub with PowerShell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XKksiGQR5w
#video

📌 Awesome PowerShell

- API Wrapper
- Blogs
- Books
- Build Tools
- Code and Package Repositories
- Commandline Productivity
- Communities
- Data
- Documentation Helper
- Editors and IDEs
- Frameworks
- Interactive Learning
- Logging
- Module Development Templates
- Package Managers
- Parallel Processing
- Podcasts
- Security
- SharePoint
- SQL Server
- Testing
- Themes
- UI
- Videos
- Webserver
- Misc

https://github.com/janikvonrotz/awesome-powershell

📘 PowerShell and the LAPS Windows PowerShell Module

https://tommymaynard.com/powershell-and-the-laps-windows-powershell-module/

❗ PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates – February 2021

- New semantic highlighting
- Added Pester v5 support to problem matcher.
- Updated PSScriptAnalyzer to 1.19.1. Which fixes formatting bugs!
- Many squashed bugs

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-for-visual-studio-code-updates-february-2021/

📘 Integration testing with Pester and PowerShell

http://martink.me/articles/integration-testing-with-pester-and-powershell

🤡 The most important extension: vscode-pets !