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 !

📌 Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 Release
You can now set new terminal windows to launch in an already existing terminal instance.

More updates and details:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-7-release/

💡PowerShell Team 2021 Investments

- PowerShell 7.2
- DSC for PowerShell 7
- Module Isolation
- Enhanced ANSI Support
- Improve native command experience
- Pluggable remoting transports
- Microsoft Update
- SecretManagement and SecretStore 1.0
- Crescendo 1.0
- PSReadLine 2.2
- PowerShellGet 3.0
- VSCode Extension
- Updateable help and PlatyPS 2.0
- OpenSSH 8.x

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-2021-investments/

🎬 PowerShell: Introduction to Classes with Kevin Marquette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spd46Ba-P_A

💡 SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2

- SecretInformation class now has a new Metadata property for the new secret metadata support.
- Set-Secret cmdlet now has a new optional -Metadata property to include additional non-sensitive data associated with a secret.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secretmanagement-and-secretstore-release-candidate-2

📚 Updated PowerShell Practice Primer Now Available

Jeff Hicks went through the book and revised some answers that take PowerShell 7 into account. Also added a bonus part devoted to PowerShell 7.x specific problems.

https://leanpub.com/psprimer
#ebook

🥇 PowerShell war games.

Fun and educational way to learn PowerShell.

https://underthewire.tech/wargames

📌 v7.1.3 Release of PowerShell

Engine Updates and Fixes:
- Remove the 32K character limit on the environment block for Start-Process
- Fix webcmdlets to properly construct URI from body when using -NoProxy

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Fix PromptForCredential() to add targetName as domain

Build and Packaging Improvements
- Bump .NET SDK to 5.0.4