PowerShell, Microsoft, Management, and more with Steve Lee
By: The Powershell Podcast

In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of an insider. Steve Lee shares a bit about his background and how he came to find himself managing the PowerShell team. He talks about the double-edged sword of working on a product that is so widely distributed. Steve talks about how and why PowerShell uses telemetry and some of the challenges that come along with such a large amount of data. We learn about the differences between OpenSSH and WinRM, doing visible work, interacting with the community, AI, and more.
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Five shortcuts to boost your productivity
By: Mads Kristensen

Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we've put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio.
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Export-PSSession
Exports commands from another session and saves them in a PowerShell module.

Example's Remarks:
• The `New-PSSession` command creates a PSSession on the Server01 computer and saves it in the `$S` variable.
• The `Export-PSSession` command exports the cmdlets whose names begin with Test from the PSSession in `$S` to the TestCmdlets module on the local computer.

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Today's cmdlet ‣ Resume-Service
Resumes one or more suspended (paused) services.

Example's Remarks:
• This command resumes all of the suspended services on the computer.
• The `Get-Service` cmdlet command gets all of the services on the computer.
• The pipeline operator (`|`) passes the results to the `Where-Object` cmdlet, which selects the services that have a Status property of Paused.
• The next pipeline operator sends the results to `Resume-Service`, which resumes the paused services.

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Understanding PasswordLastSet and PwdLastSet Using PowerShell
By: Faris Malaeb

In Active Directory (AD), the PasswordLastSet and pwdLastSet attributes refer to the same property of an AD object - the time and date when the password for that object was last changed. This attribute is used to enforce password policies and track when a password was last changed. This quick post helps you understand these...
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Permissions Required to Run Microsoft Graph Cmdlets
By: damian

Introduction When connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell, it is important to determine what permissions are needed for that connection as it could determine which cmdlets we are able to run as well as what access is granted to manage objects with Graph PowerShell. Microsoft does provide a hand pair of cmdlets for determining cmdlets to...
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HistoryNinja v1.0.3
By: Josh Kelley

This module parses browser history files and extracts page noscripts, URLs, and timestamps. It also parses the history file for download history, returning the file path, timestamp, and size of the downloaded item.
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Recreate Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts #ASRmageddon
By: Harm Veenstra

It's just a beautiful Friday 13th, due to a Windows Defender update that removed shortcuts from many machines with Attack Surface Reduction enabled for Macros. (Work-around 'Setdefender ASR rule 92e97fa1-2edf-4476-bdd6-9dd0b4dddc7b to audit only unit issue is resolved.') This blog post describes how you can recreate the missing shortcuts and deploy this using Intune or run it manually on the affected system(s).
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Social is Hard
By: Jeff Hicks

Social media has been a great asset to my career. It has helped me build new relationships, keep on top of trends in IT, and generally be that co-worker sitting across from me. I have worked from home for at least as long as I worked from an office. I often miss the social aspect.
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Clippy for VS Code
By: Laura bananas

Because, why not 🙂
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PowerShell Tab Completion: The Ultimate Guide
By: Jeff Brown

Adding tab completion to your PowerShell parameters (or arguments) is a great way to enhance the user experience. You provide the user with possible values or build a dynamic list of values so the user knows what they can use. This article will teach you five ways to add tab completion to PowerShell functions. Using [...]
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The PowerShell While Loop : A Back to Basic Guide
By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen

Discover the many ways to utilize the PowerShell while loop and take control of your applications flow with this ATA Learning tutorial!
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ForestManagement v1.5.54
By: Friedrich Weinmann

Infrastructure module to build and maintain forest configuration
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Move Azure Arc-enabled Server to a different resource group or subnoscription
By: Thomas Maurer

This is just a quick post on how you can change and move your Azure Arc-enabled server to a different resource group or subnoscription. To do this, you can use the Azure PowerShell module and the Move-AzResource cmdlet. You can find more about the Move-AzResource cmdlet on Microsoft Learn. The Move-AzResource cmdlet moves existing resources to a ...
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Get-Date
Gets the current date and time.

Example's Remarks:
• A variable, `$DST` stores the result of `Get-Date`.
• `$DST` uses the IsDaylightSavingTime method to test if the date is adjusted for daylight savings time.

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PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18
By: Sydney Smith

We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery!
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Scripting With VMware SRM REST API And PowerShell
By: Mark Ukotic

In a previous blog I wrote about Getting Started With Site Recovery Manager REST API. The post focused on using...
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Debug-Process
Debugs one or more processes running on the local computer.

Example's Remarks:
• This command attaches a debugger to all processes that have names that begin with SQL.

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Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11
By: Kayla Cinnamon

The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! ?? This means that all command line applications will now automatically open in Windows Terminal. This blog post will go into how this setting is enabled,
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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA
By: Rabia Noureen

You only have a few days left.
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Deploy Windows 365 via Powershell
By: Niels Kok

Stefan Dingemanse and I built a Powershell Module to deploy Windows 365 more easily.
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