PowerShell/OpenSSH Team Investments for 2023
By: Steve Lee

Team investments for 2023 across PowerShell, PowerShellGallery, OpenSSH, and supporting tools
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ChangelogManagement 3.0.0
By: Nate Scherer

ChangelogManagement is a PowerShell module for reading and manipulating changelog files in Keep a Changelog 1.0.0 format. The primary feature is automatic updating of changelogs at release time in a CI/CD workflow via Update-Changelog.
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psAsciiArt v 0.0.1
By: Adam Bacon

Makes amazing Ascii Art images from any given picture has the option to also output the Ascii Art generated in colour.
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Active Directory Delegation done the PowerShell way!
By: Emil Larsson

Your best bet is to use the Delegation wizard, but wheres the fun (PowerShell fun..) in that. And how well does it scale? Not very well.
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Get-Date
Gets the current date and time.

Example's Remarks:
• `Get-Date` uses the UFormat parameter with format specifiers to display the current system date and time.
• The format specifier %Z represents the UTC offset of -07 .

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Exposing the Mystery of PowerShell Objects
By: Jeffery Hicks

A few weeks ago, I was working on content for a new PowerShell course for Pluralsight. The subject was objects. We all know the importance of working with objects in PowerShell. Hopefully, you also know that the output you get on your screen from running a PowerShell command is not the whole story. Formatted presentation...
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Trim characters from strings in PowerShell
By: Wolfgang Sommergut

Most programming languages provide string functions that can be used to selectively truncate leading or trailing characters. String objects in PowerShell have three such trim() methods that remove not only spaces but also any characters at the beginning and end.
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Azure PowerShell vs. Azure CLI
By: Timothy Warner

In your work in Microsoft Azure, should you focus your energies on Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or both? This lesson presents a comprehensive comparison of the two primary noscripting languages in the Azure cloud.
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PowerShell Write-Output: Your Friendly Output Companion
By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen

Learn all of the ins and outs of the PowerShell Write-Output cmdlet and take control of noscript and object output in this ATA Learning tutorial!
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Visual Studio AI-Assistance: A Developer’s Best Friend
By: Peter Groenewegen

The Visual Studio family leverages AI to help you stay focused on the creative tasks that get the core logic of your application built.
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Connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
By: damian

Introduction As promised in my blog post last week, this is the first of many blog posts on Microsoft Graph PowerShell and to start things out right we will first cover the How on connecting to Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Then over the coming weeks we will cover permissions, cmdlet discovery as well as some common...
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Get Application Certificate and Secret Expiration with Graph API
By: Paul Contreras

In the world of Azure cloud automation we always need to ensure that our accounts are able to properly authenticate. Accounts with username and password might have Active Directory alert you when your password expires, however, what can we use...
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Create an Azure Files share in a specified subnoscription using an Azure PowerShell noscript
By: wmatthyssen

This blog post will demonstrate how to use an Azure PowerShell noscript to create an Azure Files share in a specified subnoscription.
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PowerShell on Discord
By: PowerShell

A super helpful and very responsive community of PowerShell enthusiast.
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Graph PowerShell Help – Duplicate Synopses
By: Damian Scoles

Introduction As someone that spends a lot of time working with PowerShell, I have a tendency to review the help for a cmdlet either with Get-Help or checking on Microsoft's Learn pages. Sometimes I see things that trigger my curiosity and this has happened recently when I was reviewing cmdlets for one of Microsoft Graph's...
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Get-ChildItem
Gets the items and child items in one or more specified locations.

Example's Remarks:
• The `Get-ChildItem` cmdlet uses the Path parameter to specify `C:\Test\ .txt`.
• Path * uses the asterisk (` `) wildcard to specify all files with the filename extension `.txt`.
• The Recurse * parameter searches the Path directory its subdirectories, as shown in the Directory: headings.
• The Force parameter displays hidden files such as `hiddenfile.txt` that have a mode of h .

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Migrate your Runbooks in Azure Automation to Managed Identities
By: Brad Wyatt

Microsoft has recently announced that on September 30th, 2021, Azure Automation RunAs accounts, including Classic Run As accounts, will be retired so you will need to migrate your runbooks to managed identities for authentication.
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PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 Release
By: Steven Bucher

Announcement of PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 release and denoscription of the new features and fixes available.
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Deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) for New Exchange Online Tenants
By: The Exchange Team

We previously announced the general availability of REST-based Exchange Online PowerShell v3 module (September 2022) and the deprecation of Remote PowerShell (RPS) Protocol (December 2022). Today, we are announcing that starting April 1, 2023, we will start blocking RPS connections for all tenants c...
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Today's tip ‣ Hashtables: Common

”The type Hashtable represents a collection of key/value pair objects that supports efficient retrieval of a value when indexed by the key. Each key/value pair is an element, which is stored in some implementation-defined object type.”

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Getting Started with PowerShell Gallery
By: Nicholas Xuan Nguyen

Learn how to leverage the PowerShell Gallery for more efficient and effective PowerShell noscripting in this ATA Learning tutorial.
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