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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Hamburg PowerShell User Group #34, Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 6:30 PM
By: Fabian Bader

Das nächste Treffen der Hamburg PowerShell User Group findet am 22.03.23 um 18:30 Uhr statt und ihr seid herzlich eingeladen!
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Pop-Location
Changes the current location to the location most recently pushed onto the stack.

Example's Remarks:
• This command changes your location to the location most recently added to the current stack.

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Today's cmdlet ‣ ConvertTo-Html
Converts .NET objects into HTML that can be displayed in a Web browser.

Example's Remarks:
• This command creates an HTML page of the service objects that the `Get-Service` cmdlet returns.
• The command uses the As parameter to specify a list format.
• The cmdlet `Out-File` sends the resulting HTML to the `Services.htm` file.

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Live PowerShell Tool Making Part 3
By: Jeff Hicks

We're back once more to continue building a Crescendo module around the GitHub command line tool gh.exe. You've seen how I approach building a PowerShell and the questions and decisions that come up. Now that I've built a few more Crescendo commands, I realize I can begin copying and pasting. Some of the commands I have in mind, I think, will be very similar. Plus, I have my VSCode Crescendo command snippet.
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Reprovision/Restore Windows 365 Devices
By: Niels Kok

This blog is about showing another example of our Powershell module called PSCloudPC.
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Modern Automation with PowerShell Michael
By: The Powershell Podcast

In this episode, we are joined by Microsoft MVP Michael Zanatta to discuss the new PowerShell community book, 'Modern IT Automation with PowerShell.' We start off by talking about Constrained Language Mode, which Michael knows a lot about. We then move on to the four pillars of PowerShell Security, followed by a brief break from the technical talk to chat about food, as we like to do. We then move on to talking about how Michael became a Microsoft MVP. We also learned about the origins of this book, the journey to get it published, and how this is a textbook by the community for the community. All this, and more, on this episode of the PowerShell Podcast!
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Server-Side-Filtering in PowerShell
By: Harm Veenstra

Retrieving objects in your noscripts is something that you do regularly. It takes a long time to download and process in larger environments, wasting CPU and time. This blog post will explain how to speed up noscripts by filtering server-side before downloading all results and filtering afterward.
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Using Previous Command History in PowerShell Console
By: Windows OS Hub

By default, Windows saves all of the commands that you type in the PowerShell console to a text log file. This allows you to re-run any command and view the...
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Announcing Polyglot Notebooks! Multi-language notebooks in Visual Studio Code – .NET Blog
By: Claudia Regio

Polyglot Notebooks in VS Code is now generally available! Come try it out!
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Today's cmdlet ‣ Get-Service
Gets the services on the computer.

Example's Remarks:
• The `Get-Service` cmdlet gets all the services on the computer and sends the objects down the pipeline.
• The `Where-Object` cmdlet selects the services whose DependentServices property isn't null.

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

Example's Remarks:
• This command resumes the System Event Notification service on the local computer.
• The service name is represented in the command by sens.
• The command uses the Name parameter to specify the service name of the service, but the command omits the parameter name because the parameter name is optional.

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View All API Permissions Microsoft Graph
By: Niels Kok

I couldn't find this myself quickly in the Microsoft docs. So I decided to write...
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.16 Release
By: Kayla Cinnamon

The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features. As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store,
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Asking the Right Questions: A Conversation with Guy Leech
By: The Powershell Podcast

In this interview with Guy Leech, he shared his passion for the coding community and how it has helped him in his career. He revealed that he uses his Twitter account as a personal knowledge base, and shared his story on how he got started in coding. He also provided valuable insights on how to ask good questions, the importance of helping others in the community, and how doing so can lead to better career opportunities. Additionally, he discussed error handling in PowerShell and the importance of not getting bogged down by small details.
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PowerShell Module Review: DSACL
By: Emil Larsson

The following module review is very important for a Active Directory operations or engineering type person. Most who have tried granting permissions outside of adding users to groups in Active Directory would probably agree that, access delegation can be a daunting task.
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Getting started with Azure OpenAI and PowerShell
By: Alexander Holmeset

You probably have been playing around with Chat GPT lately, and have seen its amazing capabilities. Recently Microsoft invested heavily in OpenAI, and now there is an Azure version available called Azure OpenAI. I have written a guide on how to take advantage of this service by using PowerShell and Rest API calls.
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Find the source of AD account lockouts
By: Surender Kumar

In a previous post, we discussed how to quickly unlock AD accounts with PowerShell. However, the main problem admins tend to face is identifying the source computer or service that is causing the account to lock out in the first place.
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PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code January 2023 Update
By: Sydney Smith

We are excited to announce that the January update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace.
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Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code
By: Jaspreet Kaur

We are happy to announce the Public Preview of Azure Automation extension to help create and manage runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is a light weight source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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