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Don Jones
Books

Free (beta) eBook: PowerShell.org, History of a Community

Now available in “preview” is a new ebook, **PowerShell.org: History of a Community. ** There’s still a bit left to write, but this short (under 30 pages at the moment) ebook is designed to share some of what went into the building of PowerShell.org, the PowerShell Summit, and so on. The goal is to help those who may become involved with the organization in the future understand some of the decisions that have been made to this point.

Greg Tate
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-September-18

Topics include PowerShell Rest API on AWS Lamda, web applications in PowerShell, using PowerBI to show DB restores, input validation in functions, PowerShell command history, and the Unplugged session at Ignite with Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick.

Greg Tate
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 7-September-18

Topics include Azure Stack Infrastructure Backup, SharePoint Online Module Availability in PSGallery, Script for Updating Sysinternals Tools, Understanding While Loops, and the PowerShell Explorer module.

pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Getting Feedback on PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Proposals

Hi all! August is over, and we’re about a month out from the close of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit CFP! We have some seriously awesome sessions coming, but we still need more proposals! I’ve had a number of questions like what makes a good CFP? and would this topic work?. We’re going to try something new to see if we can help with this! Do you want feedback on your proposal?

Greg Tate
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-August-18

Topics include script module design, PowerShell exploitation, PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell AST, the O365 Data Retriever tool, and the inaugural PSPowerHour.

Eli Hess
PowerShell for Admins

Use PnP PowerShell to add ContentType for your SharePoint site

You can achieve the task by using SharePoint GUI. However, if your sites collection has tens of hundreds sites and each site has more than one document library, it will become a nightmare for a SharePoint administrator to do the task by using GUI. Luckily, there is PnP Powershell which can help us achieve the goal. The steps will be like below: #Step1: export your login credential to a secure file on your local machine