ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 7-June-2019

Topics include checking patch status, About help docs, variable scoping, and proposed changes to PowerShellGet.

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 31-May-2019

Topics include the PowerShell 7 preview, exporting SCCM task sequences, integration testing, and cloud automation.

PowerShell Summit: A First Time Experience

It’s been a few weeks since Summit and I feel like my mind has finally started to settle from all of the ideas that I came back with. Plus, being away from home for a week means I had a lot of domestic work and daddy time to catch up on. When Will asked for volunteers to write about their first time experience, I decided to see if I could offer my take on the matter considering gulf between what I expected to get and what I ended up getting.

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-May-2019

Topics include unit testing your NetApp, logging, Office templates, and *DRUM ROLL* recordings from Summit!

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-May-2019

Topics include working with the Graph API, Chocolatey, jazzing up your functions with pipeline support, and shrinking VMDKs.

Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Mark Roloff.

How to shrink VMDK with a couple of PowerShell scripts?

by Kevin Soltow on May 8th

Not just a set of useful scripts for anyone still working in a space-constrained environment, but a great bit of interesting detail has also gone into this.

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-May-2019

Topics include PowerShell Summit, finding account lockouts, certs, and learning PS via Pester.

Content curated by Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan, and Mark Roloff.

Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019

by Matt Bobke on May 2nd

If you couldn’t make it to Summit, fret not! While waiting for videos you can read about it from attendees, like Matt, whom participated in the OnRamp track.

Execute a script block accepting pipeline input and show your progress

by Yves Rosius on May 5th

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 3-May-2019

Topics include GUI development, Azure Cloud Shell, Live streaming, Azure functions and more!

Find-Module, Find-Script – Don't Recreate the Wheel

The PowerShell Gallery is a collection of modules and scripts that is community driven to help us automate everyday tasks. Sometimes, we have an idea that could written into a function or script, however, most of the time, someone else had the same idea and published their work to the PowerShell Gallery. There is no need to recreate the wheel and re-write it, use the community to our advantage. We’ll take a look at multiple Cmdlets,

Phenomenal number of ACLs, itty-bitty living space

I recently had a need to backup file and folder ACLs for a client that would then need to restore them to their original objects following a hardware upgrade that would wipe them out. Easy enough, but the catch was that there was 1.5 million of them. Fortunately, getting ACLs in PowerShell is easy.

`PS > Get-Acl -Path somefile.txt Directory: C:
Path Owner Access

somefile.txt BUILTIN\Administrators BUILTIN\Administrators Allow… `See?

Now, if you needed multiple ACLs, say, all 1.5 million of them on a file share, you could use Get-ChildItem to feed files and folders to Get-Acl. But then what? Export-Clixml is a generally great way to convert a PowerShell object to XML and save it to file.

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-April-2019

Topics include building functions for cleaning your $PATH, xplat GUIs with Core, and the EXO module makes its way to the Cloud Shell.