PowerShell Weekly for October 11, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

• Customer Managed Planned Failover for Azure Storage using PowerShell
  Currently, in Preview, the Customer Managed Planned Failover feature allows you to manage and execute a planned failover of your Azure Storage account. This guide demonstrates how to perform this using PowerShell.
• EntraFIDOFinder Update
  October 15, is less than a week away for the MFA requirement on certain 365 Apps. Please make sure you are all set by then. Make sure to go through all your accounts, especially those old ones that you rarely ever touch, and see if you still need it or what is the best way
• Build a Windows Server 2025 S2D cluster lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell
  To explore Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in Windows Server 2025, you can set up a lab environment using virtual machines with Hyper-V and PowerShell.
• A Complete Guide For SharePoint Site Creation with PowerShell
  In this article I want to show you how you can streamline the SharePoint Site creation with PowerShell. You can save time by doing it with PowerShell especially, if you want to create multiple sites as part of a backend process.
• Check the Software Installation/Removal History in Windows
  A complete history of software installations, updates, and removals on a computer can be found in Windows Event logs.
• Signing PowerShell Scripts on macOS
  MAJOR UPDATE During my PowerShell session at MacAdmins 2023, someone asked if you could sign a PowerShell script on macOS. Doing so on Windows is trivial and well-documented elsewhere, I won’…

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

• How I Write PowerShell Scripts for Microsoft 365
  The question of how best to write PowerShell for Microsoft 365 was asked during a TEC 2024 PowerShell workshop. There are many variables, and one has the right answer. To start the ball rolling, this article describes how I write PowerShell for Microsoft 365 using a variety of modules such as Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
• How to Create Your First Azure Automation Runbook with PowerShell
  Learn how to create, publish and run your first Azure Automation runbook using PowerShell and the Azure CLI. This step-by-step guide walks through setting up an Automation account, creating a runbook, and executing it in Azure.
• Automatically Optimize Static Images of your Project via PowerShell Script
  Automatically Optimize Static Images of your Project via PowerShell Script

Community

• Culinary to Command Line: Catching Up with Drew McClellan
  In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back the "bestsest in the midwestest" Drew McClellan, who shares his recent promotion from Jr. Sysadmin to SysAdmin II. Drew talks about how he uses PowerShell in his daily role, tackling new software implementations and projects, and his approach to continuous learning. We also dive into how the OnRamp experience at PowerShell Summit helped prepare him. As a bonus, Drew, a chef for 10 years, dishes out some recipe recommendations to Andrew!
• Shorten The Code - Results and Learnings with Well-known Community Members
  Xavier Clinquart from the Belgian PowerShell User Group has analyzed all scripts, and now it is time to take a look at the best ones. Together with well-known members of the PowerShell community, we will talk about the results and learnings of this fun competition.

Fun

• PowerShell 7: Changing the Style of the Progress Bar with $PSStyle
  If you include a progress bar in PowerShell, you will notice that it looks different in PowerShell 5 and PowerShell 7. This is exactly the problem we will tackle in this blog

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