PowerShell Weekly for October 25, 2024

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

• Automating VM Deployment in Azure with PowerShell
  Learn how to automate the deployment of a Windows VM on Azure using PowerShell. This guide covers network setup, NSG rules, and IIS installation.
• Get Active Directory ports with PowerShell
  Active Directory services communicate over specific ports needed for authentication, replication, and other directory services. Knowing these ports is crucial for configuring firewalls, ensuring secure communication, and troubleshooting network issues related to Active Directory services. This post will teach you how to get the Active Directory ports with PowerShell.
• How to Set Directory Synchronization Features with the Graph
  Directory synchronization features control how the Entra Connect tool works when synchronizing accounts from Active Directory to Entra ID. The current advice is to use a cmdlet from the depreciated MSOL module to update settings. This article explains how to do the job with the Graph APIs, including cmdlets from the Entra PowerShell module.
• Automating Sign-In Analysis with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph
  In this article, we'll walk through how to explore and analyze Conditional Access data in Microsoft Entra using the Developer Tools in your browser. The purpose of this walkthrough is to demonstrate how you can identify and extract the necessary Microsoft Graph API calls directly from the Entra portal, providing a foundation for automating this process with PowerShell.
• List all EEEU and Anonymous links for SharePoint and OneDrive!
  A colleague of mine asked me before the weekend if I knew if there was a way to list all Everyone Except External Users and Anonymous links for OneDrive for Business. He had written a PowerShell script but had some errors.
• Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters
  In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how to use them within in functions and scripts.

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

• Get-ConditionalAccessSignIn.ps1
  The Get-ConditionalAccessSignIn function retrieves Conditional Access Sign-In logs from the Microsoft Graph API within a specified date range.
• Automating Wireshark in Windows
  For advanced scenarios where you need to automate running Wireshark at scale
• PSAzureVirtualDesktop v 1.0.3
  Build Azure AVD POCs

Community

• Cross-Platform PowerShell and Sending Emails with Frank Lesniak & Neha Patil
  In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dive into the world of cross-platform PowerShell with Frank Lesniak, who shares insights from his recent talk at PowerShell Saturday NC. Frank explores some unique use cases for PowerShell across different platforms and opens up about his interests beyond the scripting language.
• BlueSky PowerShell Community starter pack
  If you're part of the exodus from X to Bluesky and you like PowerShell and automation, check out this PowerShell Community starter pack.

Events

• PowerShell AI Build Hour - Doug Finke
  Friday, October 25, 2024 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT

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