Introduction

If you want to stay on top of #powershell community and whatever is happening around the world related to PowerShell then you are at the right place friend! We will cover Trending Github Repos, Popular Tweets, Trending Reddit posts, new Videos on Youtube and finally, some editors pick which you don’t want to miss 😎

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Table of Contents

• • Editor’s Pick
  • Trending Github Repositories
  • Top Tweets
  • Top Reddit Posts
  • New on Youtube

Editors Pick

Here are some of the articles specially picked by me for your reading…

• Good Bye Import-CliXML – Use the Secrets Management module for your labs and demos

  by @sqldbawithbeard

  You can use the Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement module introduced here to store and retrieve secrets with PowerShell.

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• Updating PowerShell About Help

  by @JeffHicks

  During some recent work, I realized my new Windows PowerShell 5.1 installs are missing the About help topics. Apparently, this is a known issue, although I don’t think it gets a lot of attention. Microsoft is working on improving updateable help for PowerShell 7 which I think will also have a beneficial change for Windows PowerShell. Microsoft has in fact been updating the about topics. All of the help files are open source on GitHub at https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs/tree/staging/reference. I use the about topics often, so I wrote a PowerShell script to download and install the latest About topics from GitHub.

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• Want to Write Beautiful PowerShell Code? Here’s How.

  by @adbertram

  Elegant, beautiful code that’s crystal clear to read, easily-manageable and simple to add functionality to. It’s every PowerShell developer’s dream. And it’s possible.Although perfect code is in the eye of the beholder, there is one concept this PowerShell developer of 12+ years always comes back to; abstraction. Abstraction. It’s a term software developers yawn at and say, “Well, duh!”, but a lot of system administrators and IT professionals leave their head-scratching.In this article, you’re going to learn what abstraction is and how you can apply this coding methodology to any PowerShell code you write.

Trending Github Repositories

Github repositories that are trending are good way to find and contribute to some cool PowerShell projects! Following is the list of top 10 trending PowerShell Github repositories..

Top Tweets

If you are into tech then you can’t miss these PowerShell related popular tweets in last week, here is the list of top 10 most popular PowerShell tweets…

Top Reddit posts

PowerShell Reddit r/PowerShell is a vibrant community and you should be on board if you want to get onto the nerve of PowerShell Community, here is a list of top Reddit posts in last week..

New on Youtube

Here are all new PowerShell videos uploaded on youtube.com last week!

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