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Table of Contents

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

Editors Pick

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

• PowerShell 7.1-preview.6 is now available in the Microsoft Store

  What’s new in this version 👇

  Breaking Changes:

   

  • Rename -FromUnixTime to -UnixTimeSeconds on Get-Date to allow Unix time input
  • Make $ErrorActionPreference not affect stderr output of native commands
  • Allow explicitly specified named parameter to supersede the same one from hashtable splatting

  Enhancements and fixes:

  • Refactor command line parser to do early parsing
  • Add support for some .NET intrinsic type converters
  • Refresh and enable the ComInterop code in PowerShell
  • Add -Runspace parameter to all *-PSBreakpoint cmdlets
  • Fix error message from new symbolic link missing target
  • Make the parameter args non-nullable in the public ConsoleHost APIs
  • Add missing dispose for CancellationTokenSource
  • Add the parameter -Paged to Get-Help to support paging
  • Fix Get-Help not properly displaying if parameter supports wildcards
  • Update pwsh help for -InputFormat parameter
  • Declare MIT license for files copied from Roslyn
  • Improve BigInteger casting behaviors
  • Fix Get-Acl -LiteralPath “HKLM:Software\Classes\*” behavior
  • Add DefaultVisit method to the visitor interface and class

  • Fix conflicting shorthand

    [Go to Microsoft Store]

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• Reading SCCM Logs with PowerShell

  by @tseknet

  SCCM log files follow a standard schema that we can use to parse these log files for the data we’re interested in (timestamp, log data, etc.). Once we’ve separated the important bits, we can do whatever we’d like with that data. In this case, let’s dive into how we can write those logs to the Event Log for later forensic investigation.

  This post covers how this can be done for an OS upgrade task sequence file (smsts.log), but this script can be adapted to take any log file and write the contents to the Event Log. [Read more]

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• Using PowerShell Data Types Accelerators to Speed up Coding

  by @alistek

  Often in PowerShell, certain operations are time-consuming or repetitive. Crafted solutions must be in place to compensate for these. An administrator may spend many hours solving difficult edge cases. Good thing PowerShell data types offer Type Accelerators to ease these challenges. These .NET classes are easy entry points into advanced functionality. Accelerators will help you save time and effort for many of the common tasks that a script may need. [Read more]

Trending Github Repositories

Github repositories that are trending are a 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 last week..

New on Youtube

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

Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com

Here are the top 10 book titles which were trending as bestsellers under the PowerShell category!

Author of “PowerShell Guide to Python“, “Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)” and currently writing the most awaited book: “PowerShell to C# and Back” !