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! In this PowerShell Weekly Newsletter, I will cover content from the following sources, which you don’t want to miss 😎.

⚡ Editor picks – blogs, articles
⚡ Trending on @Github
⚡ Top Tweets
⚡ Top @reddit posts
⚡ New on @YouTube
⚡ Bestsellers on @leanpub

 

If you like reading this newsletter follow me on Twitter @singhprateik, for more such content and support my efforts! and to get our PowerShell weekly newsletter EVERY FRIDAY and a Monthly round up every month end. Please do subscribe here 👇👇👇 and join the growing community of 1000+ readers!

Subscribe to the Newsletter


Table of Contents

Editors Pick

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

  • Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container

    by @ThomasMaurer

    Azure PowerShell team announced the Azure PowerShell Docker Container images. In this post, I want to quickly highlight that announcement and show you how you can download, pull, and run Azure PowerShell in a Docker container image from Microsoft.

    But first, let’s talk about why you would want to run an Azure PowerShell in a Docker container. Azure is continuously evolving, and the Azure PowerShell team releases a new version of the Azure PowerShell modules every three weeks. This makes it challenging to maintain a production or development environment up to date and ensuring the smooth execution of scripts. With the Azure PowerShell docker container image, you can quickly run scripts against a specific version of Azure PowerShell. [Read more]

  • PowerShell Monthly Newsletter – August 2020 Roundup

    by @singhprateik

    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! In this PowerShell Monthly Newsletter, I will cover content from the following sources, which you don’t want to miss 😎.

    ⚡ Editor picks – blogs, articles
    ⚡ Trending on @Github
    ⚡ Top Tweets
    ⚡ Top @reddit posts
    ⚡ New on @YouTube
    ⚡ Bestsellers on @leanpub

    [Read more]

  • [Video] Getting started with Jupyter Notebooks and PowerShell

    by @adamdriscoll

    In this video, I show how to get started with Jupyter Notebooks and PowerShell. I first go over the web interface for Jupyter and how to use .NET interactive to run PowerShell scripts in notebooks. I then go into Azure Data Studio to show how to build notebooks with a more rich PowerShell experience. Finally, I show how to build PowerShell notebooks using the Visual Studio Code Insiders edition and the preview edition of the PowerShell extension. [Watch it here]

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.

Repository Description Stars Forks Num Of Stars Today
ScorpionesLabs/DVS D(COM) V(ulnerability) S(canner) AKA Devious swiss army knife – Lateral movement using DCOM Objects 70 19 23
microsoft/DefendTheFlag 18 53
hotvulcan/Thanos.sh if you are Thanos(root), this command could delete half your files randomly 2,056 256 23
microsoft/ProjectReunion Project Reunion is an evolution of the Windows developer platform that will make it more compatible, agile, modern and open. 836 33 16
lextm/windowsterminal-shell Install/uninstall scripts for Windows Terminal context menu items 515 55 26
S3cur3Th1sSh1t/WinPwn Automation for internal Windows Penetrationtest / AD-Security 804 170 14
pester/Pester Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell. 2,287 424 11
microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-docs Documentation for the Microsoft Graph REST API 637 1,003 3
actions/virtual-environments GitHub Actions virtual environments 1,200 515 27
fireeye/commando-vm Complete Mandiant Offensive VM (Commando VM), a fully customizable Windows-based pentesting virtual machine distribution. commandovm@fireeye.com 3,712 808 11

 

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 the top 10 most popular PowerShell tweets…

 

Twitter Handle Retweet Count Favorite Count Status Status URL
@ptracesecurity 51 91 PowerShell Remoting from Linux to Windows https://t.co/9tlwKBedOo #Pentesting #Linux #Windows #PowerShell… https://t.co/d6AJyBCxhl [Tweet]
@Hakin9 47 52 Check out the new tool from @tokyoneon_ ! It’s a must have for your hacking arsenal >> https://t.co/yTAtpiWPCk… https://t.co/VgGlPde7ZC [Tweet]
@Hakin9 40 24 How to Bypass VirusTotal & AMSI Detection Signatures with Chimera https://t.co/EOpeq5zxua

#infosec #hacking… https://t.co/sgCVADoubE

 [Tweet]
@mwbengtsson 35 75 New blog post! Windows 10 Toast Notification Script Update (Poolside Release): Dynamic Application deadline and cus… https://t.co/fpBJbqDkTL [Tweet]
@ThomasMaurer 31 71 Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container 🐳☁💻
https://t.co/3aFXgsPsHg
#Microsoft #Azure #PowerShell… https://t.co/kwym192UuD		 [Tweet]
@powers_hell 27 51 [blog post] Dynamically set the time zone of a device in @MSIntune using Azure Maps & #PowerShell

https://t.co/G9p9v5tetG

#MVPBuzz

 [Tweet]
@mwbengtsson 26 71 Enhance your Windows as a Service process: Use Toast Notifications and Powershell App Deployment Toolkit to Upgrade… https://t.co/Rd72Isglyx [Tweet]
@azureposh 26 38 We have identified an issue in `New-AzVM` cmdlet in #Azure #PowerShell. We just released Az 4.6.1 which includes t… https://t.co/WglWuVU0Ps [Tweet]
@Steve_MSFT 25 130 1. Learn #PowerShell
2. Use #PowerShell
3. Profit https://t.co/OMokysz3Eo		 [Tweet]
@Steve_MSFT 24 23 A reminder that #PowerShell 6.2.x will be out of support after this Friday Sept 4th! https://t.co/vKTiBTJxco [Tweet]

 

Subscribe to the Newsletter


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..

Author Title Ups Num of Comments URL
/u/MadBoyEvo Visually display Active Directory Nested Group Membership using PowerShell 208 51 [Post]
/u/_lahell_ How I got my 6 year old to practice the alphabet 151 30 [Post]
/u/CodingCaroline 8 Quick and easy tips to get you started with PowerShell 117 57 [Post]
/u/spuckthew How can I speed up this script? 40 45 [Post]
/u/finalfantasy14291 Tips to free up disk space on workstations 36 65 [Post]
/u/CirocOnTop New to PowerShell 25 43 [Post]
/u/broien_suPRIEM Bitlocker status check script 23 10 [Post]
/u/Windows2004IsBuggy Question from powershell beginner 19 14 [Post]
/u/mikesstories What are your day to day uses for powershell? 18 41 [Post]
/u/AutoModerator What have you done with PowerShell this month 13 67 [Post]

 

New on Youtube

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

 

 

Channel Title URL
Adam Driscoll Getting started with Jupyter Notebooks and PowerShell [Video]
ServerlessDays ANZ Track 2 – Josh King – Azure Durable Functions: Yes, PowerShell can fan out and in too [Video]
TeeVee

How to connecting and administering Office 365 using Windows PowerShell

 [Video]
MDTechVideos

How to Add Powershell to Context Menu in Windows 10 [Tutorial]

 [Video]
PDQ.com Supercharge your WMI queries with PowerShell Scanner [Video]
Adam Driscoll PowerShell Protect: Auditing and blocking suspicious behavior in PowerShell [Video]
Doug Finke

PowerShell – Data without a Database – Adam Jacobson

 [Video]

 

Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com

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

 

Rank Title Author
1 The PowerShell Conference Book Mark Kraus, Michael Zanatta, Joe Houghes, Christian Coventry, Steven Judd, Phil Bossman, Adil Leghari, Arnaud Petitjean
2 The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book Don Jones, Jeff Hicks
3 The PowerShell Conference Book Michael T Lombardi, Mark Kraus
4 PowerShell to C# and back Prateek Singh, Deepak Singh Dhami
5 The PowerShell Practice Primer Jeff Hicks
6 Building PowerShell Modules Brandon Olin
7 The PowerShell Conference Book Jeff Hicks, Mike F Robbins, Michael T Lombardi, The DevOps Collective, Inc.
8 Shell of an Idea Don Jones
9 PowerShell Guide to Python Prateek Singh
10 Don Jones’ PowerShell 4N00bs Don Jones

 

Optical Character Recognition

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

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required