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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  Repositories on @Github
⚡ Trending Developers on @Github
⚡ Top Tweets
⚡ Top @reddit posts
⚡ New on @YouTube
⚡ Bestsellers on @leanpub

 

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Table of Contents

Editors Pick

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

  • [Video] PowerShell Unplugged – Challenge Edition

    by @jsnover and @theJasonHelmick

    “PowerShell is more than just a management and configuration framework – it’s the one tool, the glue, for managing, configuring, and automating your servers and services. Are you responsible for managing servers on-premises? No problem! How about managing resources in the cloud for Windows or Linux? Why not both?

    Don’t believe us? Let world-renowned inventor of PowerShell, Jeffrey Snover, and his side-kick Jason Helmick bare-knuckle challenge each other to a PowerShell expose of management and configuration. You are not going to want to miss this! [Watch here]

  • [Article] PowerShell Commands for Pentesters

    This article contains a list of PowerShell commands collected from various corners of the Internet which could be helpful during penetration tests or red team exercises.

    The list includes various post-exploitation one-liners in pure PowerShell without requiring any offensive (= potentially flagged as malicious) 3rd party modules, but also a bunch of handy administrative commands.

    Let’s get to it! [Read more]

  • Announcing Azure PowerShell 5.0

    A major version is an opportunity to introduce several improvements that may not be compatible with the scripts that you have developed with a previous version. As always, we recommend that you read the migration guide to measure the impact of this new version on your environment.

    Az 5.0 introduces the following fundamental changes:

    • Updated authentication
    • A security update for Az.KeyVault
    • Improved support for ACR (Azure Container Registry) and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
    • New default behaviors for Az.KeyVault and Az.Functions

    Azure PowerShell is open source. Community contributions are always welcome, but we have not done a good job of recognizing our contributors. Starting with this release, we will add entries to the release notes for PRs merged that were submitted by non-Microsoft employees! [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.

Repository Description Stars Forks Num Of Stars Today
actions/virtual-environments GitHub Actions virtual environments 1,448 605 53
Sycnex/Windows10Debloater Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware. 7,483 892 98
ChrisTitusTech/win10script This is the Ultimate Windows 10 Script from a creation from multiple debloat scripts and gists from github. 505 485 212
Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script PowerShell script for automation of routine tasks done after fresh installations of Windows 10 / Server 2016 / Server 2019 4,099 926 19
mantvydasb/RedTeam-Tactics-and-Techniques Red Teaming Tactics and Techniques 1,165 374 22
sbousseaden/EVTX-ATTACK-SAMPLES Windows Events Attack Samples 1,046 208 21
EmpireProject/Empire Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent. 5,664 2,073 19
microsoft/Microsoft365DSC Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations 263 108 7
JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh A prompt theming engine for Powershell 4,324 266 55
lextm/windowsterminal-shell Install/uninstall scripts for Windows Terminal context menu items 672 66 33

 

Trending PowerShell Developers on Github

Following is the list of developer building some cool projects and tools in PowerShell on Github, and popular repositories in their profiles.

Developer Popular Repository Repository Description
Ingvar Stepanyan WiFi-Password People ask you for the Wi-Fi password. Answer quickly.
Megan Marsh packer-examples Some example templates and scripts to help new packer users.
Yuki Okushi roa-button-voices Assets/voices for https://yuzukiroa.love
Aaron Stannard AkkaClusterSharding3414Repro Verify presence of serialization bug in Akka.Cluster.Sharding
David O’Brien slackbot_flightinfo slack bot using 3rd party weather API to output airport weather and flight information to Slack
Richard Fennell AzurePipelines A single Repo to contain the source for ALL my Azure DevOps Build/Release Extensions. The packages can be found in the Azure DevOps Marketplace

 

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…

 

Twitter Handle Retweet Count Favorite Count Status Status URL
@ptracesecurity 94 345 PowerShell Commands for Pentesters infosecmatter.com/powershell-com #Pentesting #Windows #PowerShell #CyberSecurity #Infosec [Tweet]
@wincmdfu 69 220 Retrieve credentials stored in the Win Credential Locker [Tweet]
@AzureCrazy 40 44 Steve Buchanan (9 X MVP and Book Author) explains Azure Stack, how you can try out #AzureStack from home, why… https://t.co/tUQx77TWLV [Tweet]
@powers_hell 28 72 Deploying #UniversalPrint printers with #PowerShell &
@MSIntune#MVPBuzzhttps://t.co/J7HEOQBatQ https://t.co/P8Ap7MjFSM		 [Tweet]
@mohrpheus78 23 38 New #Powershell script to defrag and even shrink a @Citrix #Provisioning merged vDisk.
No Hyperv-V role needed! Ru… https://t.co/HAB9v3nn1O		 [Tweet]
@DragonJAR 17 53 PowerShell Commands for Pentesters https://t.co/EutP8sTghl #PowerShell #Pentesting #Hacking https://t.co/gHjivIULtb [Tweet]
@JeffHicks 15 57 I hope you’ll think about adding this #PowerShell book to your library. https://t.co/y1GQckikrC [Tweet]
@JeffHicks 15 30 New on the blog: Distinguished Parsing with #PowerShell and Regex https://t.co/icSDukPXT8 [Tweet]
@syst_and_deploy 14 48 You can list easily BIOS settings on local or remote computer with the get-bios cmdlet (from getbios module).
It w… https://t.co/E5kuHCZ9Pp		 [Tweet]
@buchatech 14 32 Thanks @AzureCrazy for featuring me in an article! In the Interview we discuss being a #Microsoft MVP, getting cert… https://t.co/AmqxoFlV12 [Tweet]

 

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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/Wireless_Life How to Manage SharePoint and Microsoft Teams with PowerShell Core 68 10 [Post]
/u/Roman1410S Personally, i like REST-API´s, especially when they are the direct layer between me and the datasource i want to access. As a PowerShell MVP i often use REST and PowerShell, today i needed to get some data from Microsoft Graph. 67 22 [Post]
/u/Aivynator Need help with O365 termination script 59 23 [Post]
/u/JeanxPlay Run Windows Apps using powershell, the easy way! 58 14 [Post]
/u/AutoModerator What have you done with PowerShell this month 51 124 [Post]
/u/serendrewpity What are good tools for converting PS scripts into executables? 38 49 [Post]
/u/ir34dy0ur3m4i1 Creating new subfolders in Sharepoint Doc Lib – there must be a better way than this 29 6 [Post]
/u/Geoff-Lillis PowerShell Gallery appears to be down 27 9 [Post]
/u/dmstepha A question about PowerShell remoting 26 9 [Post]
/u/RoughAthlete3611 This is a collection of useful scripts from various sources 18 0 [Post]

 

New on Youtube

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

Channel Title URL
Microsoft Azure

PowerShell Unplugged – Challenge Edition

 [Video]
Microsoft Azure

Taking your automation to the next level with PowerShell 7

 [Video]
Adam Driscoll

Module Monday: pypsrp – Python PowerShell Remoting Protocol Client

 [Video]
Mississippi PowerShell User Group

Azure Durable Functions: Yes, PowerShell can fan out and in too.

 [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(s)
1 Shell of an Idea Don Jones
2 The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book Don Jones and Jeff Hicks
3 The PowerShell Conference Book Mike F Robbins, Michael T Lombardi, Jeff Hicks, and The DevOps Collective, Inc.
4 PowerShell Guide to Python Prateek Singh
5 Building PowerShell Modules Brandon Olin
6 The PowerShell Practice Primer Jeff Hicks
7 PowerShell to C# and back Prateek Singh, Deepak Singh Dhami
8  PowerShell 101 Mike F Robbins
9 ConfigMgr – An Administrator’s Guide to Deploying Applications using PowerShell Owen Smith
10 PowerShell 4N00bs Don Jones

 

 

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