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  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…

  • Enable PowerShell SSH Remoting in PowerShell 7

    by @ThomasMaurer

    In this blog post, we will have a look at how you can enable and set up PowerShell SSH Remoting or PowerShell Remoting over SSh with PowerShell 7. With PowerShell Core 6, Microsoft introduced PowerShell 7 Remoting over SSH, which allows true multiplatform PowerShell remoting between Linux, macOS, and Windows. PowerShell SSH Remoting creates a PowerShell host process on the target machine as an SSH subsystem. Normally, Windows PowerShell remoting uses WinRM for connection negotiation and data transport. However, WinRM is only available on Windows-based machines.

    There are also some downsides to it. SSH-based remoting doesn’t currently support remote endpoint configuration and JEA (Just Enough Administration). It is also important to understand that this is not just another PowerShell SSH client. [Read more]


  • PowerShell and Containers

    by @phillipsj73

    Did you know that Microsoft published official container images for PowerShell? Those official images can be found here, and one cool thing to note is that there are even some ARM images. It is incredibly cool that these are provided as it makes shipping PowerShell tools simpler or hosting any PowerShell based script. I have two different use cases that I can demonstrate that make these pretty cool. The first demo is going to be using the Alpine image as the base image for building a container that hosts a Polaris based REST API, like I blogged about a few weeks ago. The second demo will be to host a PowerShell script that needs to run as a sidecar to a SQL Server container. Let’s dive into these demos. [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
fireeye/ThreatPursuit-VM Threat Pursuit Virtual Machine (VM): A fully customizable, open-sourced Windows-based distribution focused on threat intelligence analysis and hunting designed for intel and malware analysts as well as threat hunters to get up and running quickly. 579 73 424
actions/virtual-environments GitHub Actions virtual environments 1,477 619 30
pnp/sp-dev-list-formatting SharePoint List Formatting Samples 503 365 10
PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit PowerSploit – A PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework 7,655 2,955 20
fireeye/commando-vm Complete Mandiant Offensive VM (Commando VM), a fully customizable Windows-based pentesting virtual machine distribution. commandovm@fireeye.com 3,885 838 101
lextm/windowsterminal-shell Install/uninstall scripts for Windows Terminal context menu items 702 70 30
ChrisTitusTech/win10script This is the Ultimate Windows 10 Script from a creation from multiple debloat scripts and gists from github. 547 509 38
lukesampson/scoop A command-line installer for Windows. 11,860 980 63
leebaird/discover Custom bash scripts used to automate various penetration testing tasks including recon, scanning, parsing, and creating malicious payloads and listeners with Metasploit. 2,139 646 8
tibold/svg-explorer-extension Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files 1,461 84 16
BloodHoundAD/BloodHound Six Degrees of Domain Admin 4,704 939 15

 


Trending PowerShell Developers on Github

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

Developer Popular Repository Repository Description
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
Dmitry Kireev wimaging Windows Imaging Toolkit
David O’Brien slackbot_flightinfo slack bot using 3rd party weather API to output airport weather and flight information to Slack
Isaac Levin PresenceLight PresenceLight is a solution to broadcast your various statuses to a Phillips Hue or LIFX light bulb.
Keith Dahlby posh-git A PowerShell environment for Git
Ingvar Stepanyan WiFi-Password People ask you for the Wi-Fi password. Answer quickly.
Friedrich Weinmann SPOTools Sharepoint Online Utilities

 


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
@syst_and_deploy 101 296 You can convert a PS1 file to EXE with iexpress which is installed by default on Windows

#powershell… https://t.co/1B4HZZuBgf

[Tweet]
@ThomasMaurer 32 90 Enable PowerShell SSH Remoting in PowerShell 7 💻
https://t.co/HevCFFShg1
#PowerShell #PS7Now #SSH https://t.co/xYJX79I35N
[Tweet]
@SharePoint 26 30 A new version of the #SharePoint Online Management Shell (16.0.20616.12000) is now available from #PowerShell galle… https://t.co/BV4EKG4HWF [Tweet]
@mohrpheus78 24 70 Automatically configure a Windows Fileserver for @citrix UPM or @fslogix profiles with #PowerShell

– Initialize a… https://t.co/mIytf1MdUP

[Tweet]
@ptracesecurity 20 80 Powershell script for enumerating vulnerable DCOM Applications https://t.co/JHoHLO8431 #Pentesting #PowerShell… https://t.co/fYsK4jXFOc [Tweet]
@syst_and_deploy 20 58 Display simple toast notification for user in System context when running a Proactive Remediation script… https://t.co/9txHYdkR4r [Tweet]
@KitPloit 20 49 DeepBlueCLI – a PowerShell Module for Threat Hunting via Windows Event Logs https://t.co/YiPGnqmfpj #Auditing… https://t.co/ArrpWAe8gf [Tweet]
@ptracesecurity 17 26 Performing domain recon using PowerShell https://t.co/wzhROvwfb6 #Pentesting #ActiveDirectory #PowerShell… https://t.co/jz570qDgQr [Tweet]
@AzureCrazy 17 21 Chris Black, Azure Stack Technical Authority & Azure MVP writes about Azure Stack Hub, getting started, what to loo… https://t.co/MIwUwtT1hZ [Tweet]
@Themarkchristie 17 21 There are only 14 hours left to submit for @scottishsummit

do it quickly https://t.co/eSJN2lTJtQ

#Azure… https://t.co/gfJYq9ebEP

[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 from last week..

Author Title Ups Num of Comments URL
/u/ItsMeCookieMonster Win10Debloat – Remove bloatware, disable bing in windows search & declutter windows 10 107 39 [Post]
/u/phillipsj73 PowerShell and Containers 102 9 [Post]
/u/PowerShellMichael Free PowerShell Security e-Book by Script Runner 84 11 [Post]
/u/adbertram How to Get a Computer Name with PowerShell 53 29 [Post]
/u/Egg-Yolk Unfamiliar with this command. 41 30 [Post]
/u/rxece What to use Powershell for at home (practice projects)? 39 21 [Post]
/u/shab3y Start and execute Windows Updates on multiple servers 34 26 [Post]
/u/xlogiic2 Select-String with Regex 33 22 [Post]
/u/AndersAdmin All scheduled tasks in the domain and the accounts running them 29 11 [Post]
/u/PowerShellChallenge SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates 19 2 [Post]

 


New on Youtube

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

 

Channel Title URL
SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Hunting Powershell Obfuscation with Linear Regression

[Video]
Tomislav Lulic

PowerShell 7: Benefits and challenges

[Video]
SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd Leveraging the Power of Windows Powershell [Video]
Citrix Developer

Monitoring Citrix Cloud with OData and PowerShell

[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  The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book Don Jones and Jeff Hicks
2 The PowerShell Practice Primer Jeff Hicks
3 PowerShell Guide to Python Prateek Singh
4 The PowerShell Conference Book Mark KrausMichael ZanattaJoe HoughesChristian CoventrySteven JuddPhil BossmanAdil LeghariArnaud PetitjeanBill Kindle, and The DevOps Collective, Inc.
5 Shell of an Idea Don Jones
6 Building PowerShell Modules Brandon Olin
7 PowerShell to C# and back Prateek Singh, Deepak Singh Dhami
8 Building a PowerShell Tool Adam Bertram
9 PowerShell by Mistake Don Jones
10 PowerShell Tips to Write By Adam Bertram

 

 


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