A few days ago I posted some PowerShell code that you could use to be alerted when things changed in Active Directory. The code used PowerShell and CIM events to notify you, for example, when a new user account is created. This can be helpful when you need alerting. But perhaps you only need reporting. What has… READ MORE
Scenario I want to write a function that will query an image site and download a picture so I can insert it into a blog post. After watching a local PowerShell User Group presentation on using Invoke-RestMethod, I decided to give it a try. API Parameters Invoke-RestMethod is a PowerShell utility specifically for quering web sites that… READ MORE
Do you have a PowerShell GUI that needs to accept text input? Maybe you want to be able to copy and paste a list of computers, ip addresses, user names or some other data. I will show you how to add a text box into your PowerShell GUI to handle that input. If you haven’t… READ MORE
As you may be aware already (hopefully!), we have Microsoft Teams cmdlets surfacing in the SharePoint PowerShell PnP module since July 2020. Today, we’ll work again with those cmdlets. As a matter of fact, we’ll use 2 modules for this blog post. PowerShell PnP Azure AD So make sure you’ve got both installed to be… READ MORE
Sometimes you need to change something on a VM. You may want to rename it for compliance reasons, change the network, change the disk name, etc Once you create a VM in Azure there is no way to rename it or one of its components. Also, if you want to reconnect a VM to a… READ MORE
If your are a developer who uses PnP PowerShell module to deploy and configure your environment or your clients’, you have certainly faced some issues to manage the versions of PnP PowerShell module with your scripts. I will share with you an approach that I am using myself to use my current scripts and the… READ MORE
I faced some troubles in executing cmdkey.exe on a PowerShell remote session, while I was trying to automate the creation of a SQL Failover Cluster Instance on Azure VMs, using Azure Premium File Share (PFS) as shared storage. You need cmdkey.exe since you must persist Azure PFS access credentials on the Credential Manager of both cluster nodes, into the… READ MORE
It’s now roughly one year since Microsoft launched the concept of Power Platform. It’s been extremely interesting in the past 12 months to watch how this new platform strategy starts to play out in the world outside Redmond, as the pieces of this grand puzzle begin to become visible here and there. Having worked in… READ MORE
Introduction For a while, when using Graph API and PowerShell I have been using my own implementations of communicating with Graph API as outlined in the following posts: Getting started with Microsoft Graph and PowerShell Authenticating with Graph API Using a Device Code However, at Ignite 2019, it was announced there is a Graph API… READ MORE
PnP PowerShell has over the years turned into the de-facto standard when it comes to scripting your changes to SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises. Join me in this session if you are new to it, but make sure to also join me if your are a seasoned user of the cmdlets. I will show you some relatively… READ MORE
