For those interested in security and security analytics, we recently published an article on how you can now enable PowerShell Jupyter notebooks via .Net Interactive Public Preview for use with Azure Sentinel: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/what-s-new-powershell-azure-sentinel-notebooks-to-supercharge/ba-p/1695969 Happy threat hunting and investigation with PowerShell+Notebooks! ... continue reading

We are excited to announce two modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement preview3 Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore preview1 To install the modules, and register the SecretStore vault, open any PowerShell console and run: Install-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement -AllowPrerelease Install-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -AllowPrerelease Register-SecretVault ... continue reading

Summary Standardization of Azure DevOps Test Plans and Reusing Them Between Different Organizations Today we introduce Claudia Ferguson and Mike Stiers to the Scripting Blog. Claudia is a Senior Consultant with the Microsoft Active Directory Migration Services Engineer team, and ... continue reading

Semantic Highlighting in the PowerShell Preview extension for Visual Studio Code Hi everyone! I’m Justin and I am currently an intern on the PowerShell team. One of my projects was to add PowerShell semantic highlighting support in VS Code allowing ... continue reading

PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This minor update fixes a few user-reported bugs and introduces a new rule (which is disabled by default) for avoiding using double quotes for constant strings. To install this version of ... continue reading

Sometimes there is a need to delete Microsoft Teams cache to quicken the adoption of an in-band policy change or simply troubleshoot an issue. The challenge here is that the cache for Microsoft Teams is in multiple directories. This can ... continue reading

Native Commands in PowerShell A New Approach – Part 2 In my last post I went through some some strategies for executing native executable and having them participate more fully in the PowerShell environment. In this post, I’ll be going ... continue reading

In this two part blog post I’m going to investigate how PowerShell can take better advantage of native executables. In the first post, I’m going to discuss a few of the ways that PowerShell can better incorporate native executables into ... continue reading

When writing a PowerShell module, especially a binary module (i.e. one written in a language like C# and loaded into PowerShell as an assembly/DLL), it’s natural to take dependencies on other packages or libraries to provide functionality. Taking dependencies on ... continue reading

Previously, I published a blog on our investments plans during the PowerShell 7.1 release timeframe. We’ve made progress across many of those investments with more work ahead of us. PowerShell 7.1 preview 3 We are now able to ship simultaneously ... continue reading