As someone who frequently performs administration activities in Microsoft Entra ID, I’ve frequently had the occasion where I’ve needed to provide access to an enterprise application and wanted to i...
Introduction Thinking about design is important, and as it turns out, I wasn’t happy with where PSProfileWatcher v0.1.1 was at, despite it serving the minimum function I originally desired. The mor...
A real short share today. If you ever have the occasion where you want to take all of the members of a specific Entra group (or set of Entra groups), and add them as direct members of a different E...
Introduction Have you ever opened your PowerShell profile to find things in in that you forgot about? Ever wonder if someone has slipped a little something into someone else’s PowerShell profile to...
Background My initial foray into PowerShell came from having too much to do, and not enough time to do it all. In my first IT job (where I was the sole non-leadership IT person), I spent a lot of t...
Introduction Have you ever been in the situation where you needed to pass a bunch of parameters to a function, but they started to go off the edge of the screen in your ISE/IDE? You probably have. ...
Programmatic SQLite Queries in PowerShell This will be a real quick one. After watching a short video on the history of SQLite and its applications, I decided to tinker with it a bit. It’s a very e...
“If this happens, then I want this to happen.” Many IT professionals have, as part of a PowerShell script, written the code equivalent to this looking to solve a problem. Conditional statements ar...
Introduction Users of PowerShell may have encountered or make use of the SecretManagement and SecretStore modules to securely handle their passwords, API keys, and other sensitive secrets both for ...
Converting Unix timestamps in PowerShell The Need This will be a quick one. While working with a platform for which I am writing a PowerShell module, I began to frequently interact with Unix times...