Day 3 Bits

Let's talk about making Active Directory, Defender XDR, Entra ID, Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, and PowerShell work better for you!

• Revisiting Join-Path in PowerShell

  Tips for using Join-Path in backwards-compatible and cross-platform PowerShell scripts.

  By Sam Erde

  Posted on December 9, 2024

  

  

  Many people have already written about the benefits of using PowerShell’s Join-Path cmdlet. Instead of repeating the details, let’s review some of the less common tricks, and then look at the differences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and newer versions of PowerShell. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • PowerShell
  • Scripting
  • .NET

• How to Get Active Directory Trust Details in PowerShell

  In which .NET inspires an answer to a question I had for years.

  By Sam Erde

  Posted on November 20, 2024

  Through most of the past 20 years of working with Active Directory, I have supported and worked in multi-forest environments. This work has involved one forest being split into 3 forests, a cross-forest migration of Exchange Server (I was spared the first one), and multiple forest consolidation projects. At various... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Active Directory
  • PowerShell
  • .NET

• The Benefits of Removing the Az and Microsoft.Graph PowerShell Modules

  Save time and simplify your workspace by removing all unused PowerShell modules.

  By Sam Erde

  Posted on September 5, 2024

  

  

  The Microsoft Graph SDK v2.23.0 was released today, and with it, the updated Microsoft Graph PowerShell module. You can use Update-Module or Update-PSResource to update this module, or you can try out my new PSPReworkout module’s Update-AllTheThings function. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • PowerShell
  • Scripting
  • Azure
  • Microsoft Graph

• Services Included with Microsoft 365 E5 Developer Subscriptions

  What is currently included when you sign up for a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription?

  By Sam Erde

  Posted on March 21, 2024

  

  

  Welcome back! Here’s a quick hit that falls into the “make notes and share them” category. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Microsoft 365
  • M365
  • Cloud

• Return Multiple Objects from a PowerShell Function

  Hash tables are back with another slick use case!

  By Sam Erde

  Posted on December 8, 2023

  

  

  One of the things that makes PowerShell so fun is the endless opportunities to learn new and better ways to do things. We all began learning it by trying out useful cmdlets and following tutorials to write basic functions. However, nothing sinks in as well as when we work on... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • PowerShell
  • PKI

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