This week: Export AD Users, Patching PS7, Windows 11 Name, PSWindowsUpdate
Events
- February 15th, 2021 – „Azure Monitoring“ Hybrid Expertslive Cafe in Linz
- June 20-23 2022 – European PowerShell Conference in VIENNA psconf.eu
- April 25-29 2022 – PowerShell+DevOps Global Summit powershell.org
- June 29th 2022 – Expertslive Konferenz www.expertslive.at
Snippets
Export AD-Users to CSV
Managing AD is still one of the main tasks for IT-Admins. Read this article on how to export AD-users to CSV and report on them.
Keeping PowerShell 7 up to date in the enterprise
With 2 main „editions“ of PowerShell available it maybe still hard to decide the strategy with PowerShell in the enterprise. Stay with 5.1 coming along with the clientOS of count on the new platform-independent PS Core ? If you are a long-term thinker, putting your bet on PS 7 is a good choice. Read Thomas Lee´s thoughts on this topic and his experiences, keeping PS Core up to date.
Update Windows OS Name after Windows 11 Update
This is a curiosity! After a Windows 10 ==> Windows 11 Update, Windows 10 is still stored in the registry under HLKM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion! This has to be fixed and in this blog post you learn how.
Getting Started with the PSWindowsUpdate Module
On the PowerShell Gallery, there are 7476 Modules right now, and PSWindowsUpdate is number 2 in the 6-weeks download statistics. There must be a reason for this. If you want to make your first baby steps with WindowsUpdate, read this article.
Have a good week ! R.
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