The PowerShell Podcast

Developing PowerShell Tools with Adam Driscoll

We talked about Adam’s journey into PowerShell, how he started creating tools for PowerShell, and how his experience as a developer. He shared insights into the challenges of growing a business while developing new features and how he manages all the tasks on his plate. We also learn more about his personal life, including his numerous travel mishaps, Iron Man competitions, and even building your own cryptocurrency. We covered all that and much, much more. 

 

Bio and links:

Adam Driscoll is the owner of Ironman Software, LLC and a 10x Cloud and Datacenter MVP. He develops popular tools for PowerShell and is active in the PowerShell community in pretty much every way you can think of. Adam is an avid blogger, published author, has recorded several high scores on the golf course, and is a triathlete. 

Adam Driscoll (@adamdriscoll) / Twitter 

adamdriscoll (Adam Driscoll) · GitHub 

Ironman Software: Powerful tools for DevOps and IT professionals - Ironman Software 

Adam Driscoll (microsoft.com) 

https://mcpmag.com/articles/2019/11/13/bloodhound-active-directory-domain-admin.aspx 

View the video recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oki225FVVNQ

 

Using PowerShell for Incident Response with Fernando Tomlinson

In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of someone who has been in the trenches of Incident Response. Fernando shared his experiences and methods for leveraging PowerShell during incidents. We talk about how the general perception of PowerShell Security has changed over the years and how PowerShell is now being publicly embraced by security organizations. Fernando told us about dealing with obfuscation and some of the most annoying techniques that he’s encountered.  All this and more is covered in this episode jam-packed with security goodness. 

Check out the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-AJGGIVaM

Guest Bio and links:

Fernando Tomlinson is a Principal Incident Response Consultant at Mandiant. He is active in the PowerShell community, speaking at conferences, and creating interactive PowerShell training platforms: Under the Wire and PoSh-Hunter. He is Retired U.S Army of 20 years and is a Purple Heart recipient. He teaches others as a Cybersecurity Adjunct Professor, Co-Authored the PowerShell Conference Book Volume 2, and blogs at cyberfibers.com. 

https://twitter.com/Wired_Pulse

https://github.com/wiredpulse 

https://underthewire.tech/ 

http://cyberfibers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PS-Cheat-Sheet.pdf 

Cyber Fibers - My Location of Thoughts During a Buffer Overflow 

Defensive and Offensive PowerShell security tactics (Fernando Tomlinson) 

New Shell in Town: Adventures in using PowerShell on Linux by Fernando Tomlinson 

Gaining 20/20 vision during an incident with PowerShell 

New Shell in Town: Adventures in using PowerShell on Linux by Fernando Tomlinson 

PoSh-Hunter 

A conversation that will !slap you with Jaap Brasser

In this episode, Jaap tells us how he got into speaking at conferences. We talk about examples of how his support has helped people on their own speaking journey. We discuss a few of the recent talks he has given, from abstracting code to bettering your home automation. We get to discuss his Microsoft MVP being renewed a few hours before we recorded. Last, and probably most important, we learned that he submitted the slap with a fish function into Poshbot. A function that gets extensive use in our office. 

 

Guest Bio and links:

Jaap Brasser is a Senior Developer Advocate at Harness as well as a 7-time Microsoft MVP. If you are attending a PowerShell convention anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good that he will be there speaking about something new.  

https://twitter.com/jaap_brasser 

https://www.jaapbrasser.com/about/ 

https://github.com/jaapbrasser 

MVP Profile 

Think Abstract, abstracting your PowerShell code by Jaap Brasser 

Streamlining Learning with Josh Duffney

In this episode, we talk about how unique your career path can be, how common it is to end up doing things you never imagined, and how PowerShell plays a role in getting you there. Josh talks about streamlining his day-to-day life to maximize his ability to learn new things. We talk about leaving your work on a high note and how leaving linkage can help you get to a cleaner start when you return to a project.

Josh shared lessons that he’s learned in trying to become a better writer and how he uses systems to his advantage. This episode is full of useful lessons, so get ready to take notes. Jordan and Andrew were left feeling inspired and left with actionable things to work on.

 

Guest Bio and links:

Josh Duffney is a senior content developer at Microsoft and author. He is an avid learner, who is always looking to streamline his life. He once battled batman in a test of wits and won handily. He likes the color purple and rubber ducks. Unverified reports claim that the movie Doctor Strange is loosely based on his life. - Duffney Approved

 

1. Duffney (Josh Duffney) · GitHub

2. :: — duffney.io

3. Josh Duffney (@joshduffney) / Twitter

4. https://open.spotify.com/show/1qKpSAa8hOg6KfnGY7nJeP

5. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCV1T7JbfzbE2O7P3kydmKw

6. https://joshduffney.gumroad.com/

7. Becoming a Craftsman :: — duffney.io

8. https://www.tinkeredthinking.com/

Repositories with Adil Leghari: Do not take orally

Episode Summary:

In this episode, we learned all about repositories and how to use them in a PowerShell context. We briefly discussed the challenges of working from Home. We learned how Adil got started in the PowerShell community including getting involved in the PowerShell Slack/Discord, attending PowerShell Summit, and even stepping up and helping put on an event: BridgeConf. Adil convinces Jordan to submit to speak at Summit 2023, and Jordan agrees. The crowd goes wild! We tried to capture the code that we ran on this episode in a transcript file, which can be found below. 

 

Guest Bio and links:

Adil Leghari is a 15-year Sysadmin-turned-Solutions Engineer, who is super-passionate about PowerShell and automation. He’s active in the PowerShell community Slack and Discord servers. When not working, he enjoys designing stickers, traveling, and giving back to the tech community. 

 

Adil Blog – adilio.io

Adil Twitter - https://twitter.com/adilio 

PowerShell Community Call - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCQArCXEiI 

Working with Repos - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/gallery/how-to/working-with-local-psrepositories?view=powershell-7.2 

Get-PSRepository - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/PowerShellGet/Get-PSRepository?view=powershell-7.2 

PowerShell Gallery - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/gallery/overview?view=powershell-7.2 

Is it Down Again? - Is it Down Again? PowerShell Gallery Outage Mitigation Strategies by Adil Leghari - YouTube 

Show Notes Repo - show-notes/episodes at main · PowerShellPod/show-notes (github.com) 

Securing and Setting up Microsoft Sentinel with Sabrina Kay

This episode taught us about Microsoft Sentinel, a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response) product. Security is a constantly changing landscape, and Sabrina gives some tips on a successful test/deployment of Microsoft Sentinel to that you can get robots (AI) to help you think! Then we discuss Sabrina’s journey through IT, and how she ended up as a consultant standing up security AI, we learn that Jordan does speak a second language after all. Not to spoil it, but it is food.  

Guest Bio and links:

Sabrina Kay is a Microsoft Enterprise Administrator Expert and a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP. She has a passion for learning and shares her knowledge with the community through her blog, speaking at conferences, making YouTube videos, and more. She speaks 5 languages (6 if you include PowerShell) and has an awesome and positive mindset. 

 

Sabrina Website - https://sabrinaksy.com/ 

Sabrina Twitter - https://twitter.com/oh_is_sabrina 

Sabrina YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss1-VZuw8Kk 

Jaap Twitter - https://twitter.com/jaap_brasser 

Abstracting code - Think Abstract, abstracting your PowerShell code by Jaap Brasser 

Sentinel Docs - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/ 

Rod Trent Twitter - https://twitter.com/rodtrent 

Get-ConditionalAccessPolicyExclusions - https://github.com/jostuffl/AzureSentinel_Stuff/blob/main/Scripts/GetConditionalAccessPolicyExclusions-Runbook.ps1 

 

Link to Show Notes: 

https://github.com/PowerShellPod/show-notes/blob/main/episodes/17-securing-and-setting-up-microsoft-sentinel-with-sabrina-kay.md 

Just The Two of Us

After 5,000 downloads, Andrew and Jordan stop to say thank you for all of the support from the community. We also cover some of the very nice messages we have received and have a special community highlight for Drew McClellan. Then we cover some file system management information and discover that one of us is a little too attached to default settings. Finally, Jordan gets downright giddy to learn something new about PowerShell providers.

 

Guest Bio and links:

Jordan loves PowerShell and took home the gold medal for curling in the Utah Olympic Oval Haunted House/Curling Tournament. Shameless plug for his Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevOpsJordan

 

Andrew ALSO loves PowerShell and has several illustrious acting roles in plays, including his star turn as Timon in the Lion King. Continued Shameless Twitter plug: https://twitter.com/AndrewPlaTech

 

Drew's Blog Home | My Site (chefsitcompendium.wixsite.com)

Drew's Git XXLMandalorian013 (Drew McClellan) · GitHub

Drew Twitter https://twitter.com/mcclellandrew?s=21&t=UJsIrmfPVZwdFX367zz7gw

Gainsville PowerShell Meetup Gainesville PowerShell User Group (GNVPSUG)

Weekly Roundup Dowst.Dev | PowerShell Weekly – June 10, 2022

Jeff Hicks blog Using PowerShell Your Way • The Lonely Administrator (jdhitsolutions.com)

Patrick Gruenauer Blog PowerShell: Changing the Look of the Prompt – SID-500.COM

Summit Videos The State of the Shell by Jeffery Snover, Jason Helmick, Sydney Smith and Dave Martins - YouTube

April Edwards as Summit Putting the Ops in DevOps by April Edwards - YouTube

Working with files Working with Files and Folders - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs

About Profiles about Profiles - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs

 

Template Podcast Title with Gilbert Sanchez

Episode Summary:

In this episode, we cover the value of templating and how Stucco can be used to improve our module development, both inside an organization and for personal projects. Gilbert shares his experience using Stucco on a personal project, a dice rolling module, and Jordan gets lost in the nerdery as the conversation moves to Tabletop RPG games. Once he is back on track we discuss the value of PowerShell meetups, and Gilbert gets the ball rolling for a bay area meetup. 

 

Guest Bio and links:

Gilbert Sanchez is a Señor Systems Engineer at meta, spreading the love of PowerShell at scale. A lover of RPGs, you can check out his RPG-oriented modules,  RPGDice, and BeneatTheCanals, on the PowerShell Gallery. He is active in the PowerShell community, engaged on Twitter, and has a voice so silky smooth you will wonder why he did not become a musician.

 

Gilbert Twitter - https://twitter.com/HeyItsGilbertS 

Gilbert Git - HeyItsGilbert (Gilbert Sanchez) (github.com) 

Stucco - devblackops/Stucco: An opinionated Plaster template for high-quality PowerShell modules (github.com) 

Plaster - PowerShellOrg/Plaster: Plaster is a template-based file and project generator written in PowerShell. (github.com)