📌Useful. The Trim method removes from the current string all leading and trailing characters that are in the parameter.

PS C:\> "123abc456xyz789".Trim([char]'0'..[char]'9')
abc456xyz

💡 Adversary Tactics: PowerShell

SpecterOps offers their retired Adversary Tactics: PowerShell course material online for free (PDF).

- PowerShell Basics Refresher
- PowerShell Remoting
- PowerShell Without PowerShell
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Active Directory
- PowerShell Prevention - Implementation, Auditing, and - Bypasses
- Reflection
- Low-level, Win32 Interop

https://github.com/specterops/at-ps
#course #free

🎬 Use VS Code and GitHub with PowerShell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XKksiGQR5w
#video

📌 Awesome PowerShell

- API Wrapper
- Blogs
- Books
- Build Tools
- Code and Package Repositories
- Commandline Productivity
- Communities
- Data
- Documentation Helper
- Editors and IDEs
- Frameworks
- Interactive Learning
- Logging
- Module Development Templates
- Package Managers
- Parallel Processing
- Podcasts
- Security
- SharePoint
- SQL Server
- Testing
- Themes
- UI
- Videos
- Webserver
- Misc

https://github.com/janikvonrotz/awesome-powershell

📘 PowerShell and the LAPS Windows PowerShell Module

https://tommymaynard.com/powershell-and-the-laps-windows-powershell-module/

❗ PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates – February 2021

- New semantic highlighting
- Added Pester v5 support to problem matcher.
- Updated PSScriptAnalyzer to 1.19.1. Which fixes formatting bugs!
- Many squashed bugs

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-for-visual-studio-code-updates-february-2021/

📘 Integration testing with Pester and PowerShell

http://martink.me/articles/integration-testing-with-pester-and-powershell

🤡 The most important extension: vscode-pets !

📌 Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 Release
You can now set new terminal windows to launch in an already existing terminal instance.

More updates and details:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-7-release/

💡PowerShell Team 2021 Investments

- PowerShell 7.2
- DSC for PowerShell 7
- Module Isolation
- Enhanced ANSI Support
- Improve native command experience
- Pluggable remoting transports
- Microsoft Update
- SecretManagement and SecretStore 1.0
- Crescendo 1.0
- PSReadLine 2.2
- PowerShellGet 3.0
- VSCode Extension
- Updateable help and PlatyPS 2.0
- OpenSSH 8.x

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-2021-investments/

🎬 PowerShell: Introduction to Classes with Kevin Marquette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spd46Ba-P_A

💡 SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2

- SecretInformation class now has a new Metadata property for the new secret metadata support.
- Set-Secret cmdlet now has a new optional -Metadata property to include additional non-sensitive data associated with a secret.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secretmanagement-and-secretstore-release-candidate-2

📚 Updated PowerShell Practice Primer Now Available

Jeff Hicks went through the book and revised some answers that take PowerShell 7 into account. Also added a bonus part devoted to PowerShell 7.x specific problems.

https://leanpub.com/psprimer
#ebook

🥇 PowerShell war games.

Fun and educational way to learn PowerShell.

https://underthewire.tech/wargames

📌 v7.1.3 Release of PowerShell

Engine Updates and Fixes:
- Remove the 32K character limit on the environment block for Start-Process
- Fix webcmdlets to properly construct URI from body when using -NoProxy

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes
- Fix PromptForCredential() to add targetName as domain

Build and Packaging Improvements
- Bump .NET SDK to 5.0.4