Blogs, Articles, and Posts

  • Create a Hyper-V VM to run pfSense with a PowerShell script
    In this blog post, you’ll learn how to use a PowerShell script to create a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) toContinue Reading
  • Function cannot be created because function capacity 4096 has been exceeded for this scope
    I had a long day today when my long-running script (10 hours) gave me weird errors with Microsoft Graph for Teams. Finally, I solved my mistakes and reran the hand to see if the report would be complete this time. Surprisingly, it gave me an error I’d never seen before. “Function cannot be created because function capacity 4096 has been exceeded for this scope”. The error is at least weird because it’s shown on a production server where I’ve just a handful of PowerShell modules installed, and I’ve never seen it on my development machine where I’ve over 200 modules.
  • Things I use most in my PowerShell scripts
    Looking back at the scripts I created the last year, certain things always come back in most of them. In this blog post, I will show you a few and explain them.
  • Find Who Created a User Account in Microsoft 365 | Audit User Creations 
    In Microsoft 365, user accounts act as gateways to access resources. Unauthorized or suspicious user creations can lead to severe consequences, such as data breaches and compromises in sensitive information. Admins play a critical role in safeguarding organizational data by […]
  • Ask Jeff July 2023
    Well, this has been a whirlwind month. I hope you accomplished much and still had time to learn a thing or two. As has been the custom here, let’s wrap up with grab bag of tips and suggestions.

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Community

  • Björn Sundling. From PowerShell Developer to MVP: An Unfiltered Journey
    In our latest PowerShell Podcast, we invited Microsoft MVP Björn Sundling,  on a riveting journey from being a PowerShell developer to securing Azure DevOps repositories. With a passion for speaking seeded from his first year at PSConfEU 2015, his road to the podium wasn’t easy. The podcast was peppered with a detailed discussion on the automated scanner project PSSecretScanner. Offering insights into development technologies, this episode is a whirlwind tour of community involvement and encompasses his love of sharing knowledge.

Fun

  • Become the TEC 2023 PowerShell Script-Off Champion
    The TEC 2023 PowerShell Challenge Champion will be known after three rounds of frenetic script coding at The Experts Conference in Atlanta on September 19, 2023. Competitors will need a working knowledge of Microsoft 365 PowerShell, including Exchange Online, Teams, and Azure AD. Being able to think on your feet and come up with working solutions to problems is possibly a more important attribute than coding genius.

Events

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