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Module Monday January 23, 2023

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It’s already the 4th Monday in January, can you believe it? At least that means we get an extra Module Monday next week, but lets stick to this one for right now!

Enjoy Markdown, and want to generate markdown help for your existing module, or create markdown help for modules you are currently working on? PlatyPS is the module you need.

Supported scenarios:

  • Create Markdown
    • Using existing external help files (MAML schema, XML).
    • Using reflection
    • Using reflection and existing internal external help files.
    • For a single cmdlet
    • For an entire module
  • Update existing Markdown through reflection.
  • Create a module page .md with summary. It will also allow you to create updatable help cab.
  • Retrieve markdown metadata from markdown file.
  • Create external help xml files (MAML) from platyPS Markdown.
  • Create external help file cab
  • Preview help from generated maml file.

If any of that looks to be useful, definitely check out PlatyPS!

Github:
PlatyPS

Module Monday January 16, 2023

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It’s Monday, and today we have another module by Doug Finke. Have you been using ChatGPT? Have you been enjoying it? Tired of always having to login and have a web browser open to use it? Why not have it right in your editor?

Welcome PowerShellAI! It is exactly what you think… it is OpenAI right in your VSCode and/or PowerShel Terminal. I’ve been testing this and really like it and can’t wait to see what else Doug does with it. One of the features I like is that you can set how risky of a response you OpenAI to use, where 0 is no to little risk, or use 0.9 where you can allow it to be a bit more flexible with it’s response.

Test it out and let me know what you think!

PowerShell Gallery:
PowerShellAI 0.1.0

GitHub:
PowerShellAI

Module Monday January 9, 2023

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It’s another Module Monday, but this time it isn’t really a module, but a script, that I think in the future could be turned into a module with even more functionality. I came across this script when I was looking for a quick way to download Window ISOs easily. I mean, who isn’t tired of going through all the clicks just to get a Window’s ISO from Microsoft?

This script finds Windows 11 ISOs and goes all the way back to Windows 7, but hoping you don’t need those for your own sanity. It does only cover home, business, and education, but that is becauase those are the most common.

It’s so nice just type in .\fido.ps1 win 11 -rel latest and this will download the latest version of Windows 11 for you? Why not put it in a scheduled task, so you don’t have to worry about downloading the latest version? Or if you or someone on your team needs a certain version you can just type in -win 10 -rel 21H1 and you know you have the right one? It also downloads very quickly as well.

Hope this saves you as much time as it has for me!

GitHub:
Fido

Module Monday January 2, 2023

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Happy New Year! Welcome to the first Module Monday of 2023. This is also the first official Module Monday posted on here. I’ve put most of last years posts on there for easier searching. I’ll be adding other content and longer content on here, so be sure to keep checking back. I’m still updating the site, but wanted to get the blog up so I can help more people sooner. It’s not that helpful if I just store it for myself, right?

With that said, our first module for Monday Monday is ImagePlayground by Przemyslaw Klys who I have featured here before. This is a cool module where it can help you can create and read QR Codes, read/remove EXIF data, add watermarks, create/read barcodes, and so much more.

I’m so glad I found this module so soon, and can’t wait to play with it more. I see many cases that this module will be useful. A few ideas are for formatting images for documentation and/or blog posts so they are all the same, adding watermarks to each, and converting a bunch of images files to fit certain criteria depending on the site I need to upload to.

How do you see using it?

PowerShell Gallery:
ImagePlayground/0.0.4

GitHub:
ImagePlayground

Module Monday December 19, 2022

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Today’s Module Monday may be targeted towards a certain vendor, but I know there are comparable modules out there for other vendors. I’ll admit I haven’t used this one, but it looks like a great module to use and if you find any issues to let the creator know on their GitHub. Always make sure to open issues on GitHub, no matter how small. The creator probably doesn’t even know there is an issue and will be thankful for you bringing it up and even more if you can tell them how to fix it.

With all that said, I guess you want to know the module? The module is LSUClient. What it does is it allows you automate driver, BIOS/UEFI, firmware and utility software updates for Lenovo computers. Best part is it can be done silently and unattended to remote computers with only the files they need. If you have a bunch of non internet computers, you can save them to a repository on your network that they can reach or even USB drive.

Think the next time you have to update drivers how much easier it will be to grab and push them. You can even run this in SCCM, MDT, PDQ, or any other remote deployment software. Let PowerShell do the heavy lifting of these kind of tasks to give you more time in the day to work on more important projects.

PowerShell Gallery:
LSUClient/1.5.0

GitHub:
LSUClient

Module Monday December 12, 2022

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Here we go, another Module Monday, and with the holiday spirit among us, I figured why not do the same for Module Monday.

Today’s module is helps you create the gift of an MSI with PowerShell exactly the way you want!  You can set your own file structure and even have your own custom EULAs and images. Perfect for company branded scripts/installers to give them a more enterprise feel. Another great feature is that you can embed your own PowerShell scripts inside of the MSI and target them to run on install or uninstall depending on the script.

There are really too many features to list here, and if you need to create MSIs, definitely check out Adam’s module. He is super talented and a great person in the community.

PowerShell Gallery:
PSMSI/0.0.1

GitHub:
psmsi