PSConfEU Yields Content, Content, and MORE Content!

Jun 30, 2025

Hello, fellow PowerShell Engineers! It’s been another great week of PowerShell content - especially with what’s been flowing out of PSConfEU.

PowerShell Tip

Here's a PowerShell tip that can save you from disasters: Use WhatIf parameter to preview what destructive commands will do before actually running them.

Many PowerShell cmdlets support the -WhatIf parameter, which shows you exactly what would happen without actually executing the command:

# See what files would be deleted WITHOUT deleting them
Remove-Item C:\TempFolder\* -WhatIf

# Preview what services would be stopped
Stop-Service -Name "Print Spooler" -WhatIf

# Check what would be copied before doing a large file operation
Copy-Item C:\Source\* C:\Destination\ -Recurse -WhatIf

# See what registry changes would be made
Remove-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\MyApp" -Name "Setting1" -WhatIf

PowerShell Videos

Andreas Dieckmann has a great behind the scenes video at PSConfEu

Andrew Pla does some lightning demos with a variety of people at PSConfEU.

The latest episode of the PowerShell podcast has dropped with Andrew talking to members of the PowerShell team from Microsoft.

💻 PowerShell Community News

🔄 Reboot with PowerShell: Use Restart-Computer to restart locally, remotely, and automate reboots for multiple Windows computers

Markus Elsberger has a great article on how to use the Restart-Computer PowerShell cmdlet to reboot Windows PCs locally, remotely, and to automate restarts for multiple machines. The article covers basic commands, restarting remote computers, scheduled restarts with a delay, and a sample script for rebooting multiple systems.

📊 Practical Graph: Finding Owners for Ownerless Apps from Audit Data

Tony Redmond has a great article on finding and managing ownerless applications in Entra ID using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API. The article demonstrates how to identify apps without owners and suggests using audit data to determine appropriate owners for these applications.

🎉 PSConfEU 2025

Harm Veenstra has a great article summarizing his experience at the PSConfEU 2025 event in Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪. He recaps the four-day conference, detailing various sessions on PowerShell, Azure Arc, WinGet, and more, along with social aspects and community engagement.

📚 Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell Second Edition

Tony Redmond has a great article introducing the second edition of "Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell," which is a completely revised version focused on using PowerShell with Microsoft Graph APIs and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The article highlights improvements to the book's content, including corrected and expanded code, new material, and coverage of the AzureAD module's retirement.

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