Matthew Dowst

@mdowst
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Father, author, blogger, enthusiast of all things PowerShell and automation. Solution architect at Quisitive specializing in the automation of IT Lifecycle Management.
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🚨 Breaking change in Invoke-WebRequest that could impact your automations.

I wrote a helper script to find where Invoke-WebRequest is and isn't using -UseBasicParsing. It also works for any other cmdlets/parameters combo.

https://gist.github.com/mdowst/9d00ff37ea79dcbfb98e6de580cbedbe

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Search-CmdletParameterUsage.ps1

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I'm thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023! I’ll be giving a deep dive into using PowerShell and Azure Arc to manage your hybrid infrastructure.

I’m looking forward to connecting with all of you there.

https://powershellsummit.org/

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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit

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