Jim Tyler is Awarded Microsoft MVP Award, MDEAutomator Delivers Massive Security Leverage
Some Personal News
Last week I was awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award, and onboarded into the program! I am so incredibly humbled and excited to be joining the ranks of so many amazing contributors to the PowerShell community. I’ve already networked with a lot of new people in only a week. I’m looking forward to starting a PowerShell User Group in my home here in Southwest Michigan shortly.
Videos
Andrew Pla sits down with Joshua Dearing, aka Fortress, to explore his personal and professional growth through PowerShell. I caught part of the live stream this morning.
Steve Weiner from GetRubix.com goes over how to use PowerShell and Graph to make Intune Smart Groups. A pretty solid deep dive that everyone should check out.
Projects & Blogs
Jeff Hicks has released a PowerShell Podcast Module, which is pretty nifty: https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/powershell-potluck-april-2025/
Jorge Saurez put together a cool script called “No-as-a-Service” to invoke a random, humorous rejection message. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/jorgeasaurus
Eric M. has more updates to his MDEAutomator PowerShell tool. MDEAutomator is a modular, serverless solution for endpoint management and incident response in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) environments. It leverages Azure Function Apps and a custom PowerShell module to orchestrate large MDE deployments, automate response actions, and manage threat indicators at scale. My mind is already racing on the possibilities for this one. https://github.com/msdirtbag/MDEAutomator
Harm Veenstra breaks down how to use PowerShell to disable audio devices: https://powershellisfun.com/2025/05/02/using-powershell-to-disable-audiodevices-in-windows/
Meetings
Join Andrew Pla every Wednesday at 2:00PM for PowerShell Wednesdays https://discord.gg/pdq
In two days, Lucas Allman will be presenting “Rolling Your Own Configuration as Code Tool set” at the Research Triangle PowerShell User Group out of North Carolina. You can watch online this Wednesday, May 7th https://rtpsug.com/meetups/2025/04/01/May-7th-2025-Meetup
PSConfEU still has tickets available this summer - it begins on June 23rd in Malmo, Sweden. I’ll more than likely be at a kids’ baseball tournament, but would love to be there! Tickets here: