AzureAD - Cannot properly read System.Byte[] value even when loading the module using "-UseWindowsPowerShell".

Whenever I troubleshoot Conditional Access issues, I use to retrieve the certificate hash of AzureADDevice. Long story short, I retrieve "AlternativeSecurityIds.Key" property of AzureADDevice.

Get-AzureADDevice -SearchString XXXX| fl displayname,deviceid,objectid,@{n='DevCerHash';e={ [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString($_.AlternativeSecurityIds.key).substring(21,40) }}

I know that PS7 isn't compatible with AzureAD module, and for this reason I use "-UseWindowsPowerShell" flag to load the module. Unfortunately, in PS5 the byte array is properly read, while in PS7 (-UseWindowsPowerShell) an object of wrong type is returned.

Get-AzureADDevice -SearchString XXXX| select AlternativeSecurityIds |gm

The above command returns "TypeName: Selected.Microsoft.Open.AzureAD.Model.Device" in PS5 and "TypeName: System.String" in PS7 (-UseWindowsPowerShell).

See the attached image.

BUG: Get-DnsServerResourceRecord returns incorrect objects with the FQDN name in the hostname field if the parent zone contains a subzone with the same name.

Reproduction:

Setup:
Create a DNS zone:

 testzone.fake.domain.zzz

Create a sub zone:

 testzone.fake.domain.zzz 

 (subzone fqdn: testzone.fake.domain.zzz.testzone.fake.domain.zzz)

Create an A record:

 Zone Name: 

      testzone.fake.domain.zzz (the parent zone)

 Record Name: 

      testrecord

 Data:

      10.1.2.3 

Create an A record:

 Zone Name: 

      testzone.fake.domain.zzz.testzone.fake.domain.zzz (the subzone)

 Record Name: 

      testrecord

 Data:

      10.3.2.1

Test:
Get-DnsServerResourceRecord will return these records:
Item# HostName______________________________________________________ RecordData RecordType

1 testrecord                                                     10.1.2.3   A

2 <various>                                                      <various>  <various>

3 testzone.fake.domain.zzz                                       10.1.2.3   A

4 testrecord.testzone.fake.domain.zzz.testzone.fake.domain.zzz   10.3.2.1   A

5 <various>.testzone.fake.domain.zzz                             <various>  <various>

Item 1 correctly returns the host name and record data.
Item 2 correctly returns other host names and record data.
Item 3 incorrectly returns a duplicate object from the parent zone but with the FQDN in the HostName field
Item 4 incorrectly returns the object with the hostname containing the FQDN name of the object
Item 5 incorrectly returns various duplicated objects with the hostnames containing the FQDN names.

Continue setup:
Delete the record in the sub zone (10.3.2.1).

Continue test:
Get-DnsServerResourceRecord will return these records:
Item# HostName______________________________________________________ RecordData RecordType

1 testrecord                                                     10.1.2.3   A

2 <various>                                                      <various>  <various>

Item 1 is correctly returned with the correct host name and record data.
Item 2 is correclty returned with the correct host names and record data.

Continue setup:
RE-Create the record in the sub zone (10.3.2.1)
Delete the record in the parent zone (10.1.2.3)

Continue test:
Get-DnsServerResourceRecord will return these records:
Item# HostName______________________________________________________ RecordData RecordType

1 (left blank to keep Item numbers consistant)

2 <various>                                                      <various>  <various>

3 (left blank to keep Item numbers consistant)

4 testrecord.testzone.fake.domain.zzz.testzone.fake.domain.zzz   10.3.2.1   A

5 <various>.testzone.fake.domain.zzz                             <various>  <various>

Item 2 correctly returns the correct host names and record data.
Item 4 incorrectly returns the object with the hostname containing the FQDN name of the object
Item 5 incorrectly returns various duplicated objects with the hostnames containing the FQDN names.

Also see:
https://www.briantist.com/errors/get-dnsserverresourcerecord-returns-duplicate-records-when-sub-domain-matching-zone-exists/

If you run the Test-ModuleManifest cmdlet more than once against the same manifest the "Tags" property returns different results each time.

For example, I have a module that contains the following tags in the psd1 file:

Tags = "tag1","tag2"

You can see below that if run the Test-ModuleManifest more than once it returns more copies of the tags each time it's executed:

$m = Test-ModuleManifest .\tagtest.psd1
$m.tags
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2

$m = Test-ModuleManifest .\tagtest.psd1
$m.tags
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2

$m = Test-ModuleManifest .\tagtest.psd1
$m.tags
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2

$m = $null
$m = Test-ModuleManifest .\tagtest.psd1
$m.tags
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2
tag1
tag2

The problem appears to be confined to Windows Powershell, it does not occur in Powershell Core.

It does not actually change the contents of the manifest, it just seems to be persisting some data somewhere and appending to it rather than reprocessing the manifest again.

I am attempting to connect to Microsoft Teams using Azure Automation. I am using the following code in Azure Automation PowerShell Runbook.

```

Get the credential from Automation

$credential = Get-AutomationPSCredential -Name 'O365'

$userName = $credential.UserName

$securePassword = $credential.Password

$psCredential = New-Object –TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential –ArgumentList $userName, $securePassword

Connect to Microsoft Teams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
```

I receive the following error:

```
Connect-MicrosoftTeams : One or more errors occurred.: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:9 char:1
+ Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : AuthenticationError: (:) [Connect-MicrosoftTeams], AadAuthenticationFailedException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Connect-MicrosoftTeams,Microsoft.Open.Teams.CommonLibrary.ConnectMicrosoftTeams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams : One or more errors occurred.
At line:9 char:1
+ Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : AuthenticationError: (:) [Connect-MicrosoftTeams], AggregateException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Connect-MicrosoftTeams,Microsoft.Open.Teams.CommonLibrary.ConnectMicrosoftTeams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:9 char:1
+ Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : AuthenticationError: (:) [Connect-MicrosoftTeams], AdalException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Connect-MicrosoftTeams,Microsoft.Open.Teams.CommonLibrary.ConnectMicrosoftTeams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:9 char:1
+ Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : AuthenticationError: (:) [Connect-MicrosoftTeams], NullReferenceException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Connect-MicrosoftTeams,Microsoft.Open.Teams.CommonLibrary.ConnectMicrosoftTeams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams : One or more errors occurred.: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:9 char:1
+ Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $psCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-MicrosoftTeams], AadAuthenticationFailedException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Open.Teams.CommonLibrary.AadAuthenticationFailedException,Microsoft.Open.Teams.C

ommonLibrary.ConnectMicrosoftTeams
```

When I run a simple 'Connect-MicrosoftTeams' locally it works fine.

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Why we need to create a path prior to moving a file from one location to other, if the destination doesn't have the relative path created using Move-item in powershell scripting.

For e.g. I have a source path as "E:\abc\0000\xyz.txt" and destination where it should be copied has a folder "D:\vfd". Now with Move Item I need to copy the xyz.txt using relative path as

Move-Item "E:\abc\0000\xyz.txt" -Destination "D:\vfd\0000\xyz.txt"

Now the above command will error since Destination doesn't have the 0000 directory.

In Unix if destination path is not present then it creates the required path and move the item. It just simple as that.

Code run first:
$x = 2
Add-Member -InputObject $x -MemberType ScriptMethod -Name "Get" -Value {$this}
$x.Get()
Remove-Variable x
$x
Error: The variable '$x' cannot be retrieved because it has not been set.

Trying again:
$x = 2
Add-Member -InputObject $x -MemberType ScriptMethod -Name "Get" -Value {$this}
Error: Add-Member : Cannot add a member with the name "Get" because a member with that name already exists.
$x.Get()
Remove-Variable x
Error: The variable '$x' cannot be retrieved because it has not been set.

$x = 1
$x.Get()
Error: Method invocation failed because [System.Int32] does not contain a method named 'Get'.

So the added member is available again if the variable with the same name & value is created again, like it was recycled. I think this is not expected behaviour. I do not have PS Core to test it, but I guess this cmdlet is implemented unchanged.

Issue
I am trying to write logs to a single log file using the PSlogging PowerShell module.

The Script is using the Foreach-object parallel.

The script works, But sometimes the script gets stuck in between.

Please help me to resolve it? Is there a better way to achieve this?

Powershell core 7

code

```
$sScriptVersion = '1.0'

$sScriptVersion = '1.0'
$sLogName = 'custom.log'
$sLogPath = "C:\Users\Dixon\Desktop\automation\azure\log"
$sLogFile = Join-Path -Path $sLogPath -ChildPath $sLogName

Start-Log -LogPath $sLogPath -LogName $sLogName -ScriptVersion $sScriptVersion

$allServers = $(Get-AzVM -Status)

try {

$allServers | ForEach-Object -parallel {


    $sScriptVersion = '1.0'

    $sLogName = "parallel-" + $_.Name +".log"

    #Log File Info

    $sLogPath = "C:\Users\Dixon\Desktop\automation\azure\log"

    $sLogFile = Join-Path -Path $sLogPath -ChildPath $sLogName

    Import-Module .\modules\pwshAzMod\pwshAzMod.psd1 -Force

    $version = "1.0.11"

    $vmName = $_.Name

    $vmLocation = $_.Location

    $vmResourceGroupName = $_.ResourceGroupName

    $powerState = $_.PowerState | Out-String

    if ($powerState -match "running") {

        if ($_.OSProfile.WindowsConfiguration) {

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Start --- Windows Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version $powerState"

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Done --- Windows Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version"

        } 

        elseif ($_.OSProfile.LinuxConfiguration) {

            $extensionName = "CustomScript"

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Start --- Linux Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version $powerState"

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Done --- Linux Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version"

        }

        else {

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "OS Type not handled"

        }

    }

    else {

        if ($_.OSProfile.WindowsConfiguration) {

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Deallocated --- Windows Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version $powerState"

        }

        elseif ($_.OSProfile.LinuxConfiguration) {

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message  "Deallocated --- Linux Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version $powerState"

        }

        else {

            Write-LogInfo -LogPath $sLogFile -Message "Deallocated --- Other Servers --- $vmResourceGroupName $vmLocation $vmName $version $powerState"

        }

    }

}  -ThrottleLimit 5

}
catch {

$errorMessage = $_

$errorMessage

}
finally {

Get-Content $sLogPath/parallel-*.log | Add-Content $sLogFile

Remove-Item –path $sLogPath\*  -Filter parallel*

Stop-Log -LogPath $sLogFile

}
```