August 2026 PowerShell Community Call
The discussion walks through accelerated release cadences, DSC version 3.4 planning, community stewardship initiatives for abandoned modules, and documentation updates detailing version 7 UUID support in PowerShell 7.7. Live demos showcase relocatable user scoped module paths using Get-PSContentPath, machine wide configuration fixes for MSIX installations in ProgramData, and dramatic concurrency speed improvements when resolving dependencies in PSResourceGet. The call wraps with a critical security alert regarding recent typosquatting attempts discovered across PowerShell Gallery and advice on how engineers can avoid malicious packages.
Query CVE Information Using the PoshCVE Module
Harm Veenstra, Microsoft MVP and author of the PowerShellisFun.com blog, walks through the PoshCVE module by Dan Hough, a tool designed to streamline searching and reporting on public security flaws directly from the console.
👉 https://powershellisfun.com/2026/08/20/query-cve-information-using-the-powershell-poshcve-module/
What PowerShell Taught TJ Turner About IT
Andrew Pla recently joined the PowerShell Podcast at Microsoft’s TechMentor conference in Redmond, Washington, to sit down with TJ Turner for a wide ranging discussion on career growth and systems administration. The episode traces TJ’s professional journey from early infrastructure work through the education, finance, and retail sectors to his current role as a Cloud Evangelist at TD SYNNEX. Along the way, the conversation explores the human side of technology and the critical lessons that never appear in standard product documentation.
Building Help Documents with Microsoft.PowerShell.Platyps
Jeffery Hicks recently published a guide in Behind the PowerShell Pipeline exploring how to build new module documentation using the modern Microsoft.PowerShell.Platyps module. The post walks through establishing a dedicated documentation folder structure and generating initial Markdown help files with New-MarkdownCommandHelp while sharing a script to elegantly handle path resolution quirks. Jeffery details how engineers can leverage inline updating with New-CommandHelp to dynamically inject custom notes, format code examples, and append alias information before converting the updated command help objects into standard Markdown files ready for online publishing.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/module-documentation-with/
Ten Years of the PowerShell Curl Alias
Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl, reflected on LinkedIn about the decade-long persistence of the PowerShell aliases mapping curl and wget to Invoke-WebRequest. He revisits his 2016 pull request to remove the shortcuts shortly after PowerShell went open source on GitHub, a PR that maintainers closed within 34 minutes, citing backward compatibility for existing scripts. The aliases were later dropped from PowerShell Core 6.0, and Windows has shipped a real curl.exe since 2018. But Windows PowerShell 5.1 remains the default powershell.exe on every Windows machine, so developers are still tripping over the shadowed commands ten years later. Quick fixes: call curl.exe explicitly, remove the alias in your profile, or switch to PowerShell 7.
👉 View Daniel Stenberg’s LinkedIn Post
How We Enabled PSReadLine for Screen Reader Accessibility
Andy Jordan presented at PowerShell Conference Europe to detail the engineering journey of fixing screen reader accessibility within the PSReadLine module. The session walks through the historical challenge where PSReadLine would invisibly rerender entire terminal buffers while typing, resulting in a broken audio loop for engineers relying on tools like NVDA or Narrator. Andy explained how a feature request from the Visual Studio Code team prompted a renewed focus on the issue, leading the group to discard a messy control character prototype in favor of a clean common prefix diff algorithm that only writes new buffer changes to the screen. The presentation wraps up by highlighting how direct requirements from partner product teams and a willingness to prototype can effectively push long standing accessibility bugs to resolution.
What to Expect at PowerShell Summit 2027
The Sessionize Call for Papers outlines the upcoming PowerShell Summit 2027 scheduled for April 5 to 8, 2027, at the Lake Buena Vista Sheraton Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The event brings together technologists and automators for four days of deep technical content, hands on labs, and community collaboration spanning automation, cloud computing, and security topics. The submission window runs through August 31, 2026, welcoming diverse session formats ranging from 25 minute fast focus talks to four hour interactive labs.
👉 https://sessionize.com/pshsummit27
Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2026
Semperis announced the upcoming Hybrid Identity Protection Conference scheduled for September 8 to 10, 2026, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville Downtown in Nashville, Tennessee. The event brings together identity security practitioners and Active Directory experts for three days of practical insights, crisis management strategies, and real world discussions on defending hybrid infrastructure. The program features dedicated tracks covering CISO leadership, identity masterclasses, and emerging AI defense challenges to help organizations prepare for complex threat landscapes.
👉 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2026
Github Roundup
Nathan McNulty shipped azd-risk-based-ca v1.0.0 this morning. He’d been building toward it all week, pushing on azd-emergency-access, azd-maester, azd-entra-health-monitoring, and research-passkeys, and the azd- prefix everywhere is the tell. He’s building out a family of Azure Developer CLI templates for Entra security patterns, and a v1.0.0 is a real “this is done enough to use” moment. 👉 https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/azd-risk-based-ca/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Fabien Tschanz cut Microsoft365DSC 1.26.819.1 on Wednesday after a marathon push day. If anyone in your world does Microsoft 365 desired state work, that’s the update to grab. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/1.26.819.1
Doug Finke released psaisuite v0.8.5 on Tuesday. That’s four psaisuite point releases in two weeks, and the AI provider abstraction module is clearly his current center of gravity, not PSPandas. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/psaisuite/releases/tag/v0.8.5
Mark Orr released VM-Pilot v0.7.1 Monday with a follow up push Tuesday. 👉 https://github.com/markorr321/VM-Pilot/releases/tag/v0.7.1
Simon Wåhlin released PSBicep v3.0.2. 👉 https://github.com/PSBicep/PSBicep/releases/tag/v3.0.2
Jorge Suarez released WinGet-Manifest-Fetcher v1.6.0 on Saturday. 👉 https://github.com/jorgeasaurus/WinGet-Manifest-Fetcher/releases/tag/v1.6.0
Away from the release notes:
Chrissy LeMaire had a giant dbatools Tuesday with five pushes in the span of a few hours on 8/20. Something’s brewing. 👉 https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools
Steve Lee, Sean Wheeler, and Emanuel Palm all had heads down Wednesday work days, Steve on PowerShell/DSC, Sean grinding PowerShell-Docs with real substantive PRs, Emanuel deep in AzBobbyTables. Three Microsoft and adjacent folks with actual engineering days on the same date is worth watching for a coordinated announcement. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/DSC
Justin Grote forked something interesting called TaskCmdlet from
jborean93/PwshAsync. Async and Task based PowerShell cmdlets from Justin is worth a bookmark. 👉 https://github.com/JustinGrote/TaskCmdletMichał Machniak had another big DSC v3 weekend on ADSGroupPolicyDSCv3 and then went quiet mid week, which is his consistent pattern. He sprints on weekends. 👉 https://github.com/mimachniak/ADSGroupPolicyDSCv3
Sam Erde was in his VS Code extension pack on 8/17. 👉 https://github.com/SamErde/PSPreworkout-VSCode-Extension-Pack
Tony Redmond did his usual Office365itpros push streak on 8/15 and 8/16. He commits like he blogs, constant. 👉 https://github.com/12Knocksinna/Office365itpros
David Sass is still hammering the ATS scanner and started contributing to
killed-by-microsoft, the graveyard site of deprecated Microsoft products. Delightful side quest. 👉 https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft
Events
MMS Midway | October 25 to 28, 2026 | San Diego, California
The classic endpoint management and PowerShell conference moves to San Diego this fall.
👉 https://mmsmoa.com/
SpiceWorld 2026 | November 12 to 13, 2026 | Austin, Texas
Jeff Hicks is returning to Austin this fall to talk PowerShell at the annual Spiceworks community event.
👉 https://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/
Zero Trust World 2027 | February 17 to 19, 2027 | Orlando, Florida
👉 https://ztw.com/
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2027 | April 5 to 8, 2027 | Orlando, Florida
The flagship US PowerShell event moves to the Sheraton Lake Buena Vista in Orlando.
👉 https://powershellsummit.org/
PSConfEU 2027 | Dates and location to be announced SynEdgy is organizing the eleventh edition of PowerShell Conference
👉 https://psconf.eu/
Live dbatools AMA Webinar with the Core Team | Wednesday, October 7 at 12:00 pm GMT
An open Ask Me Anything with the people behind dbatools, the open source PowerShell toolkit for SQL Server administration, migration, and automation. Whether you already lean on dbatools every day or are still on the fence about getting started, this is the format where you get to put your specific questions in front of the people who wrote the answers. Speakers include Rob Sewell, Jess Pomfret, Chrissy LeMaire, Andreas Jordan, and Cláudio Silva.
When: Wednesday, October 7 at 12:00 pm GMT
Where: Online, see the link for details
👉 https://shorturl.at/N53tz