Introducing PSEng a PowerShell AI Model, Microsoft.Graph PowerShell Modules 2.39.0 Released
+Locksmith 2 Gains Richer Formatting and Triage Options
Yesterday, I released a new video on my PowerShell Engineer channel introducing the PowerShell Engineer Standard and a specialized small language model named PSEng that makes amazing PowerShell directly on your computer for just the cost of your own electricity.
Watch the video, and check out my post:
Introducing the PowerShell Engineer Standard and PSEng, a Phi-4 14B Small Model Trained On It
Ask any AI assistant for a script that disables stale Active Directory accounts. You’ll get something that looks right. Comment-based help, a param() block, maybe even a -WhatIf. It reads like code a competent engineer wrote.
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Transfer Meeting Ownership with Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer
Tony Redmond over at Office 365 for IT Pros breaks down the new Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet designed to solve the headache of transferring meetings when employees leave a company. The guide explains how administrators can use the tool to switch organizers and push calendar updates to attendees automatically while stressing that reliable transfers require using Microsoft Graph to retrieve specific event identifiers. Tony ultimately highlights a major oversight with the current release by warning that the cmdlet fails to update the underlying Teams join data and forces new organizers to manually generate a replacement online meeting space.
👉 https://office365itpros.com/2026/08/06/invoke-changemeetingorganizer/
Securing Active Directory from the Ground Up
Evgenij Smirnov recently joined Andrew Pla on the PowerShell Podcast to discuss his thirty years of experience in Active Directory and security consulting. The conversation explores common escalation paths attackers use to compromise organizations and digs into what actually gets real world AD environments popped. Evgenij highlights critical vulnerabilities like over permissioned accounts and exposed certificate authorities while explaining how to engineer systems so security is never an afterthought. He also warns listeners about the severe risks of keeping unencrypted domain controller backups and shares practical advice for locking down infrastructure before an incident occurs.
Microsoft.Graph PowerShell Modules 2.39.0 Released
Andres Bohren has the practical rundown on the Microsoft.Graph and Microsoft.Graph.Beta 2.39.0 modules that Microsoft dropped in the PowerShell Gallery. Release notes were not published at the time of writing, which is annoying but not unusual, so Andres does what Andres does and gives you the exact PSResourceGet commands to check installed versions, uninstall the old set cleanly, and pull the new modules from the gallery. He also includes the reminder most people forget until Azure Automation starts complaining, which is that you also need to push the update to your Azure Automation runtime environments if you are running scripts that authenticate against Graph on a schedule. Short, direct, and ready to paste into your terminal.
👉 https://blog.icewolf.ch/archive/2026/08/04/microsoft-graph-powershell-modules-2-39-0-released/
Test Your Console Muscle Memory with PwshTyper
Harm Veenstra over at the PowerShell is fun blog showcases a unique way to test your console muscle memory using Shaun Lawrie’s PwshTyper module. The tool requires PowerShell 7.4 or higher and leverages PwshSpectreConsole to bring a fully featured typing speed tester directly into the terminal window. Users can launch the test using the Invoke-PwshTyper cmdlet and choose between standard word categories like commandlets or jump into specialized finger isolation modes to really challenge their daily typing habits.
👉 https://powershellisfun.com/2026/08/05/powershell-typing-speed-tester/
Locksmith 2 Gains Richer Formatting and Triage Options
Jake Hildreth recently updated the open source Locksmith 2 Active Directory Certificate Services toolkit with a suite of presentation enhancements across multiple pull requests, alongside a community contribution from Mason Moser. The changes focus heavily on output structure rather than new detections, introducing default formatting views for findings and a detailed per technique system like ESC8Detailed. Additionally, results are now severity sorted with custom banners and risk metrics to transform raw terminal dumps into prioritized security reports.
👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/Locksmith2
Tagging PowerShell Functions with the AST
Jeff Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline shares a new approach to tagging PowerShell functions using the Abstract Syntax Tree. Moving away from alternate data streams that risk data loss across storage drives, this method parses code tokens directly from a loaded script block to extract custom metadata. The walkthrough demonstrates how to initialize token variables and run the ParseInput method to target specific comment labels like #cmdTags inside a function definition. It concludes by showing how these extracted tags were integrated into the PSScriptTools module to create custom views and filter commands by category.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/another-script-tagging-technique/
Entra News #160 with Merill and Joshua Fernando
Merill and Joshua’s August 2 edition is dense with SMS and voice retirement news and a lot of quieter architectural work worth catching. Highlights include the new device sync capability for Entra Cloud Sync in public preview, the beta Graph procedure for opting out of the SMS to passkey automatic migration where you set optOutSettings.passkeyDynamicMigration to true for a September through February exclusion, guidance on hardening GitHub and GitLab federated credentials by moving off mutable subject identifiers, and a fresh tenant estate architecture series with seven new articles covering primary tenants, isolated critical system tenants, business partner isolation, and hybrid identity. The Maester 2.2 release is also flagged, along with a batch of PoShaKucha talks from PSConf EU 2026 that are worth your time.
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:
Where: Online, see the link for details
👉 https://shorturl.at/N53tz