Jake Hildreth Brings The Elm Architecture to PowerShell with PSTea, A Native Test Model for Maester 3.0

+Mark Orr Rebuilds the Autopilot Import GUI for v1 and v2

A Native Test Model for Maester 3.0

Merill Fernando opened a request for comments on the Maester GitHub repository proposing a major architectural shift for the upcoming release. The team plans to move built in checks away from Pester wrappers and into a native test model so the engine can fully manage the complete lifecycle of each security assessment. Under the new design every check will consist of a PowerShell script and a Markdown file with execution metadata declared directly on the test function. This structured approach allows the core engine to centrally handle prerequisites like verifying active connections and licenses while maintaining backward compatibility for organizations running existing custom Pester tests. Seems kind of similar to what I’m doing with Guerrilla.

👉 https://github.com/maester365/maester/discussions/2050

Active Directory Meets Source Control with Fred Weinmann

Fred Weinmann recently joined Andrew on The PowerShell Podcast to kick off a multi episode series exploring his extensive open source module portfolio. This initial installment focuses exclusively on the Active Directory Management Framework which is a configuration driven system Fred originally built while working as a Microsoft field engineer for a massive enterprise customer.

Jake Hildreth Brings The Elm Architecture to PowerShell with PSTea

Jake Hildreth has released PSTea, an open source PowerShell module that implements The Elm Architecture, the Model-View-Update pattern, for building interactive terminal user interfaces. The clever part is portability. The same application code that runs as a TUI in your console will also serve to a browser over WebSocket and xterm.js without changing a single line, so one app runs in two places. Jake cites BubbleTea, LipGloss, and Textual as influences, along with the Commodore 64 and DOS for good measure, and the module gives you a clean Init, Update, and View loop driven by keypress messages. It has been in development quietly for months and just surfaced publicly, making it the framework worth watching underneath his growing collection of terminal tools.

👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/PSTea

Mark Orr Rebuilds the Autopilot Import GUI for v1 and v2

Mark Orr has published Get-WindowsAutopilotImportCommunity, a graphical front end for Andrew S. Taylor’s community Autopilot script that finally handles both enrollment generations in one place. It is a ground up rewrite of Ugur Koç’s original import GUI, which wrapped Michael Niehaus’ Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo and therefore only ever spoke Autopilot v1 with its hardware hash. Mark’s version runs on the community script and supports Autopilot v1 hardware hashes alongside Autopilot v2 Device Preparation identifiers, so the tool keeps working as tenants move to the newer model. He also traded the old fixed size window for a resizable, grid based layout with sidebar navigation, and the code ties into orr365.tools, the new home he stood up for his tooling this week.

👉 https://github.com/markorr321/Get-WindowsAutopilotImportCommunity

Exchange Online PowerShell 3.10.1 Fixes CBA Bug

Tony Redmond explores the recent release of Exchange Online Management version 3.10.1 and its fix for a breaking certificate based authentication flow bug. Tony details his troubleshooting experience after automation scripts suddenly began throwing 401 forbidden errors on REST based cmdlets despite successfully establishing a session.

👉 Exchange Online Management 3.10.1 Update

Hijacking the Windows Lock Screen with PowerShell

Frank Lindenblatt recently took the stage at the PowerShell Conference Europe to deliver a fast paced presentation on engineering a reliable custom lock screen slideshow. He explained that the default Windows personalization settings and classic screen savers proved too inconsistent for reliably displaying informational slides to corporate users.

PSScriptTools Adds Console Formatting Commands

Jeffery Hicks recently took to LinkedIn to announce a new release of his PSScriptTools module for the PowerShell Gallery. The update introduces several new commands that allow engineers to examine enums, generate formatted boxes, and visualize process trees directly in the terminal. He also highlighted the addition of horizontal rule lines for clearer output structuring and noted that administrators can run Open-PSScriptToolsHelp to pull up the complete module documentation.

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7488612147288014848/

👉 https://github.com/jdhitsolutions/PSScriptTools

Visualizing Nested Properties with DumPS

Harm Veenstra recently published a new guide on his PowerShell is fun blog detailing how to leverage the dumPS module to simplify debugging directly in the terminal. The tool solves the common frustration of reading deeply nested object properties when you are working outside of Visual Studio Code. Harm demonstrates how to install the package and pipe standard commands into the Out-Dump cmdlet to generate color coded and structured output while easily preserving the original objects in the pipeline.

👉 https://powershellisfun.com/2026/07/24/using-dumps-in-powershell-for-easy-reading-of-all-properties/

Navigating IT Chaos in Game Development

Michael Adams recently joined Brock on the PDQ Patch Notes series to unpack his two decades of horizontal career growth across various tech sectors. The conversation explores the unique challenges of managing infrastructure for a remote game development studio where maintaining peak performance hardware and surviving production crunches require significant operational agility.

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/