New Year, New MVPs, and Cleaner Autopilot
Kicking off 2026 with Mark Orr’s Graph tool, Harm Veenstra’s year in review, and a celebration of community growth.
Happy New Year, fellow PowerShell Engineers! We have another great week of PowerShell content. Congrats to all the new Microsoft MVPs that were recently awarded! I don’t know them all, but I’ll shout out David Sass and Samir Makwana - well done!
I hate to keep switching up the timing of the newsletter, but I do want to align the timing of PowerShell.News with other creators such as Merril Fernando of Entra.News and Andrew Taylor’s Intune newsletter by moving the newsletter to Friday mornings. I figure the new year is as good of a time to do that as any.
I also have another exciting announcement: EngineerExams.com will now be an entirely free product! In the interest of serving the community, I wanted to make all 19,000+ questions and 318 exams available for anyone to be able to use. There is no sense in keeping those paywalled - I really, truly believe in the community and want people to continue to grow in the journey with PowerShell, their careers, and their professional development with cloud and IT platforms.
Happy New Year!
Autopilot Clean Up with Microsoft Graph and PowerShell
Mark Orr has an excellent blog post introducing a new PowerShell tool designed to simplify removing devices from Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Entra ID. The tool offers a unified interface for cleaning up device records across all three services simultaneously, featuring capabilities like serial number validation to prevent accidental deletions and a “What If” mode for safe testing.
Harm Veenstra has a great blog post reflecting on his major milestones and contributions throughout 2025. He shares his top ten most-popular PowerShell scripts and tutorials of the year, ranging from WinGet deployments to Intune remediation, while also detailing his podcast appearances and continued involvement in the Microsoft MVP community.
https://powershellisfun.com/2026/01/02/2025-overview/
Refactoring a Career Through Consistency: TodayCode’s Joeun Park’s MVP Story
SoyoungLee has an inspiring blog post on Joeun Park’s 20-year journey through the tech industry. It details how Joeun navigated career pivots and employment challenges after parental leave by adopting a “one commit a day” rule. This consistent practice evolved into her popular YouTube channel “TodayCode” and eventually led to her recognition as a Microsoft MVP, highlighting the power of community and daily habits in career growth.
December 2025 PowerShell Last Call
Jeff Hicks has a great newsletter issue wrapping up 2025 with practical examples of multi-property grouping and folder visualization using the SpectreConsole module. He also introduces the PSAstViewer for exploring code structure and presents a year-end scripting challenge to customize the $PSVersionTable.
https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/december-2025-powershell-last-call/
The Exchange EnforcedTimestamps Mailbox Property
Tony Redmond has an insightful blog post investigating the obscure EnforcedTimestamps property found in Exchange Online mailboxes. He details his discovery of this undocumented JSON array while testing retention holds and provides a script to help administrators decode how the Managed Folder Assistant tracks compliance events.
https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/30/enforcedtimestamps/
Building PowerShell Tools You Wish Existed with Jorge Suarez. The PowerShell Podcast E207
Andrew Pla has another great Episode of the PowerShell Podcast on Jorge Suarez’s journey into automation, covering his work on the popular Intune Hydration Kit and his creative Terminal User Interface (TUI) projects inspired by Severance. He details how curiosity and community involvement at events like the MMS conference drove him to build the practical PowerShell tools he wished he had earlier in his career.
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