PowerShell 7.6.8 Retires Update Notifications
The latest release of PowerShell 7.6.8 removes the built in update notification feature from the engine. The patch also bumps the underlying framework to .NET SDK 10.0.402 and merges standard build and packaging improvements for the new version.
👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.6.8
Emulating Microsoft Graph APIs with MSGraphProxy
Morten Mynster took the stage at PowerShell Conference Europe to showcase MSGraphProxy, a custom module built for emulating Microsoft Graph API calls. By combining Microsoft DevProxy with custom schema files, the tool allows systems engineers to inspect requests and validate scripts locally without needing a connection to a live tenant.
Uncovering ImportExcel Vulnerabilities with AI Agents
Microsoft MVP Frank joined Tara, Josh, and Andrew on PDQ Live to recount how his autonomous AI agents accidentally discovered an undisclosed security vulnerability in the wildly popular ImportExcel module. He detailed his complex responsible disclosure journey when standard repository contact methods failed, and the crew closed the episode with a practical crash course on network discovery using Nmap inside Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Navigating the WSMan PSDrive for Remote Management
Jeffery Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline shares practical techniques for administering traditional WSMan remoting endpoints. The walkthrough demonstrates how to use Connect-WSMan to mount remote configurations as a local PSDrive and rapidly update TrustedHosts settings without establishing a full interactive session.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/powershell-remote-management-tools/
Inside the PowerShell Working Groups
Ryan Yates joined Andrew Pla on the PowerShell Podcast to pull back the curtain on how the Cmdlets, Engine, and Interactive UX committees actually operate. He detailed the exact processes the teams use to triage issues and review pull requests before the open source community picks up the work.
Auditing Intune Feature Updates
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun shares a custom script to fill the reporting gaps left by native Intune update panes. The tool leverages Microsoft Graph to inventory managed Windows devices by build number and exports the results directly to the clipboard for easy Excel pasting. He includes robust error handling and scope validation to ensure administrators never accidentally query the wrong tenant.
Repo Roundup
Dongbo Wang removed the Update Notification feature from PowerShell, which shipped this week in PowerShell 7.6.8, and moved the .NET 10 Docker images to 7.6.8. 👉 PowerShell/PowerShell#28242
Merill Fernando released Maester 3.0.0-preview9, added about fifty CIS M365 v7.0.0 checks across Conditional Access, Entra, Intune, SharePoint, and Teams, and opened the Maester Packs PR with Microsoft’s Zero Trust Assessment as a built-in pack. 👉 maester365/maester#2430
Nathan McNulty hit the feed cap again while moving his Maester deployment templates to Maester 2.3 with reviewed setup consent, adding ownership receipts and verified azd down cleanup, and filing dozens of qualification issues across his azd portfolio. 👉 https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/azd-reference
Marc-André Moreau released AwakeCoding.PSRemoting 2026.10.21, which adds Protobuf, CBOR, and CLIXML encodings for PSRP, an in-process gRPC server, and unified PSObject serialization cmdlets. 👉 https://github.com/awakecoding/AwakeCoding.PSRemoting
Doug Finke made PSAIClairic public (it turns text and images into typed PowerShell objects with Cloudflare Clairic, including estimates, forecasts, and uncertainty) and published two more batches of Idea Labs. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/PSAIClairic
The PSResourceGet team shipped 1.3.0-rc1 with concurrent installs, standard platform content paths, and WhatIf support for PSResourceList operations. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PSResourceGet/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc1
Stephen Valdinger launched Chameleon, a PowerShell Universal component for designing MUI themes visually and letting users switch them at runtime without a page reload. 👉 https://github.com/steviecoaster/PowerShellUniversal.Component.Chameleon
Fabien Tschanz released Microsoft365DSC 2.26.1021.1 with support for AllowedToCreateAgentIdentityBlueprints and fixes for approvers in AADGroupEligibilityScheduleSettings, and merged CompareRules processing in C#. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/2.26.1021.1
Steve Lee drafted an RFC for DSC registry support, opened a shared typed AccessControlList library, and proposed shipping DSC’s built-in resources as a separate package. 👉 PowerShell/DSC#1771
Chris Bergmeister opened PSScriptAnalyzer formatter PRs that add file-path support to Invoke-Formatter and preserve indentation in commented-out code and CR-only line endings. 👉 PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2230
Justin Grote released PowerShell Extension Pack 0.0.9, swapping in Git Graph Libre after the original author added advertising and dropping Thunder Client over its premium features. 👉 https://github.com/JustinGrote/powershell-extension-pack/releases/tag/v0.0.9
Sam Erde shipped Personas 1.1.0 through 1.1.3 after a seven-part cleanup of the VS Code extension, plus DLLPickle 2.4.0. 👉 https://github.com/SamErde/Personas
Jake Hildreth started C64GoL, Conway’s Game of Life for the Commodore 64 in Kick Assembler, and worked through quarter-block rendering decisions for Vixel. 👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/C64GoL
Josh Hendricks redesigned Blob Explorer to work like Windows File Explorer, opened a PR relicensing WebContentPlugin under MIT, and rebuilt his MIP SDK samples on v26.1.2. 👉 https://github.com/joshooaj/blobexplorer
Jos Lieben released VFS365 0.4.2 with signed binaries. 👉 https://github.com/jflieben/VFS365/releases/tag/v0.4.2
Björn Sundling released AZDOPS 2.5.0, which moves its tests from Pester 5 to Pester 6. 👉 https://github.com/AZDOPS/AZDOPS/releases/tag/v2.5.0
Fred Weinmann released PSFramework 1.15.472 and EntraAuth.Azure.LogAnalytics 1.0.4. 👉 https://github.com/PowershellFrameworkCollective/psframework/releases/tag/v1.15.472
Adam Driscoll opened PRs adding PowerShell Universal Run As support to the Devolutions Gateway agent. 👉 Devolutions/devolutions-gateway#2123
Jeff Hicks released PSWorkItem 1.15.0 with Platyps-based help and cleanup on module removal, and started planning a Terminal.Gui 2.x migration for PSTuiTools. 👉 https://github.com/jdhitsolutions/PSWorkItem/releases/tag/v1.15.0
Events
MMS Midway | October 25 to 28, 2026 | San Diego, California
👉 https://mmsmoa.com/
SpiceWorld 2026 | November 12 to 13, 2026 | Austin, Texas
👉 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
👉 https://powershellsummit.org/
PSConfEU 2027 | Dates and location to be announced SynEdgy is organizing the eleventh edition of PowerShell Conference 👉
https://psconf.eu/