Congrats to Leo D’Arcy on making MVP! Apologies, everyone; I thought this went out yesterday! Not sure how that happened.
PowerShell 7.7 Preview 4 Adds Native Temporary Directory Support
Jake Shigetomi posted PowerShell 7.7.0-preview.4 on GitHub, introducing a dedicated New-TemporaryDirectory cmdlet contributed by community member Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani. The preview also delivers practical daily driver fixes, resolving a tab completion regression for positional parameters and smoothing out output file path handling in Invoke-WebRequest.
👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.7.0-preview.4
Testing Microsoft Graph Without a Live Tenant
Morten Mynster joined Andrew Pla on the PowerShell Podcast to demo his new open source tooling around Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Graph. He walks through LeastPrivilegeEntra for right sizing overprivileged directory roles using diagnostic activity logs, then showcases MS Graph Proxy, an implementation built on Dev Proxy that lets engineers test scripts against dynamic, mocked Microsoft Graph data locally without touching a live cloud tenant.
Testing PowerShell 7.7 Preview 4 Side by Side
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is Fun breaks down the PowerShell 7.7.0 preview 4 release, making the case for testing pre release builds early before new features hit general availability. Beyond highlighting community additions like New-TemporaryDirectory, he provides clean walkthroughs for installing the preview side by side on macOS using Homebrew and Windows using WinGet.
👉 https://powershellisfun.com/2026/09/02/powershell-v7-7-0-preview-4/
Bringing Dad Jokes to Your PowerShell Terminal
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun showcases the FreeDadJokes module by Michael Free as a lighthearted way to break up busy workdays directly from the console. The setup simply queries a public joke API through Get-DadJoke, making it easy to drop the command into your terminal profile for a fresh groaner every time you launch a new shell session.
👉 https://powershellisfun.com/2026/08/28/the-freedadjokes-powershell-module/
Securing Microsoft 365 with Maester
Morten Mynster joined Andrew Pla and Tara on PDQ Live to break down how administrators can audit their Microsoft 365 environments using the open source Maester framework. He demos running simple baseline tests using Connect-Maester and Invoke-Maester, walking through the generated HTML security report that flags misconfigurations like hybrid accounts assigned Global Administrator permissions and links directly to remediation guidance.
Optimizing Get-Win32Process with Early Filtering
Jeff Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline revisits his CIM based Get-Win32Process function to demonstrate the performance gains of filtering early rather than down the pipeline with Where-Object. He walks through appending legacy WQL operators directly to CIM queries, including converting .NET datetime objects into DMTF strings so queries against timestamps like CreationDate actually work.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/improving-get-win32process/
Mastering Non Interactive Microsoft Graph Authentication
Morten Mynster joined Andrew Pla on PDQ’s PowerShell Wednesday to walk through setting up unattended, non interactive authentication against Microsoft Graph. The pair contrast the ease and security risks of basic client secrets against production grade patterns like certificate based authentication and managed identities, demonstrating step by step connection flows in VS Code using Fred Weinmann’s Entra module.
Terminal Remote File Browsing and Editing Over WinRM
Arnaud Charles announced updates on LinkedIn for his open source companion tools, PSWEE and PSBITE, designed to manage remote Windows servers without opening full RDP sessions. The release tightens the workflow between the WinRM based file explorer and the VIM inspired buffer editor, adding a read only viewer in PSWEE, direct line jumps in PSBITE, and dedicated viewport scrollbars for large directories.
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7501539058272145409/
Instant Token Revocation for Risky Service Principals
Tony Redmond at Office 365 for IT Pros breaks down how Continuous Access Evaluation extends beyond user sessions to protect service principals and enterprise apps in Entra ID. He shows how to decode Graph SDK bearer tokens using jwt.io to verify the presence of CAE claims, then details using Confirm-MgRiskyServicePrincipalCompromised alongside Conditional Access policies to instantly kill active sessions on suspicious applications rather than waiting for tokens to expire.
👉 https://office365itpros.com/2026/09/03/cae-service-principals/
Repo Roundup
Doug Finke shipped psaisuite twice on Monday, v0.8.6 and v0.8.7 within hours of each other. That’s six point releases in three weeks on the AI provider abstraction. He’s building fast. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/psaisuite/releases/tag/v0.8.7
Fabien Tschanz cut Microsoft365DSC 1.26.902.1 on Wednesday after a heavy push day. Also spent time on PSDesiredStateConfiguration in the same session. Ship day. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/1.26.902.1
Prateek Singh shipped cloudeval-action v1.2.11 on Monday, then spent Wednesday pushing cloudeval-cli, the AWS CloudFormation example, and the Azure ARM example. The whole cloudeval ecosystem got attention in one sitting. 👉 https://github.com/ganakailabs/cloudeval-action/releases/tag/v1.2.11
David Sass forked Guerrilla into a new powershellsupport org on Wednesday. The Ghost-adjacent lateral movement prevention module now has a mirror under what looks like a fresh community org he’s setting up. Worth watching to see what powershellsupport becomes. 👉 https://github.com/powershellsupport/Guerrilla
Sam Erde jumped into the original Locksmith on Monday with pushes and a comment on PR #277, plus a Maester push in the same session. That kind of cross-project contribution is exactly why this roster exists. 👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/Locksmith
Jake Hildreth turned his Wednesday attention to Stepper, three pushes and branch work. Stepper is his resumable step by step scripting module, an older project getting fresh love. He also had PwshSpectreConsole time over the weekend. 👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/Stepper
Michael Grafnetter forked TrustedSec’s Titanis on Wednesday, then Thursday opened issues against PowerShellGallery and reproducible-builds. The DSInternals author getting into supply chain reproducibility conversations is worth keeping an eye on. 👉 https://github.com/MichaelGrafnetter
Marc-André Moreau spent Wednesday deep in the turso Rust fork and Windows Terminal with multiple pushes to each. The Devolutions crossover into upstream Microsoft repos continues at pace. 👉 https://github.com/awakecoding
The Microsoft PowerShell team had a real Wednesday. Dongbo Wang on PowerShell with multiple pushes and branch cleanup, Patrick Meinecke also in PowerShell with PR #27950, Travis Plunk contributing, Sean Wheeler grinding PowerShell-Docs, and Steve Lee going hard on DSC PR #1701 with four separate comments. Same day, same repos. Something’s landing. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
Nick Benton pushed AutopilotGroupTagger on Wednesday and Thursday, plus a CES2026-IntuneCD repo. A talk and tool combo brewing for a conference. 👉 https://github.com/ennnbeee/AutopilotGroupTagger
Andreas Dieckmann rebooted his blog on Monday, multiple pushes and a deletion and rebuild pattern that usually means a new static site generator. 👉 https://github.com/diecknet/diecknet-blog
Mark Orr surfaced Intune-MAA on Wednesday, first push after a week quiet since VM-Pilot v0.7.1. 👉 https://github.com/markorr321/Intune-MAA
Jorge Suarez closed an IntuneHydrationKit PR and opened one on EndpointJobs Wednesday. Back to Intune tooling after the blog and Liftosaurus sprints. 👉 https://github.com/jorgeasaurus/EndpointJobs
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