PowerShell 7.7.0 Preview 5 Drops
jshigetomi at GitHub shipped PowerShell 7.7.0-preview.5, packing early access updates for .NET SDK 11 alongside Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet 1.3.0-preview2. Key operational fixes include letting users force implicit formatting to AutoSize, tolerating configuration read errors in powershell.config.json, and improving remote prompt handling for PSCredential and SecureString arrays.
👉 v7.7.0-preview.5 Release of PowerShell
Living Off the Land With Spencer Alessi
Spencer Alessi joined my friend Andrew Pla on The PowerShell Podcast to break down where PowerShell fits into modern offensive security fresh off DEF CON. He shares how both attackers and defenders lean on built in tooling, how language models speed up his script development, and what specific hardening steps make an Active Directory environment genuinely painful to compromise.
Desired State Configuration v3.3.0 Hits General Availability
Jason Helmick on the Microsoft PowerShell Team Blog announced the General Availability of Desired State Configuration v3.3.0, delivering new built in Windows resources alongside official Linux packages. This update introduces a registry backed adapter for cleaner configuration mapping, expands --what-if support to services and firewall rules, and stabilizes expression functions to easily catch state changes or pending restarts.
👉 Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.3.0
Repo Roundup
Michael Grafnetter shipped OktaHound 2.9.0 under SpecterOps yesterday. He’d been building
openhound-oktaon Monday before the release landed in the SpecterOps org. The DSInternals author now shipping releases in SpecterOps’ attack-path tooling is a real escalation of the passkey and identity attack research thread he started in August. 👉 https://github.com/SpecterOps/OktaHound/releases/tag/2.9.0Chrissy LeMaire released mssqlsuite v2 on Tuesday, a week after dbatools 2.9.0. Back-to-back weeks of shipping. 👉 https://github.com/potatoqualitee/mssqlsuite/releases/tag/v2
Stephen Valdinger released chocolatey-au-action 3.0 on Monday under the chocolatey-community org. Second appearance in the leads column after Splitter, so he’s shipping steadily now. 👉 https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-au-action/releases/tag/3.0
Doug Finke made Jev public. It turns messy input into decisions your PowerShell scripts can act on, asking typed yes/no, choice, and score questions and returning structured decisions. He surfaced the experiments repo Monday and the real project Tuesday. This is the most interesting new PowerShell module of the week. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/Jev
Jos Lieben made AzCmply public on Tuesday and spent the week triaging assortedFunctionsV2. Third week on the roster, third week of output. 👉 https://github.com/jflieben/AzCmply
Aleksandar Nikolić started powershell-skills, an Agent Plugins 1.0 package for PowerShell 7 development with reusable skills and an optional
psmcp-builtinMCP server for parsing script text and discovering commands, metadata, and help. Version 0.1.0, Windows x64. From one of the longest-tenured MVPs on the roster, this is worth a close look. 👉 https://github.com/alexandair/powershell-skillsSam Erde built DLLPickle, a module that gets you un-stuck from dependency version conflicts when connecting to multiple Microsoft online services. Anyone who has fought Graph and Exchange Online assembly conflicts in the same session knows exactly why this exists. 👉 https://github.com/SamErde/DLLPickle
Nathan McNulty started azd-santa, an Azure Developer CLI template for deploying North Pole Security’s Santa to Intune-managed macOS devices, with a staged approach starting in Monitor mode. macOS binary authorization via Intune is a gap nobody’s filled well. 👉 https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/azd-santa
Fabian Bader made pimjustification.com public, a static Entra PIM justification generator with 600 pre-authored reasons across six sarcasm levels. He also kept pushing longestgraphcmdlet.com. The man is building a small empire of Entra joke sites that are also genuinely useful. 👉 https://github.com/f-bader/pimjustification.com
Rob Sewell had a big DataSpeakers week, five pushes Monday and Tuesday plus garmin-grafana work. First substantial appearance from him in these sweeps. 👉 https://github.com/SQLDBAWithABeard/DataSpeakers
Fred Weinmann started DuckDB.Client yesterday. A DuckDB client from the PSFramework author, right after making EntraAuth.Azure public last week. 👉 https://github.com/FriedrichWeinmann/DuckDB.Client
Tyler Leonhardt is deep in agent-host-protocol, assigning PRs Monday and pushing Tuesday alongside vscode work. Worth watching what that protocol becomes. 👉 https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt
PSKoans keeps getting love. Chris Dent pushed it Sunday, following Andrew Pla and Gilbert Sanchez’s maintainer burst last week. 👉 https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
Steve Lee spent Friday and Saturday on DSC post-3.3.0 cleanup. Anam Navied worked PSResourceGet and PowerShellGet Monday with Sydney Smith triaging PSResourceGet issues Wednesday. Dongbo Wang opened three PowerShell PRs Wednesday. Patrick Meinecke on PowerShell PR #28041. Sean Wheeler pushed four docs repos Tuesday. Chris Bergmeister back in PSScriptAnalyzer Tuesday on PR #2122. Adam Driscoll had a six-push playmagic Friday. Frank Lesniak on EFingPlanner today, a family travel planner he’s explicitly labeled as not maintained. Björn Sundling opened an azure-devops-docs PR today. Emanuel Palm on AzBobbyTables Friday. Merill Fernando on Maester and graph-permissions-explorer. Fabien Tschanz on mgx and Microsoft365DSC. Will Schroeder pushed Nemesis. Peter van der Woude pushed his blog, first activity since joining the roster. Jake Hildreth on Stepper Friday. Brad Wyatt on Rest-Client and swoosh. Jorge Suarez closing EndpointJobs issues. Maurice Daly on DriverAutomationTool.
Dispatch From Workplace Ninjas Summit 2026
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun delivers an exhaustive recap of Workplace Ninjas Summit 2026 in Switzerland, detailing community announcements alongside his sessions with David Segura on new OSDeploy tools and OSDCloud Community Edition. Beyond deployment tooling, the writeup packages practical takeaways across modern endpoint management, spanning Intune application install failures, passkey attack vectors, and macOS fleet hardening.
👉 Workplace Ninjas Summit 2026 Recap
Preparing for the Microsoft Graph PowerShell 5.1 Cutoff
Endpoint Weekly breaks down the impending retirement of Windows PowerShell 5.1 support in Microsoft Graph PowerShell ahead of the version 3 release in late 2026. The explainer warns engineers to bypass version 7.4 entirely in favor of PowerShell 7.6 to avoid immediate end of support overlaps, while highlighting critical workarounds for the Intune management extension where scripts remain hardcoded to legacy executables.
Building a Terminal PowerShell IDE With Neovim
Andrew Mallett at theurbanpenguin demonstrates how to turn Neovim into a full terminal development environment for PowerShell on Ubuntu 26.04. He wires up nvim-lspconfig to PowerShell Editor Services, walking through how native Language Server Protocol integration delivers syntax diagnostics, hover documentation, and command completion directly inside the console.
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