PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) v4.1.0, Timing Scripts with Clayton Errington
Plus: Tony Redmond on How Graph SDK Tokens Work
Hey everyone! Another heavy hitting PowerShell newsletter this week - we’ve got Jake Hildreth, Dean Ellerby, Fred Weinmann and a lot of other great content.
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PowerShell Videos
PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) v4.1.0 Changes Everything!
Dean Ellerby MVP has a great video on the new version of the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) and highlights the biggest update which is the complete removal of its reliance on ServiceUI.
EntraAuth to PSConfEU with Fred Weinmann. The PowerShell Podcast E186
Fred Weinmann has a great conversation about PowerShell productivity with hotkeys, EntraAuth, C# integration, and the value of community involvement.
Overcoming Certutil Challenges in PowerShell using Crescendo with Jake Hildreth
Jake Hildreth has a great video on how he used PowerShell Crescendo to create a more user-friendly interface for the certutil.exe command-line tool.
PowerShell Community News
How Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Access Tokens Work
Tony Redmond has an interesting article on how access tokens are automatically managed by the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, explaining how to find and decrypt them, while also noting that this is not necessary for most use cases.
Clayton Errington has a good article on various ways to measure how long a PowerShell script takes to run, including Measure-Command, Stopwatch, and the Get-History command.
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026: Call for Papers
Calls for papers for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 are now open! Summit is seeking a diverse range of topics related to PowerShell, DevOps, and automation, and offers various session types and speaker benefits.
Watch Live: Visual Studio Toolbox at VS LIVE! Redmond 2025 - Visual Studio Blog
Jim Harrer has a great article about the livestream of Visual Studio Toolbox from VS LIVE! Redmond, which will include sessions on Visual Studio, .NET, Azure, and GitHub Copilot hosted by Robert Green and Leslie Richardson.
Using the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite PowerShell module for collecting Microsoft Online logs
Harm Veenstra has a great article on using the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite PowerShell module to simplify the collection of logs and other information from various Microsoft Online services such as Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Azure. The module offers a variety of cmdlets to retrieve logs like Unified Audit Logs and Entra ID Sign-in logs, as well as information on conditional access policies, MFA status, and risky users.