Harm Veenstra on Benchmarking Network Links with Invoke-NetStress
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun showcases Invoke-NetStress, a zero dependency network benchmarking module designed to push bandwidth links to true queue saturation without running dedicated listeners on the remote endpoint. It packages an interactive wizard with real time terminal sparklines and bufferbloat quality grading to help engineers stress test both public edge connections and private infrastructure.
Tony Redmond on Accessing Group Mailbox Items with the Import-Export API
Tony Redmond at Office 365 for IT Pros investigates using the Exchange Import-Export Graph API to reach nested folders and data inside Microsoft 365 group mailboxes that the standard Outlook mailbox API ignores. He highlights how querying mailbox folders requires resolving internal mailbox GUIDs and parsing MAPI single value extended properties, while explaining why the design remains too clumsy for general reporting.
👉 https://office365itpros.com/2026/10/07/group-mailbox-folder-items/
Ryan Yates on What Breaks When Moving to PowerShell 7
Ryan Yates joined Andrew Pla on PDQ’s PowerShell Wednesday livestream to dig into the migration friction between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and modern PowerShell 7. He breaks down module compatibility fallbacks, missing global assembly caches, and profile fragmentation, while offering an inside look at how community working groups shape engine features behind the scenes.
Jeff Hicks on Extending Custom Object Types and Property Sets
Jeff Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline walks through extending custom pipeline objects from his WMI security scanning challenge using Update-TypeData and custom ps1xml definitions. He demonstrates how adding calculated ScriptProperty members like scan ages and packaging grouped properties into formal property sets makes custom tooling significantly more intuitive for pipeline consumers.
Adam Driscoll on Shifting from Flow State to Agent State
Adam Driscoll joined Andrew Pla on the PowerShell Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence has transformed his day to day development workflow since selling PowerShell Universal to Devolutions. He dives into moving away from writing thousands of lines of code manually to orchestrating a fleet of GitHub Copilot coding agents across repositories, documentation, and issue tracking.
Spencer Alessi on Neutralizing Active Directory Attack Paths
This is three months old, but a MASSIVELY valuable video I listened to this week. Spence presented at ContinuumCon 2026 to break down how to stop lateral movement in Active Directory by shutting down pass the ticket and PS remoting attacks. This is the kind of gold I could listen to over and over. He walks through a practical attack chain using Rubeus and shows how engineers can deploy native authentication policies and policy silos to block compromised administrative credentials from authenticating off unauthorized endpoints.
Philip Jorgensen on Automating Intune Assignment Filters for Lenovo Hardware
Philip Jorgensen at the ThinkDeploy Blog introduces New-LnvAssignmentFilter.ps1, a PowerShell automation script that solves model targeting headaches caused by Intune reporting Lenovo hardware as cryptic machine type model strings instead of friendly names. By querying the Lenovo model catalog directly, the tool automatically aggregates scattered machine types, optionally splits targeting across processor architectures, and builds full Intune assignment filters through Microsoft Graph.
👉 https://blog.lenovocdrt.com/creating-intune-assignment-filters-for-lenovo-models/
Repo Roundup
Adam Driscoll launched Iseberg (a cross-platform PowerShell ISE reimagined with Avalonia) and Runspace (a desktop admin console), both receiving multiple rapid updates this week. 👉 https://github.com/adamdriscoll/iseberg
Merill Fernando paused contributions after shipping Maester 2.3.0 to focus fully on the Maester 3.0 rewrite, which replaces Pester with a native test engine and requires PowerShell 7.4. 👉 maester365/maester#2332
Doug Finke released Jev 0.4.0 with new filtering and ranking tools, and made PSAIOpenAIDecisions public—his fourth AI decision module in two weeks. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/Jev
Gilbert Sanchez released PSDepend 0.7.0-beta1, introducing lock-file generation with exact versions and the -IgnoreLock opt-out. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/PSDepend/releases/tag/0.7.0-beta1
Patrick Meinecke lined up three PowerShell servicing releases by merging 22 PRs, including native Azure Linux 4 RPM packaging. 👉 PowerShell/PowerShell#28154
Jake Hildreth shipped multiple updates for his vulnerable AD CS lab, ADCSGoat, and his AD CS abuse tool, ESCalator, rolling out ESC1-4 deployments and detection capabilities. 👉 https://github.com/jakehildreth/ADCSGoat
Nathan McNulty hit the feed cap after launching TokenForge (an Entra token acquisition toolkit), updating Maester deployment templates, and building a Rust-based app-isolation-workbench. 👉 https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/TokenForge
Jos Lieben released VFS365 0.3.1, a C# virtual file system for Microsoft 365 built to handle real-world SharePoint pain points like geo-moves and sign-in storms. 👉 https://github.com/jflieben/VFS365
Emanuel Palm launched the Azure Pipelines Field Guide VS Code extension with parameter support, and updated AzBobbyTables to optimize large-entity cleanup. 👉 https://github.com/PalmEmanuel/AzurePipelinesFieldGuide
Fabien Tschanz released Microsoft365DSC 2.26.1007.1 with breaking changes, alongside a PnP PowerShell stack-overflow fix and a mgx HTTP client update. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/2.26.1007.1
Fred Weinmann published EntraAuth.Azure.LogAnalytics—his third EntraAuth-based module in a month—and filed updates for ADSec and ADMF AccessRules. 👉 https://github.com/FriedrichWeinmann/EntraAuth.Azure.LogAnalytics
Steve Lee merged DSC executable improvements for exit codes, fixed DISM resource inputs, and prepped PowerShell’s onboarding to the Native2Native localization pipeline. 👉 PowerShell/DSC#1737
Jeff Hicks released PSTimers 2.4.0 featuring new console countdown and timer commands, and opened issues against FileInspectorX. 👉 https://github.com/jdhitsolutions/PSTimers/releases/tag/v2.4.0
Brad Wyatt shipped six releases in three days, bringing active-note awareness to obsidian-github-copilot and fixing Frontline Cloud PC status in W365-CLI-Native. 👉 https://github.com/bwya77/obsidian-github-copilot
Maurice Daly released Driver Automation Tool 10.3.0 with a file hash manifest and OSD scripts, closing six issues this week. 👉 https://github.com/maurice-daly/DriverAutomationTool
Aleksandar Nikolić contributed PRs and UI updates to Microsoft’s official Zero Trust Assessment project. 👉 https://github.com/microsoft/zerotrustassessment
Jorge Suarez added alternative Intune cloud support to Fleet, updated IntuneHydrationKit, and published an Intune assignments guide. 👉 fleetdm/fleet#54970
Marc-André Moreau merged three .NET bindings PRs into Turso to resolve declared column types without per-cell PRAGMA queries. 👉 tursodatabase/turso#9536
Events
PSConfEU MiniCon | October 13th 👉 PSConfEU MiniCon 2026
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
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https://ztw.com/
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2027 | April 5 to 8, 2027 | Orlando, Florida
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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
👉 https://shorturl.at/N53tz