PowerShell 7.7 Released Alongside .NET 11
Jason Helmick at Microsoft Dev Blogs announces the general availability of PowerShell 7.7 built on the newly released .NET 11. The update delivers notable security hardening across Constrained Language Mode and remoting alongside the introduction of the New-TemporaryDirectory cmdlet. He also outlines several breaking changes involving time sortable GUIDs and stricter switch parameter validation that engineers need to review before upgrading production systems.
👉 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-powershell-7-7/
Andreas Dieckmann explores the surprisingly rapid release of PowerShell 7.7 landing on the exact same day as .NET 11. The review notes that while the update avoids groundbreaking shifts to the core shell, the synchronized launch brings a few specific changes worth reviewing for your environment.
ClickFix Tradecraft Evolves Beyond Simple Scripts
Ryan Isenhower and the research team at Huntress detail the evolving tradecraft of ClickFix attacks moving far beyond simple loader delivery. The writeup exposes how threat actors now leverage browser cache seeded delivery chains and steganographic payloads hidden inside PNG files to deploy remote access trojans and establish lateral movement capabilities.
👉 https://www.huntress.com/blog/the-evolving-tradecraft-of-clickfix
The PowerShell Podcast at MMS Midway
Andrew Pla takes The PowerShell Podcast to the San Diego waterfront during MMS Midway Edition for a pair of casual bar sessions. The conversations cover agent battles and death planning while contending with the occasional helicopter flyover from the nearby USS Midway.
Upgrade Your PowerShell Console History Search
Harm Veenstra at PowerShell is fun details a custom Search-History function designed to seamlessly browse and run past console commands. The script leverages Out-ConsoleGridView to let engineers filter previous inputs and select multiple items for batch execution instead of relying on a standard reverse search.
Resumable Automation with the Stepper Module
Jeff Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline highlights Jake Hildreth’s Stepper module as the November tool of the month for building resilient scripts. The writeup demonstrates how to scaffold long running automation using the New-Step command so that interrupted processes can resume exactly where they left off without a complete restart.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/november-powershell-tool-of-the-month/
Read Only Graph Support for Exchange Group Custom Attributes
Tony Redmond at Office 365 for IT Pros details the new limited Graph API support for reading fifteen Exchange custom attributes on synchronized group objects. The writeup explains how to query these properties using the onPremisesExtensionAttributes resource while warning engineers that updating the values still requires traditional cmdlets like Set-DistributionGroup.
👉 https://office365itpros.com/2026/11/12/custom-attributes-graph/
Repo Roundup
The PowerShell team shipped PowerShell 7.7.0, built on the .NET 11 SDK and adding a warning for SHA-1 file catalogs, alongside servicing release 7.6.10. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.7.0
Anam Navied released PSResourceGet 1.3.0 and 1.3.1, which validate XML from servers, check credentials per repository, and sanitize package names before install, and shipped the winget packages for PowerShell 7.7.0 and 7.6.10. 👉 https://github.com/PowerShell/PSResourceGet/releases/tag/v1.3.0
Merill Fernando took Maester 3.0 through 29 more release candidates, added DISA STIG frameworks for Entra ID and Intune, halved the report’s size with gzip-compressed data, and launched six daily sites that track Microsoft Learn changes for Purview, Exchange, Windows Server, SharePoint, Teams, and security. 👉 maester365/maester#2739
Marc-André Moreau released RegEditto 0.1.0, a modern Avalonia clone of regedit.exe with the same classic look and feel. 👉 https://github.com/awakecoding/RegEditto
Michael Niehaus released Autopilot Branding 4.0.1 through 4.0.7, fixing automatic time zone on Windows 11 26H2 and adding a Remove-ABInstalledPrograms task and a guide to writing your own tasks, and gave Update-InboxApp PowerShell 7 support. 👉 https://github.com/mtniehaus/AutopilotBranding/releases/tag/4.0.7
Clayton Tyger launched maester-pack-adua, a Maester pack that checks Active Directory users for complete, consistent, approved attributes over LDAP from Windows, macOS, or Linux with no RSAT needed. 👉 https://github.com/DevClate/maester-pack-adua
Jorge Suarez launched rePS (practice reps for PowerShell: ask for a random exercise, solve it, and let Pester check it) with 40 exercises, released FleetDM-PowerShell 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 with retries on throttling, and added drift scans, resumable runs, and saved scope profiles to IntuneHydrationKit WebApp. 👉 https://github.com/jorgeasaurus/rePS
Erik Graa shipped UAG Studio 0.8 through 0.9.1 with Nutanix and OpenShift deployments, Firewall Forge 0.8 and 0.9 with MikroTik support and a live rule topology, and imagecraft, a field guide and workbench for RHEL image mode. 👉 https://github.com/erikgraa/uag-studio
Fabien Tschanz merged more than thirty Microsoft365DSC fixes across export, reporting, throttling retries, secret handling, and restoring soft-deleted applications. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC
Steve Lee shipped DSC 3.4.0-preview.3, merged a cross-platform process resource with a termination action, and opened PRs to reduce PowerShell’s startup overhead and add Rust implementations to PowerShell-Native. 👉 PowerShell/PowerShell#28411
Justin Grote opened a PR that lets the PowerShell extension pick an update notification channel, now that PowerShell itself no longer notifies. 👉 PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5689
Jake Hildreth started ColorBlindThemes under PSInclusive (a catalog of themes for color-vision-deficient users with simulated-CVD checks) and shipped new BlueTuxedo and Locksmith releases. 👉 https://github.com/PSInclusive/ColorBlindThemes
Michał Machniak released AzureConnectedMachineDscV3 1.0.0, a DSC resource for managing the Azure Arc server agent. 👉 https://github.com/mimachniak/AzureConnectedMachineDscV3/releases/tag/v.1.0.0
Stephen Valdinger released Chameleon 1.2.0 through 1.4.1 with ConvertTo-UDChameleonPowerShell, Copy as JSON, and a fix that stops the Paper color from repainting the PowerShell Universal header. 👉 https://github.com/steviecoaster/PowerShellUniversal.Component.Chameleon/releases/tag/1.4.1
Adam Driscoll released Homestead 0.0.4 and 0.0.5 with photo-mosaic galleries and optional server-side page analytics, and started adding PowerShell language support to ast-grep. 👉 https://github.com/adamdriscoll/homestead/releases/tag/v0.0.5
Nathan McNulty built a private backend for azd-santa, his Azure Developer CLI kit for running North Pole Security’s Santa on Intune-managed Macs, with mandatory operator MFA and credential revocation. 👉 https://github.com/nathanmcnulty/azd-santa
Fabian Bader released XDRConverter 2.1.0 with lookback, event grouping, and incident exclusion keys. 👉 https://github.com/f-bader/XDRConverter/releases/tag/2.1.0
Doug Finke released PSAISuite 0.10.1 and 0.10.2 with reusable model completion registration and configurable Google tool iterations. 👉 https://github.com/dfinke/psaisuite/releases/tag/v0.10.2
Gilbert Sanchez opened the PRs that move his YouTube-to-Reddit bot to Devvit Web for its 1.0.0 and added the Pacific PowerShell User Group to PowerShell.org. 👉 HeyItsGilbert/YouTubeGeminiPostDevvit#58
Events
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/