Jim Tyler on Training AI to Write Production PowerShell
Jim Tyler joined Andrew Pla on the PowerShell Podcast to discuss the PowerShell Engineer Standard, an initiative focused on steering AI tools to write PowerShell the way seasoned engineers expect. The conversation traces how a classroom tool concept grew into AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md instructions, browser utilities, and a VS Code extension that automatically loops compiler and linter feedback back to the model.
Tracking Active WSMan Sessions
Jeff Hicks at Behind the PowerShell Pipeline explores how to use Get-WSManInstance to uncover details about active remote connections without opening a new session. He breaks down how to parse the tricky XML output into usable data types using custom functions and native .NET classes to easily calculate memory consumption and connection uptimes.
👉 https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/managing-wsman-remoting-sessions/
Celebrating 20 Years of PowerShell
Heiko Brenn announced on LinkedIn a special 20th anniversary livestream event dedicated to the history and community of PowerShell. Community leaders Gael Colas and Harm Veenstra will join the November 14 broadcast to share their stories and reflect on how a simple scripting language evolved into a massive international support network.
👉 https://lnkd.in/ehpXdbtQ
Jorge Suarez Launches Intune and PowerShell Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@jorgeasaurus
Microsoft MVP Jorge Suarez announced on LinkedIn that he launched a new YouTube channel dedicated to short and practical video guides for Microsoft Intune and PowerShell. He plans to alternate between the two subjects weekly by adapting his written field notes into visual walkthroughs that tackle everyday engineering challenges like pipeline objects and Conditional Access.
Why Try Catch Misses PowerShell Errors
Jorge Suarez demonstrates why PowerShell try and catch blocks often fail to capture script errors. He explains that standard cmdlet errors and external native binaries bypass error handling entirely unless engineers explicitly use -ErrorAction Stop or manually evaluate $LASTEXITCODE.
Bypassing the Original Password for Entra ID Updates
Tony Redmond at Office 365 for IT Pros breaks down a new Entra ID preview feature that allows users to change their password after a secure sign in without supplying their old credentials. Because the admin center currently lacks an interface for this policy, he explains how administrators can use Microsoft Graph PowerShell and the Update-MgBetaPolicyAuthenticationMethodPolicyAuthenticationMethodConfiguration cmdlet to enable the capability.
👉 https://office365itpros.com/2026/11/03/change-password-no-original/
Repo Roundup
Erik Graa launched PowerBGP, PowerOSPF, and PowerBFD (PowerShell modules for testing BGP, OSPF, and BFD, tested against Cisco IOS-XE, MikroTik, and NSX), along with PSRHSM for the Red Hat Subscription Management API and Firewall Forge, which turns one set of firewall rules into config for NSX, SDN, Azure Local, Windows Firewall, firewalld, and Cisco. 👉 https://github.com/erikgraa/PowerBGP
Merill Fernando put Maester 3.0 under a code freeze with 19 more release candidates, redesigned the HTML report, rebuilt maester.dev on Astro and Starlight with a test catalog explorer, added tab completion to Invoke-Maester, and started six Microsoft Learn docs mirrors that record one commit per change. 👉 maester365/maester#2646
Michael Niehaus merged Autopilot Branding 4.0, which replaces the single script and Config.xml with a PowerShell module, a builder UI, projects, and a web builder, after releasing 3.3.2 and 3.3.3. 👉 mtniehaus/AutopilotBranding#101
Josh Hendricks closed more than thirty issues planning a proxy for WebContentPlugin that routes pages through the XProtect Event Server, with allowlist wildcards, an SSRF floor, live diagnostics, and installer-provisioned certificates, and opened the proxy PR. 👉 joshooaj/WebContentPlugin#97
Fabian Bader released KQLValidator 1.0.0 (REST and MCP endpoints that validate Defender XDR, Sentinel, and Azure Monitor KQL without running it) as a container image on GHCR. 👉 https://github.com/f-bader/KQLValidator/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Barbara Forbes merged drift-comparison, resource-extraction, and Bicep drift-discovery fixes into AzVerify, which gives GitHub Copilot the skills to check an Azure diagram, its Bicep templates, and the live environment against each other. 👉 https://github.com/Azure/AZVerify
Fabien Tschanz released Microsoft365DSC 2.26.1104.1 with split report post-processing and an Intune XML export fix, and MSCloudLoginAssistant 1.2.10 with a fix for token audiences in Graph and PnP workloads. 👉 https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC/releases/tag/2.26.1104.1
Jorge Suarez released FleetDM-PowerShell 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 with Fleet Premium cmdlets and redaction of passwords and bearer tokens from verbose logs, and added an endpoint engineering learning roadmap to EndpointJobs. 👉 https://github.com/jorgeasaurus/FleetDM-PowerShell/releases/tag/v2.2.1
Clayton Tyger released maester-pack-ua 0.5.0 with nine approved-value tests for Entra user attributes such as department, job title, and office address. 👉 https://github.com/DevClate/maester-pack-ua/releases/tag/v0.5.0
Stephen Valdinger released ZoomMeetingIntro 1.0.0 through 1.2.0, a tool that splices an intro onto a Zoom recording, now with custom intro messages. 👉 https://github.com/steviecoaster/ZoomMeetingIntro
Nathan McNulty filed fourteen hardening issues against XDRInternals, the PowerShell module for the Defender XDR portal, covering silent data loss in Sentinel export, WhatIf for Live Response actions, and incomplete paginated results. 👉 https://github.com/MSCloudInternals/XDRInternals
Dongbo Wang lined up the PowerShell 7.6.10 release branch with MSIX updates deferred while PowerShell is running and a warning for SHA-1 file catalogs. 👉 PowerShell/PowerShell#28319
Gilbert Sanchez published corrected FeatureFlag and PropertySet JSON schemas for Gatekeeper and filed the build-out of gatekeeper-rs against a shared conformance suite. 👉 HeyItsGilbert/Gatekeeper#104
Sydney Smith built Ignite 2026 demo repos for Bicep deployments with what-if, offline snapshot validation, and a workflow that publishes a Bicep module to GHCR. 👉 https://github.com/SydneyhSmith/ignite2026-demo
Steve Lee opened a ThreadJob PR to stop StreamingHost feedback loops in Receive-Job and a DSC PR to allow expressions as command resource arguments. 👉 PowerShell/ThreadJob#71
Michael Grafnetter added SCIM synchronization edges and entity panels to the BloodHound SCIM extension. 👉 SpecterOps/bloodhound-scim-extension#3
Tyler Leonhardt launched a site for his Seattle improv shows and opened VS Code PRs to sign in to Copilot chat with a Microsoft account. 👉 https://github.com/TylerLeonhardt/tyler-improv
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/