Sam Erde

PowerShell 7.6.8 is released on GitHub and will be available via WinGet soon. It's a maintenance release that moves the .NET SDK to 10.0.402 and somewhat ironically removes the update notification feature from PowerShell, per customer feedback. 🗣️ 💾

This week's Entra News #170 is out! Read at https://emtra.news

Become a #PowerShell scripting master and save with my eBook bundle from Leanpub. There is always something new to learn.

I just published my first article on the Semperis blog! It's about an interesting persistence method I'm calling Zombie Certificates: certificates that look revoked but can still be used for authentication! jakehildreth.github.io/blog/2026/10...

My XKCD #PowerShell module can now render comics directly in the VSCode terminal on MacOS and Linux (as long as you have enabled the terminal.integrated.enableImages setting). Also supports iTerm2 and Kitty protocol terminals. github.com/markwragg/Po...

🚨New Microsoft MVP Alert🚨 Leo D'Arcy Award Category: Microsoft Azure,Cloud and Datacenter Management Technology Area: PowerShell,Windows Server Country: 🇬🇧

TIL @GitHub is working on a project to support dependency lockfiles for GitHub Actions workflows. This will allow every action in your workflow to be pinned to an exact commit (version), just like other dependency package lockfiles do. Cool. 🔏

I just noticed that LAPS is available in preview for Microsoft Azure Arc managed VMs. Does anyone have feedback on this yet? How straightforward are the management and use experiences? 🧑‍💻

Happy to have found gh-mcp, from @shuy.mn. The GitHub CLI extension runs the GitHub MCP server using your existing gh authentication so you can avoid the manual PAT setup and its credential storage problem. github.com/shuymn/gh-mcp

If you've ever wished for a better way to manage extensions across your @vscode.dev profiles and workspaces, check out 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬. After a few betas, I have just released v1, which solves many extension management pain points. Git features are next! 👨‍💻 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

🚨New Microsoft MVP Alert🚨 Andree Renneus Award Category: Microsoft Azure Technology Area: PowerShell Country: 🇸🇪

Insider Risk Is a Business Decision - Bring HR In Early

Pester test suites that take 30-90 minutes to run are killing my vibe here...but testers gotta validate! "Monday Sam" is going to need to look into how to optimize those PowerShell tests!

One tiny change to my VS @code configuration has made life a lot easier for me. Markdown documents now open in preview by default, instead of in the editor. Editing them is still as simple as a double-click! Anyone with me?

Do your #PowerShell scripts restart from scratch after failure? At #PSConfEU, @dotdot.horse shows how Stepper enables: ✅ Resumable scripts ✅ Persistent state ✅ 🔁 Smart retries 👉 youtu.be/frucG2eXu9s?si=T8r... #automation #IT #DevOps #Conference

I'm excited and grateful that Microsoft has kept me for another year in the MVP program for PowerShell and now also Security (Identity & Access). This is an amazing community that I continue to learn new things from every day! www.credly.com/badges/c2473...

The Azure Security Podcast episode just dropped for the new Security Adoption Framework (SAF) documentation. Podcast - azuresecuritypodcast.azurewebsites.net Docs - aka.ms/SAF

Does anyone use multiple profiles in Visual Studio Code? If “yes,” how many? (I currently have 6.) Let me know! 😀🧑‍💻 @vscode.dev

🚨New Microsoft MVP Alert🚨 Roy Klooster Award Category: M365 Technology Area: Microsoft Graph Country: 🇳🇱

🚨New Microsoft MVP Alert🚨 Michal Machniak Award Category: Microsoft Azure Technology Area: PowerShell,Azure Infrastructure as Code Country: Poland

On any given workday, a software developer needs high privilege access to computers, secrets, and resources - all with a risk of being exploited! @shehackspurple.bsky.social talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1... about securing developer accounts and resources!

That time I had a Mohawk. 🤘 I was 25 years old and starting chemo. It felt like a good time to make the most of life with hair before it all fell out! (AMA) 💜

The GitHub Copilot app is now GA and is worth trying out! At the same time, GitHub Copilot plans have been opened back up for sign-ups and upgrades.

Great insight from @awakecoding.com about tackling problems with AI. This fits my own recent experience, but he found a better way to describe it! 🧠

Some quick thoughts on the significance of interactions in our communities and personal relationships. Are you (am I) being intentional about them?

PowerShell Summit videos are being uploaded to our YouTube channel this week. Let us know which one you are most excited for. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Simplicity: the 4th pillar of security that is almost always forgotten (or ignored?) after Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. 🧐

Still waiting for the staggered rollout of Microsoft's MAI models to hit my GitHub account. Have any of you seen them show up yet?

Microsoft's Work IQ agent is 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙩. Don't waste time trying to coordinate your own schedule!

The July 1 date for increases in #Microsoft365 subscription fees is fast approaching. Here's how to check your licensed #EntraID user accounts to find stale (unused) accounts where you might be able to free up some licenses: office365itpros.com/2026/06/09/f...

🚨The MicrosoftExchangeOnline PowerShell module has been updated to 3.10.0 with breaking changes for some automated workflows! 👉 PowerShell 7.6 & Windows PowerShell 5.1 are the only supported versions! ⛔ PowerShell 7.2-7.3 will likely fail. ⚠️ PowerShell 7.4-7.5 𝘮𝘢𝘺 work.

My absolute favorite AI response of the week: “I agree. This is exactly where “future-proofing” can accidentally become architecture cosplay.” 😂

@dotdot.horse this is very cool github.com/jakehildreth...

Figured it might be time to update my 5+ year old profile photo! The last one was taken at my first "work from home in the basement" setup at the beginning of the [health event of 2020].

We switched from @ATT to @TMobile 5G home internet 6 months ago. T-Mobile was slightly better at first, but connection quality, reliability, and performance has PLUMMETED since then. I was forced to reschedule a @github exam this morning because upload speeds were < 1 Mbps! 😣

Should we tell them about PowerShell? 😁

I may or may not have blown my whole lunch break spinning up a new concept because I was frustrated by having inconsistent MCP server configurations scattered between different CLIs, IDEs, and providers. 😆 #GitHubCopilot #Claude #PowerShell #mvpbuzz

My wife say's I'm too literal...

Sometimes I try different models and frontends just to see how well they are able to generate PowerShell code. Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised! Gemini / Flash-Light [Extended thinking] gave me a special failure today.

Full blog post tomorrow, but the GHASTriage tool is finished. github.com/rod-trent/GH...

DLL Pickle 🥒 is a PowerShell module that resolves DLL conflicts when you to connect to multiple Microsoft online services in the same session. Last night I found a true hard-coded conflict in Microsoft's modules that cannot be resolved by preloading.👀💀