Announcements!

• Investing in a more reliable Microsoft Graph PowerShell experience
  Microsoft's announcement about upcoming changes to the Graph PowerShell modules. Along with the retirement of 5.1 support.
• PSConfEU MiniCon 2026's Call for Speakers!
  You have 1 week left to submit sessions for PSConfEU MiniCon 2026

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

• Intelligent Terminal 0.2.2572: New features and performance improvements
  Microsoft has released Intelligent Terminal 0.2.2572, featuring AI-powered agents like GitHub Copilot CLI, with over 60 fixes and improvements focused on performance, reliability, and usability.
• Microsoft Starts Twelve-Month Retirement of Windows PowerShell Support for Graph SDK
  Microsoft has announced a 12-month retirement period for Windows PowerShell 5.1 support for the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, with development focusing on PowerShell V7 instead. This change aims to encourage organizations to migrate to PowerShell V7 and is intended to simplify the transition process.
• Build a Custom Agent Harness with PowerShell and PSAISuite
  This article demonstrates how to build a custom agent harness using PowerShell and PSAISuite, which allows models to interact with external tools and retrieve specific information from the environment. The harness is built around a task-specific tool and model, and provides a way to refine the tool and instructions to fit the job at hand.
• Microsoft is Retiring slmgr.vbs – Here’s what to Use Instead
  Microsoft is retiring the slmgr.vbs tool for Windows activation management, recommending alternative tools instead.
• Active Directory Test Data, a Year and Six Providers Later
  What the TestEnvironment Active Directory provider seeds, and how it tears a lab domain down, set against the standalone module it replaced.

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

• OZOTaskScheduler v 1.0.0
  Provides functions for managing Windows Task Scheduler tasks.
• PSAISuite v 0.8.10
  PowerShell module for simple, unified interface to multiple Generative AI providers
• SpotifyCLI v 3.2.9
  Full-featured Spotify terminal client for PowerShell. Control playback, search, playlists, devices, queue, and more — plus Live Display, synchronized lyrics, music quiz, setlist lookup, and statistics analytics. Requires Spotify Premium and a Spotify Developer App.

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

• EverythingFast: Developing Performant PowerShell Modules - Justin Grote
  In this lecture, Justin Grote introduces the topic of PowerShell performance and explains that performance should be judged by whether something is “fast enough” for the task. He discusses when improving speed matters, such as scripts that run frequently, processes that affect cost, or workloads that no longer fit their original time window.

Community

• PSConfEU MiniCon 2026
  PSConfEU Minicon is free and open to everyone - 13 October 2026 from 7am (CEST)
• Microsoft 365 DSC Without the 100 Page Setup Guide with Constantin Hager
  Constantin Hager, a Microsoft MVP, shares his insights on Microsoft 365 DSC (Configuration Manager), including its capabilities and limitations, and introduces the M365DSC Workshop to simplify the setup process.

Fun

• PowerShell Can Put Pictures in Your Terminal with SIXEL
  PowerShell normally sends text and objects to a terminal. This experiment sends an image.

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