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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 7

I've been a weather nerd the last few years and always wondered why there was this anomaly north of the Sullivan weather station. Turns out it's a wind farm and the turbines are tall enough to make it seem like there is always a thunderstorm in that area.

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dbatools 🚀 @dbatools.io · Aug 7

🎉 Big news! dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing, which provides base reputation on Windows SmartScreen. No more antivirus false positives.

The catch? If you use strict ExecutionPolicies, you'll need to trust our cert after each update (it rotates daily). But we've got automation scripts.

dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing

TLDR: dbatools is moving to Azure Trusted Signing, which means Microsoft backs our reputation and dbatools won't trigger as many antivirus false positives. …

blog.netnerds.net

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 6

Got my author’s copy!

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 6

I added some best practices around the cache in PowerShell Universal. We had a user caching 65k+ Entra ID users in a single cache item and it led to very poor performance of the server in general. Just be careful with complex objects. docs.powershelluniversal.com/config/best-...

Best Practices | PowerShell Universal

Learn how to best configure PowerShell Universal.

docs.powershelluniversal.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 5

#PowerShell Universal 5.7 nightly has an **experimental plugin** for a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to allow you to hook agents like @github.com CoPilot directly into your PowerShell scripts. docs.powershelluniversal.com/platform/plu...

MCP Server | PowerShell Universal

Enable a model context protocol server.

docs.powershelluniversal.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 4

I contributed some of my Minespotting photos to Howard's book. Check it out! www.amazon.com/Abandoned-Mi...

Abandoned Mines of Western Idaho: Quests for the Motherlode (Abandoned Union)

Abandoned Mines of Western Idaho: Quests for the Motherlode (Abandoned Union) [Frisk, Howard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Abandoned Mines of Western Idaho: Quests for the Motherlode (Abandoned Union)

www.amazon.com

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Sean D Wheeler @sdwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am happy to announce that PlatyPS v1.0 has reached GA and we have updated our publishing pipelines to use the new tool.

To celebrate, I created this: sdwheeler.github.io/seanonit/blo...

The Legend of PlatyPS and Content Wrangler

Telling the story of PlatyPS using Microsoft Copilot.

sdwheeler.github.io

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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · Aug 4

⏳ Only 11 days left to submit your talk for #PSHSummit26!

Got something cool to share with the PowerShell + DevOps community?

Now’s your chance.

📅 Deadline: August 15, 2025

🔗 sessionize.com/pshsummit26/

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Aug 2

We're introducing free Community editions of all our Accelerate tooling.

Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost!

github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Announcing Community Tooling - Free tooling for all · AvaloniaUI Avalonia · Discussion #19379

TL;DR: We're making free Community editions of all our Accelerate tools available to every developer. Starting September 2025, you'll get professional-grade XAML editing, dev tools, and lat...

github.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 1

PWSH in PSU eating all the memory and trying to figure out root cause. So fun…

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Aug 1

I really enjoy digging around in memory dumps. It's a whole different type of problem solving.

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Stephen Valdinger (aka steviecoaster) @steviecoaster.dev · Aug 1

Happy Friday.

GitHub - steviecoaster/PowerShellUniversal.Apps.AutomatedLab: A PowerShell Universal frontend for AutomatedLab.Utils

A PowerShell Universal frontend for AutomatedLab.Utils - steviecoaster/PowerShellUniversal.Apps.AutomatedLab

github.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 31

You sir are a badass! Nice work and looks awesome!

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Stephen Valdinger (aka steviecoaster) @steviecoaster.dev · Jul 31

I've sorted out how to ship a #PowerShell Universal app as a module, which allowed me to put the app on a secondary test instance, and it *just friggin works*

Tons of docs so people don't stub their toes. By the end of the weekend, y'all can play too!

@adamdriscoll.bsky.social is a badass!!

screenshot of the homepage of my PowerShell Universal App : AutomatedLab UI

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Andrew Pla @andrewpla.tech · Jul 30

#PowerShell Wednesday kicks off in 30 minutes!

We're joined by Morten Mynster, who's giving us an intro to Azure Automation for PowerShell users.

Tune in live www.youtube.com/watc...

Can't make it? check out the recording at your convenience

Move your Automation to the Cloud using Azure Automation with Morten Mynster

Still using schedule task on multiple servers? How about trying some Azure automation to centralize the management logging and getting the added benefit of Source control for your scripts. Can't get enough PDQ? Subscribe and enable notifications! • Join us on Discord!: https://discord.gg/pdq • O

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 29

You can also format it as a module and publish it to the PowerShell Gallery. Here is an example module. If you include the PowerShellUniversal tag in the manifest, it will show up in PSU itself. github.com/ironmansoftw...

gallery/Apps/PowerShellUniversal.Apps.Earthquakes at main · ironmansoftware/gallery

Public gallery of modules for PowerShell Universal - ironmansoftware/gallery

github.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 28

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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Stephen Valdinger (aka steviecoaster) @steviecoaster.dev · Jul 28

I spent the weekend playing with two of my favorite tools to come up with something I think is really neat! Using #PowerShell Universal and AutomatedLab I've started a web-based management platform for my web environments.

Super user-friendly way to interact with AutomatedLab!

The home page for a new project, AutomatedLab UI

The Lab management screen where you can start/stop labs

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PSConfEU @psconf.eu · Jul 28

#PowerShell #Universal v5 by @adamdriscoll.bsky.social 💥
🖥️ Blazor admin console
🔐 Fine-grained permissions
🚀 Git-based deployments
🧪 Pester integration
📦 gRPC cmdlets

The PSU platform just levelled up.

📍See you in Wiesbaden → psconf.eu
#PSConfEU

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

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Jeff Hicks @jdhitsolutions.com · Jul 25

Have you been thinking about how you can give back to the #PowerShell community? Anyone can teach. Anyone can share. sessionize.com/pshsu...

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026: Call for Papers

The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is a highly anticipated annual conference that brings together professionals worldwide from the PowerShell and D...

sessionize.com

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PowerShell Universal @powershelluniversal.com · Jul 25

We've released version v4.5.5 and v5.6.1 of PowerShell Universal to address a CVE that was reported by one of our users. Please upgrade or follow the work around to mitigate this risk. docs.powershelluniversal.com/changelogs/c...

CVEs | PowerShell Universal

CVEs for PowerShell Universal.

docs.powershelluniversal.com

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Jeff Hicks @jdhitsolutions.com · Jul 25

Platyps is a core element of my #PowerShell module development. Looks like I have some work ahead of me. devblogs.microsoft.c...

Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0 - PowerShell Team

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0, a tool to build PowerShell help files.

devblogs.microsoft.com

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 24

A part of the PowerShell Universal database performance issues were actually DB context management issues with Blazor. Switching to pooled DB contexts seems to make everything much snappier. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 23

If you are seeing something similar, feel free to provide some info on GitHub. The problem seems to go away when downgrading to 5.5.4 but there weren’t big changes to the DB queries between these releases so trying to track that down.

Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · Jul 23

The Job table is certainly a bottleneck. Seeing simple update and select queries take upwards of 10 seconds under load. This is on a local SQL server with less than 5000 rows. It causes UI slowness because it can’t get a DB connection.

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