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January 30, 2026

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

EntraFIDOFinder: New Web UI and Over 70 New Authenticators (clatent.com)
You read that right, over 70 new authenticators are now approved for Entra Attestation and have been

add to the web ui and the PowerShell module! I knew they had to be holding back after these last few updates. Also I've updated the web UI and curious of your thoughts.

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Jan 30 2026

How to Control Access to Entra Multi-Tenant Apps (office365itpros.com)
Entra multi-tenant applications can be used by any tenant - unless you restrict sign-in audiences to

permit only specific tenants to use the application. In this article, we explain the preview feature and use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to restrict sign-in audiences by defining a list of permitted tenant identifiers in the properties of multi-tenant applications.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 30 2026

Intune Win32 PowerShell Installer Type (powershellisfun.com)
This month, Microsoft re-released PowerShell as a command-line option for Intune Win32 packages,

making it easy to update the installation script without recreating the IntuneWin package. In this blog post, I will show you how it works.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 30 2026

Quick Tip – Enable vTPM on Hyper-V VMs (deploymentresearch.com)
Here is a quick PowerShell script to enable vTPM on one or more VMs in Hyper-V. Here is a quick

PowerShell script to enable vTPM on one or more VMs in Hyper-V.

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By: Johan Arwidmark submitted:Jan 30 2026

Stop Configuration Drift in Microsoft 365 Using the new Configuration Management API’s – A Deep Dive (thelazyadministrator.com)
Microsoft has released into public preview a new set of APIs that enable administrators to monitor

and alert on configuration changes across one or more tenants, spanning multiple Microsoft 365 workloads, including:

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By: Brad Wyatt submitted:Jan 30 2026

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Configure default fonts in Outlook (classic) with PowerShell and Microsoft Intune (imab.dk)
Introduction In my previous post, I shared a PowerShell template for managing registry settings via

Microsoft Intune Remediations. The script handles both HKCU and HKLM, supports all registry types, and works on Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid joined devices.

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By: Martin Bengtsson submitted:Jan 30 2026

DeployR – Backing up your Task Sequences and Content. (garytown.com)
In this post I'll be going a bit deeper into a Script I wrote to help backup specific things. I

created it so I can transfer specific things from one environment to another without having to backup everything.

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By: Gary Blok submitted:Jan 30 2026

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PoshBytes: Measure-Command For Optimizing Your Code (youtube.com)
Measure-Command is the fastest way to find out how long a command actually takes, so you can stop

guessing and start optimizing with receipts. We will time a few real scripts, compare approaches, and learn how to avoid misleading results.

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By: Matthew Dowst submitted:Jan 30 2026

Understanding PowerShell Output (youtube.com)
Tara returns for her second PowerShell lesson. She's already learned the 3 core commands: Get-Help,

Get-Command, and Get-Member.

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By: Andrew Pla Tech submitted:Jan 30 2026

Community

Stop Trying So Hard and Start Automating Smarter with Jake Hildreth (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
Principal Security Consultant and community favorite Jake Hildreth returns to The PowerShell Podcast

to talk about building smarter automation, leveling up through community, and creating tools that solve real problems. Andrew shares his "stop trying so hard" theme for the year, how working smarter applies directly to scripting and security, and why getting involved with others is one of the fastest ways to grow in your career.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 30 2026

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 (powershellsummit.org)
April 13-17, 2026 in Bellevue, WA
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January 23, 2026

Announcements!

Jeffrey Snover Retires! (bsky.app)
After years of bringing us tons of automation join Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard
By: Jeffrey Snover submitted:Jan 23 2026

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Get latest Windows release (nielskok.tech)
Maybe you heard of this already but I found this hidden gem (at least for me) where you can easily

get the latest Windows release in PowerShell. The module is written by Jose Schenardie. You can find it here in the PowerShell gallery. So, what does it actually do?

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By: Niels Kok submitted:Jan 23 2026

Getting Started with SSH in Windows PowerShell (griff.systems)
PowerShell and automation articles for click-free IT pros from another systems engineer.
By: Griff Barker submitted:Jan 23 2026

Intune PowerShell script installer feature (inthecloud247.com)
Today we are going to have a look at the new PowerShell script installer feature that is available

since January 2026 in Microsoft Intune. It's now possible to upload a PowerShell script as the installer.

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By: Peter Klapwijk submitted:Jan 23 2026

Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0 brings Agent Identity Blueprint management and new automation features (4sysops.com)
Microsoft released version 1.2.0 of the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module, introducing

production-ready support for Agent Identity Blueprints, enhanced application configuration parameters, and modernized invitation APIs. This update consolidates Agent Identity functionality into the main module and delivers new cmdlets for automated identity management across Microsoft Entra ID environments.

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By: IT Experts submitted:Jan 23 2026

Test SSL/TLS Protocols using PowerShell (powershellisfun.com)
Testing enabled SSL and TLS protocols on servers is something I have to do for hardening and

security purposes. Of course, you can do that using PowerShell with the Test-TlsProtocols Module from TechnologyAnimal 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 23 2026

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

January 19, 2026 Updates to EntraFIDOFinder (clatent.com)
It's been a bit since an update on the PowerShell module EntraFIDOFinder as there haven't been any

new keys and only a few keys have have changed functionality.

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By: Clayton Tyger submitted:Jan 23 2026

PowerShellWeb/Reptile (github.com)
Read Evaluate Print Terminal Input Loop Editor - A Scaley Simple PowerShell Data REPL.
By: James Brundage submitted:Jan 23 2026

PSClaudeCode v 1.0.3 (powershellgallery.com)
A PowerShell module for building Claude Code using Anthropic, with reference implementations for

tool-based interactions.

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By: Doug Finke submitted:Jan 23 2026

Synchronizing Security and Microsoft 365 Group Memberships (office365itpros.com)
An article from 2018 uses the AzureAD and Exchange PowerShell modules to synchronize membership

between a security and a Microsoft 365 group. The idea is to enable collaboration for the members of the security group. This version does the work with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The code is better and it will work as an Azure Automation runbook, which is always nice.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 23 2026

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

PowerShell EOL 7.4 and 7.5 updates (youtube.com)
Get to know when long-term support is ending for PowerShell versions 7.4 (Nov. 2026), 7.5 (May

2026), and other versions.

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By: Sympraxis Consulting submitted:Jan 23 2026

Community

Chocolatey Fest 2026 @ PowerShell Summit : Call for Speakers (sessionize.com)
Chocolatey Fest is a community-driven conference focused on Windows automation (WinOps), DevOps

practices, and the broader ecosystem around Chocolatey and Windows package management.

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By: Chocolatey submitted:Jan 23 2026

From SharePoint to Security with David Sass (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
Newly minted Microsoft MVP David Sass joins The PowerShell Podcast to talk about PowerShell

notebooks, terminal tooling, and making automation approachable for teams that are hesitant to touch the console. David shares how he uses Jupyter/PowerShell notebooks as a practical "click-to-run" interface for colleagues, helping them safely run approved automation while keeping the logic documented, repeatable, and under source control.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 23 2026

Fun

A complete history of MDT (abridged) (oofhours.com)
Way back in 2008, I published a blog post (now captured by the Wayback Machine) that gave a concise

history of BDD, now known as MDT. Eighteen years later, I can now complete that story and expand on some of the items in more detail. (I will refrain from getting too carried away, hence the abridged part of the title, because you probably don't care to read a small novel.)

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By: Michael Niehaus submitted:Jan 23 2026

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 (powershellsummit.org)
April 13-17, 2026 in Bellevue, WA
By: PowerShell.org submitted:Jan 23 2026

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January 16, 2026

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

How to Remove Old (Unused) PowerShell Modules (woshub.com)
This article explains how to safely remove a PowerShell module installed on a Windows computer. This

may be necessary in order to uninstall old or unused modules, resolve PowerShell slow...

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By: Windows OS Hub submitted:Jan 16 2026

PowerShell coding in WSL using VSCode (powershellisfun.com)
This is something I do on my Windows company device, using WSL instances to develop PowerShell

scripts. In this blog post, I will show you how it works and how to set it up.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 16 2026

Practical Graph: Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets and Graph Throttling (practical365.com)
The Microsoft Graph service uses throttling to restrain applications that might want to use more

resources than they should. Graph throttling applies to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets, but you might never notice this because of the way that the retry handler works to smoothen delays imposed by the Graph service.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 16 2026

Some Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Cmdlets Lose Body Parameters (office365itpros.com)
A change made for some Directory Graph APIs has flowed through to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

and affected how the associated cmdlets work, including the beta cmdlet to restore a deleted user account and while replacing the user principal name. Fortunately, the workaround is easy, but it is upsetting when something that worked suddenly doesn't, even if it is a beta cmdlet.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 16 2026

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Announcing DotnetPsCmds – PowerShell CmdLets for .NET (blog.peterritchie.com)
Have you ever wondered why there aren't PowerShell Cmdlets similar to dotnet CLI commands? Well not

there are.

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By: Peter Ritchie submitted:Jan 16 2026

PSToExe (github.com)
An example project of how to create a single EXE file for distribution of a PowerShell script

without needing to install PowerShell 7.5.4 on target machines.

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By: Mark Kraus submitted:Jan 16 2026

Release PSAppDeployToolkit 4.1.8 (github.com)
This release strengthens Windows Installer (.msi) and Patch (.msp) deployment reliability, improves

process and handle safety, enhances dialog behavior, and hardens serialization and exception reporting. It also modernizes dependencies and standardizes UTF-8 handling.

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By: Patch My PC submitted:Jan 16 2026

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

GitHub for Intune Admins Part 1: A Beginner Guide (No Developer Skills Needed) (youtu.be)
This is Part 1 of a new series where I walk through getting started with GitHub for Intune and

Microsoft 365 admins, specifically geared toward non-developers. No coding background required, no assumptions made.

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By: Steve Weiner submitted:Jan 16 2026

Watch Tara Learn PowerShell (From Scratch) (youtube.com)
Tara says that she wants to learn #PowerShell this year, and we are starting that journey live on

PowerShell Wednesday.I'll guide her through her first few steps and help build a solid foundation, and you can help

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By: PDQ submitted:Jan 16 2026

Community

Reliability Through Planning with Matthew Gill (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
Matthew Gill joins The PowerShell Podcast to talk about what it means to be a Site Reliability

Engineer (SRE) and how SRE thinking changes the way you approach automation, reliability, and problem solving. Matthew and host Andrew Pla break down core concepts like SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, and why reliability through planning matters more than rushing straight to the keyboard.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 16 2026

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 (powershellsummit.org)
April 13-17, 2026 in Bellevue, WA
By: PowerShell.org submitted:Jan 16 2026

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January 9, 2026

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

2025 Overview (powershellisfun.com)
It's 2026, so it's time to reflect on 2025 :). In this blog post, I will highlight the great

PowerShell moments that happened this year.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 9 2026

3 Easy PowerShell Scripting Tips for Coding Masochists (skatterbrainz.wordpress.com)
Tip: Read the ‘Important Notes' section, because these are notes that are important.
By: SkatterBrainz submitted:Jan 9 2026

ConsentFix – The Quickfix (msendpointmgr.com)
Just when you thought OAuth was safe, along comes ConsentFix to remind us that attackers are always

two steps ahead. If you've been following security news lately, you've probably heard about this clever attack that abuses legitimate Microsoft authentication flows to steal authorization codes. The good news? There's a dead-simple PowerShell fix that' sorts this out.

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By: Michael Mardahl submitted:Jan 9 2026

Installing PowerShell on macOS (powershellisfun.com)
What's the first thing that you install on your new MacBook M4? Yes, Microsoft Edge, and then

PowerShell afterwards 😉 In this final blog post of 2025, I will outline the available installation options.

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By: Harm Veenstra submitted:Jan 9 2026

PowerShell: Select-String (Examples) (sid-500.com)
In this blog post, I'll take a closer look at how to search for strings in PowerShell.
By: Patrick Gruenauer submitted:Jan 9 2026

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

MarkX (github.com)
Markdown, XML, and PowerShell
By: James Brundage submitted:Jan 9 2026

Oh My Posh Visual Configurator (montemagno.com)
A web-based drag-and-drop builder for oh-my-posh that makes creating beautiful terminal prompts

actually fun!

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By: Alvin Ashcraft submitted:Jan 9 2026

PSNetDetour (github.com)
A PowerShell module which you can use to hook any (caveats of course) .NET method and have it run

your ScriptBlock instead. Great for experimentation, debugging, testing

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By: Jordan Borean submitted:Jan 9 2026

Release v2.4.0 · SeeminglyScience/ClassExplorer (github.com)
v2.4.0 of PowerShell module ClassExplorer is released! New commands Invoke-Member and

Get-AssemblyLoadContext

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By: SeeminglyScience submitted:Jan 9 2026

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell Update 19 (office365itpros.com)
Update #19 of the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook is now available. Subscribers can

download the updated PDF and EPUB files from Gumroad.com. A paperback version is also available, but we can't update the print characters. In any case, a new SharePoint create Site API is in beta, and a new version of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK is available. Both have their moments, as we discuss here.

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By: Tony Redmond submitted:Jan 9 2026

PoshBytes: PowerShell Splatting – The Art of Throwing Parameters With Style (youtube.com)
In this PoshBytes episode, you will learn PowerShell splatting to make long commands readable and

reusable. We will also demo PSNotes cmdlets that generate splats for you and convert existing commands into splatted form.

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By: Matthew Dowst [OC] submitted:Jan 9 2026

Community

Building PowerShell Tools You Wish Existed with Jorge Suarez (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
Jorge Suarez joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his journey into PowerShell, automation, and

community contribution. From attending his first MMS conference to building creative and practical PowerShell projects, Jorge talks about how PowerShell became the primary driver of his career growth. The conversation covers his popular Intune Hydration Kit, creative TUI projects inspired by shows like Severance, and how curiosity and experimentation led him to build tools he wished existed earlier in his career.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 9 2026

Living in PowerShell with Jeff Hicks (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
PowerShell legend Jeff Hicks joins The PowerShell Podcast to talk about what it really means to live

in PowerShell every day. From running his entire workflow in the console to building highly polished terminal tools, Jeff shares how PowerShell can be used far beyond infrastructure management-to organize your day, automate personal tasks, and multiply productivity.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 9 2026

PowerShell to Distinguished Engineer with Ryan Spletzer (powershellpodcast.podbean.com)
Distinguished Software Engineer Ryan Spletzer joins The PowerShell Podcast to talk about building a

long-term career in tech through curiosity, continuous learning, and strong community connections. Ryan shares how PowerShell helped shape his path from early work in SharePoint, automation, and identity management to leading AI initiatives at Autodesk, where his team built an internal ChatGPT-style solution using Azure OpenAI before enterprise ChatGPT options existed.

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By: The Powershell Podcast submitted:Jan 9 2026

Fun

RandomBirthday.ps1 (github.com)
I role play on occasion, and I find it useful to have a birthday. From that I can look up the zodiac

signs, which allows me to apply some stereotypical traits to the character. I find this to be a useful starting point in fleshing out a character's personality.

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By: George submitted:Jan 9 2026

Upcoming Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 (powershellsummit.org)
April 13-17, 2026 in Bellevue, WA
By: PowerShell.org submitted:Jan 9 2026

Do you have a suggestion for PowerShell Weekly?
Do you know something that should be included?
Let me know in the comments below, or on find me on your preferred social media.

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