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.

🎉 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.

Got my author’s copy!

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-...

#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...

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

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...

⏳ 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/

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/...

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

Happy Friday.

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!!

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

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!

#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

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

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...

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

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...

We have some database performance issues in 5.5.5 and 5.6.0 of PowerShell Universal. It’s not totally clear the cause yet but running a lot of concurrent jobs seems to exhaust the connection pool for both MS SQL and PostgreSQL. Investigating... github.com/ironmansoftw...

Mailchimp spam. That's a new one. I guess a lot of people could suddenly want to hear updates about PowerShell Universal.

#PowerShell #PSResourceGet 1.2.0-preview2 is out, including nuget v3 dependency support. I can confirm it works with pwsh.gallery, so you can run this to get faster installs using PSResourceGet! Register-PSResourceRepository -Name 'pwshgallery' -Uri pwsh.gallery/index.json -Verbose -ApiVersion V3

Just realized we hit 1M+ pulls of PowerShell Universal on @docker.com Hub.

#BurntToast v1 is LIVE! #powershell toastit.dev/2025/07/22/b...

PowerShell Universal v5.6 is now available! We spent a lot of time working on platform and UI improvements. There are some small quality-of-life features, but the focus was stability, UX and performance. blog.ironmansoftware.com/powershell-u...

Best kind of Friday night.

I added one more example app to the PowerShell Universal Gallery. This one creates a mock sales dashboard with custom theming and charts. github.com/ironmansoftw...

I put together a sample PowerShell Universal app for a fake software company user account page. It doesn't require external cmdlets and just uses JSON files to supply the data. github.com/ironmansoftw...

Working from my sister’s house for a few days to watch the dogs while they visit friends in Alaska. The north woods of Wisconsin are special.

Haha wow. Throwback.

Ran into this namespace in the PowerShell Universal code base. Blast from the past where UD was part of PowerShell Pro Tools.

The tornado warning is headed in the wrong direction for our little celebration for my wife’s new job. 🫣

Visual Studio Code June 2025 release (version 1.102). buff.ly/8QXiPUw #vscode #programming #webdev #githubcopilot #productivity

Man. This is starting to happen more frequently. I've had the same machine for a couple of years, and it just recently started bonking on me a couple of times a week.

Notepad does markdown? What a time to be alive!

PowerShell Universal 5.5.5 should be out momentarily. 5.6.0 is scheduled for next week. docs.powershelluniversal.com/changelogs/c...

Introducing OpenCLI | by Patrik Svensson. buff.ly/HTbJQil #opencli #commandline #opensource #oss

Whew. My code signing journey has come to a successful end.

The one session I had to miss is now up! Thank you #PSConfEU 2025 @adamdriscoll.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgzX...

Fourth of July weekend, here we come!

I use Sleet to power pwsh.gallery, the nuget v3 mirror of the #PowerShell Gallery for ModuleFast. Learn how it works and how to use it for your own local repos! DISCLAIMER: PSGetv3 dues not support nuget v3 dependencies yet (ModuleFast does)

📦 Want your own private PowerShell repo? At #PSConfEU 2025, @adamdriscoll.bsky.social showed how to set one up with Sleet — local or Azure storage, clean and simple. 🎟️ Early bird 2026 tickets: psconf.eu #PowerShell #Sleet #Automation youtu.be/JgzXQCj-R2c?si=6BZ...

If you write #PowerShell and want to learn how to make beautiful, modern UIs for your scripts, join me tomorrow at the Research Triangle PSUG where we'll do just that leveraging the new WinUIShell module! You can find all the information on Meetup below. I hope you are able to join us!

CFP is open for the PowerShell and DevOps Summit in Bellevue next year! www.powershellsummit.org/2026-informa...

Man do I hate working with code signing certificates. I understand the need for code signing but it sure is a PITA every couple of years to get it reconfigured.

I posted this awesome pic of my dad on Reddit. Really living the life! Hahah www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/UjV...

We're thrilled to announce that the 10th anniversary edition will be in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1–4 June 2026. 🎟️ Early Bird tickets (€1750) include 3 nights at Dorint Pallas (from Monday to Thursday) More info: psconf.eu #PSConfEU #PowerShell #IT #Germany #Automation

Check out the #PSCONFEU 2025 playlist. We finished the summit yesterday, we published the 1st video on the finaly day (aka yesterday) and 2nd one TODAY. Guess what will be next! Better subscribe to the channel. Playlist for 2025 below. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Bike is back in the box! Headed to the airport in a bit. See you soon America! Thanks for the good times Sweden!

Another successful @psconf.eu ! It was great to see old friends and make new ones! See you next year in Germany!