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PowerShell Weekly for September 26, 2025 (programming.dev)

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Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Practical Graph: Finding the Last App Accessed by a User
A reader question asked if it was possible to find the last app accessed by a user. Of course, anything is possible with PowerShell, but how?
Deploy dynamic hostpools using PSNerdio
New part of the PSNerdio series! This is the final part and it’s about how to deploy dynamic hostpools using PSNerdio!
Microsoft Graph: a Practical Guide
If you’ve tried working with Microsoft Graph, I can probably guess that it maybe took a bit of time to appreciate all of its capabilities. I’ve heard MS Graph described as trying to build the car that you need to use to drive to work. For some, that might be up your alley, but for the rest of us, it can be a bit daunting.

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

EntraFIDOFinder Update
There haven’t been much changes the past couple months, but finally a biggish update happened where Microsoft has added 10 more keys that are Attestation capable
New Autopilot Branding release
It’s been a while since there was an actual release of the Autopilot Branding script, although there were a few “preview” releases as we worked out kinks in the processes. Things are looking reasonably good now (thanks to feedback from several people on the preview versions), so a new 3.3.0 release was published.
TeamViewerPS v 2.4.0
TeamViewerPS allows to interact with the TeamViewer Web API as well as a locally installed TeamViewer client.
PendingReboot v 0.9.0.6
Module to detect Windows OS pending reboots.
PSBlitz
A PowerShell-based tool that outputs SQL Server health and performance diagnostics data

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell October 2025 Update
The Office 365 for IT Pros team is happy to announce the availability of the October 2025 update for the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook. Subscribers can download the latest PDF and EPUB files from Gumroad.com. In other news, a new eBook about Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) is available. It’s always nice to see new sources of knowledge open up!

Community

From Sysadmin to PowerShell Team: The Story of SeeminglyScience
Patrick Meinecke, known as SeeminglyScience, joins host Andrew Pla to share his journey from sysadmin to joining the PowerShell team at Microsoft. He discusses his early community contributions, the inner workings of the PowerShell engine, and powerful but underused features like ETS and type converters. Patrick also highlights helpful modules such as PowerShell Run, ctypes, and Useful Argument Completers, while reflecting on the importance of community engagement and open source collaboration.
PowerShell Community Call - September 18th, 2025
Watch this month PowerShell Community Call if you missed it.

Fun

Every time I run a PowerShell script with extension .ps1
It's stuck in my head, so now it'll be stuck in yours.

Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026
April 13-17, 2026 in Bellevue, WA
PSConfEU MiniCon 2025
14 October 2025 - MiniCon is back! Join the PSConfEU community for this virtual event. Secure your free ticket now!

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