Adam Driscoll

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Best Practices | PowerShell Universal Learn how to best configure PowerShell Universal.

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-...

MCP Server | PowerShell Universal Enable a model context protocol server.

#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...

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

The Legend of PlatyPS and Content Wrangler Telling the story of PlatyPS using Microsoft Copilot.

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...

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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...

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/...

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

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

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

Happy Friday.

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

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

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!!

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

#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.

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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...

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The home page for a new project, AutomatedLab UI

The Lab management screen where you can start/stop labs

The Lab Configuration creation screen.

The ISO management screen

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!

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#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

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...

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

CVEs | PowerShell Universal CVEs for PowerShell Universal.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

5.5.5 - Overloads postgreSQL database · Issue #4968 · ironmansoftware/powershell-universal Description of Issue When upgrading from PSU 5.5.4 to 5.5.5, PSU seems to flood the PostgreSQL database, and maxing out the number of availabile connections. It seems that it forgets to remove its ...

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

Selecting all in Git to commit is displaying wrong number of files selected when using "Select All" - 5.5.5 · Issue #5000 · ironmansoftware/powershell-universal Description of Issue For example, I have 20 changes that need synced to Github. I click save, I see 10 entries on the first page and a page 2 I can click on. I hit "Select All". It shows 10 of 20 s...

Also, I realized our 5000th issue was opened on GitHub. For better or worse, that's a lot of work that has gotten done. github.com/ironmansoftw...

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

Ten Years Toasting: BurntToast Hits the Big v1! It's been a long, eventful, decade. The perfect amount of time to burn some toast!

#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...