Pester 6.0.0 was released on July 7, roughly two years after the first 6.0 alpha. If you followed my getting started with Pester post last year, everything you wrote then still runs — but there’s a new way of writing assertions, a few behavior changes that can bite, and some genuinely useful additions.

The Azure updates feed had over 400 entries in the first half of 2026. Most of them won’t change your week. This is my pick of the ones that might: changes in default behavior, governance, Bicep, identity, Functions and testing, the wave of MCP servers, and the retirements worth putting in a calendar.

PowerShell Conference Europe 2026 was the tenth edition — from Hannover in 2016 to Wiesbaden this year. Four days at the Dorint Pallas, with around 300 attendees, about 40 speakers and some 70 sessions. And another genuinely great time.

Experts Live Netherlands has something most conferences don’t: its own radio station.
Experts Live Radio broadcasts in the run-up to and during the event, live from the NBC Congrescentrum in Nieuwegein, with a mix of tech news, interviews and music for IT professionals. This year I got to be on it (again).

Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.2 was released at the end of April, and unlike the usual point release, this one brings substantial changes. First-class Windows resources without the PSDSC adapter dance, an experimental Bicep ↔ DSC bridge, and a properly grown-up expression language.

If you haven’t caught up on DSC v3 yet, start with my DSC v3 primer — this post assumes you know what dsc.exe is and how a v3 configuration document is structured. For everything else that happened in PowerShell-land over the same window, see the April roundup.

Microsoft DSC v3.2 was released at the end of April and is genuinely the most interesting thing to happen in DSC-land in a long time. Before going into what’s new in v3.2 though, it’s worth a primer — DSC v3 has been around for a bit, but if you tried it in v1.1, bounced off it in v2, or just never made the time for it, the landscape now is meaningfully different. Here’s the quick catch-up.

For everything else that’s happened in PowerShell-land recently, see the April roundup.