Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release - PowerShell Team This post announces the General Availability (GA) of PowerShell 7.6, the next Long Term Support release.

PowerShell 7.6 Long Term Support Release - devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/a...

AI Dev Gallery (Preview) - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store Learn how to add AI with local models and APIs to Windows apps. Discover AI scenarios and models such as Phi, Mistral, Stable Diffusion, Whisper, and many more to delight your users. The AI Dev Galler...

Working link aka.ms/ai-dev-gallery

Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats".
Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).

Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources | Microsoft Community Hub Declare Microsoft Entra ID resources like applications and groups in Bicep templates  

We are excited to announce that the Bicep Microsoft Graph extension is fully GA as of today 💪🎉

HUGE thanks to the MS Graph team for making this happen!

Read more about it here: aka.ms/MSGraphGA

Nice job, keep it up!

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence. ​

Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel Microsoft wants to avoid another CrowdStrike incident.

Microsoft is starting to move antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Security vendors are about to test new Windows changes in a private preview that's designed to prevent another CrowdStrike incident. Full details and interview 👇 www.theverge.com/news/692637/...

Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0 - PowerShell Team This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.

Blog post by @jasonhelmick.bsky.social on the DSC 3.1 GA release! devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/a...

Hydrangeas are on point this year!

‘Devasting.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia Researchers decry agency’s decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University.

www.science.org/content/arti...

GitHub - jdhitsolutions/DSCResourceMigration: A set of PowerShell commands for converting MOF-based DSC resources to class-based. A set of PowerShell commands for converting MOF-based DSC resources to class-based. - jdhitsolutions/DSCResourceMigration

If you have written traditional #DSC resources and want an easy way to migrate them to class-based resources, take a look at github.com/jdhitsolu... #PowerShell

🎉 Happy 5th Birthday to Bicep! 🎂💪
Today marks 5 years since the 1st Bicep commit!

📅Celebrate with us at the May 29th Community Call at 9am PST here: aka.ms/bicepcc
⭐️ Share your favorite Bicep memories via this form for a chance to be featured: t.ly/BicepBday

Here's to the next 5 reps! 💪🚀

What Happens Next in North Carolina’s Supreme Court Race Read more here.

NEW: North Carolina voters secured a huge legal win after a court ordered the certification of Allison Riggs' state Supreme Court victory. But the certification now lies in the hands of the state election board, which transitions to a GOP majority tomorrow.

From: @jenrice.bsky.social

As a kid, I visited my dad in the hospital before he died of pancreatic cancer.

Three years ago, I held my husband’s hand as he died of pancreatic cancer.

People are doing the same right now all over the country.

F#ck RFK jr and the ignoramus running the NIH.

May 7th 2025 Meetup Rolling Your Own Configuration as Code Toolset (Lucas Allman)

Come Join me on May 7th as I get together with the Research Triangle PowerShell User Group to discuss where rolling your own configuration as code toolset lands on a scale from Misguided to Foolish. 🥳

rtpsug.com/meetups/2025...

Jfc

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The Griffin List A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

NORTH CAROLINA!!!!!

After five months The North Carolina Court of Appeals has decided to decide with Griffin and will be throwing out votes. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE 14 DAYS TO CURE THEIR BALLOT
thegriffinlist.com
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I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won.

This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

" On April 5th, a 54% tariff goes into effect on a wide range of goods imported from China. For those of us who create boardgames, this is not just a policy change. It's a seismic shift. At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can't absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We've done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely. Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math. Some people ask, "Why not manufacture in the U.S.?" I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn't meaningfully exist here yet. I've gotten quotes. I've talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren't."

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

Dragon dragon dragon!

Schimel has to know that Musk making this election about himself hurts Schimel. But clearly Schimel also knows he can't say "no" to Musk. Which is another reason it's so critical that Schimel lose to Crawford. We can't have Justices who can't say no to Musk.

Our March Bicep Community Call is CANCELLED! Keep an eye out for an invite to our next Community Call taking place on April 17th, at 9am PST :)

Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪

Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

GitHub - microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet: Five lessons, learn how to really apply AI to your .NET Applications Five lessons, learn how to really apply AI to your .NET Applications - microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet

🔥 New in the GenAI .NET repo!
🚀 Now featuring phi-4-mini samples!
👉 Check it out aka.ms/genainet

#Dotnet #AI #GenerativeAI

A cheery tree in bloom

A magnolia tree in bloom

A cheery tree in bloom by a lake

A close up of cherry tree blooms

Bloom TIME!

Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 - PowerShell Team This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.

DesiredStateConfiguration (DSC) v3.0 is now Generally Available! See our announcement blog post here devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/a.... Binaries are available at our GitHub release page github.com/PowerShell/D...

Maester Adds Support for GitLab March 12, 2025 · One min read Stefan Wey Stefan Wey Maester contributor Maester now works seamlessly with GitLab 👏! Teams using GitLab pipelines can easily integrate Maester into their CI/CD workflows to run automated security checks and enhance their security monitoring. Maester running on GitLab

As we barrel towards 🔥 Maester 1.1 release this quarter (so many new tests!!!) we do have an early gift for GitLab users.

All kudos go to Stefan Way for this feature.

❤️ Now Maester supports five different DevOps platforms!! 👏

👉 maester.dev/blog/mae...

Most excellent!