PowerShell Universal Community Call - July 2026

Meeting Notes

• I talked about the 2026.2.2 and the upcoming 2026.2.3 a bit.

• I did a demo of the WinForms to PSU App AI Skill

Pester Support

• Attendee described environment of 300+ scripts with a small team and heavy reliance on Pester

• Desires something like a CI\CD pipeline environment without using GitHub Actions

• Pain points

  • Overall usability (not very mature)

  • Basic output - No much to gain running in PSU

• Desired functionality

  • Some way to tie tests to feature groups, resource groups, individual resources (API endpoints, apps, etc)

  • Triggers for pester tests when code changes

  • Nightly runs of Pester tests

  • Triggers for failed test runs

• Discussed best ways to handle test assignment

  • Pester\PSU Tags - Possible but could get messy

  • Naming Conventions - Maybe easy to do but also could cause unexpected side effects

  • Test Manifest - Most rigid but maybe easier to support

High Availability

• Question around general success of high availability

• Attendee mentioned success with Docker Compose, PSU and PostgreSQL

• Some discussion around the best database to use

  • Similar performance for PG and MS SQL

  • MS SQL used more often and typically more of a focus of the dev team

  • PG starting to be used more and is getting some more attention from dev team

• An attendee mentioned that PSU does not survive database downtime well

• Talked about how Notifications are coming to the trigger feature to get info about admin console notifications

Rate Limiting Problems - Captcha issue

• Rate limiting and captcha configuration can be hard because not all internal URLs are well documented

• Custom APIs should be rate limited and internal URLs should be allowed through

  • Blazor Hub

  • Dashboard Hub

  • Internal Components URL

• Easier configuration of PSU's built in rate limiting for custom APIs

External\Internet Facing PSU Instances

• There was a question around how users expose PSU to external networks

• Attendee described the use of Azure API Management to surface some APIs to external services

Skills

• An attendee is looking for a skill to create a custom App components

• We have an internal experimentation around this that we can formalize and publish

New-UDUpload

• Multifile support is desired

• 2gb limit is a blocker

Workflow

• Not enough there. Needs more features

• Not everyone had played with it yet but will give feedback when more time allows

• Approvals would be awesome

• Approvals via slackops is ideal

Agents

• We are building PSU support in devolutions-agent (open source)

• We are taking advantage of PSRemoting to be able to service event hubs-style features as well as run jobs