Best PowerShell Podcasts (2025)

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hzctetyg2sbzdfn9/The_PowerShell_Podcast_episode_195_Stevie_Coaster6gx0s.mp3 Newly minted Microsoft MVP Stephen Valdinger, known as Steviecoaster, joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his journey from IT admin to community mentor and automation advocate. He talks about discovering PowerShell through Exchange, the car…

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AutomatedLab, GUIs, and automation with Steviecoaster 59:43

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Newly minted Microsoft MVP Stephen Valdinger, known as Steviecoaster, joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his journey from IT admin to community mentor and automation advocate. He talks about discovering PowerShell through Exchange, the career-changing power of automation, and his work with AutomatedLab, PowerShell Universal, and WinUI Shell. Ste…

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Celebrating 18 Years Of PowerShell 1:09:39

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PowerShell 1.0 was released on November 14, 2006. It has changed the IT automation landscape forever. We're bringing together well-known members of the PowerShell community for a special livestream to celebrate 18 years of PowerShell! 🚀 Expect stories, tips, learnings and a look back at how PowerShell has grown into this amazing IT automation techn…

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Helpdesk Scars & PowerShell Wins with Andrew Taylor 55:52

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Andrew Taylor shares his journey from studying business to becoming a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of experience. He discusses his early days in help desk support, his transition to end user computing, and the challenges he faced in various IT roles, including managing multiple tenants in the MSP world. Andrew emphasizes the importan…

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Managing for Failure with Amy Norris 30:46

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#742 - MiniForum M2 with NVIDIA RT 4000 GPU w/Bob Plankers and Eric NIelsen

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Bob and Eric discuss the availability of the 1300.00 RT4000 with 20 Gig of memory and using it in the MiniForum to run AI models.By vmware

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Audio overviews in OneDrive 32:23

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Bryan Dam – Onesies, Sysadmin Life & Sneakernet Solutions (Replay) 1:11:21

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#741 - Private aI in the DataCenter with Rajesh Kadam CEO PipeIQ

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Consolidating PowerShell Environments Across Multiple Systems 8:27

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In most enterprises, the situation is well known. PowerShell automation rarely starts with a master plan. It evolved step by step as teams solved problems, introduced new technologies, and responded to business demands. PowerShell automation grew wherever it was needed. Scripts appeared where issues needed solving. Server automation here, cloud dep…

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You Can't Patch Burnout: When Cybersecurity Takes a Toll 47:21

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Every October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month brings a wave of tips: update your software, enable MFA, use strong passwords. But what good is any of that if the people behind the defenses are feeling burned out? In this episode of Talos Takes, Hazel sits down with Joe Marshall for a candid, vulnerable conversation about the human cost of cybersecuri…

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Scaling Governance: PowerShell Reporting Without Team Expansion 6:29

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Regulatory frameworks like NIS2, HIPAA, and SOX keep raising the bar for compliance. Reporting and monitoring once sat in the background of IT operations. Today, they define how risk is managed and how business continuity is secured.By scriptrunner-blog

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Cheers to 25 Years of Active Directory - A Happy Hour with Special Guests 38:36

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Join us for a special live stream celebrating 25 years of Active Directory. 🎉 Dive into the past, present, and future of this groundbreaking technology with expert insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and special guest appearances. Share your AD stories with the community. Whether you're an IT veteran or new to the world of directory services, this…

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HaveIBeenPwned with Troy Hunt 41:01

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How do you know if one of your accounts has been part of a security breach? Richard chats with Troy Hunt about HaveIBeenPwned, a free service that allows individuals to receive notifications when their accounts appear in a security breach. Troy discusses other services available alongside HaveIBeenPwned for sysadmins, including password checking, i…

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The PowerShell Podcast From Sysadmin to Security at Microsoft with Thomas Rayner

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wtvq8irvenq4mshx/The_PowerShell_Podcast_episode_194_Thomas_Raynerble10.mp3 Thomas Rayner joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his journey from sysadmin and PowerShell MVP to securing Microsoft 365 as a security professional at Microsoft. He reflects on how PowerShell accelerated his career, the importance of bloggin…

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From Sysadmin to Security at Microsoft with Thomas Rayner 1:00:11

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Thomas Rayner joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his journey from sysadmin and PowerShell MVP to securing Microsoft 365 as a security professional at Microsoft. He reflects on how PowerShell accelerated his career, the importance of blogging and community involvement, and why clear communication with managers is vital for growth. Thomas also off…

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Matt Zaske’s Mustache Origin + Task Sequences in 2025 (Replay) 1:14:19

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Matt Zaske, a seasoned sysadmin in higher ed, dives into device management, Windows 11 migration, and how his theater background shapes his IT communication. He shares his path into tech speaking, explores home automation, and showcases his passion for 3D printing and custom conference collectibles. We also learn the fun origin story of his iconic …

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Preparing PowerShell Automation Strategy for Changing Compliance Rules 8:55

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IT leaders worldwide are dealing with new regulations that change how they approach PowerShell automation. Whether you're facing the EU's NIS2 Directive, US requirements like HIPAA and SOX, or other data governance standards, the challenge is the same: making automation more auditable and secure. ‍If you handle making compliance actually work day-t…

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Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls 31:45

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You're down - is it your servers, or someone else's? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sits down with Mandi Walls from Pager Duty about her experiences dealing with incidents involving vendor services. It might be your cloud provider, or some other SaaS element of a pipeline, or even an open-source library dependency in an imp…

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#740 - VCF 9 Adoption in Europe w/Yves Sanfort

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Comdivision CEO Yves Sanfort comes to Palo Alto to work with VCF teams and talks about customer adoption across the globe, from Europe, now to America's and also a APJ perspecitve. Yves also covers the AI drivers in the enterprise and moving workloads back to VCF from other Vendors.By vmware

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Managing PowerShell Skill Gaps Before They Become Operational Risks 6:31

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PowerShell is the backbone of automation processes in Microsoft infrastructure management today. But IT organizations face a critical challenge, because their teams quickly hit their limits without clear standards and proper expertise. Especially when core capabilities are missing, PowerShell skill gaps represent systemic risks that extend beyond i…

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The PowerShell Podcast From Sysadmin to PowerShell Team: The Story of SeeminglyScience

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hsc7zqqbrbtxj35n/The_PowerShell_Podcast_episode_193_Patrick_M6izpa.mp3 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 pow…

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From Sysadmin to PowerShell Team: The Story of SeeminglyScience 1:03:30

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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…

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When IT Becomes the Bottleneck: Scaling Support Without Scaling Headcount 7:21

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Your team’s PowerShell scripts work. And that's exactly the problem. ‍Budget meetings deliver familiar frustrations. Executive leadership demands faster project delivery, enhanced productivity metrics, and improved SLA performance. Meanwhile, your team handles 40% more automation requests than last year with the same headcount. Budgets stay tight w…

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Policy Chaos: When Every Team Has Their Own PowerShell Automation Rules 8:31

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You know the value of PowerShell. It is flexible, powerful, and deeply embedded in the way Microsoft environments run for almost 20 years. But that flexibility becomes a liability when central governance is absent. Without unified standards, every team writes its own rules for how automation should be executed, monitored, and reported, creating pol…

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The Productivity Paradox: Why More PowerShell Scripts Mean Less Team Efficiency 6:00

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PowerShell has become the default engine of automation in Microsoft environments. Many IT departments discover an uncomfortable truth: more PowerShell scripts reduce team productivity. ‍We see this in almost all of our customers. As business grows and new requirements come in, the ecosystem expands, and the PowerShell script collection grows along …

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The Monitoring Black Hole: Blind Spots in PowerShell Automation Oversight 6:09

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PowerShell automation is critical to IT operations, yet most organizations run it without consistent monitoring or reporting. ‍The result is a monitoring black hole: automation executes, but leaders cannot see whether it delivers value or risk. Recent studies in enterprise IT have shown that adoption alone delivers little impact when oversight and …

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Shadow PowerShell: The Hidden Compliance Risk in Your Microsoft Environment 8:50

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Shadow IT is no longer limited to unsanctioned apps. Increasingly, it includes unmonitored automation, where PowerShell scripts run outside any governance framework. Recent research shows that more than 40 percent of employees already use technology beyond the reach of IT, and that number is expected to climb to three-quarters of the workforce by 2…

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ScriptRunner Enterprise Version 7.3 - More Control, More Comfort, More Power 5:06

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Running and securing PowerShell automation across multiple environments takes time and focus. In ScriptRunner Enterprise Version 7.3, we addressed exactly that. Our team has put much effort into this release, guided by what you asked for. Based on customer feedback and real-world scenarios, many new features have made it into this release. This ver…

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The Audit Nightmare: How Decentralized PowerShell Creates Compliance Blind Spots 8:34

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Every compliance review includes that moment when auditors request proof of administrative activity. Without centralized governance platforms, that evidence does not exist. IT leaders know this scenario well: explain to senior management why you can't prove what happened, or scramble for weeks trying to piece together evidence from scattered system…

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Unsupported and Unmaintained: The Risk of Self-Built PowerShell Solutions in Microsoft Environments 8:19

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"Organizations tend to hide the issue until it is killing them." That observation from ITPro captures exactly what you're probably dealing with right now. Month one feels perfect. Your admin writes a quick script, solves the problem, and moves on. The automation works. The process flows. Everyone's happy.…

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Tool Sprawl Is Killing IT Productivity: 74% of IT Teams Use Fragmented Toolchains 10:00

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Your Microsoft environment works. Your team delivers results. But simple business processes, such as onboarding new hires, consume significantly more time than they should. Your admins spend their day jumping between different systems to complete routine tasks that should take minutes, not hours. Here's the scope of this problem: Kaspersky found th…

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Your Team's PowerShell Knowledge Is a Single Point of Failure 8:39

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The one admin who knows how your mission-critical PowerShell scripts work just left the company. You're staring at hundreds of automation scripts with cryptic comments, undocumented dependencies, and custom modules that nobody else understands. This scenario happens in Microsoft environments every day. IT professionals call it the "bus factor probl…

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5 Governance Mistakes That Break Compliance in Microsoft Environments (And How to Fix Them) 9:56

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January 2025 delivered a compliance wake-up call that no technical decision-maker can ignore. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule that eliminate the distinction between "required" and "addressable" implementation specifications. According to the Federal Register, safeguards that wer…

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Don't Let Siloed AI Block Your Automation Strategy 9:33

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AI initiatives run in every department. HR screens candidates, Finance processes invoices, Operations predicts maintenance. Each shows success individually, but enterprise value remains elusive. As AI spending reaches record levels, the pressure to demonstrate measurable returns has intensified. Siloed AI initiatives prevent organizations from achi…

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From Script Sprawl to Secure Delegation Policy-Driven PowerShell Automation for Microsoft IT 10:14

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PowerShell is the script engine of automation in Microsoft enterprise environments. Over time, many IT teams find themselves overwhelmed by uncontrolled script growth, excessive privileges, and manual workflows that delay service delivery. Maintaining compliance with SOX, NIST, and DORA becomes a daily challenge when scripts run without consistent …

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Why Enterprise Automation Governance Is the Foundation of Compliance in Regulated Industries 9:06

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Your enterprise automation strategy delivered measurable results. Operational costs fell by 30%. Response times improved across departments. Your IT team hit every efficiency target while supporting 10,000 users at multiple sites. Then your auditor asked a simple question that changed everything: "Can you demonstrate that these automated processes …

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Scalable Automation Needs Governance, Delegation and Auditability – Here's How 7:01

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IT leaders recognize a growing challenge as more teams turn to automation to manage users, systems, and services. How can scalable automation be implemented across an organization without losing visibility or control? How can it support compliance requirements without becoming a burden? What needs to be in place to ensure that automation remains an…

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5 PowerShell Automation Scripts to Optimize IT Infrastructure in 2025 3:57

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Why PowerShell Is Key to Scalable IT Automation In the first part of this series, we covered five scripts that help IT teams automate user management and Microsoft 365 administration. These examples showed how ScriptRunner turns isolated PowerShell scripts into secure, scalable automation for everyday IT tasks. This second part highlights five esse…