PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

What happens when you mix PowerShell with wires, motors, sensors, and microcontrollers — then add a spark of creativity? You get scripts that put the physical world at your fingertips; light up RGB LEDs, spin motors, rotate a servo, trigger a MOSFET switch, water your cactus, and whatever else you can imagine!In this session, we’ll take PowerShell beyond the terminal and into the hardware realm. You’ll discover the concepts, tools, and skills needed to bridge the gap from scripts to circuits, building your own PowerShell Gadgets with accessible yet powerful platforms:- FT232H-based boards — for direct I²C, SPI, UART, and GPIO control straight from your console. - Pico and ESP32 microcontrollers running Python — for flexible, wireless, and rich automation possibilities.We’ll cover the essential starter toolkit—what you'll need, how to wire stuff together, and how to speak its language from PowerShell — then jump into live, real-world demos that show scripts breaking free from software to control and interact with the physical world around you.

Tired of clicking through endless wizards just to spin up a lab? In this session, we'll show how AutomatedLab makes lab building fast, consistent, and code-driven—right from your PowerShell console.We'll start with the basics of AutomatedLab's cmdlets, then walk step-by-step through creating a full two-server Active Directory forest in minutes using its sample scripts. Along the way, you'll learn and see how AutomatedLab automates network setup, VM provisioning, domain configuration, and post-install testing—no manual intervention required.Next, we'll dive into a live walkthrough of a custom script that spins up a repeatable environment Domain Controller, Root CA, and Privileged Access Workstation for a complete lab with PKI. You'll learn how to parameterize lab builds, integrate external switches for internet access, and customize VM roles for your own scenarios.This is a practical, hands-on session designed for PowerShell admins and IaC beginners who want to see exactly how to rapidly build, tear down, and rebuild entire environments for testing or trainingCome for the live demos, stay for the reusable scripts, and walk away ready to replace manual lab builds with clean, repeatable code.

Managing software on Windows at scale can often feel like herding cats; however, when you combine the declarative power of Ansible with the package management reliability of Chocolatey, it becomes a piece of cake.

In this session, we will unwrap the chocolatey.chocolatey collection, exploring how it provides a complete recipe for declaratively managing packages across your Windows fleet. We will look at how to mix the right ingredients (idempotency, configuration, and source management) to bake a reliable automation strategy that always rises to the occasion.

Whether you are strictly open-source or using Chocolatey for Business, you will leave this session ready to write playbooks that are undeniably sweet.

Handmade chocolate is charming. Handmade Chocolatey builds? Not so much. When your packages rely on copy-paste scripts, tribal knowledge, and “run this step next,” things fall apart—especially at scale.

In this session, we’ll move from artisanal, hand-rolled Chocolatey builds to repeatable, factory-grade automation using psake. You’ll learn how psake can orchestrate building Chocolatey packages, extensions, and related tooling with clear structure, dependency management, and predictable outcomes. These patterns come from real-world use in large, fast-moving environments where Windows automation needs to be reliable, auditable, and boring in the best possible way.

Drawing on experience maintaining psake itself and applying it in organizations operating at massive scale, this talk focuses on practical techniques you can use immediately—whether you manage a handful of internal packages or thousands of endpoints.