PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

DSC v3 continues its evolutionary path, expanding into a more flexible, predictable, and approachable declarative configuration platform. Over the past year, the team has delivered substantial enhancements across the execution engine, resource model, and authoring experience. Configuration authoring is clearer and more consistent, schemas are richer and easier to validate, and new resource adapters make it simpler to integrate existing tools and ecosystems without rewriting everything from scratch.
 
This session highlights what’s new and what’s practical: writing and composing configurations, building custom resources, using adapters, and working with the latest export and testing capabilities. The focus is on real scenarios, repeatable patterns, and the forward direction of DSC v3 as it becomes an essential, lightweight foundation for configuration management across platforms. Join us for demos, discussion, and a look at what’s next.

Chocolatey packaging is often learned by example—and sometimes by accident. When packaging code lives outside of source control, teams lose context, history, and confidence.

In this session, we’ll break down why Chocolatey packages should be treated as versioned code and how even simple Git usage dramatically improves reliability and maintainability. We’ll cover common beginner mistakes, a sensible repository structure, and how source control enables safer changes and easier automation. Whether you manage one package or many, this talk will help you build packaging workflows that won’t surprise future you.

Sure, you can package anything, but, as you know, we believe strongly that you shouldn't have to package everything, especially not over and over again. In this session David James and Dan Gough will show off a new integration we're really proud of with Patch My PC and Master Packager.

Between our curated catalog will get you 90-99% patched, with no extra effort on your end, but for those special, complex situations when you need really a custom scripted solution, many of you rely on PSADT (We love it too). Then, challenges arise with what happens after you've packaged those apps, when deployment becomes clunky, versioning chaotic, and your environment becomes a dusty little script museum.

We believe even your most complicated PSADT-packaged apps deserve the same elegant systems as the rest of your apps. Enter: Master Packager. This integration helps you break the glass on those rare custom-scripted packages that just don't play nice. This integration converts otherwise difficult packages into PSADT apps (which work flawlessly with Patch My PC) and makes deployment with Intune seamless, just like your run-of-the-mill Chrome updates.

So pull up a chair and check out this session to see the system in action.

Choosing the right Terraform provider for Azure shouldn't require a trade-off between coverage, stability, and speed-to-market. In this session, we break down how AzureRM and AzAPI work together to give you complete Azure resource coverage—combining the polish of a curated provider with the day-zero agility of a thin API layer. We'll then do the same for identity: showing how AzureAD and the new MSGraph provider converge to cover the full spectrum of Entra ID and Microsoft 365 scenarios. In the second half, we'll open the hood and walk you through a real contributor workflow—from identifying a gap, to writing and testing a contribution, to getting it merged—so you can see firsthand how approachable it is to help shape the providers you depend on. Come ready to ask questions and, if you're feeling ambitious, to submit your first PR.

Every other discipline in IT figured this out years ago. Infrastructure, networking, application deployment — all moved to configuration as code because the scale forced them to. Endpoint management mostly didn't get the memo. We're still clicking through web interfaces, making changes one setting at a time, hoping we'll remember what we did when something breaks three months from now. That's not efficiency. That's invisible technical debt we've been pretending doesn't exist.

This talk is the case for moving your MDM into a Git repository — and a live demonstration of what that actually looks like. We'll cover why endpoint management got stuck in ClickOps while the rest of IT moved on, what config-as-code buys you that a GUI never can (history, diffs, code review, easy rollbacks), and how AI coding tools turn the slow part of this workflow into the fast part without removing the human review that keeps it safe. Includes a working sandbox-to-production pipeline with fleetctl and GitHub Actions.

I'm a Mac admin at a PowerShell conference, which I realize is a setup for a joke. It's also the point: the methodology has nothing to do with which OS you manage. Bring your objections — "git is too hard," "our team isn't ready," "the tools don't support it" — and I'll answer them.