AIShell, whoami, Windows Terminal, PlatyPS
Events
Sept. 23rd 2025 ==> PowerShell Cafe Q3/2025 – „One of the best Logging modules“ with special guest Tibor Soós
Whatever you do with PowerShell, simply firing up a script or writing your own toolbox, you need to know what happens in the background. Join us and learn how to use logging easily with the work of Tibor.
Info and Registration Link can be found on the expertslive.at website: https://expertslive.at/experts-live-powershell-cafe-im-september/
Snippets
AIShell – preview 6 with MCP Preview and better PowerShell integration
AIShell made its next evolutionary step and introduced MCP support with preview version 6. Steven Bucher from the PowerShell engineering team did an introductional post on the new feature here. Its for example possible to add files from your local directory as MCP content. Cool stuff !
A better version of whoami
There are many ways to identify the current logged-on-user in Powershell, Markus Elsberger wrote a blogpost about the options (on windows). Read Markus Blog here.
Windows Terminal 1.23 (stable) 1.24 (preview)
PowerShell Users on Windows will most likely use Windows Terminal, like macOS Users use iTerm3. Terminal 1.23 offers a couple of interesting new features in window-management and UI-settings. Version 1.24 will offer multilingual support, better extension management and a lot of other useful stuff. Read more here.
PlatyPS 1.0.0
This project of the engineering team has been n beta and preview for a long while. The help system in Powershell, beeing based on XML files is difficult and platyPS simplyfies writing professional help. To get started, read Mike F. Robbins blog.
Have a nice week / R.
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