PowerShell Genie updates
Documentation: Microsoft Learn
New exercises and substantial reference updates, with direct links to the changed practice and command pages.
1 October 2026 — practice and reporting improvements
- 14 checked daily exercises, a full archive and review of missed tasks.
- A downloadable service-audit lab with hints, reference code and a CSV result checker.
- Corrected replication output, scheduled-task result interpretation, and real uptime calculation.
- A public starter practice sequence before deeper lesson registration.
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Overview
UPDATES
List service names beginning with W
2026-09-07
Command Golf: List service names beginning with W. Solve the checked fixture, shorten your pipeline, and share your character count.
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Task references consolidated; weekly Command Golf added
2026-09-04
Repeated task pages now have one reference with diagnostic and validation notes. Command Golf adds four exercises,
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Find the largest process below 100 MiB
2026-09-04
Command Golf: Find the largest process below 100 MiB. Solve the checked fixture, shorten your pipeline, and share your character count.
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PLATFORM WATCH
PowerShell 7.6 LTS and modern DSC
Use the migration and DSC learning hubs to understand version differences instead of treating every shell or configuration engine as interchangeable.
Windows PowerShell 5.1 → PowerShell 7.x
Compatibility checklist and rollout plan.
Microsoft DSC 3
Declarative configuration, resources and modern configuration documents.