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The powershell tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's PowerShell command-line shell and scripting language across Windows and cross-platform environments. Recent discussions include PowerShell 7.6.5 servicing updates with WDAC fixes, ARM64 support, and packaging changes, plus the Teams PowerShell 7.9 module introducing WAM default authentication and removing Shifts cmdlets. Threads also explore PowerShell's role in Windows administration, such as checking camera and microphone usage via registry, understanding MSIX app removal behavior, and adapting to WMIC deprecation in Windows 11 builds. For IT professionals and developers, the tag highlights practical scripting, security hardening, and automation topics relevant to enterprise Windows environments.
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    WindowsBackupAdmin Deletes All User Backup Data via Graph Beta

    Microsoft has published WindowsBackupAdmin 1.0.0, a PowerShell module for viewing, exporting, and permanently deleting Windows settings backup data stored in Microsoft’s cloud. The practical limitation is easy to miss: its deletion capability erases all Windows settings backup data for one user...
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    Windows OpenSSH: Fix Git SSH Passphrase Prompts

    Windows 10 and Windows 11 can keep a Git SSH key available through the built-in OpenSSH Authentication Agent, eliminating the passphrase prompt that normally appears on every git fetch, pull, or push. The important qualification is that Git must be invoking the same Windows ssh.exe that can...
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    Teams Plans Meeting Scam Reporting for October 2026

    Microsoft plans to add an in-meeting reporting control to Teams in October 2026, giving organizers and attendees a direct way to flag suspected impersonation, phishing, scams, vishing, and other malicious behavior during or after a meeting. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 569207, is marked...
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    Windows 11 Build 29648 Removes WMIC in Early 2026 Test

    Windows 11 Insider Preview build 29648.1000 removes the wmic.exe command-line utility from Microsoft’s Experimental (Future Platforms) branch, turning a long-running deprecation notice into a compatibility test for the earliest Windows builds. Neowin reported the flight on August 17, and the...
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    Microsoft Teams Soft-Deletes Empty, Guest-Only Private Channels

    Microsoft Teams administrators have passed the remediation deadline for two classes of private channels that Microsoft says cannot move to its updated private-channel infrastructure: channels with an empty roster, and channels populated only by guests without an in-tenant owner. MakeUseOf...
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    PowerShell 7.6.5 Deep Dive: WDAC Fix, Security Hardening, Smaller Packages, and ARM64 Support

    PowerShell 7.6.5 is a servicing, security, and release-engineering update rather than a feature release. Microsoft published it on August 14, 2026, less than four weeks after 7.6.4. The official comparison spans 28 commits from 11 contributors and changes 57 files, while the curated release...
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    OneDrive Photos: No Standalone Uninstall Until September 2026

    Windows 11 users who want OneDrive Photos gone today have a narrow set of real choices: hide its shortcuts, or uninstall the entire OneDrive sync client. There is no supported standalone uninstall for the new photo experience at present, because it is delivered inside the OneDrive installation...
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    Windows 11: Check Last Recorded Camera and Microphone Use

    Windows already records camera, microphone, and location access more precisely than its Settings pages expose, but the registry trail is a last-use record, not the complete surveillance log described in a recent Neowin walkthrough. It can show when a tracked app last started and stopped using a...
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    Claude Code Auto Mode Becomes Default for Pro, Max, Team Aug. 14

    Claude Code will make its classifier-driven Auto Mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts on August 14, 2026, shifting the product’s safety model away from per-command human approval and toward automated policy decisions. The New Stack first reported the rollout, which leaves Enterprise...
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    Windows 11 MSIX Uninstall: Why Removed Apps Stay on Disk

    Removing a Microsoft Store-style app from Windows can take it out of Start, Settings, and the current user’s app list while leaving the package payload on disk for another user or a dependent component. The distinction is not a bug in the Uninstall button; it is the intended MSIX deployment...
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    Teams PowerShell 7.9 Makes WAM Default, Removes Shifts Cmdlets

    Microsoft Teams PowerShell 7.9.0 is now the current stable module, and its most immediate operational change is that Connect-MicrosoftTeams uses Windows Web Account Manager, or WAM, for supported interactive sign-ins by default. Petri first highlighted the authentication shift alongside a broad...
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    Microsoft Teams Adds 8-Digit Numeric Passcodes by Organizer

    Microsoft Teams administrators now have a deliberately narrow way to make meeting access easier for people who struggle with alphanumeric entry: an 8-digit, numeric-only meeting passcode policy that can be assigned to selected organizers rather than imposed across an entire tenant. Microsoft has...
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    Outlook Adds Tenant Default for Comma Recipient Separators

    Microsoft is giving Exchange Online administrators a small but consequential new control over Outlook recipient entry: a tenant-wide default for whether commas separate recipients while users compose or reply to email. The feature, tracked as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 557676, is listed as...
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    Windows 11: Restore Classic Menus, Local Search, Remove Widgets

    Windows 11 offers an enormous Settings app, taskbar controls, personalization panels, and a growing number of toggles—yet three everyday frustrations can still require stepping outside the graphical interface. Restoring the full right-click menu, stopping web suggestions from appearing in...
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    Find Installed Apps on Windows 11: Settings, Winget and Edge

    Windows 11 does not keep every kind of installed software in one perfectly complete list, but it does provide several reliable ways to answer the practical question: is this app actually installed on this PC? For most users, Settings > Apps > Installed apps is the right starting point. When that...
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    Windows 11 Remove Microsoft Copilot App Policy: 28-Day Rule

    Microsoft has finally given Windows 11 administrators a supported policy for removing the consumer Microsoft Copilot app, but the setting is more conditional than its name suggests. The new Remove Microsoft Copilot app policy can uninstall Copilot on eligible Windows 11 systems through Group...
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    Microsoft Teams External Bots Require Lobby Approval by Default

    Microsoft Teams administrators should treat the retirement of the old CAPTCHA policy as a workflow-design deadline, not a cosmetic policy cleanup: any unattended third-party meeting assistant that is detected as an external bot can now be held in the lobby until a person admits it. Before the...
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    SharePoint File Archiving: Disable Default-On Access Before Pilots

    SharePoint administrators who are not ready for user-driven file archiving should disable tenant-wide file archiving, confirm pay-as-you-go billing and Microsoft 365 Archive prerequisites, verify their SharePoint Online Management Shell version, and then scope and test pilot sites before...
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    Microsoft Coreutils for Windows: Disable CMD and PowerShell Conflicts

    Microsoft Coreutils for Windows should be treated as a controlled platform change, not a developer convenience install: inventory and test CMD and PowerShell automation before winget install Microsoft.Coreutils reaches shared developer images or enterprise baselines. The risk is not that Windows...
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    PowerShell 7.4 and .NET 8 Support End November 10, 2026

    PowerShell 7.4 should be treated as part of a coordinated .NET 8 exit plan, not as an isolated scripting upgrade: both reach end of support on November 10, 2026. Organizations should begin inventorying PowerShell hosts, scripts, modules, build agents, containers, and .NET 8 applications now...