Adam DriscollLast week was the 10th anniversary edition of PowerShell Conference Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany, and it didn’t disappoint. Nearly 300 attendees, speakers, and organizers came together for a week of sessions, hallway conversations, and the kind of energy that only a decade of community-building produces. I always leave this conference with a renewed passion for PowerShell — and this year was no different.
What was different this year is that Devolutions stepped up as the key sponsor for the event. For me personally, that meant a lot. It’s a real signal of commitment to the PowerShell community, and it helped ensure the conference ran as smoothly as it did. More importantly, it gave us the chance to be present: we were able to have a lot of great conversations with our users and folks that may benefit from PowerShell Universal’s new home among other great products at Devolutions.
On Stage in Wiesbaden
Speaking of, I had the opportunity to deliver two sessions on what’s new in PowerShell Universal 2026.2, and I was happy to see them well attended with plenty of questions spilling into the hallways afterward. The focus was on AI tooling — specifically MCP tools and agents. I demonstrated how you can build modules, APIs, and web apps using GitHub Copilot connected directly to a PowerShell Universal instance, generating real solutions from simple prompts. If you missed it, the recording will be available on the PowerShell Conference EU YouTube channel in the coming weeks.
Marc-André Moreau also presented, covering Devolutions’ expertise in PSRemoting and a separate talk on multi-pwsh and our open source commitments. When an attendee asked if what he was showing was available on GitHub, his answer was short: “Of course.” The room applauded. It’s a small moment, but it stuck with me. It’s a reminder that PowerShell Universal, and its open source roots, have found a good home at Devolutions.
Throughout the week I heard a lot of feedback from users about the future of the platform. It was genuinely refreshing to hear that people are excited about where things are headed. There was strong interest in how PowerShell Universal will scale across environments — improvements to the agent and deeper integration with solutions like Devolutions Gateway came up more than once. And a lot of people are navigating the new AI landscape in interesting ways, building PSU tools with it in ways I hadn’t even anticipated.
Where the Real Conversations Happen
The hallway conversations, as always, provided some of the most value. I talked to users building their personal landing pages with PowerShell Universal. I talked to users scaling to thousands of endpoint devices. I talked to users vibe coding interfaces to spin up PSU instances in containers. And I talked to users who just wanted to schedule a couple of scripts. That range always reminds me why it matters to build a platform that can adapt: technology is always on a spectrum, and meeting people wherever they are on it is the whole point.
The PowerShell community is unique, and PSConfEU is a physical representation of that. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s serious where it matters. I’m already looking forward to next year.
In the meantime, catch my sessions on the PSConfEU YouTube channel once they’re live. And if you want to dig into what’s new in PowerShell Universal 2026.2, the release notes are a great place to start.
Steven Lafortune