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Explore PowerShell's cross-platform capabilities in this 40-minute conference talk from PowerShell Summit 2025. Learn to harness PowerShell's full potential across diverse environments including Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, ARM devices, containers, and cloud platforms like Azure Cloud Shell. Discover the operating systems and distributions that PowerShell supports, understand unique cross-platform behaviors, and explore non-traditional computing environments through rapid-fire demonstrations covering Azure Cloud Shell for cloud management, PowerShell inside Docker containers, behavior comparisons across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and PowerShell implementation on Raspberry Pi for IoT projects and home automation. Examine PowerShell on ARM-based Windows devices and understand what makes these platforms unique compared to traditional x86-64 Windows systems. Gain practical insights through tips, tricks, and comprehensive leave-behind scripts, including a cross-platform, backward-compatible system inventory script for immediate application. Master techniques for writing better cross-platform and backward-compatible code while learning to configure your VSCode environment to identify PowerShell code that won't work on Linux or macOS or isn't backward compatible with previous PowerShell versions. Designed for intermediate PowerShell users, this session provides the knowledge needed to manage cloud infrastructure, automate home projects, experiment with diverse hardware, and create cross-platform or backward-compatible tools.
