The ScriptRunner Blog Podcast

IT leaders worldwide are dealing with new regulations that change how they approach PowerShell automation.

Whether you're facing the EU's NIS2 Directive, US requirements like HIPAA and SOX, or other data governance standards, the challenge is the same: making automation more auditable and secure.

‍If you handle making compliance actually work day-to-day, you know the struggle with tight budgets and staffing. Another compliance proj...

Your team’s PowerShell scripts work. And that's exactly the problem.

‍Budget meetings deliver familiar frustrations. Executive leadership demands faster project delivery, enhanced productivity metrics, and improved SLA performance. Meanwhile, your team handles 40% more automation requests than last year with the same headcount.

Budgets stay tight while expectations keep rising. Global IT spending continues climbing, yet much of tha...

PowerShell has become the default engine of automation in Microsoft environments. Many IT departments discover an uncomfortable truth: more PowerShell scripts reduce team productivity.

‍We see this in almost all of our customers. As business grows and new requirements come in, the ecosystem expands, and the PowerShell script collection grows along with it.

What once seemed like progress becomes a bottleneck. Valuable hours slip awa...

PowerShell automation is critical to IT operations, yet most organizations run it without consistent monitoring or reporting.

‍The result is a monitoring black hole: automation executes, but leaders cannot see whether it delivers value or risk. Recent studies in enterprise IT have shown that adoption alone delivers little impact when oversight and reporting are missing.

This gap is just as evident in PowerShell environments, where ...

Shadow IT is no longer limited to unsanctioned apps. Increasingly, it includes unmonitored automation, where PowerShell scripts run outside any governance framework.

Recent research shows that more than 40 percent of employees already use technology beyond the reach of IT, and that number is expected to climb to three-quarters of the workforce by 2027. For those of us managing Microsoft environments, this is not a distant forecast ...

Running and securing PowerShell automation across multiple environments takes time and focus.

In ScriptRunner Enterprise Version 7.3, we addressed exactly that. Our team has put much effort into this release, guided by what you asked for. Based on customer feedback and real-world scenarios, many new features have made it into this release.

This version gives you more control across your PowerShell automation platform, strengthens s...

Every compliance review includes that moment when auditors request proof of administrative activity. Without centralized governance platforms, that evidence does not exist. IT leaders know this scenario well: explain to senior management why you can't prove what happened, or scramble for weeks trying to piece together evidence from scattered systems.

The challenge goes beyond PowerShell scripts. In practice, compliance pressure can...

Your Microsoft environment works. Your team delivers results. But simple business processes, such as onboarding new hires, consume significantly more time than they should. Your admins spend their day jumping between different systems to complete routine tasks that should take minutes, not hours.

Here's the scope of this problem: Kaspersky found that 74% of enterprise teams operate with fragmented multi-vendor toolchains, and 36% s...

The one admin who knows how your mission-critical PowerShell scripts work just left the company. You're staring at hundreds of automation scripts with cryptic comments, undocumented dependencies, and custom modules that nobody else understands.

This scenario happens in Microsoft environments every day. IT professionals call it the "bus factor problem". Critical automation knowledge is often held in individual heads instead of being...

January 2025 delivered a compliance wake-up call that no technical decision-maker can ignore. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule that eliminate the distinction between "required" and "addressable" implementation specifications.

According to the Federal Register, safeguards that were previously optional, including risk assessments, access controls, and detailed logg...

AI initiatives run in every department. HR screens candidates, Finance processes invoices, Operations predicts maintenance. Each shows success individually, but enterprise value remains elusive. As AI spending reaches record levels, the pressure to demonstrate measurable returns has intensified. Siloed AI initiatives prevent organizations from achieving the strategic advantages board members expect from these investments. This patt...