How I used GitHub Copilot to plan, script, execute, and monitor a cumulative update on a 4-server SPSE farm — including WinRM debugging and parallel insta…
SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SPSE) cumulative updates are a recurring operations task that every farm admin knows well: download the CU, distribute it across servers, install binaries in the right order, run PSConfig, cross your fingers. The process is well-documented but tedious, error-prone, and full of hidden pitfalls — especially when you're working with multi-server MinRole farms and PowerShell Remoting. In this article I'll walk through how I used GitHub Copilot (an AI coding agent running directly inside VS Code) to plan, script, execute, and monitor an end-to-end CU upgrade…