DSC Resource Kit Release June 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This is our biggest release yet! It takes the records for the most merged pull requests in a release and the most modules we have ever released at once from...
View ArticlePowerShell Script Analyzer 1.17.1 Released!
Summary: A new version of PSScriptAnalyzer is now available with many new features, rules, fixes and improvements. You might remember me from my previous cross-platform remoting blog post, but just to...
View ArticlePowerShell Core now available as a Snap package
The goal of PowerShell Core is to be the ubiquitous language for managing your assets in the hybrid cloud. That’s why we’ve worked to make it available on many operating systems, architectures, and...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release July 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 12 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 128 pull requests have been merged and 90 issues have been closed, all thanks to...
View ArticleIncreased Windows Modules coverage with PowerShell Core 6.1
During the May 2018 Community Call and a tweet a few weeks later, we mentioned that PowerShell team was spending significant time in the Windows codebase. We even demoed using the Active Directory...
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PowerShell Injection Hunter: Security Auditing for PowerShell Scripts
At the DEFCON security conference last year, we presented the session: “Get $pwnd: Attacking Battle Hardened Windows Server“. In this talk, we went through some of the incredibly powerful ways that...
View ArticlePowerShell Standard Library: Build single module that works across Windows...
This is the first of a series of blog posts that will help you take advantage of a new NuGet package PowerShellStandard Library 5.1.0. This package allows developers to create modules that are portable...
View ArticlePowerShell Module Exporting Functions in Constrained Language
PowerShell Module Exporting Functions in Constrained Language PowerShell offers a number of ways to expose functions in a script module. But some options have serious performance or security...
View ArticlePowerShell Module Function Export in Constrained Language
PowerShell Module Exporting Functions in Constrained Language PowerShell offers a number of ways to expose functions in a script module. But some options have serious performance or security...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release September 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 11 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 146 pull requests have been merged and 105 issues have been closed, all thanks to...
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New Look and Features for PowerShell Gallery
The PowerShell Gallery and PowerShellGet have just been updated to provide new features, performance improvements, and a new modern design. NOTE: This post has important information for publishers in...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update – September 2018
2018 has been the most active year ever for the DSC community. The DSC team is taking on major new areas of work in Azure, and we have made significant progress in development of the new DSC platform....
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell Core 6.1
We’re proud to announce that the latest version of PowerShell has been released! This marks our second supported release of PowerShell Core, the open-source edition of PowerShell that works on Linux,...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release October 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 9 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 126 pull requests have been merged and 79 issues have been closed, all thanks to...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0
The Windows Compatibility module (WindowsCompatibility) is a PowerShell module that lets PowerShell Core 6 scripts access Windows PowerShell modules that are not yet natively available on PowerShell...
View ArticlePowerShell Constrained Language mode and the Dot-Source Operator
PowerShell Constrained Language mode and the Dot-Source Operator PowerShell works with application control systems, such as AppLocker and Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), by automatically...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release November 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 9 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 61 pull requests have been merged and 67 issues have been closed, all thanks to our...
View ArticleThe PowerShell-Docs repo is moving
On January 16, 2019 at 5:00PM PDT, the PowerShell-Docs repositories are moving from the PowerShell organization to the MicrosoftDocs organization in GitHub. The tools we use to build the documentation...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release January 2019
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 41 pull requests have been merged and 54 issues have been closed, all thanks to...
View ArticleWindows Security change affecting PowerShell
Windows Security change affecting PowerShell January 9, 2019 The recent (1/8/2019) Windows security patch CVE-2019-0543, has introduced a breaking change for a PowerShell remoting scenario. It is a...
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