PowerShell Team

Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.2

Jason Helmick May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 05/6/21

Many native commands require elevated privileges to perform the expected operations. PowerShell Crescendo Preview 2 now supports cross platform elevation for your Crescendo wrapped native commands.

Optimizing your $Profile

Steve Lee April 6, 2021 Apr 6, 2021 04/6/21

Learn how to measure and improve startup time of your $Profile

Announcing the preview of PSArm

Steve Lee March 31, 2021 Mar 31, 2021 03/31/21

We are pleased to announce the preview of PSArm, providing a domain-specific language embedded in PowerShell for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.

SecretManagement and SecretStore are Generally Available

Sydney Smith March 25, 2021 Mar 25, 2021 03/25/21

We are excited to announce two modules are now generally available on the PowerShell Gallery: To install the modules, open any PowerShell console and run: Introducing SecretManagement The SecretManagement module helps users manage secrets by providing a common set of cmdlets to interface with secrets across vaults. ...

SecretStore Release Candidate 3

Sydney Smith March 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021 03/15/21

The SecretStore release candidate 3 (RC3) module is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This contains an exciting new feature which allows users to non-interactively create, and configure a SecretStore. This feature was added to support CI systems and other automated scenarios. SecretStore is an extension vault module, for PowerShell ...

Updating help for the PSReadLine module in Windows PowerShell 5.1

Sean Wheeler March 11, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 03/11/21

Describes how to workaround the error when you try to update help for PSReadline in Windows PowerShell 5.1.

Announcing PSReadLine 2.2-beta.2 with Dynamic help

Jason Helmick March 5, 2021 Mar 5, 2021 03/5/21

We are pleased to announce Dynamic Help, providing just-in-time help at the command line. Receive the help you need in the terminal without losing your place typing on the pipeline.

SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2

Sydney Smith March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate 2 (RC2) modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery. These releases contain an exciting new feature which allows users to provide non-sensitive metadata for secrets (note: this feature may not be available for all extension vaults). For more context on these modules check out ...

PowerShell Team 2021 Investments

Steve Lee March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Details of the work the PowerShell team has planned for PowerShell 7.2, OpenSSH, and related tooling.

PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates – February 2021

Sydney Smith February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21

  We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months. What's new in the PowerShell Extension release...