PowerShell Team

Improving the PowerShell feedback experience with UserVoice

December 14, 2015 Dec 14, 2015 12/14/15

Joey Aiello

Since the early days of PowerShell 1.0, the PowerShell Team has been using Connect to manage customer feedback, feature requests, and bug reports, enabling us to have a continued pulse on the needs of the PowerShell community. However, in responding to your feedback, we also realize that Connect is starting to show its age and that our cloud ...

PowerShell Tests released on GitHub

December 7, 2015 Dec 7, 2015 12/7/15

PowerShell Team

The PowerShell team is excited to make its first release of our test code on GitHub. This project represents a selection of tests that the PowerShell team uses when testing PowerShell. In the more than 12 years of active development on PowerShell, we have created (and continue to use) many different script based test frameworks. As part of an ...

PowerShell Language Design – Request for Comments

December 2, 2015 Dec 2, 2015 12/2/15

Steve Lee

For a while now, we've been thinking about how to better incorporate the community into the PowerShell language design process.  We believe this would improve PowerShell by:  A Request for Comments (RFC) is a type of document used broadly in the ...

Announcing PowerShell language support for Visual Studio Code and more!

November 16, 2015 Nov 16, 2015 11/16/15

PowerShell Team

Today I am very happy to announce Developer Preview releases of two new projects that I hope will take your PowerShell development experience to the next level. Write and debug PowerShell scripts in Visual Studio Code! The first release is a new extension for Visual Studio Code which provides improved PowerShell language support including ...

Compromising Yourself with WinRM’s “AllowUnencrypted = True”

October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15

PowerShell Team

One thing that’s a mixed blessing in the world of automation is how often people freely share snippets of code that you can copy and paste to make things work. Sometimes, this is a snippet of code / functionality that would have been hard or impossible to write yourself, and saves the day. Sometimes, this is a snippet that changes some ...

Azure DSC Extension – Versions 1.0-2.3 no longer available

October 26, 2015 Oct 26, 2015 10/26/15

PowerShell Team

NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we retired versions 1.0 to 2.3 of the Azure DSC Extension. These versions use preview versions of WMF 5.0 whose signing certificates have expired, so it is no longer possible to install them. If any of these versions are already installed on ...