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AWS DSC Toolkit

April 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016 04/20/16
PowerShell Team
We have just released a brand new module called the AWS DSC Toolkit! This module allows you to register AWS EC2 instances as DSC Nodes in Azure Automation. You can then control your EC2 instances in Azure Automation using PowerShell DSC configurations. The 4 new cmdlets provided by this module are: An example of these cmdlets is ...

Windows Management Framework 5.0 Updates and WMF 5.1

April 6, 2016 Apr 6, 2016 04/6/16
PowerShell Team
Thanks to all of you, the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 release has been a huge success. WMF 5.0 RTM has had over 130,000 downloads in the first 5 weeks after release! We will be servicing WMF 5.0, providing fixes as necessary.  We will also continue to make small improvements to features and components as we move toward the ...

DSC Resource Kit Update

April 4, 2016 Apr 4, 2016 04/4/16
PowerShell Team
We've just updated the DSC Resource Kit for April! Since our last update in February, there have been 107 merged pull requests with 49 closed issues. Thanks to our wonderful community, the DSC Resource Kit now consists of 279 resources! We have updated 21 DSC modules which include 6 new resources. The updated modules are...

Bash for Windows: Why it’s awesome and what it means for PowerShell

April 1, 2016 Apr 1, 2016 04/1/16
Joey Aiello
This week at Build, Microsoft announced that we will be enabling you to run "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" as a developer tool for Windows 10. It will natively support Ubuntu userspace and GNU/Linux utilities, including the apt-get package manager that you can use to pull down additional tools like Ruby, emacs, etc. from Canonical's official ...

Debugging PowerShell DSC Class Resources

March 14, 2016 Mar 14, 2016 03/14/16
Paul Higinbotham [MSFT]
Update: I neglected to mention that the DSC resource debugging enabling Cmdlet, Enable-DscDebug, is available only in the Technical Preview 5 release and this was not available when this blog was first published. My sincerest apologies for that. Fortunately this release is now available at: System Center 2016 Preview and Windows Server...

Announcing the Underhanded PowerShell Contest

March 7, 2016 Mar 7, 2016 03/7/16
PowerShell Team
In an effort to improve the validation capability of PowerShell Script Analyzer, we are running a series of contests. We want you - the community members - to help us identify underhanded PowerShell scripts, and then create rules to catch them. There are specific areas where Script Analyzer rules are needed and we need your skills to help us ...

ARM DSC Extension Settings

February 26, 2016 Feb 26, 2016 02/26/16
PowerShell Team
Update for the latest information regarding DSC Extension, refer to the product documentation. .......... Overview This is the schema for the settings portion of the Azure DSC extension in an ARM template. Fast Reference Details Settings vs. ProtectedSettings All of these settings will be saved in a settings text file on your VM. ...

The PowerShell Gallery Is Public

February 25, 2016 Feb 25, 2016 02/25/16
PowerShell Team
We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery has changed from Preview to Public. In July 2015, we announced and opened the PowerShell Gallery for public contributions. Since then, we have seen rapid growth in the number of modules, scripts, and users using the gallery - Thank you to those who contributed so far! We’...