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A Comparison of Shell and Scripting Language Security

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17

PowerShell Team

PowerShell Security is a topic on everybody's mind. Most of all - ours. As PowerShell has become more popular with Administrators, it has also become more popular for unauthorized administrators - also known as "Attackers". In any operating system or platform, the power and efficiency you provide to authorized administrators is also available...

Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 now in Microsoft Update Catalog

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17

PowerShell Team

The Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 is now available in the Microsoft Update catalog for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 8.1. These updates are listed in the catalog as KB3191564 and KB3191565.  Those who use WSUS to manage updates for their systems are now able to install WMF 5.1 for most of the WMF-supported ...

Using PowerShell Modules in Azure Functions

February 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017 02/24/17

Steve Lee

Previously, I blogged about how I created PowerShell GitHub Dashboard using Azure Functions to run a PowerShell script and didn't use PowerShell Modules as I didn't find an easy way to do it with Azure Functions.  Stefan informed me that you can easily do it using FTP!  Today, I'm publishing a guest blog post that Stefan authored that ...

Code Coverage – Part 2

February 22, 2017 Feb 22, 2017 02/22/17

James.W.Truher

In my last post on code coverage, I shared the process for you to collect coverage for your environment. This week, I'll be describing a way to use our tools to create new tests and show how you can measure the increase of coverage for PowerShell Core after adding new tests. To recap, we can collect code coverage with the OpenCover module, and...

Managing Security Settings on Nano Server with DSC

February 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017 02/21/17

Zachary Alexander

We have released DSC resources building upon the previously released security and registry cmdlets for applying security settings. You can now implement Microsoft-defined security baselines using DSC. AuditPolicyDsc SecurityPolicyDsc GPRegistryPolicy Install all 3 from the Gallery with the command: A sample configuration, below, takes the ...

Building a GitHub Dashboard using PowerShell, AzureStorageTable, AzureFunction, and PowerBI

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Steve Lee

Last week, I published a PowerShell Community Dashboard and today, I'm going to share the code and cover some of the learnings.The code is published as a module on the PowerShell Gallery. Make sure you get v1.1 as I found an issue where if you're not a member of the PowerShell Org on GitHub, you won't have permission to query the members so I...

Installing latest PowerShell Core 6.0 Release on Linux just got easier!

February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17

Steve Lee

As we continue our journey from Alpha releases and eventually to Beta, you can continue to download the latest releases from our GitHub repository. However, our goal has always been to enable installation through popular existing Linux package management tools like apt-get and yum.I am pleased to announce that we have now published PowerShell...

PowerShell Open Source Community Dashboard

January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17

Steve Lee

Since going cross-platform and open source on GitHub, I've wanted to know how we are doing as a community and who the top contributors we should recognize are. The available GitHub graphs are not sufficient as they focus on commits, and there are many other ways for the community to contribute to PowerShell. Certainly receiving Pull Requests (...