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Azure DSC Extension v2.0 released

June 17th, 2015
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Azure DSC Extension, with improvements for DSC configurations that reboot the VM, and fixes for ARM deployments. We are releasing this version as a major version change, instead of a minor revision, because ...

PowerShell ♥ the Blue Team

June 9th, 2015
(Warning: Long blog post ahead! If you’d like to read (or share) this as a whitepaper, you can download it here: “Scripting Security and Protection Advances in Windows 10”). At Microsoft, we invest an enormous amount of time and energy managing world-class cloud services and incredibly large enterprise networks. Security is critical ...

Looking Forward: Microsoft Support for Secure Shell (SSH)

June 3rd, 2015
[UPDATE]: Read more about our detailed plans, roadmap, and where you can play with the in-progress code here. As Microsoft has shifted towards a more customer-oriented culture, Microsoft engineers are using social networks, tech communities and direct customer feedback as an integral part on how we make decisions about future investments. A...

How to register a node with a DSC pull server

May 29th, 2015
NOTE - The latest information regarding DSC Pull Service can be found in the DSC documentation using the link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/pullserver .......... In PowerShell 4.0, each node in a DSC configuration identifies itself to the pull server with its ConfigurationId, a GUID. In the case of pull mode (where a ...

Azure PowerShell DSC Extension v1.10 released

May 15th, 2015
NOTE: You can find more information on the DSC Extension in our release history. Today we released a minor update to the Azure DSC Extension: version 1.10.1.0. This update addresses a couple of issues that were producing false error messages on some ARM deployments. Please feel free to give us your feedback as comments to this post, or ...

Update JEA for the April WMF 5.0 Preview

May 14th, 2015
This year, at the Ignite Conference, we presented Just Enough Administration (JEA), a PowerShell toolkit for granularly managing administrator privileges.  Older versions of JEA do not work with the recently released  April WMF 5.0 Preview.  This is due to an issue with WinRM when registering a new endpoint.  The latest ...

MSIgnite BRK4452 – Writing Windows PowerShell DSC Resources and Configurations

May 11th, 2015
Recordings of  MS Ignite 2015 session BRK4452: Writing Windows PowerShell DSC Resources and Configurations are now available online. As mentioned in the session you can download the demo modules using the following code:    Find-Module -Tag BRK4452 -OutVariable Modules  $Modules | % {Install-Module -Name $_.Name -...

Desired State Configuration Resources for PackageManagement Providers

May 5th, 2015
Introduction You may have heard of, or even already used PackageManagement (aka OneGet). Recently, I was reading the OneGet blog and OneGet in GitHub, and decided to give it a try by installing the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 Preview April 2015. I found that PackageManagement provides a consistent user experience by exposing the ...

ScriptAnalyzer in GitHub and availability on PowerShell Gallery

April 29th, 2015
With the release of Windows Management Framework 5.0 April Preview, we are excited to announce that PowerShell ScriptAnalyzer development has moved to GitHub for greater collaboration & community involvement. https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer  Also, we have published v1.0 of ScriptAnalyzer to PSGallery. https://www....

Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview April 2015 is now available

April 29th, 2015
We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview April 2015, a new package introducing new andexciting management technologies, is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center! This Windows Management Framework (WMF) preview includes everything from WMF 5.0 Preview February 2015 plus some new features. ...