Sydney Smith, Author at PowerShell Team

Post by this author

Major update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code

May 3rd, 2022

An updated version of our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents nearly two years' work, tracked in PSES #1295 ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Release

December 9th, 2021

We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes more parameters, additional pipeline support, more wildcard support and a number of other features detailed below. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Prerequisites Please ensure that you...

New release of PowerShell Preview for Visual Studio Code!

November 9th, 2021

An updated version of our PowerShell Preview extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor services, with the intention of create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents over a year's work, tracked in ...

SecretManagement and SecretStore are Generally Available

March 25th, 2021

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

March 15th, 2021

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 ...

SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2

March 3rd, 2021

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 for Visual Studio Code Updates – February 2021

February 25th, 2021

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...

SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates

January 7th, 2021

The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate (RC) modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The SecretManagement module helps users manage secrets by providing a common set of cmdlets to interface with secrets across vaults. This module supports an extensible model where local and remote vaults can be registered and ...

Incident Report – PowerShell Gallery Downtime October 30, 2020

December 2nd, 2020

The PowerShell gallery experienced downtime on October 30th 2020. This report will give context as to what caused the downtime, what actions were taken to mitigate the issue, and what steps we are taking to improve the PowerShell gallery experience moving forward. Downtime Impact The downtime was declared at 2020-10-30 03:29 PDT, ...

SecretManagement preview 6 and SecretStore preview 4

November 16th, 2020

Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: For more information on these modules check out these previous blog posts: Before installing these modules, please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the...

Sydney Smith

PM, PowerShell