Sydney Smith

PM, PowerShell

PM on the PowerShell team at Microsoft.

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Archive Module 2.0 Preview 1

July 26th, 2022
We are excited to announce that the first preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release is the first preview release of a rewrite of the module and is not feature complete. Please note that this release only contains the  ...

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code June 2022 Update

July 1st, 2022
We are excited to announce that an update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release fixes a number of issues related to IntelliSense and enables updates to PowerShell Editor Services (the engine of the VS Code extension) for other clients, such as Emacs and Vim with LSP ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 14

May 31st, 2022
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 support for PSResourceRepository credential persistence, as well as support for RequiredResourceFiles for Install. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 14 Prerequisites Please ensure that you...

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...