Sydney Smith

PM, PowerShell

PM on the PowerShell team at Microsoft.

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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...

SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates

November 3rd, 2020
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: Before installing these modules please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the following commands: SecretManagement Preview 5 Updates This update to ...

SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates

September 30th, 2020
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: Please note that these preview releases contain breaking changes. This version of SecretStore is incompatible with previous versions because the configuration format has changed. The previous file store cannot be read by the new version and you will need to ...

SecretManagement Preview 3

September 16th, 2020
We are excited to announce two modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: To install the modules and register the SecretStore vault, open any PowerShell console and run: NOTE: This version of the module has a major breaking changing, if you have used past preview versions of the SecretManagement module, secrets ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 10 Release

September 10th, 2020
In this blog post we are excited to share: PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview Updates PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 10 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This blog post will cover all of the feature updates since we last published a blog post ( preview 6). These versions include completed functionality for updating PSResources, ...

PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1

July 28th, 2020
PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This minor update fixes a few user-reported bugs and introduces a new rule (which is disabled by default) for avoiding using double quotes for constant strings. To install this version of the module, open any PowerShell console and run:  New Rule ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 6 Release

July 7th, 2020
Since our last blog post we have released two preview versions (previews 4 and 6) of the PowerShellGet 3.0 module. These releases have introduced publish functionality, repository wildcard search, and fixed error handling when a repository is not accessible in Find-PSResource. Note that preview 5 was unlisted due to a packaging error ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 3

May 18th, 2020
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 3 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the  parameter for  which now allows for json, hashtable, or .json files as input. For a full list of the issues addressed by this release please refer to this GitHub project. Note: For background information on PowerShellGet 3.0 please ...

PowerShell 7 Video Series

May 11th, 2020
As a part of our PowerShell 7 release, the PowerShell Team put together a series of videos explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group gatherings, we have decided to make these videos...