Sydney Smith

PM, PowerShell

PM on the PowerShell team at Microsoft.

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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...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 2

April 30th, 2020
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 2 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the Install-PSResource parameter, error messages, and warnings. 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 refer to the blog...

PowerShell Gallery TLS Support

April 9th, 2020
Summary To provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, the PowerShell Gallery has deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 as of April 2020. The Microsoft TLS 1.0 implementation has no known security vulnerabilities. But because of the potential for future protocol downgrade attacks and other TLS ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 1

March 30th, 2020
We are excited to announce that our first preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This is a major update to PowerShell's experience for discovering, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell resources like modules, DSC resources, role capabilities and scripts. This was first proposed in RFC PR...

Secret Management Preview 2 Release

March 19th, 2020
Note this blog post is the third in a series on the releases of this module: We are excited to release a second preview of the Secret Management Module. Thanks to the tremendous feedback we received from the first preview release of this module, you will notice a number of breaking changes to the module. This release is still a ...

Visual Studio Code for PowerShell 7

March 5th, 2020
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening months. If you are new to Visual Studio Code ...

Secrets Management Development Release

February 6th, 2020
Secrets Management Development Release At Ignite 2019 we gave a preview of our PowerShell Secrets Management Module. This Secrets Management module, first proposed in RFC #234, creates an extensible abstraction layer in PowerShell for interacting with Secrets and Secrets Vaults. We are excited to publish a development release of this module...

PowerShell Extension Roadmap

November 4th, 2019
Over the last year we have committed to making the PowerShell editing experience in Visual Studio Code a rich and productive cross-platform alternative for the PowerShell ISE. To that end, we have focused on two primary areas: bringing the PSReadLine experience to the Integrated Console, and improving the stability of the extension while ...

New Telemetry in PowerShell 7 Preview 3

August 20th, 2019
Beginning in PowerShell 7 Preview 3, PowerShell will be sending some additional data points to Microsoft. This data will allow us to better understand usage of PowerShell and enable us to prioritize our future investments. These additional points of data were reviewed with the PowerShell community and approved by the PowerShell Committee...

Using PowerShellGet with Azure Artifacts

June 4th, 2019
We have improved the experience with PowerShellGet and private NuGet feeds by focusing on pain points using an Azure Artifacts feed. We addressed pain points by enabling/documenting the following features: These improvements will effect the following cmdlets: What is Azure Artifacts and Why ...