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Introducing PowerShell as .NET Global Tool

July 18, 2019 Jul 18, 2019 07/18/19

Aditya Patwardhan

PowerShell is very suitable for CI/CD scenarios due to its easy and well understood scripting paradigm, and its cross-platform support makes it great for building and testing cross-platform applications. A .NET Global Tool is a special NuGet package that contains a console application. A application can be developed for various ...

DSC Resource Kit Release June 2019

June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019 06/26/19

Katie Kragenbrink [MSFT]

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 8 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 95 pull requests have been merged and 55 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed list of the resource ...

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1

June 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019 06/13/19

Jim Truher

Overview  ()  is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for  but has also been made twice as faster compared to . Additionally, the  switch on has been improved to be platform agnostic and should now also work on Linux systems if DSC has been set up. A long standing concurrency bug related to...

DSC Planning Update – June 2019

June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

Michael Greene

It has been almost a year since the last DSC Planning update. There has been a lot going on, many decisions being made, and it just didn’t make sense to post earlier in this calendar year. In this post we will review what has been shipped and the high-level direction we are heading. 

Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Service

June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

Michael Greene

This post builds upon the introduction published yesterday to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration service. 

Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Client

June 7, 2019 Jun 7, 2019 06/7/19

Michael Greene

This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration client and how configuration content is consumed. 

Using PowerShellGet with Azure Artifacts

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19

Sydney Smith

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 ...

PowerShell 7 Roadmap

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19

Steve Lee

Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell. Here I will provide more details of areas we'll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release. When will I get it?! Today, we're releasing our first preview of PowerShell 7. Keeping with our monthly cadence, expect new preview releases approximately every...

DSC Resource Kit Release May 2019

May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 05/15/19

Katie Kragenbrink [MSFT]

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 87 pull requests have been merged and 36 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed ...

Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x

April 29, 2019 Apr 29, 2019 04/29/19

Joey Aiello

Over the last six months, we've been hard at work integrating PowerShell Core with Azure Functions 2.x. Today, I'm happy to announce that we're releasing public preview of PowerShell support for Azure Functions 2.x for Windows (Consumption, Premium, and App Service pricing plans). I already know I want this, give me the good stuff! ...