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Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update – January 2018

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
Michael Greene
In September 2017 we communicated some of our plans for PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). Over the past few months, we have been executing on these plans and collecting feedback from customers and partners. The intent of this blog is to provide an update on the plans we shared back in September. I will have additional posts in the ...

PowerShell Core 6.1 Roadmap

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
Steve Lee
The release of PowerShell Core 6.0 is only the beginning and we are already thinking about the next leg of our journey. Most of the effort of the team with PowerShell Core 6.0 was in these areas: The community did some amazing work to add new capabilities in both the engine as well as cmdlets! If you participated in the ...

PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported!

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18
Joey Aiello
PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. First and foremost, thank you to all of our amazing community, especially our open-source contributors (the most recent of which you can find on our community ...

Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709

December 15, 2017 Dec 15, 2017 12/15/17
Joey Aiello
I'm thrilled to share that a Beta OpenSSH client and server daemon are available as a Feature-on-Demand in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709. Since our last update blog, we've been working hard on a Win32 port of OpenSSH and working closely with members of the OpenSSH Portable and OpenBSD projects with the eventual ...

DSC Resource Naming Guidelines

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
Michael Greene
When DSC was announced at TechEd 2013, one of the goals was to "Create an ecosystem". The ecosystem for DSC has grown tremendously in the last 4 years. At worldwide events for PowerShell (PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, PowerShell Conference EU, PowerShell Conference Asia) there have been presentations lead by people ...

Prerelease Versioning Added to PowerShellGet and PowerShell Gallery

December 5, 2017 Dec 5, 2017 12/5/17
J. Keith Bankston
With the release of PowerShellGet 1.6.0, PowerShellGet cmdlets and the PowerShell Gallery have added support for prerelease strings for prerelease versions of modules and scripts. You can now publish items to the PowerShell Gallery with a version like 1.0.0-alpha, and you can download items identified as a prerelease. Items can be filtered ...

PowerShell Core 6 Release Candidate

November 17, 2017 Nov 17, 2017 11/17/17
Steve Lee
PowerShell Core 6 Release Candidate Last year, we announced that PowerShell was not only Open Source, but also cross platform.  The finish line is in sight and we recently published the Release Candidate for PowerShell Core 6! PowerShell Team ♥ Community It has been an amazing experience for the team working with the community on ...

DSC Resource Kit Release November 2017

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Katie Keim [MSFT]
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 10 DSC resource modules. In these past 6 weeks, 53 pull requests have been merged and 50 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed list of the...

Azure Automation DSC Pricing Flexibility

November 14, 2017 Nov 14, 2017 11/14/17
Michael Greene
Today we would like to share a new flexible pricing strategy for managing server nodes using Azure Automation to deliver PowerShell Desired State Configuration, giving you greater control over costs of managing on-premises nodes. As you might already know, Azure Automation DSC (Azure DSC) is a managed service that is free when used to ...