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PowerShell 7 Preview 4

Steve LeeSeptember 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19

We continue to make progress towards our PowerShell 7 release which currently is targeting December 2019 for a Release Candidate and January 2020 for General Availability and will be our first LTS (Long Term Servicing) release!
Please see the previous blog post on Preview 3 for more details about LTS and also Windows PowerShell compatibility.

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer (PSScriptAnalyzer) 1.18.2

Jim TruherSeptember 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19

In keeping with the tradition of releasing improvements to PSScriptAnalyzer more often, we’re happy to announce that 1.18.12 is now available! As a dependency of PowerShell Editor Services (a module used by editor extensions like the PowerShell Visual Studio Code extension),

PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature

Paul HiginbothamSeptember 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19

PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature
PowerShell 7.0 Preview 3 is now available with a new ForEach-Object Parallel Experimental feature. This feature is a great new tool for parallelizing work, but like any tool, it has its uses and drawbacks.
This article describes this new feature,

New Telemetry in PowerShell 7 Preview 3

Sydney SmithAugust 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19

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 through the PowerShell RFC process.

Introducing PowerShell as .NET Global Tool

Aditya PatwardhanJuly 18, 2019Jul 18, 201907/18/19

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.

DSC Resource Kit Release June 2019

Katie Kragenbrink [MSFT]June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19

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:

CertificateDsc
NetworkingDsc
PSDscResources
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
xActiveDirectory
xDnsServer
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration

For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1

Jim TruherJune 13, 2019Jun 13, 201906/13/19

Overview
PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.18.1 is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for 1.18.0 but has also been made twice as faster compared to 1.18.0. Additionally, the -SaveDscDependency switch on Invoke-ScriptAnalyzerhas been improved to be platform agnostic and should now also work on Linux systems if DSC has been set up.

DSC Planning Update – June 2019

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

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

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

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

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

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.