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September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19PowerShell 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,
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19Beginning 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.
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19PowerShell 7 Preview 3
In May, we published our PowerShell 7 Roadmap. We have been making progress on our roadmap and are currently on track to have a Generally Available (GA) release by end of this calendar year.
Long Term Servicing
PowerShell 7 GA will also be our first Long Term Servicing (LTS) release which is a change from our current Modern Lifecycle support for PowerShell Core 6.
August 14, 2019Aug 14, 201908/14/19Out-GridView Returns!
It’s been almost 3 years since PowerShell Core debuted for Linux and Mac, and as we’ve increased our cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited to announce that Out-GridView is debuting on all Core-supported platforms through the GraphicalTools Module.
August 7, 2019Aug 7, 201908/7/19We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 11 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 96 pull requests have been merged and 45 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
ActiveDirectoryDsc
ActiveDirectoryCSDsc
ComputerManagementDsc
SecurityPolicyDsc
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
StorageDsc
xDnsServer
xExchange
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
xWebAdministration
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
July 18, 2019Jul 18, 201907/18/19PowerShell 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.
June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19We 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,
June 13, 2019Jun 13, 201906/13/19Overview
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.
June 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19It 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.
June 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19This 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.
PowerShell
December 16, 2019Dec 16, 201912/16/19After 6 previews, we’re happy to announce the release of the PowerShell 7 Release Candidate (RC). Whether you’ve been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you’ve been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better.
December 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19Beginning with Windows Server 20H1 Insider builds, Windows Server Core Insider images have been reduced in size from ~2.1 GBs to ~1.1 GBs.
How did the Server Core images get over 40% smaller?
Traditionally, Windows 10 and Windows Server have always included a set of .NET native binaries that were pre-compiled using the Native Image Generator tool (Ngen.exe).
November 21, 2019Nov 21, 201911/21/19Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview.6! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19Over 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,
October 30, 2019Oct 30, 201910/30/19This release includes updates to 9 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 91 pull requests have been merged and 41 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
October 23, 2019Oct 23, 201910/23/19Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview5! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.
September 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19 We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 15 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 160 pull requests have been merged and 68 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
September 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19We 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.
September 17, 2019Sep 17, 201909/17/19PowerShell’s Updatable Help system was introduced in PowerShell 3.0. It was designed to assure that you always have the newest help topics on your local computer so that you can read them at the command line. Help was updated with every new release and periodically between releases.
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19In 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),
