PowerShell Team
Automating the world one-liner at a time…
Latest posts
Join the PowerShell 10th Anniversary Celebration!
Update: For those of you looking for the videos of this event, you can find all of them on the PowerShell 10 Year Anniversary event page on Channel9. This coming Monday, November 14th, PowerShell will have been shipping for 10 years, so the team is going to celebrate with a day-long event, running from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm (PST). This will be streaming live and shown world-wide on the home page for Channel9.msdn.com. We’ll have segments on PowerShell and SQL, PowerShell and Azure Automation, and the future directions for PowerShell, and … well you get the idea. In addition, we're planning several presentation...
DSC Resource Kit November 2016 Release
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! Since our last release on September 21, we have added 1 new repository, PSDscResources, which will serve as the new home of the in-box DSC resources from the PSDesiredStateConfiguration module. This new module now has over 75,000 downloads from the PowerShell Gallery! Wow! Read more about PSDscResources in our blog post here. This release includes updates to 12 DSC resource modules, including 13 new DSC resources. In these past 6 weeks, 62 pull requests have been merged and 43 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this rele...
PSScriptAnalyzer Community Call – Oct 18, 2016
Please join PSScriptAnalyzer community call on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 10:00 AM PDT via Skype or telephone. You can find the meeting agenda here. Skype Click the following link to join the meeting via Skype. Join online meeting Phone Dial +1-323-849-4874 to join the meeting via telephone. OR To join the meeting through a local number follow this link: Find a local number Conference ID: 94231049 For any additional help regarding joining the meeting, follow this link: Help
New Home for In-Box DSC Resources
We have just released a new DSC module called PSDscResources. The aim of this module is to serve as the new home of the in-box PSDesiredStateConfiguration module open-sourced on GitHub. This allows us to accept contributions for the in-box resources from our wonderful DSC community and release these resources more frequently outside of the Windows Management Framework (WMF). The current release of PSDscResources contains 5 of the resources available in the in-box module: These resources are a combination of those in-box as well as community contributions from our experimental xPSDesiredStateConf...
New Social Features on Gallery
We are excited to announce new social features on the PowerShell Gallery: share buttons and discussion boards. Share Buttons We have added share buttons on each item page. You can now share items in the gallery on your social networks. The buttons are located on the side panel of the page. Click on the share button and a new share window will open: Discussion Boards We have also added a discussion board at the bottom of each item page. This feature is being added to allow customers to share information about the item, and give feedback on it. It is expected that the comments are given...
PowerShellGet and PackageManagement in PowerShell Gallery and GitHub
As of today, PowerShellGet is an open source project, and both the PowerShellGet and PackageManagement modules are available in the PowerShell Gallery. Moving PowerShellGet to Open Source PowerShellGet is now a repo under github.com/PowerShell. Of course, the PackageManagement module is already open-sourced as it is part of the OneGet project. Check out the new PowerShellGet repo at github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGet. You will find information about how to contribute to PowerShellGet in the readme.md file that is in the root of the repo. This project currently follows the model used by OneGet for handling ...
PowerShell Security at DerbyCon
Many people have commented over the past couple of years that they’d love to see a PowerShell Security conference. Well, that conference arrived: DerbyCon 2016. DerbyCon is an incredible security conference, held in Louisville Kentucky each year. Despite the calibre of all that attend, the humbleness and approachability of everyone there is outstanding. Perhaps to a fault. It’s only after talking to somebody and looking them up on Twitter do you realize it’s THAT person, and openly wonder if asking for an autograph would have been too awkward. It’s probably best to stop talking about how great of a conference i...
DSC Resource Kit September Release
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! Since our last release on August 10, we have added 2 brand new modules from the community: Thanks Brian and Daniel for all your hard work! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules, including 15 new DSC resources. In these past 6 weeks, 94 pull requests have been merged and 81 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release, see the Included in this Re...
PowerShell DSC and implicit remoting broken in KB3176934
On August 23, Windows update KB3176934 released for Windows Client. Due to a missing .MOF file in the build package, the update breaks DSC. All DSC operations will result in an “Invalid Property” error. In addition, due to a missing binary in the build package the update breaks PowerShell implicit remoting. Implicit remoting is a PowerShell feature where PowerShell commands work on a remote session instead of locally. Specifically, importing a remote session no longer works: $remoteSession = New-PSSession -Cn TargetComputer Import-PSSession -Session $remoteSession Import-PSSession : Could not load type 'System.M...