SecretManagement preview 6 and SecretStore preview 4

Sydney Smith

Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery:

• SecretManagement preview6
• SecretStore preview4

For more information on these modules check out these previous blog posts:

• SecretManagement preview 3/SecretStore preview 1
• SecretManagement preview 4/SecretStore preview 2
• SecretManagement preview 5/SecretStore preview 3

Before installing these modules, please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session.

To install these updates run the following commands:

Uninstall-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement -Force 
Uninstall-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -Force 
# Restart your PowerShell session 
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement -AllowPrerelease -Repository PSGallery 
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -AllowPrerelease -Repository PSGallery 
Register-SecretVault -Name SecretStore -ModuleName Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -DefaultVault -AllowClobber

SecretManagement preview 6 updates

This update to SecretManagement improves the compatibility of the module with Windows PowerShell, and improved the usability of the module by providing more ways to unregister vaults and by setting the first registered vault as default as well a few other changes. Read the full list of changes below:

• Improved compatibility with Windows PowerShell 5.1 (Issue #73)
• The first extension vault added will automatically be designated the default vault (Issue #61)
• Unregister-SecretVault -Name property now supports string[] type and wild cards (Issue #57, #58)
• Register-SecretVault now checks -VaultParameters hashtable for reserved Verbose entry and throws error if found
• Set-DefaultVault now has a -ClearDefault parameter that designates no registered vault as the default vault
• Register-SecretVault now supports a -Description parameter and registration information will include an optional extension vault description (Issue #46)

SecretStore preview 4 updates

This update to SecretStore focuses on updates which improve the compatibility with Windows PowerShell. Read the full list of changes below:

• Improved compatibility with Windows PowerShell when creating new store files (Issue #28)
• SecretStore binary is now built against net461 to provide full compatibility when run in PowerShell 6 or Windows PowerShell
• System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl.dll is now shipped with module to maintain compatibility with Windows PowerShell

Finding other available extension Vaults

To find other SecretManagement extension vault modules, search the PowerShell Gallery for the “SecretManagement” tag. Some community vault extensions that are available:

• KeePass
• LastPass
• Hashicorp Vault
• KeyChain
• CredMan

Thank you to everyone who has created vaults thus far!

Feedback and support

Community feedback has been essential to the iterative development of these modules. Thank you to everyone who has contributed issues, and feedback thus far! As we approach General Availability, targeted for later this year, for these modules now is the time to test the modules against your scenarios to request changes (especially breaking ones) and discover bugs. To file issues or get support for the SecretManagement interface or vault development experience please use the SecretManagement repository. For issues which pertain specifically to the SecretStore and its cmdlet interface please use the SecretStore repository.

Sydney Smith

PowerShell Team

Sydney Smith PM, PowerShell

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