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The New Home of DSC Documentation

October 3, 2015 Oct 3, 2015 10/3/15
Joey Aiello
I’m pleased to announce that our official PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) documentation now has a new home on MSDN. We heard your feedback loud and clear, and began working on a documentation platform that reflects our customer-focused approach to addressing that feedback with improvements to the content and structure of the...

Documenting DSC Part 2

November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14
PowerShell Team
In a previous post, we introduced the team of writers working on documenting DSC. (You can always contact them at DSCIX@microsoft.com.) We’ve started out by bringing the existing documentation up to date (the topics for all of the built-in resources have been brought current, for example) and transferring all or parts of most of the...

Documenting DSC

November 13, 2014 Nov 13, 2014 11/13/14
PowerShell Team
We have a new team of content developers focusing on documenting Desired State Configuration (DSC). Led by our manager Steve Kaczmarek, the team comprises Jaime Ondrusek, Corey Plett, and Eric Slesar. A little background:   Steve – I joined Microsoft in 2003 and manage the Management and Automation content development team. In ...

Updatable Help speaks only English! What’s up with that?

January 17, 2013 Jan 17, 2013 01/17/13
PowerShell Team
Our customers have certainly not been shy about their interest in multiple languages of Windows PowerShell Updatable Help, and we're grateful to hear how much they would value localized Help. Our challenge is this: Updatable Help is a new feature for this release of Windows PowerShell, and we have so very many new cmdlets and modules for ...

Another Holiday Gift from the PowerShell Team: PowerShell 3.0 CTP2 – Getting Started with Windows PowerShell Workflow

December 21, 2011 Dec 21, 2011 12/21/11
PowerShell Team
After delivering the Thanksgiving Gift this year, it’s time for a Holiday Gift …. No not as big as the one we had about 3 years ago …!! Today, we published the “Getting Started with Windows PowerShell Workflow” document on the CTP2 download page, just look for “WMF3 CTP2 Windows PowerShell Workflow.pdf&...

Download the Updated Core Help CHM

May 16, 2011 May 16, 2011 05/16/11
PowerShell Team
The best way to get updated help for Windows PowerShell core commands is to type "Get-Help –Online <cmdletname>," but that works only when you're online and your firewall permits Internet access. For all of those other times, there's the new Windows PowerShell 2.0 Core Help – May 2011 Update in CHM format. The newly released...

Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search

April 19, 2010 Apr 19, 2010 04/19/10
PowerShell Team
Beginning today, there's a new way to look at Windows PowerShell cmdlets. You're used to looking at them this way: Or, perhaps, this way: But would you like to look at them this way? What if getting a list of the remoting cmdlets was as easy as clicking a category name? And you could filter to display only the remoting configuration ...

Get Localized PowerShell Help Files

February 8, 2010 Feb 8, 2010 02/8/10
PowerShell Team
The Windows PowerShell core help files that were included in Windows 7 RTM were localized into ten languages. You can download the XML and TXT versions of these localized files and use them in your Windows PowerShell projects. The Windows PowerShell core help files are localized into the following languages:   ·   &...

Cmdlet Help Editor tool

May 8, 2007 May 8, 2007 05/8/07
PowerShell Team
Intoducing the Cmdlet Help Editor V1.0   Cmdlet Help Editor enables you to create help topics for Windows PowerShell cmdlets in the XML format that Windows PowerShell reads. Help text created in Cmdlet Help Editor can be displayed immediately by a Windows PowerShell get-help command without any additional transforms or formatting.   ...

Documenting TRAP and THROW

December 29, 2006 Dec 29, 2006 12/29/06
PowerShell Team
We pride ourselves about being a bit overboard when it comes to Error handling.  That is why our sparse (non-existing?) documentation of THROW and TRAP handling is both ironic and sad.  10,000 apologizes for that, we'll fix it in the next release.  In the mean time, it's Don Jones amd Jeffery Hicks to the rescue. ...