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August 18, 2016Aug 18, 201608/18/16Since its inception in 2002 PowerShell has been deeply influenced and improved by the passion and needs of our community. As an example, 80 contributors filed bugs and issues on the “alpha” release. Since that time we, together, have built a strong PowerShell community that supports each other,
August 17, 2016Aug 17, 201608/17/16Hello everyone,
My name is Angel Calvo, I am Microsoft’s Group Software Engineering Manager for PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC). I’d like to take this opportunity to proudly represent the engineering team behind this project, and share a few thoughts about yesterday’s historic announcement for PowerShell and our Community
I am so excited about the availability of PowerShell on Linux and as an open source project!
August 10, 2016Aug 10, 201608/10/16The DSC Resource Kit has been released!
This release includes 14 updated DSC resource modules and 10 new DSC resources. Since the last release on June 29, there have been 126 merged pull requests and 41 closed issues.
The modules updated in this release are:
SharePointDsc
xActiveDirectory
xComputerManagement
xDhcpServer
xDscDiagnostics
xExchange
xFailOverCluster
xHyper-V
xNetworking
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
xSqlPs
xSqlServer
xWebAdministration
WebAdministrationDsc
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
July 16, 2016Jul 16, 201607/16/16Update 08/08/2016: Removed the note on container support. That is not part of WMF, as it installs on older versions of Server.
Today we are pleased to announce that the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 Preview release is now available on the Download Center.
June 29, 2016Jun 29, 201606/29/16The June release of the DSC Resouce Kit is out!
This release includes 12 updated DSC resource modules and 20 new DSC resources.
Since the last release on May 18, there have been 106 merged pull requests and 42 closed issues.
May 20, 2016May 20, 201605/20/16We have just released another set of new cmdlets intended for use on Nano Server for managing local policy. Although Nano Server doesn’t support Group Policy, it does support local policy. Previously, we released Security cmdlets to deal with .INF and .CSV files.
May 18, 2016May 18, 201605/18/16We’ve just updated the DSC Resource Kit to celebrate our 1 year open-source anniversary!
The DSC Resource Kit has come a long way in a year. Originally, DSC started with only in-box resources. To make these resources easier to update, some were moved to TechNet’s Script Center and became the DSC Resource Kit.
May 9, 2016May 9, 201605/9/16In Windows Server 2016 TP5, we included two new cmdlets to help manage security policy settings. While they are present on every install option of Windows Server, these are mostly useful on Nano Server because Nano Server does not support Group Policy.
May 4, 2016May 4, 201605/4/16Looking to develop PowerShell cmdlets for Nano Server? Try out our new PowerShell SDK for Nano on the PowerShell Gallery. Or, if you already have Windows 10 or Windows Management Framework 5.0 installed, simply run:
Install-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.NanoServer.SDK
If you’ve been watching the Server &
April 20, 2016Apr 20, 201604/20/16We have just released a brand new module called the AWS DSC Toolkit!
This module allows you to register AWS EC2 instances as DSC Nodes in Azure Automation.
You can then control your EC2 instances in Azure Automation using PowerShell DSC configurations.
