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Native Commands in PowerShell – A New Approach – Part 2

Jim TruherJune 26, 2020Jun 26, 202006/26/20

How to wrap native commands to take better advantage of the PowerShell environment

DSC Resource Kit Release October 2019

Michael GreeneOctober 30, 2019Oct 30, 201910/30/19

This 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!

New Look and Features for PowerShell Gallery

PowerShell TeamSeptember 12, 2018Sep 12, 201809/12/18

The PowerShell Gallery and PowerShellGet have just been updated to provide new features, performance improvements, and a new modern design.

NOTE: This post has important information for publishers in the “Accounts and publishing” section.

PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported!

Joey AielloJanuary 10, 2018Jan 10, 201801/10/18

PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. First and foremost, thank you to all of our amazing community, especially our open-source contributors (the most recent of which you can find on our community dash

Regular cadence for PowerShell Core Community Call

Joey AielloMarch 30, 2017Mar 30, 201703/30/17

tl;dr: PowerShell Core Community Calls are on the third Thursday of every month at 9:30am Pacific Time (note, this is currently PDT). Use this .ics file (right-click and select Save Target/Link As in order to download the file correctly) to avoid missing one. Hi everyone! After three successful PowerShell Core Community Calls, we're switch

WMF 5.1 Releasing January 2017

PowerShell TeamDecember 6, 2016Dec 6, 201612/6/16

Update January 19, 2017: WMF 5.1 has been released via the download center. There is more information on the release in this blog. We previously announced that the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 would release shortly after the GA release of Windows Server 2016, however the PowerShell team found some issues with upgrades that c

Tips and Tricks from PowerShell Core Validation

Michael GreeneNovember 29, 2016Nov 29, 201611/29/16

It has been a privilege for the CAT team to work with customers and the PowerShell team to validate early builds and experiences with PowerShell Core. Some of the customers involved were key influences on the whitepaper, The Release Pipeline Model Applied to Windows Server and Microsoft Cloud. As a result, validation has included many experien

Join the PowerShell 10th Anniversary Celebration!

PowerShell TeamNovember 8, 2016Nov 8, 201611/8/16

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 b

PowerShellGet and PackageManagement in PowerShell Gallery and GitHub

PowerShell TeamSeptember 29, 2016Sep 29, 201609/29/16

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 pro

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