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Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview is now available

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15
PowerShell Team
We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview, a new package introducing new and exciting management technologies, is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center! As announced earlier, WMF 5.0 Production Preview differs from older previews of WMF 5.0 in the following ways: It is fully ...

Development builds for DSC Resources are available

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
PowerShell Team
Note: This blog post is intended to people who participate in the development of DSC Resources on GitHub. We are pleased to announce that we've made developments builds available for all DSC Resource modules on GitHub. From now on, every time Pull Request gets merged, we produce a package with latest changes and upload it on a module-...

Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 Roadmap

August 6, 2015 Aug 6, 2015 08/6/15
PowerShell Team
In the next few weeks (August 2015) we will be releasing a supported “Production Preview” of Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0. Later, in Q4 of 2015, you should be able to download the RTM version of WMF 5.0. WMF 5.0 Production Preview will differ from previous previews of WMF 5.0 in the following ways: It will be fully ...

Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0 Update is coming your way …

July 28, 2015 Jul 28, 2015 07/28/15
PowerShell Team
Updated 05/03/2016 – On Jan 19th 2016, we had published the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0 update packages for Windows Server 2012 (KB3119938), Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (KB3109118), and Windows 7 SP1 (KB3109118) . At this time, these update packages are only available by request through the aforementioned links. See WMF 4.0 ...

Azure DSC Extension v2.1 released

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
PowerShell Team
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we released version 2.1 of the Azure DSC Extension, with a bug fix for ARM deployments. The bug we fixed would produce this error message in some ARM deployments: “File lock (C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\1.10.1.0\bin\..\...

Validate PowerShell DSC Debug

July 10, 2015 Jul 10, 2015 07/10/15
Michael Greene
This is part five of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC. New Capability DSC has a new debugging mode that helps with troubleshooting by making it possible to interact with scripts being run by DSC, as they are being applied. When this mode is enabled, as the machine applies the configuration, progress...

Validate PowerShell DSC Partial Configurations

July 8, 2015 Jul 8, 2015 07/8/15
Michael Greene
This post is part three of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC.   New Capability   DSC now has the ability to merge partial configurations into one configuration for management.   What is the purpose of this feature? Customers have told us that in some cases, multiple teams ...

Registration is Now Open to Publish on PowerShell Gallery

July 7, 2015 Jul 7, 2015 07/7/15
PowerShell Team
We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery will accept registration from any users who wish to publish PowerShell modules and share their work with the world. For the past year, the PowerShell Gallery has been slowly adding content from our closest community contributors, most of whom are Most Valuable Professionals (...