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May 23, 2016May 23, 201605/23/16On 1st June 2016, support for the WMF 5.0 Production Preview, released back in August 2015, will end and it’s time to upgrade to the WMF 5.0 RTM.
We would like to give a huge THANK YOU to all of you who used the WMF 5.0 Production Preview and provided us with feedback.
February 24, 2016Feb 24, 201602/24/16Today, we have republished the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 RTM packages for Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1 to Microsoft Download Center. These packages replace previously released WMF 5.0 RTM packages and WMF 5.0 Production Preview packages.
January 19, 2016Jan 19, 201601/19/16As part of the November 2014 Update (KB3000850), we released updates to PowerShell 4.0 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. We are now pleased to make these same PowerShell 4.0 updates available for Windows Server 2012 (KB3119938), Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (KB3109118),
August 31, 2015Aug 31, 201508/31/15We’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 supported until 90 days after WMF 5.0 RTM.
August 6, 2015Aug 6, 201508/6/15In 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 supported until three months after WMF 5.0 RTM.
July 28, 2015Jul 28, 201507/28/15Updated 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.
May 14, 2015May 14, 201505/14/15This year, at the Ignite Conference, we presented Just Enough Administration (JEA), a PowerShell toolkit for granularly managing administrator privileges. Older versions of JEA do not work with the recently released April WMF 5.0 Preview. This is due to an issue with WinRM when registering a new endpoint.
April 29, 2015Apr 29, 201504/29/15We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview April 2015, a new package introducing new andexciting management technologies, is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center!
This Windows Management Framework (WMF) preview includes everything from WMF 5.0 Preview February 2015 plus some new features.
April 27, 2015Apr 27, 201504/27/15We are proud to announce that the entire DSC Resource Kit has been open-sourced on GitHub. This means that we will be iterating and releasing these DSC resources quicker than ever before. It also means that we will be collaborating more openly with the community by accepting GitHub pull requests into our code.
April 16, 2015Apr 16, 201504/16/15Community feedback is an integral part of any software development cycle. That’s why we continue to release new preview versions of Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0: so that we can hear about and fix real-world problems before they ship with the next version of Windows.
