{"id":11231,"date":"2015-08-31T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2015\/08\/31\/windows-management-framework-5-0-production-preview-is-now-available\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:38:30","slug":"windows-management-framework-5-0-production-preview-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/windows-management-framework-5-0-production-preview-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Management Framework 5.0 Production Preview is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=48729\"> Microsoft Download Center!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/powershell\/archive\/2015\/08\/06\/windows-management-framework-wmf-5-0-roadmap.aspx\">earlier<\/a>, WMF 5.0 Production Preview differs from older previews of WMF 5.0 in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is fully supported until 90 days after WMF 5.0 RTM. By <em>fully supported<\/em>, we mean we will investigate production-blocking issues, and provide workarounds or updates as necessary.<\/li>\n<li>All features in the Production Preview are production-ready. No experimental features are in this package.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following table provides an overview of all scenarios enabled by WMF 5.0 Production Preview.<\/p>\n<table style=\"padding-left: 30px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Scenario<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">New and updated cmdlets based on community feedback<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Generate Windows PowerShell cmdlets based on an OData endpoint with ODataUtils<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Manage .ZIP archives through new cmdlets<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Interact with symbolic links using improved Item cmdlets<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Network Switch management with Windows PowerShell<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">DSC authoring improvements in Windows PowerShell ISE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">32-bit support for the configuration keyword in DSC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Audit Windows PowerShell usage by transcription and logging<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Extract and parse structured object out of string content<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Configure DSC&rsquo;s Local Configuration Manager with the meta-configuration attribute<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Configure piece by piece with partial configurations in DSC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Manage with cross-computer dependencies in DSC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More control over configurations in DSC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Find more detail about configuration status in DSC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Support for -? during DSC configuration compilation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Support for DSC RunAsCredential<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Rich information for DSC LCM State<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Side-by-Side installation of DSC Resources<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">PSDesiredStateConfiguration Module version updated to 1.1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Discover and install software with <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">PackageManagement<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Discover modules and DSC resources with PowerShellGet<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Develop with classes in Windows PowerShell<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">More control and remoting in Windows PowerShell Debugging<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Report configuration status from DSC to a central location<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"539\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: small\">Software Inventory Logging.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can read more about these improvements, and other content in WMF 5.0 Production Preview, in the release notes (included in the download with the packages).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WMF 5.0 Production Preview installs exclusively on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1. You&rsquo;ll need .NET Framework 4.5 installed to run WMF 5.0; you can also find that on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=30653\">Microsoft Download Center<\/a>, if you&rsquo;re not running it already.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re excited to provide this new iteration of WMF to you all, and we&rsquo;re happy to hear any and all feedback that you may have.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, our main avenue of feedback is Connect: <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/PowerShell\">https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/PowerShell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of everyone contributing to WMF, we hope you enjoy this Preview release.<\/p>\n<p>Krishna C Vutukuri<br \/> Principal Software Engineering Manager <br \/> Windows PowerShell Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;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! 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