{"id":19408,"date":"2022-03-10T09:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/?p=19408"},"modified":"2022-03-10T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:19:27","slug":"announcing-powershell-crescendo-general-availability-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/announcing-powershell-crescendo-general-availability-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) release of <strong>PowerShell Crescendo<\/strong>, a\nframework to rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for common command line tools, regardless of\nplatform.<\/p>\n<p>The release is now available for download on the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powershellgallery.com\/packages\/Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo\">PowerShell Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Making Cmdlets with PowerShell Crescendo<\/h2>\n<p>Crescendo is a development accelerator enabling you to rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets that\nleverage existing command-line tools. Crescendo amplifies the command-line experience of the\noriginal tool to include object output for the PowerShell pipeline, privilege elevation, and\nintegrated help information. A Crescendo module replaces cumbersome command-line tools with\nPowerShell cmdlets that are easier to use in automation and packaged to share with team members.<\/p>\n<p>The GA release includes the following features and benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to define cmdlets from simple <code>key\/value<\/code> statements in a JSON file<\/li>\n<li>Support for modular design &#8211; cmdlet definitions can be in a one or more JSON files<\/li>\n<li>A JSON schema that helps you create your Crescendo configuration using IntelliSense and tooltips<\/li>\n<li>Three styles of output handling code allowing you to separate your code from the cmdlet\ndefinitions for easier debugging and development<\/li>\n<li>Privilege elevation mechanisms in <strong>Windows<\/strong>, <strong>Linux<\/strong>, and <strong>macOS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Crescendo generates a PowerShell script module ready for deployment<\/li>\n<li>While Crescendo requires PowerShell 7 or higher for authoring configurations, the generated module\ncan run on Windows PowerShell 5.1 and higher<\/li>\n<li>Example configurations for you to copy and reuse<\/li>\n<li>Experimental Help parsers that provide proof-of-concept examples for auto-generating cmdlet\nconfigurations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Installing Crescendo<\/h2>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo<\/strong> requires PowerShell 7.0 or higher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To install <strong>Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-powershell\">Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To install <strong>Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo<\/strong> using the new\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powershellgallery.com\/packages\/PowerShellGet\/3.0.12-beta\">PowerShellGet.v3<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-powershell\">Install-PSResource -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>More information<\/h2>\n<p>To get started using Crescendo, check out the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/utility-modules\/crescendo\/overview\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Future plans<\/h2>\n<p>We value your ideas and feedback and hope you will give Crescendo a try. Stop by our\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PowerShell\/Crescendo\">GitHub repository<\/a> and let us know of any issues you find\nor features you would like added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3173],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-powershell-crescendo"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework for the<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}