{"id":2961,"date":"2010-05-14T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2010\/05\/14\/powershell-v2-is-available\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:05:55","slug":"powershell-v2-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-v2-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell V2 IS Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar Tobias Weltner (of <a href=\"http:\/\/powershell.com\/cs\/\">PowerShell.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\/Products\/PowerShell\/\">Powershell Plus<\/a> fame) sent me some mail today pointing to this May 14th article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com\/_featured\/article.php\/3879951\/Three+Essential+PowerShell+2.0+Remote+Management+Features.htm\">Three Essential PowerShell 2.0 Remote Management Features<\/a>.&#160; It is a very good article except for this part:<\/p>\n<p><em><font color=\"#000080\">\u201cPowerShell 2.0 is built into Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. For older operating systems, PowerShell 2.0 is scheduled to be available a few months down the road and will include support for Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>That is not right.&#160; PowerShell V2 has been available for these OS for quite some time now.&#160; You can download the packages here: <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151321\">http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151321<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>We are responsible for the confusion because our redistribution is not called PowerShell V2, its called Windows Management Framework.&#160; Let\u2019s talk about what motivated that change.&#160; In the past, we had a dogs breakfast of management technologies, each releasing on it\u2019s own schedule with it\u2019s own installer, it own approach to supporting downlevel OSes etc.&#160; We were trying \u201cshipping our organization\u201d.&#160; What is worse is that we never had anyone making sure that these things worked together (they did&#160; but if they didn\u2019t, there was no one to hold accountable).&#160; Having spent the majority of my career building management products and solutions, I knew that this inconsistency was a problem for the very community we were trying to help.<\/p>\n<p>What we needed to do is to provide a single package with all the management technologies that customers needed.&#160; That is what we developed and we called it the Windows Management Framework.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>That is why you don\u2019t have a \u201cdownlevel package for PowerShell V2\u201d, you have a downlevel package for management.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! <\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]   <br \/>Distinguished Engineer    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar Tobias Weltner (of PowerShell.com and Powershell Plus fame) sent me some mail today pointing to this May 14th article Three Essential PowerShell 2.0 Remote Management Features.&#160; It is a very good article except for this part: \u201cPowerShell 2.0 is built into Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. 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