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OpenSSH for Windows Update

October 19, 2015 Oct 19, 2015 10/19/15
Steve Lee
Back in June, we announced our intentions to bring SSH to Windows by supporting and contributing to the OpenSSH community.  Our objective was to not only port OpenSSH so that it worked well on Windows, but to openly contribute those changes back into the portable version of OpenSSH.  Of the many options available, one clearly stood ...

Package Management Preview for PowerShell 4 & 3 is now available

October 9, 2015 Oct 9, 2015 10/9/15
Krishna C Vutukuri [MSFT]
We’re excited to announce the availability of Package Management related PowerShell modules targeted for PowerShell 4 and PowerShell 3. The MSI based installer can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center! This preview consists of modules PackageManagement (formerly known as OneGet) and PowerShellGet. The versions of these modules ...

The New Home of DSC Documentation

October 3, 2015 Oct 3, 2015 10/3/15
Joey Aiello
I’m pleased to announce that our official PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) documentation now has a new home on MSDN. We heard your feedback loud and clear, and began working on a documentation platform that reflects our customer-focused approach to addressing that feedback with improvements to the content and structure of the...

How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

October 2, 2015 Oct 2, 2015 10/2/15
Travis Plunk
Overview In version 2.7 of the Azure DSC Extension, we added support to leave your Virtual Machine on the latest supported version of WMF 4.0. This blog will show you how to use this feature in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. For this, I will use the Azure Resource Manger Tools, that were released with Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET. I will...

PowerShell DSC FAQ: Sorting Out Certificates

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15
Michael Greene
Today's blog post is by guest author Mr. Ashley McGlone, also known as GoateePFE. Ashley is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer who teaches and supports PowerShell for Microsoft Premier customers. You can find more content from Ashley at his blog on TechNet. Certificates, Oh No! One of the most common questions I get regarding PowerShell ...

How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Cloud Service Manager (ASM)

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15
Travis Plunk
Overview In version 2.7 of the Azure DSC Extension, we added support to leave your Virtual Machine on the latest supported version of WMF 4.0. This blog will show you how to use this feature in Azure Cloud Service Manager (ASM). This assumes you already know how to create a VM in the Azure PowerShell SDK. If you don't please see MSDN. We ...

Azure DSC Extension v2.7 released

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15
Travis Plunk
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Summary Today, we released version 2.7 of the Azure DSC Extension, which adds support to leave your Virtual Machine on the latest supported version of WMF 4.0. We have a blog posted with examples of how to use this in Azure Cloud Service Manager (...

PowerShell DSC for Linux version 1.1 is Now Available! And New Linux Resources!

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
Kris Bash
We are pleased to announce the availability of PowerShell DSC for Linux version 1.1. You can download this release here, or grab the source code here. This release implements the following new scenarios: Version 1.1 also includes all cumulative fixes in resources made to date. For more information on this release, please review the DSC ...

Azure DSC Extension v2.6 released

September 20, 2015 Sep 20, 2015 09/20/15
PowerShell Team
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