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PowerShellGet and PackageManagement in PowerShell Gallery and GitHub

September 29, 2016 Sep 29, 2016 09/29/16
PowerShell Team
As of today, PowerShellGet is an open source project, and both the PowerShellGet and PackageManagement modules are available in the PowerShell Gallery. Moving PowerShellGet to Open Source PowerShellGet is now a repo under github.com/PowerShell. Of course, the PackageManagement module is already open-sourced as it is part of the OneGet ...

PowerShell Security at DerbyCon

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
PowerShell Team
Many people have commented over the past couple of years that they’d love to see a PowerShell Security conference. Well, that conference arrived: DerbyCon 2016. DerbyCon is an incredible security conference, held in Louisville Kentucky each year. Despite the calibre of all that attend, the humbleness and approachability of everyone there is...

DSC Resource Kit September Release

September 21, 2016 Sep 21, 2016 09/21/16
Katie Keim [MSFT]
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! Since our last release on August 10, we have added 2 brand new modules from the community: Thanks Brian and Daniel for all your hard work! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules, including 15 new DSC resources. In these past 6 weeks, 94 pull requests have been ...

PowerShell DSC and implicit remoting broken in KB3176934

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
PowerShell Team
On August 23, Windows update KB3176934 released for Windows Client. Due to a missing .MOF file in the build package, the update breaks DSC. All DSC operations will result in an “Invalid Property” error. In addition, due to a missing binary in the build package the update breaks PowerShell implicit remoting. Implicit remoting is a ...

PowerShell on Linux and Open Source!

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
PowerShell Team
Since its inception in 2002 PowerShell has been deeply influenced and improved by the passion and needs of our community. As an example, 80 contributors filed bugs and issues on the “alpha” release. Since that time we, together, have built a strong PowerShell community that supports each other, provides Summits and Conferences and gives ...

Windows PowerShell is now “PowerShell”: An Open Source Project with Linux support – How did we do it?

August 17, 2016 Aug 17, 2016 08/17/16
PowerShell Team
Hello everyone, My name is Angel Calvo, I am Microsoft’s Group Software Engineering Manager for PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC). I'd like to take this opportunity to proudly represent the engineering team behind this project, and share a few thoughts about yesterday’s historic announcement for PowerShell and our Community...

DSC Resource Kit August Release

August 10, 2016 Aug 10, 2016 08/10/16
Katie Keim [MSFT]
The DSC Resource Kit has been released! This release includes 14 updated DSC resource modules and 10 new DSC resources. Since the last release on June 29, there have been 126 merged pull requests and 41 closed issues. The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed list of the resource ...

DSC Resource Kit Community Call August 3

July 29, 2016 Jul 29, 2016 07/29/16
Katie Keim [MSFT]
We will be hosting a community call for the DSC Resource Kit 1-2PM on Wednesday, August 3 (PDT). Call in to ask questions or give feedback about the DSC Resource Kit! How to Join Skype for Business Join Skype Meeting This is an online meeting for Skype for Business, the professional meetings and communications app formerly known as Lync. ...

Announcing Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 Preview

July 16, 2016 Jul 16, 2016 07/16/16
PowerShell Team
Update 08/08/2016: Removed the note on container support. That is not part of WMF, as it installs on older versions of Server. Today we are pleased to announce that the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 Preview release is now available on the Download Center. WMF provides users with the ability to update previous releases of Windows ...

DSC Resource Kit June Release

June 29, 2016 Jun 29, 2016 06/29/16
PowerShell Team
The June release of the DSC Resouce Kit is out! This release includes 12 updated DSC resource modules and 20 new DSC resources. Since the last release on May 18, there have been 106 merged pull requests and 42 closed issues. The modules updated in this release are: We also have ...