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Polaris – simple Microservices using only PowerShell

October 16, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 10/16/17
Tyler Leonhardt [MSFT]
Polaris - Simple Microservices using only PowerShell Polaris is a cross-platform, minimalist web framework for PowerShell Core 6. With 6 lines of code, you have your very own webserver running and ready to accept requests - all within PowerShell:   Disclaimer We open sourced this as an experiment. It's not an officially ...

DSC Resource Kit Release October 2017

October 5, 2017 Oct 5, 2017 10/5/17
Katie Keim [MSFT]
We just released the DSC Resource Kit!This release includes updates to 6 DSC resource modules. In these past 6 weeks, 52 pull requests have been merged and 39 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: For a detailed list of the resource modules and...

DSC Future Direction Update

September 12, 2017 Sep 12, 2017 09/12/17
Mark Gray [MSFT]
PowerShell Core and DSC PowerShell is open sourced and moving over to .Net Standard 2.0 for the reasons outlined in Jeffrey's blog post. Like PowerShell, PowerShell Desired State configuration (DSC) needs to meet customers in this multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world where they live. In Joey's blog post, he outlined what this means to ...

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Deprecation

August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17
Joey Aiello
We recently announced that Windows PowerShell 2.0 is being deprecated in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Deprecation is a process whereby technologies or applications are marked as legacy, signalling to users that they may be removed in the future, and that should move away from them and towards newer alternatives. We do not ...

PSSwagger – Automatically generate PowerShell cmdlets from OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) specification

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Manikyam Bavandla [MSFT]
As a PowerShell enthusiast or DevOps professional, have you ever thought of having a tool that automatically generates PowerShell cmdlets to manage or access a RESTful Web Service? We are happy to share PSSwagger - the PowerShell Cmdlet generator for OpenAPI based web services. At PowerShell Conference Europe 2017, Jeffrey first showcased ...

PowerShell Documentation Migration

July 28, 2017 Jul 28, 2017 07/28/17
Zachary Alexander
  Hi, I’m Zach Alexander and I’m a PM on the PowerShell Team working on documentation. I wanted to let you know that there will be a brief downtime for online PowerShell documentation. This downtime will occur on August 2nd and shouldn’t last more than a few hours. We will start around 4:30pm Pacific and estimate we will be back ...

PowerShell 6.0 Roadmap: CoreCLR, Backwards Compatibility, and More!

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
Joey Aiello
As we've made progress on open-source PowerShell, it's time to start talking more in-depth about: PowerShell Editions There are two editions of PowerShell: Windows PowerShell is the edition of PowerShell built on top of .NET Framework (sometimes referred to colloquially as "FullCLR"): PowerShell Core is the ...