PowerShell Team

PowerShell Standard Library: Build single module that works across Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core

August 6, 2018 Aug 6, 2018 08/6/18

Steve Lee

This is the first of a series of blog posts that will help you take advantage of a new NuGet package PowerShellStandard Library 5.1.0. This package allows developers to create modules that are portable between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell Core 6.0. This means that you can create PowerShell modules that run on Windows, Linux, and ...

PowerShell Injection Hunter: Security Auditing for PowerShell Scripts

August 3, 2018 Aug 3, 2018 08/3/18

PowerShell Team

At the DEFCON security conference last year, we presented the session: "Get $pwnd: Attacking Battle Hardened Windows Server". In this talk, we went through some of the incredibly powerful ways that administrators can secure their high-value systems (for example, Just Enough Administration) and also dove into some of the mistakes that administrators sometimes make when exposing their PowerShell code to an attacker. The most common form of mistake is script injection, where a script author takes a parameter value (supplied by an attacker) and runs it in a trusted context (such as a function exposed in a Just Enough Administration endpoint).

Increased Windows Modules coverage with PowerShell Core 6.1

July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Steve Lee

During the May 2018 Community Call and a tweet a few weeks later, we mentioned that PowerShell team was spending significant time in the Windows codebase. We even demoed using the Active Directory PowerShell Module from PowerShell Core 6 during the PowerShell Community Call. We started investigating some of the top requested modules ...

PowerShell Core now available as a Snap package

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18

Joey Aiello

The goal of PowerShell Core is to be the ubiquitous language for managing your assets in the hybrid cloud. That's why we've worked to make it available on many operating systems, architectures, and flavors of Linux, macOS, and Windows as possible. Today, we're happy to announce an addition to our support matrix: PowerShell Core is now ...