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PowerShell Constrained Language Mode

November 2, 2017 Nov 2, 2017 11/2/17
PowerShell Team
PowerShell Constrained Language Mode Update (May 17, 2018) In addition to the constraints listed in this article, system wide Constrained Language mode now also disables the ScheduledJob module. The ScheduledJob feature uses Dot Net serialization that is vulnerable to deserialization attacks. So now whenever an application whitelisting ...

Defending Against PowerShell Attacks

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
PowerShell Team
[Updated Feb 20th, 2020 with latest guidance] The security industry is ablaze with news about how PowerShell is being used by both commodity malware and attackers alike. Surely there’s got to be a way to defend yourself against these attacks! There absolutely is. PowerShell is - by far - the most securable and security-transparent ...

Require License Acceptance Support in PowerShellGet

October 22, 2017 Oct 22, 2017 10/22/17
Fareha Rashid[MSFT]
PowerShellGet version 1.5.0 has added support for module publishers to require explicit license acceptance from users before installing a module. This feature has been requested by several of our partners, in order to meet their legal requirements. If a user installs, updates, or saves a module using PowerShellGet, and the publisher of that ...

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 ...