PowerShell Team May 2020 Update
Previously, I published a blog on our investments plans during the PowerShell 7.1 release timeframe. We’ve made progress across many of those investments with more work ahead of us. PowerShell 7.1...
View ArticlePowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 3
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 3 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the -RequiredResource parameter for Install-PSResource which now allows for json, hashtable, or...
View ArticlePowerShell 7 Video Series
As a part of our PowerShell 7 release, the PowerShell Team put together a series of videos explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events...
View ArticlePSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.19.0 has been released
TL;DR; (Too Long; Didn’t Read) This new minor version brings 5 new rules, the formatter is much faster and other enhancements and fixes. You can get it from the PSGallery here. At the same time the...
View ArticlePowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 2
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 2 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the Install-PSResource parameter, error messages, and warnings. For a full list of the issues...
View ArticleWindows Server container support in Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally...
Containerization is an important cloud computing development to more seamlessly build, test, deploy, and manage cloud applications. Containers also introduced many of our customers to new technologies...
View ArticlePowerShell Gallery TLS Support
Summary To provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, the PowerShell Gallery has deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 as of April 2020. The Microsoft TLS 1.0...
View ArticleDepending on the right PowerShell NuGet package in your .NET project
Alongside the pwsh executable packages published with each PowerShell release, the PowerShell team also maintain several NuGet packages that are available on NuGet to allow targeting PowerShell as an...
View ArticleAzure ATP now detects SMBGhost
This post is authored by Mor Rubin, Security Researcher, Azure ATP. The SMB vulnerability CVE-2020-0796, also known as “SMBGhost” or “CoronaBlue”, was published a few days ago. This CVE is about a...
View ArticleAzure Active Directory Premium P1 is coming to Microsoft 365 Business!
Microsoft 365 Business is the comprehensive productivity and security solution for businesses with less than 300 employees. It integrates your favorite Office apps and collaboration tools including...
View ArticleManage work devices at home during Covid-19 using Configuration Manager
Many organizations have already allowed or are beginning to allow corporate PCs and laptops to be taken home to work remotely. By current expert estimates, the COVID-19 pandemic may result in people...
View ArticlePowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 1
We are excited to announce that our first preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This is a major update to PowerShell’s experience for discovering,...
View ArticleHelping IT send and provision business PCs at home to work securely during...
With so many organizations shifting to remote work, our teams are helping customers daily to understand how to provision new and existing PCs at home. The previous article in this series discussed some...
View ArticlePowerShell 7.1 Team Investments and Preview.1 Release
The PowerShell 7 release marks a huge milestone for PowerShell, the community, and the team! Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes that did...
View ArticleHelping businesses rapidly set up to work securely from personal PCs and mobiles
Enabling a remote workforce is no trivial challenge in the best of times, and it can seem especially daunting when rolling out during a global crisis. Luckily, there are some easy ways to start, so...
View ArticleSecret Management Preview 2 Release
We are excited to release a second preview of the Secret Management Module. Thanks to the tremendous feedback we received from the first preview release of this module, you will notice a number of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Endpoint Manager expands ecosystem of VPN partners to support...
Many organizations believe data is protected when resources exist within the boundaries of their corporate networks. But in today's digital workplace, that boundary has expanded with managed mobile...
View ArticleA new kind of GridView right in your console: Introducing the early preview...
Yes. This is yet another post about GridViews. We love them. You love them. What’s not to like? If you’re not familiar with Out-GridView, it can be used to interactively view objects as a table...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code for PowerShell 7
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our...
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell 7.0
Today, we’re happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we’d like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible...
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