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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 .json files as input. For a full list of the issues addressed by this release please refer to this...

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 preview 3 We are now able to ship simultaneously with each new .NET 5 preview release! This...

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 PowerShell extension for VS Code has released a new preview version. This ships with this new...

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 celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group...

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 addressed by this release please refer to this GitHub project. Note: For background information on...

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 including Docker, Windows containers, orchestration, and microservices. Today, we’re excited to...

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 implementation has no known security vulnerabilities. But because of the potential for future...

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 API platform in .NET. As a .NET application that both provides APIs and expects to load .NET...

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 potential remote code execution due to a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way SMBv3 (3.1.1)...

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 Microsoft Teams with advanced security and device management capabilities. We are excited to...

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 working from home for an extended time. Millions of these PCs are currently being managed using...

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, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell resources like modules, DSC resources, role capabilities...

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 ideas to enable personal PCs and shared devices to help businesses implement remote work. In...

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 not make it in time for the 7.0 release. It also includes .NET 5 preview 1! The PowerShell...

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 your employees can continue working as close as possible to how they worked back in the office...

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 breaking changes to the module. This release is still a preview release meaning that it is not...

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 devices and resources and services in the cloud. Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow remote...

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 allowing sorting and filtering. Many PowerShell users like to use it within a pipeline for...

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 PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening...

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 by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue feedback. PowerShell 7 would not have been...