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Over the last six months, we’ve been hard at work integrating PowerShell Core with Azure Functions 2.x. Today, I’m happy to announce that we’re releasing public preview of PowerShell support for Azure Functions 2.x for Windows (Consumption, Premium, and App Service pricing plans). I already...

This blog was co-authored by Ben Schultz, Principal Program Manager and Weijuan Shi Davis, Senior Program Manager, Windows Server. Greetings! With the launch of Windows Server 2019 a few months ago, we kicked off a whole new wave of innovation focused on four pillars: Hybrid Cloud, Security...

Today we want to introduce a new member on the board. The MSIX Packaging Tool April Release is there for you to use. If you want to doublecheck – it is the version 1.2019.402.0. Before we start our quick overview, we like to provide you with the link to the release notes: MSIX Packaging Tool...

Introduction We had our Community Day in Hamburg on the 15th of March – we hold this in German but as I present the troubleshooting session and didn’t use slides, I decided to write a blog about this topic to ensure that not just German Speaking people understand what we did here. (Video of...

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) is excited to deliver conditional access protection for Microsoft Edge on iOS and Android. This integration expands your management capabilities as you deploy Microsoft Edge for the best browsing experience across all endpoints in the enterprise...

PSScriptAnalyzer version 1.18 was released recently, and ships with powerful new rules that can check PowerShell scripts for incompatibilities with other PowerShell versions and environments. In this blog post, the first in a series, we’ll see how to use these new rules to check a script for...

This blog post was authored by Dianna Marks, Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Its that time of the year again! Spring is in the air and Windows Server Summit is right around the corner. On May 22nd at Windows Server Summit 2019 you can discover how Windows Server can help you deliver...

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In a typical Kerberoasting attack, attackers exploit LDAP vulnerabilities to generate a list of all user accounts with a Kerberos Service Principal Name (SPN) available. Once successful at listing these accounts, attackers grant Kerberos Service Tickets for each user account with an SPN and...

When an attacker manages to break into an on-premises domain environment, one of the first steps they normally take is to gather information and perform domain reconnaissance. Reconnaissance involves identifying the users, resources and computers in the domain and then building an understanding...

Hello Everyone! Allen Sudbring here, Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Today I’m putting a post out to get some critical information to everyone who supports Windows Server and Active Directory Domain Services. If you haven’t seen the KB article that this post references I encourage you to...

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR READERS! AskPFEPlat is in the process of a transformation to the new Core Infrastructure and Security TechCommunity, and will be moving by...

Overview For PowerShell Core, we basically had to build a new engineering system to build and release it. How we build it has evolved over time as we learn and our other teams have implemented features that make some tasks easier. We are finally at a state that we believe we can engineer a...

Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we’ve already begun work on the next iteration! We’re calling the next release PowerShell 7, the reasons for which will be explained in this blog post. Why 7 and not 6.3...

Over the last couple months I’ve been writing about Intune’s journey to become a globally scaled cloud service running on Azure. I’m treating this as Part 3 (here’s Part 1 and Part 2) of a 4-part series. Today, I’ll explain how we were able to make such dramatic improvements to our SLA’s...

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 13 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 87 pull requests have been merged and 90 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: CertificateDsc...

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR READERS! AskPFEPlat is in the process of a transformation to the new Core Infrastructure and Security TechCommunity, and will be moving by...

(This post is co-authored by Adrian Moore, Senior Program Manager, and Mayunk Jain, Product Manager, Microsoft 365 Security) Whether you have an official BYOD (bring your own device) policy or not, chances are you caught up on some work email this weekend on your mobile phone. If so...

Over the past few months, the team has been working hard to make the PowerShell Gallery as accessible as possible. This blog details why it matters and what work has been done. Why making the PowerShell Gallery more accessible was a priority Accessible products change lives and allow everyone...

Commenting on the PowerShell Gallery is provided by LiveFyre–a third-party comment system. LiveFyre is no longer supported by Adobe and therefore we are unable to service issues as they arise. We have gotten reports of authentication failing for Twitter and Microsoft AAD and unfortunately we are...