As a shell, PowerShell is intended to work with native commands in addition to cmdlets. However, native commands have their own unique syntax, sometimes containing many subcommands and parameters/switches, and are often like its own language. Wouldn’t it be great… Continue Reading →

  The PowerShell gallery experienced downtime on October 30th 2020. This report will give context as to what caused the downtime, what actions were taken to mitigate the issue, and what steps we are taking to improve the PowerShell gallery… Continue Reading →

You’ve got Help! Up until now, creating updateable help has been a largely manual process. The CAB files downloaded by Update-Help had to be rebuilt and hosted on the Microsoft Download Center. The tools for managing the Download Center require… Continue Reading →

Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: SecretManagement preview6 SecretStore preview4 For more information on these modules check out these previous blog posts: SecretManagement preview 3/SecretStore preview 1 SecretManagement preview 4/SecretStore preview 2 SecretManagement preview 5/SecretStore… Continue Reading →

We’re proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA… Continue Reading →

Tab completion has accelerated the success of new and experienced PowerShell users for over a decade. New users get the benefit of discovery, seeing available cmdlets and parameters as options while interactively typing. Experienced users receive the benefit of acceleration,… Continue Reading →

Updating help for the PSReadLine module You may have noticed an error message when trying to update the help for the PSReadLine module. In the example above, I am trying to update help for the PSReadLine module on my Windows… Continue Reading →

Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: SecretManagement preview5 SecretStore preview3 Before installing these modules please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the following… Continue Reading →

Since we open sourced PowerShell in 2016, PowerShell has been an immensely popular project on GitHub. Every year, 700-1000 PRs and 1300-1500 issues are submitted to the PowerShell repo, with roughly half of the PRs and 90% of the issues… Continue Reading →