At the end of March we released a preview of PSArm, an experimental PowerShell module to enable authoring Azure ARM templates at scale. The goal of the PSArm experiment was to meet PowerShell customers where they are and through that platform provide a native way to reuse the power and reproducibility of ARM templates, as…
We are excited to announce that an important update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This preview release marks the completion of a complete refactor of this module and is a major step towards being feature complete for PowerShellGet 3.0. PowerShellGet 3.0 is a complete re-write of PowerShellGet…
We are excited to announce that an update to our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from extension updates in the coming months. What’s new in the PowerShell Extension release This release includes…
We’re happy to announce that SecretManagement 1.1 is now generally available (GA)! Awesome! I’m already using SecretManagement, what’s new and where can I get it? If you’ve already got SecretManagement running in your environment, check out the 1.1 preview blog before updating for more information on how the changes might impact your or vault extensions….
We are pleased to announce the third preview of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework to rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform. Warning Preview.3 includes a change to the schema to support multiple command configurations. This is a breaking change from previous previews. To enjoy the new multi-command JSON format, please upgrade to…
Updating PowerShell 7 with Microsoft Update Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re taking the first steps to making PowerShell 7 easier than ever to update on Windows 10 and Server. In the past, Windows users were notified in their console that a new version of PowerShell 7 is available, but they still had to…
We are excited to announce that an update to our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months. What’s new in the PowerShell Extension release This incremental release…
Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement 1.1.0-preview The next 1.1.0 version of SecretManagement has a number of minor fixes, but also two significant changes, one of which is a potentially breaking change for extension authors. For more information on the changes in this release, see the CHANGELOG document. This blog discusses the primary changes, why one is potentially breaking, and…
PlatyPS is the primary tool for creating the PowerShell help displayed using Get-Help. What is PlatyPS PowerShell external help files have been authored by hand or using complex tool chains and stored as MAML XML for use as console help. MAML is cumbersome to edit by hand, and common tools and editors don’t support it…
Continuing our investment in DSC, we are pleased to announce the release of PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in preparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new capabilities, but also some breaking changes. DSC is an important platform in configuration…