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Introducing PowerShell as .NET Global Tool

Aditya PatwardhanJuly 18, 2019Jul 18, 201907/18/19

PowerShell is very suitable for CI/CD scenarios due to its easy and well understood scripting paradigm,
and its cross-platform support makes it great for building and testing cross-platform applications.
A .NET Global Tool is a special NuGet package that contains a console application.

DSC Resource Kit Release June 2019

Katie Kragenbrink [MSFT]June 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19

We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 8 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 95 pull requests have been merged and 55 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:

CertificateDsc
NetworkingDsc
PSDscResources
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
xActiveDirectory
xDnsServer
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration

For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1

Jim TruherJune 13, 2019Jun 13, 201906/13/19

Overview
PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.18.1 is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for 1.18.0 but has also been made twice as faster compared to 1.18.0. Additionally, the -SaveDscDependency switch on Invoke-ScriptAnalyzerhas been improved to be platform agnostic and should now also work on Linux systems if DSC has been set up.

DSC Planning Update – June 2019

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

It has been almost a year since the last DSC Planning update. There has been a lot going on, many decisions being made, and it just didn’t make sense to post earlier in this calendar year. In this post we will review what has been shipped and the high-level direction we are heading. 

Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Service

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

This post builds upon the introduction published yesterday to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration service. 

Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Client

Michael GreeneJune 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19

This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration client and how configuration content is consumed. 

Using PowerShellGet with Azure Artifacts

Sydney SmithJune 4, 2019Jun 4, 201906/4/19

We have improved the experience with PowerShellGet and private NuGet feeds by focusing on pain points using an Azure Artifacts feed.
We addressed pain points by enabling/documenting the following features:

Non-PAT authentication for package management
Credential persistence in Register-PSRepository

These improvements will effect the following cmdlets:

Register-PSRepository
Set-PSRepository
Find-Module/Script
Install-Module/Script
Update-Module/Script
Save-Module/Script
Publish-Module/Script

What is Azure Artifacts and Why would I use it?

DSC Resource Kit Release May 2019

Katie Kragenbrink [MSFT]May 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 87 pull requests have been merged and 36 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:

ActiveDirectoryCSDsc
CertificateDsc
ComputerManagementDsc
NetworkingDsc
OfficeOnlineServerDsc
PSDscResources
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
StorageDsc
xActiveDirectory
xDnsServer
xFirefox
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
xWebAdministration

For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,

Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x

Joey AielloApril 29, 2019Apr 29, 201904/29/19

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).

Using PSScriptAnalyzer to check PowerShell version compatibility

Robert HoltApril 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19

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 problems running on PowerShell 3,