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Hopefully, you’re aware that Microsoft is moving to UserVoice for accepting feature requests and bugs. DSC in particular has 30-odd suggestions at present, and I thought I’d run through some of my fav’s. Log in and up-vote the ones you like, or add comments to expand the …
In Microsoft’s brave new world of agile, more-frequent software releases, including numerous pre-release cycles… Microsoft needs to rethink the way it communicates versioning. Windows Management Framework (WMF) v5 has, for me, been pretty much the perfect example of what not to do, and …
There’ve been so many under-the-radar announcements and news bits about PowerShell, that I thought it’d be worth a quick start-of-the-week, pre-holiday roundup. First off, the big news is that **Windows Management Framework v5 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). **Not that …
Thanks to all those who participated in the PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week last week! Much progress was made on fixing bugs and adding new features to both PowerShell Editor Services and the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. Here’s a quick summary of the contributions that …
Our December 2015 puzzle comes from PowerShell.org board member Jeff Hicks, who wanted to share a little holiday fun for the season.
Want to see what a real-world, functional, production-grade DevOps environment looks like? Look no further than Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Beanstalk (EBS). EBS is a neat combination of their EC2 IaaS product, S3 storage, and some DevOps magic. From a working perspective, it goes something …
Do you wish your favorite editor had better PowerShell editing support? Do you have a great idea for a new feature for the PowerShell extension in Visual Studio Code? We’re dedicating next week, December 6th through 13th (Sunday through next Sunday), to hacking together on new features to enable …
Back by popular demand is the week-long coordination of blog posts on a single PowerShell topic known as #PSBlogWeek! This week, 5 hand-picked bloggers will be writing informative content around the topic of logging. The daily schedule for this week is as follows: Monday (Jason Wasser @wasserja) - …
After a two week hiatus I am back this week with a quick write up on how to automate the updating of PowerShell help. Update-Help should be one of the first things typed in PowerShell on a new workstation build. I jump into the topic and demonstrate how to automate the updating of the help files …
UPDATE: The new venue will not be ready until next months’ meeting, so please meet us instead at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta, Microsoft Corporation 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy Ste 300, Alpharetta Join us on Tuesday, December 8th when June Blender will be giving a talk on PowerShell Events! …
