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PowerShell Community Call - March 17, 2022

Agenda

  • Move to .NET 7 - Aditya
  • Local SessionConfiguration support – Paul
    • Custom ConnectionInfo
    • AMSI and WDAC enhancements
  • Additional Azure Mariner support - Travis
    • More Windows ARM64 support
  • Making it easier to find out what’s new in PowerShell – Jason
    • Crescendo 1.0
    • PlatyPS 2.0
    • PSDesiredStateConfiguration 3.0
  • Docs update - Sean
  • CompleterPredictor - Dongbo
    • Module Isolation
  • PowerShellGet 3.0 - Anam
    • PowerShell Gallery
  • PowerShell VSCode Extension – Andy
  • OpenSSH for Windows – Balu/Danny
  • Questions

Notes

  • Theme of today's call is the teams' 2022 investments
  • We have released servicing updates for PowerShell 7+
  • The latest preview release is still on .Net 6, but future will .Net 7
  • We are making improvements to local SessionConfiguration support probably by adding a new keyword
  • This would allow for support of things like SSH endpoints, setting language mode, import modules ect.
  • Look out for an RFC on this work item
  • The PR is out for Custom Remote Connections based on this RFC
  • We have made enhancements to AMSI and WDAC, these are Windows only security features
  • Azure Mariner is a version of linux which we will be making packages available as well as docker containers
  • We are also investing in Windows ARM64 MSI packages which will allow us to keep these things up to date
  • We are working on a cmdlet Get-WhatsNew to learn differences in PowerShell versions from the cmd line
  • The RFC for this will be available next week, please give us feedback
  • Crescendo reached GA on March 10th --give it a try :)
  • Crescendo allows you to wrap command line tools with PowerShell to make them more useable
  • We have also created documentation for Crescendo, as well as community blogs
  • PlatyPS 2.0 is a project we have been working on to help teams who produce modules get on updateable help
  • Look forward to more previews on PlatyPS 2.0 mid year
  • We are working to open source the repo for PSDesiredStateConfiguration
  • Welcome Mikey Lombardi to the Docs Team!
  • New DSC 3.0 docs
  • New about_Member-Access_Enumeration
  • Updated What's New in PowerShell 7.3
  • The CompleterPredictor (demoed last community call) is expected to be open sourced by mid April
  • The module isolation work is based on RFC #298, a PR is open to refactor module loading
  • We are continuing work on the PowerShellGet 3.0 project in 2022
  • We are in the early stages of investigating architecture changes to PowerShell gallery in order to meet scale and performance needs
  • We have continued to ship preview releases of the PowerShell extension for VSCode and are getting closer to GA
  • Welcome Patrick to the team!
  • Our focus for the VSCode extension continues to be performance, reliability and stability
  • Look out for updates to Win32- OpenSSH in windows server later this year
  • Adding support for two factor auth