PowerShell v5 September preview available
Today I was just checking my tweets and saw that the PowerShell team had released a new build of the Windows Management Framework v5, this time its the September build and it works only on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 and if you have a previous version that was released in july of the v5 you have to uninstall that first and then you can install this version
here is a quote from the PowerShell team at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/09/04/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-september-2014-is-now-available.aspx
The following is a list of all the new scenarios enabled since May 2014:
- Generate Windows PowerShell cmdlets based on an OData endpoint
- Manage .ZIP files with new cmdlets
- DSC Authoring Improvements in Windows PowerShell ISE
- New Attribute for defining DSC meta-configuration
- Use partial configurations DSC
- Cross-computer synchronization through DSC
- Get the current DSC configuration status
- Compare, Update, and Publish DSC configurations
- Audit Windows PowerShell usage by transcription and logging
- Extract and parse structured objects out of string content
- Extend the item noun to enable Symbolic Links
- Develop with classes in Windows PowerShell
- Register a PSRepository with PowerShell Get
- Network Switch management through Windows PowerShell (improvements)
I used a Azure VM to test and install this version
And once rebooted I can check via Get-Host what version I am actually running