Like a lot of people, I’ve downloaded and been playing with the previews of Windows 10 (client and server). About the first thing I did was to check out PowerShell and was delighted to find it contains a very late drop of the PowerShell V5 code – marginally later than the WMF Preview shipped in September.
My Server 2012R2 workstation, which has the September V5 drop reports:
Meanwhile, in the Windows 10 Server preview, we see:
As you can see, Windows 10 has a slightly newer version of PowerShell V5. The release notes don’t clarify what has changed, but I’d have expected the 9841 to be just a bug fixed fork of 9814.
This new version of PowerShell brings some big changes, not least of which is the improvements and enhancements to Desired State Configuration – no doubt this will feature large in the eventual launch of Windows 10 Server (Server 2015??).
But there are also a bunch of smaller changes that I also am very keen to see go mainstream. These include:
- Archive (.ZIP file) cmdlets
- Changes to –item noun to enable symbolic links
- The ability to develop classes (and enums) using PowerShell
- Improvements in DSC authoring within the ISE
- PowerShell transcripts within the ISE
- Better script tracing
PowerShell V5 looks like being a block buster! I’ll be writing blog articles about each of these new features along with some usage of them for your delight!
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