In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Windows 10 for PCs build 14393.82 to the Production ring. The package is missing a .MOF file, which breaks DSC (Desired State Configuration) in PowerShell. It ...

The Microsoft PowerShell team is planning to reshape its Desired State Configuration (DSC) solutions, replacing them with a single cross-platform tool that supports both Windows and Linux. The team is ...

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Microsoft earlier in the month released a test solution for managing Exchange Server 2013 configurations. The new xExchange PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources module is available ...

PowerShell Core 6.0 is now at released at the "generally availability" stage and is ready for use in production environments, Microsoft announced today. This version of PowerShell is notable for being ...

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Windows without PowerShell 2.0: Microsoft removes the version still included for compatibility for good. It has long been considered obsolete. PowerShell 2.0 is finally history: The version of the ...

Microsoft's August 31 Cumulative Update to Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes a fix awaited by some PowerShell users. The previous Cumulative Update to Windows 10 Anniversary Update -- the one ...