The PowerShell team released Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 last year and just re-released Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 for earlier versions of Windows. But, we know from years of experience that many people don’t upgrade their versions quickly. It takes time to get to know and trust a new version. In a large enterprise, it […]
PowerShell Studio 2016: What’s New? (Part 3)
PowerShell Studio 2016 is released! We’ve written a series of blog posts to introduce you to the newest features. In this blog, Part 3, we will look at some of the new editor features of PowerShell Studio 2016. But, there’s more: In Part 1, we review the new UI features, including our new dark themes. […]
IT Pro Con NY Free Pass Giveaway
Attention all IT Pros! We have been given the opportunity to sponsor the upcoming IT Pro Con NY (formerly known as Techstravaganza), and we want to see you all there! We are giving away 30 free passes to join us at IT Pro Con NY on March 25th, 2016, at Microsoft’s NYC Office in Times […]
There’s only one right place for curly braces
If you ever want to start an argument with programmers or scripters, mention your preferred code or script formatting habit. A tweet about the PowerShell backtick continuation character or the placement of comment-based help for a function will elicit enough reaction to bring down a small server. But nothing gets people more riled up than […]
PowerShell Studio 2016: What’s New? (Part 2)
PowerShell Studio 2016 is released! We’ve written a series of blog posts to introduce you to the newest features. In this blog, Part 2, we introduce our new debugging features, including variable and function breakpoints and improvements to the Variables pane. But, there’s more: In Part 1, we review the new UI features, including our […]
PowerShell Studio 2016 Released! – What’s New? (Part 1)
PowerShell Studio 2016 is released as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers. We will cover all the new features in a series of “What’s New” articles. In this blog, Part 1, we introduce new UI features, including our new dark themes. But, there’s more: in Part 2, we introduce our new debugging features, […]
Finding PowerShell 5.0
Updates: We have updated this blog post to reflect these changes. Windows Management Framework 5.0 RTM, which includes Windows PowerShell 5.0 for systems earlier than Windows 10, is now released. Windows Management Framework 5.0 is now available in the Microsoft Update Catalog. There are some amazing new features of Windows PowerShell 5.0. Some of them, […]
New PowerShell Reference Tool
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. is pleased to introduce our new online Windows PowerShell Reference tool, which is based on the reference section of iPowerShell Pro. To find it, on the SAPIEN web page, click Support and then click PowerShell Reference. Or, go directly to https://www.sapien.com/powershell. PowerShell Reference contains help for Windows PowerShell and PowerShell modules. This […]
Is there a PSEdit for PowerShell Studio?
My friend, Thom Schumacher, who has been leading the Arizona PowerShell User Group for the past few months, is getting to know PowerShell Studio. Like many of us, he came to PowerShell Studio from PowerShell ISE, so he looks for the “ISE way” to do things in PowerShell Studio. “How do I use PSEdit in […]
WMI Explorer 2016 released
WMI Explorer 2016 was released as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers. We added some improvements behind the scenes: – improved security blanket handling allows remote browsing for more machines on your network.– detect and handle classes with descriptions that have linefeed only line ending.– general performance enhancements. The most obvious change […]
