Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Win7 SP1/Win2008 R2 SP1 get some PowerShell 3 CTP love... Or PS gets WF

PowerShell Magazine - Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1 is here

"Have you tried PowerShell vNext included as a part of Windows 8 client and server developer preview? Don’t have a Windows 8 system to look at it just yet?

Don’t worry! Microsoft just announced the release of Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 build. This includes PowerShell vNext. This package also contains updated WMI and WinRM components. This release can be installed on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The below list — from the release page — shows some of the improvements or additions to PowerShell in this release.

Windows PowerShell 3.0
Some of the new features in Windows PowerShell 3.0 include:
    • Workflows
      Workflows that run long-running activities (in sequence or in parallel) to perform complex, larger management tasks, such as multi-machine application provisioning. Using the Windows Workflow Foundation at the command line, Windows PowerShell workflows are repeatable, parallelizable, interruptible, and recoverable.
    • Robust Sessions
      ...
    • Scheduled Jobs
      ...
    • Delegated Administration
      ...
    • Simplified Language Syntax
      ...
    • Cmdlet Discovery
      ...
    • Show-Command
      ...
..."
Interesting seeing Windows Workflow baked into PowerShell...

2 comments:

Huseyin Tufekcilerli said...

Win2008 R2 not RC :)

Greg said...

Doh!

Fixed. Thanks :)