NJ PowerShell User Group January 8th 2015 Meetup
Yesterday, I attended last evening’s NJ PowerShell User Group January 8th Meetup online. It was attended by a nice group including Jeffrey Snover the godfather of PowerShell, and half a dozen or so MVPs including Joel Bennett, Dave Jones, Trevor Sullivan, Keith Hill, Kirk Munro, Jason Milczek, and Dave Wyatt. The System Center folks may find the first link interesting.
The main subject was PowerShell 5. Interesting links from the meetup include:
- The future of SMA/Orchestrator: A disappointment
- PowerShell 5.0 – Debug Background Jobs (Video)
- Pash Project
- Implementing a .NET Class in PowerShell v5
- PowerShell classes
- ProGet
- Package Management for PowerShell Modules with PowerShellGet
- PowerShell Gallery – This is in preview now
- Helge’s complaints
Windows 10 Technical Preview – early look at Windows components and features
Checking versions of different Windows components in Windows 10 Technical Preview:
It comes with Powershell 5 !!
Looking at the OS version, it is version 6.4.9841.0
This is shown from WMI, and on file versions, and help/about:
Navigation is almost identical to Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2, which I find very comforting.
Checking the available Powershell modules with the command:
Get-Module -ListAvailable | Select name,version,ModuleType,ClrVersion,PowershellVersion | Export-Csv .\Win10-modules.csv -NoTypeInformation
Shows the following 62 modules:
| Name | Version | ModuleType | ClrVersion | PowerShellVersion |
| AppBackgroundTask | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| AppLocker | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Appx | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| AssignedAccess | 1.0.0.0 | Script | ||
| BitLocker | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| BitsTransfer | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| BranchCache | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| CimCmdlets | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Defender | 1 | Manifest | 3 | |
| DirectAccessClientComponents | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| Dism | 3 | Script | 4 | 4 |
| DnsClient | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| International | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| iSCSI | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| ISE | 1.0.0.0 | Script | 4 | 3 |
| Kds | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | ||
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics | 3.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Host | 3.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Management | 3.1.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.PowerShell.ODataUtils | 1 | Script | ||
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Security | 3.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility | 3.1.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Microsoft.WSMan.Management | 3.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| MMAgent | 1 | Manifest | 3 | |
| MsDtc | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| NetAdapter | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetConnection | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetEventPacketCapture | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetLbfo | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetNat | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetQos | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetSecurity | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| NetSwitchTeam | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetTCPIP | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetworkConnectivityStatus | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| NetworkSwitch | 1.0.0.0 | Script | 3 | |
| NetworkTransition | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| OneGet | 1.0.0.0 | Binary | 4 | 2 |
| PcsvDevice | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| PKI | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| PowerShellGet | 0.5 | Script | 3 | |
| PrintManagement | 1.1 | Manifest | 3 | |
| PSDesiredStateConfiguration | 1 | Manifest | ||
| PSDiagnostics | 1.0.0.0 | Script | 2.0.50727 | 2 |
| PSScheduledJob | 1.1.0.0 | Binary | 4 | 3 |
| PSWorkflow | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| PSWorkflowUtility | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| ScheduledTasks | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| SecureBoot | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| SmbShare | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| SmbWitness | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| StartScreen | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| Storage | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| TLS | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| TroubleshootingPack | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| TrustedPlatformModule | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| VpnClient | 2.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| Wdac | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 3 | |
| WindowsDeveloperLicense | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
| WindowsErrorReporting | 1 | Script | 4 | 3 |
| WindowsSearch | 1.0.0.0 | Manifest | 4 | 3 |
I ran the same command on a Windows 2012 R2 server (that has Powershell 4) and ran a comparison:
Compare-Object -ReferenceObject (Import-Csv .\Win8-modules.csv).name `
-DifferenceObject (Import-Csv .\Win10-modules.csv).name
That showed the following 8 new modules:
AppBackgroundTask AssignedAccess Defender Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive Microsoft.PowerShell.ODataUtils NetworkSwitch OneGet PowerShellGet
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