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Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2, the command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity and control of system administration. Using a new admin-focused scripting language and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell accelerates automation.  Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works with existing IT infrastructure and scripting tools.

 

·         This Release Candidate 2 of Windows PowerShell addresses numerous customer requests based on their evaluation of Beta3 and RC1 including:

·         Direct ADSI support to allow IT Pros to more easily administer Active Directory

·         Improved support for Windows Management Instrumentation through ability to change WMI properties via methods

·         Additional logical operators (XOR and binary XOR) that make it easier to write sophisticated scripts

·         Improved help content and help functionality including new views that make it easier to find the right information.

·         Windows PowerShell 1.0 will release-to-web in Q4 CY06

·         Windows PowerShell will be leveraged by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007.

 

Customers can download Windows PowerShell RC2 at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925228

 

Published Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:53 PM by PowerShellTeam

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# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

HOORAY, though the links on the KB don't work for the download :) other than that great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:05 PM by Chris

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

> though the links on the KB don't work for the download :)

Please try again.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell/Aspen Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:35 PM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Download link is still not working.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:48 PM by acchong

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Thanks I have been waiting on this.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:54 PM by KeithCash

# CP: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available Today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Windows
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:01 PM by Kurbli

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Is there a suitable build for those of us running Vista RC1, either x86 or x64?
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:19 PM by Alex B Chalmers

# re: Windows PowerShell on Vista RC1

Alex;

We are the first product to use Vista's new installer technology, so that package isn't quite ready yet.  Keep your eyes open, though -- we'll let you all know when we have it ready.

Lee
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:41 PM by PowerShellTeam

# Download Error for Windows Server 2003 Version

I humbly suggest that you check the link for the Windows Server 2003 version of RC2

In my opinion it should be
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73252&clcid=0x409

Not 73253

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:30 PM by Guy Thomas

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Thanks for pointing that out Guy, you are correct.

Lee
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:39 PM by PowerShellTeam

# Powershell Analyzer for RC2

i have released a version of powershell analyzer for powershell RC2
get it here http://karlprosser.edify.us/coder/downloads/psanalyzer-15.zip

or go to my blog

http://www.karlprosser.com/coder
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:47 PM by klumsy

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

I've found some bugs to report with RC1 and a quick check against RC2 shows it still seems to exist (all 30 seconds of the test... ;-)  However, whenever I go to connect.microsoft.com, I don't find the PowerShell connection.  Do I need an invitation? If so, can I get one?
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:43 PM by Paul-Marcel

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Hi Paul-Marcel;

PowerShell is listed as an available connection (under Windows "Monad" Shell) once you sign-in.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:59 PM by PowerShellTeam

# Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2 Released

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:26 PM by DotNetKicks.com

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

It looks great. I was happy to see a fix for a bug that I have tumbled upon in the previous release. Unfortunately it seems that the PowerShellIDE 1.0 from www.powershell.com doesn’t compatible with this new release yet.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:55 PM by Ofer

# Interesting Finds: September 26, 2006

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:48 PM by Jason Haley

# Windows PowerShell RC2

Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925228 달라진 점:...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:58 AM by bkchung's WebLog

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Trying to run WindowsServer2003-KB923567-x86-ENU.exe on Windows Server 2003 SP1 (all latest updates) I get an error during setup.

Running logging on the install I see this at the end of the log:

10.531: Starting process:  "C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB923567$\PSCustomSetupUtil.exe" /install "C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\\System.Management.Automation.resources.dll"
10.610:  Return Code = 4
10.610: DoInstallation:RunInfProcesses for ProcessesToRun Failed

Looks like setup is failing because of the double backslash in the path to the file that is trying to be registered. I can repro this on a number of systems.

I have logged this on Connect but does anyone have a workaround?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:13 AM by Andy Doyle

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Still can't download it...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:03 AM by ASB

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Which version for Windows Vista RC1
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:54 AM by fabricem

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Ofer: As of 1:41 PST, Tobias updated the PowerShell IDE to work with RC2.  Check again!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:50 AM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Trying to use the ADSI support, and can't get get-member to return the methods of the object, only properties.  
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:07 PM by Rob

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Since most of the scripts I write use ADSI, I haven't been very interested in PowerShell until now. After scanning the PowerShell Primer, I didn't see anything in the table of contents related to ADSI. Where do I need to start to get up to speed on using PowerShell with ADSI?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:47 PM by Marty

# KB 925228 - PowerShell 1.0 RC2 installation files for Windows XP and Windows 2003

I haven't seen it announced anywhere yet but it looks like the version 1.0 RC2 installation files for PowerShell/Monad are available thru KB 925228

If you ever plan on using Exchange 2007, you will want to get comfy/familiar with this scripting langua
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:52 PM by Aaron Tiensivu's Blog

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

I've been impressed with PowerShell and try to get others hooked to it. Great job cleaning up the sections. It would be nice, though, if the phrase "Specifies only those items upon which the cmdlet will act" under the "Include" parameter description were changed to "Specifies only those items the cmdlet will act on".
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:07 PM by AN

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Arul has a good blog entry on the new ADSI stuff at:

https://blogs.msdn.com/arulk/archive/2006/07/25/678137.aspx

-bruce

Bruce Payette
Windows PowerShell Technical Lead
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:31 PM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

It looks like the URLs on the KB page are all messed up.  There doesn't appear to be any direct way to download the Windows Server 2003 x86 version.  Can somebody fix the links on that page?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:39 PM by Walt Crosby

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

You can get all the PowerShell distributables from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?DisplayLang=en&nr=20&freetext=%22Windows+PowerShell%22&sortCriteria=date
Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:51 AM by n4cer

# Power Shell RC2 released

Get the download from here and more information on the PowerShell blog
Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:12 AM by Clive Watson's Weblog

# Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com
Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:31 AM by DotNetKicks.com

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Ok, so putting the release notes under %SystemRoot%\system32\windowspowershell on x64 was a really bad idea: it results in mysterious "File not found" errors when the 32bit version of Word tries to open it (because it redirects to SysWow64). Took me about five minutes to figure that one out.

Secondly, I notice that 'ls | rm' now works when there are files with special chars in them, even without specifying LiteralPath. Great! How is this working? Do the commandlets no longer reparse the file-names for piped input?

Thirdly, can we expect any speed improvements in the future, particularly to the start-up time (before I can type at the prompt). When it's been loaded before, it starts up in about two seconds, but the first time can take up to twenty seconds (well, an annoying amount of time, anyway). This inhibits me from using it as a full-time shell.

Regards,
James.
Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:05 PM by James

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Right now, like, at the time I put this in, I can't get ANY download link to work without it throwing an exception or returning 404. Me thinks your download servers are dead.

marty
Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:53 PM by Marty

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

I'd just commented that the download site wasn't working when it finally came up.

Only it ONLY works in XP SP2. This is unfortunate as my company's standard is only SP1. So I can't use it.
Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:11 PM by Marty

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

After installing, I don't see it listed in Add or Remove Programs.  Is there any way to uninstall it?
Friday, September 29, 2006 5:13 AM by Andrew Webb

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Why is System.Management.Automation.dll missing from RC2?

Alex
Friday, September 29, 2006 4:05 PM by Alexander Riedel

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Andrew:  RC2 installs as an update to Windows.  You need to select the "Show Updates" box in order to manage it.

Alex: The DLL exists, but it is added to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) of the machine.  You should see it in the Visual Studio dialog that lets you pick DLLs from the GAC.  If you are compiling something against it from the cmdine, I'm fond of the trick:  

[PsObject].Module.FullyQualifiedName

Lee
Friday, September 29, 2006 4:39 PM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Direct connection to ADSI objects works well BUT...

There is no indication of how to return a collection of objects from within a container.

I can grab the container (OU or otherwise) but haven't seen how to get the objects it contains.

How about a hint.
Friday, September 29, 2006 8:04 PM by Jim Vierrqa

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

I see System.Management.Automation in the GAC but it does not show up in VS 2005's Add Reference dialog.

Should I uninstall and install again? Anyone else seeing this?

Thanks,

Alex
Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:02 AM by Alexander Riedel

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Thanks. Some people in Ukraine and Russia also read your blog and are interesting in Windows PowerShell. For those we translate such articles and publicate these in our blog: http://life.screenshots.ru
Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:10 PM by Severus

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

A working installer for Vista RC1 would be greatly appreciated.
Saturday, September 30, 2006 4:06 PM by Dennis

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Is it possible to use winxp or 2k3 versions for Vista? (i will have Vista only for 2 weeks, so i think i dont have time to wait Vista package;))
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:37 AM by Qwertytis

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Has anyone installed this on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise which had RC1 that was uninstalled through Add/Remove Programs per install instructions? All of my system end up with a dialog: An error in updating your system has occurred. Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made. This is with: WindowsServer2003-KB923567-x86-ENU.exe
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:49 PM by Ronald S Woan

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Any idea when the Vista installer is likely to become available?
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:06 AM by Nick

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

What happend to Make-Shell? Was this functionality removed or is there a differenet procedure?
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:03 AM by Craig

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Craig;

Make-Shell.exe will be released as part of our SDK.  That said, most people will want to develop snapins to add custom functionality, rather than make their own shell.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:19 AM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Nick;

"As fast as we can" is the best answer I have right now.  As I mentioned above, the technology we are using for the Vista setup package is itself undergoing change, preventing us from making a setup package right now.

Lee

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:21 AM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

PowerShell is an incredible tool, I just wish it was available on Vista.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:50 AM by Chyld

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Ronald;

It looks like you're trying to install a package that wasn't intended for distribution.  For english systems, you'll want to install the EN-Neutral package (KB number should be 925228, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925228.)  You're installing KB923567 which is poorly labeled on our part (and should not be installed.)  We are working to get this incorrect link removed from the download centre.

Lee

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:29 PM by PowerShellTeam

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Is there anyone working on a version of PowerShell that (installs/functions) under Mono? PowerShell is so awesome, I really want to use its power under multiple OS's.
Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:16 AM by Craig

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that if some new packaging software isn't complete for Powershell in Vista yet, can't you just throw together a Windows Installer package for it in about 5 minutes?  I would like to be experimenting with it in Vista, especially since Vista and Powershell are both very near a final release date.  I can't help but think it shouldn't take over two weeks to come up with a working installer for Powershell under Vista.

Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:19 AM by bjm

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

I agree.

Heck, a batch file or just a bunch of instructions would do.

Friday, October 13, 2006 4:59 AM by Nick

# PShell vista

So its now been over 2 weeks and still no vista installer...

Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:47 AM by vanja

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

+1 on the vista installer guys.  Isn't Vista going RTM on Friday?

Saturday, November 04, 2006 5:50 PM by Chris

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Come on, no Vista installer yet?

Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:43 PM by Merill

# Vista Installer

I agree with previous posters.  Vista will be on MSDN downloads within days and I really want to switch.  I'd really hate to lose access to PowerShell.

Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:17 PM by Brent Rockwood

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Are you guys still planning to release an RC2 for Vista? As I understand it the Powershell RTM is going to happen real soon now. Which version should we be waiting for?

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:23 AM by Nick

# re: System.Management.Automation.dll

System.Management.Automation.dll exits in GAC but does not show up in the Add Reference dialog Box of Visual Studio 2005. What is the solution?

Sunday, December 03, 2006 2:06 AM by Ramya

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Error

I´m having this message "An error in updating your system has occurred" with powershell 1 and RC2, I need to install Exchange 2007 in a 2003 R2 SP2 X64. any ideas ?

Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:06 AM by Dick Cuasquer

# re: Newist windows os not supported

If powershell is not supporting (installalbe) on the Vista OS how can you make the statment that powershell supports windows. If it not really ready for prim time we will move away from this new product as there are other script tool that will do the job right now.

Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:03 PM by Todd Grady

# re: Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available

Todd:

This post was written for a release candidate. PowerShell V1 released over a year ago -- see here for download instructions: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx

--

Lee Holmes [MSFT]

Windows PowerShell Development

Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Monday, March 31, 2008 11:34 AM by PowerShellTeam

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