Windows 10: Microsoft announces PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1

Brink · Dec 9, 2020

As a shell, PowerShell is intended to work with native commands in addition to cmdlets. However, native commands have their own unique syntax, sometimes containing many subcommands and parameters/switches, and are often like its own language. Wouldnât it be great to have an option to leverage your PowerShell skills to use new commands or be even more proficient with native commands you are already using? As a PowerShell user, it would be great if those native commands supported PowerShell features like:

Clear naming convention â Verb-Noun

Consistent parameter naming for similar uses

Output consisting of objects

Common method of getting command help

Easy to work with objects in a pipeline

Easy to share using Modules

We are pleased to announce the first preview of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework to rapidly develop PowerShell cmdlets for native commands, regardless of platform.

Many of todayâs modern native commands are complex, they themselves are mini-shells with their own mini-language containing sub levels, or sub contexts. If youâve worked with kubectl, docker or netsh.exe, you have experienced the complexity of executing and automating these commands.

To make native commands have a more PowerShell-like feel and offer a similar experience, you could re-write the tool yourself, or if the tool uses REST, directly call the web APIs using AutoRest. These options work very well, but require more development experience and can be harder to maintain over time.

Crescendo provides the tools to easily wrap a native command to gain the benefits of PowerShell cmdlets. Wrapping native commands into Crescendo cmdlets can provide parameter handling like prompting for mandatory parameters and tab-completion for parameter values. Crescendo cmdlets can take the text output from the native application and parse it into objects. The output objects allow you to take advantage of all the post processing tools such as Sort-Object, Where-Object, etc.

Whatâs supported

Microsoft.PowerShell.Crescendo 0.4.0 Preview.1 is currently available for download from the PowerShell Gallery
Supported PowerShell versions for authoring a module with Crescendo:

PowerShell 7.0+

Supported PowerShell versions that can execute a Crescendo module:

Windows PowerShell 5.1+

PowerShell 7.0+

Whatâs next

Next/Future plans for preview.2 will be based on feedback and include a few items under investigation:

Create cmdlet aliases when generating a module

Investigate parsing man pages and documentation to improve automatic JSON generation

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Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/power...ndo-preview-1/

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Brink · Dec 9, 2020

PowerShell 7.2.0 preview 1 released

Engine Updates and Fixes

Change the default fallback encoding for GetEncoding in Start-Transcript to be UTF8 without a BOM (#13732) (Thanks @Gimly!)

General Cmdlet Updates and Fixes

Update pwsh -? output to match docs (#13748)

Fix NullReferenceException in Test-Json (#12942) (Thanks @iSazonov!)

Make Dispose in TranscriptionOption idempotent (#13839) (Thanks @krishnayalavarthi!)

Add additional Microsoft PowerShell modules to the tracked modules list (#12183)

Relax further SSL verification checks for WSMan on non-Windows hosts with verification available (#13786) (Thanks @jborean93!)

Add the OutputTypeAttribute to Get-ExperimentalFeature (#13738) (Thanks @ThomasNieto!)

Fix blocking wait when starting file associated with a Windows application (#13750)

Emit warning if ConvertTo-Json exceeds -Depth value (#13692)

Code Cleanup

We thank the following contributors!
@xtqqczze, @mkswd, @ThomasNieto, @PatLeong, @paul-cheung, @georgettica

Tools

Enable CodeQL Security scanning (#13894)

Add global AnalyzerConfig with default configuration (#13835) (Thanks @xtqqczze!)

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Read more: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerS....2.0-preview.1

Muralidhar_G · Dec 9, 2020

Your Phone on Insider Preview

Hi Sayed,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Which version of Insider build you have installed?

Are you missing Phone screen (in preview) and
Notifications (in preview) options from the app?

If yes, I would suggest you to follow the methods mentioned below to fix the issue.

Method 1

Fix problems with apps from Microsoft Store

Refer the article Fix problems with apps from Microsoft Store
for the steps.

Note: Ignore the option of performing Reset, since you’ve already tried.

Method 2

If the issue still persists, I suggest you to Uninstall Your Phone through commands on Windows 10. To do so.

Open Powershell as an administrator.

Copy-paste the following command:

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.YourPhone* -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Hit the Enter key, so that the app will be removed.

Restart the device once.

Login to Microsoft Store to re-install
Your Phone app and check the status of the issue.

You may also refer the section Your Phone app from the Microsoft blog ‘Announcing
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18885’ and Your Phone app help
for more information.

Regards,

Muralidhar

Microsoft Community Moderator

KeithM · Dec 9, 2020

How to change the WinX menu, including Powershell/Powershell (Admin)

2. I know how to toggle WIN-X between command prompt and powershell. But after I selected powershell and click I get a message that Powershell can not be used due to restrictions. From there i get lost. No idea what to do. And could not find it in the suggested answers and links. Or did I miss something?
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This part intrigues me. As suggested earler, please post a screenshot of the error message. Also, please clarify/test the follwoing:

Can you start PowerShell from the Start Menu?

If you navigate to %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group3, does PowerShell launch from the shortcuts there?

If #1 works & #2 doesn't, compare (& post) the target text from each shortcuts properties. For the Start Menu shortcut, right-click & select Open file location to navigate to the Start Menu folder.

Keith

Windows 10: Microsoft announces PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1

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