fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.

takes any text and encrypts it automatically, no password needed. Instead of a password, it uses either your user account and machine, or just your machine as a secret.

you can safely encrypt text on a machine. Now let's take a look at the decrypting part.

PowerShell script?

feature using the REST API landed soon after (unlike this blog post!). Like datasets, you can refresh your dataflows using the API.

to organizational networks. Singular purpose devices made available through the Internet of Things (IoT) offering has increased network complexity even further with the ease of adding said devices to the network and sometimes without the knowledge of a system administrator. Hence the following received question: "How do I ensure all the appropriate ports are closed with all these devices being added to my network?"

reliable and resilient. More, Blob can be used as a trigger for Azure Functions when you add a file and you can play with different pricing tiers.

exclusively using the Azure portal/dashboard. And since I could do pretty much everything I needed to do directly on the portal, I never bothered with Azure PowerShell or any of the other methods of communicating with Azure.

focuses on enumerating different parts of a Windows machine to identify security weaknesses and point to components that need further hardening.

problems with manual or manually executed script deployments to servers. The proliferation of public cloud and the perception of unlimited scale and instant availability only calls greater attention to the issues of slow, unreliable deployment. Infrastructure as Code ultimately offers more stable environments at a rapid pace and high scale.

give some tips on going to Ignite.

PowerShell tools that work cross-platform. Or you may be asked to create a PowerShell tool to run on a non-Windows platform. Your command should still be centered on writing objects to the pipeline. Even if the source material is all text.