PowerShell 1.0 Released for Vista

Posted By: mstefan | Jan 30th, 2007 @ 12:04 PM
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#Jan 30th, 2007 @ 12:04 PM
mstefan
mstefan
Windows SDK coders do it without a .NET
At long last, Microsoft has released PowerShell 1.0 for Vista. I've been waiting a while for this, and really wasn't interested in going through the gymnastics of hacking the XP build. It was probably the only thing that I really missed when I dumped my old XP development system and moved completely over to Vista when the RTM build was published.

Today is a good day.

#Jan 30th, 2007 @ 1:28 PM
AndyC
AndyC
Cool.

But what the heck is a .msu and how does one deploy one silently? Perplexed
#Jan 30th, 2007 @ 1:54 PM
mstefan
mstefan
Windows SDK coders do it without a .NET
An MSU is an update installer package. PowerShell is actually considered an update to the Vista operating system, so it isn't installed like your typical stand-alone program. It's more like how you get system updates through the Windows Update applet. I don't know that you can install it silently because it requires privilege elevation, so you're going to get a UAC prompt.
#Jan 30th, 2007 @ 2:04 PM
AndyC
AndyC
Yes, it seems to be a replacement for update.exe based packages. I'm just wondering from a sys admin POV what the best way to deploy such things is (Group Policy is presumably out) since that's going to be important at some stage I guess.
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