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The Template Summary property of these packages needs to include the value Arm Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. When a job is stopped at a debug breakpoint, you must debug the job by running the Debug-Job cmdlet. A RequiredVersion property has been added to the ModuleSpecification class to help you get the desired version of a module; this property is mutually exclusive with the ModuleVersion property.

Results of the Get-Command cmdlet now display a Version column; a new Version property has been added to the CommandInfo class. Get-Command shows commands from multiple versions of the same module. Utility module, but the Get-SerializedCommand script is still available to support downlevel scripting. A new Get-ItemPropertyValue cmdlet lets you get the value of a property without using dot notation.

The FullyQualifiedName parameter has been added to Import-Module and Remove-Module cmdlets, to support storing multiple versions of a single module. Add this parameter to specify a module by its fully qualified name. WMF 5. Pester is a unit testing framework for PowerShell. It provides a few simple-to-use keywords that let you create tests for your scripts.

Windows PowerShell 4. Cmdlets, providers, modules, snap-ins, scripts, functions, and profiles that were designed for Windows PowerShell 3. To install Windows PowerShell 4. Be sure to read the download details, and meet all system requirements, before you install Windows Management Framework 4.

The Get-Command cmdlet gets workflow commands and the Get-Help cmdlet gets help for workflows. Workflows are sequences of multicomputer management activities that are long-running, repeatable, frequent, parallelizable, interruptible, suspendable, and restartable.

Workflows can be resumed from an intentional or accidental interruption, such as a network outage, a Windows restart, or a power failure. Workflows are also portable; they can be exported as or imported from XAML files. You can write custom session configurations that allow workflow or activities in a workflow to be run by delegated or subordinate users.

Devices that use the web-based console do not require Windows PowerShell, remote management software, or browser plug-in installations. All that is required is a properly-configured Windows PowerShell Web Access gateway and a client device browser that supports JavaScript and accepts cookies. For Windows PowerShell 3. Cmdlet, script, and workflow authors can use the new Microsoft. Windows PowerShell 3.

Windows PE is a minimal operating system that starts a computer that has no operating system and prepares it for Windows installation. Windows PE can be used to partition and format hard drives, copy disk images to a computer, and initiate Windows Setup from a network share.

Beginning in Windows PowerShell 3. They are no longer dependent on the session in which they were created. You can now disconnect from a session without disrupting the commands that are running in the session. You can close the session and shut down your computer. Later, you can reconnect to the session from a different session on the same or on a different computer. The ComputerName parameter of the Get-PSSession cmdlet now gets all of the user's sessions that connect to the computer, even if they were started in a different session on a different computer.

You can connect to the sessions, get the results of commands, start new commands, and then disconnect from the session. The Disconnected Sessions feature is supported only when the computers at both the originating "client" and terminating "server" ends of the connection are running Windows PowerShell 3.

If the client-server connection cannot be reestablished in the allotted time, the user is notified and the session is disconnected. During the attempt to reconnect, Windows PowerShell provides continuous feedback to the user. If the disconnected session was started by using the InvokeCommand, Windows PowerShell creates a job for the disconnected session to make it easier to reconnect and resume execution.

These features provide a more reliable and recoverable remoting experience and allow users to perform long-running tasks that require robust sessions, such as workflows.