Several days ago, Jared raised a Pull Request for Posh-SYSLOG to correct an issue with the module’s manifest. It seems that in version 3.0 of Posh-SYSLOG, I used the PowerShellHostVersion attribute of the module manifest and not PowerShellVersion to specify the minimum Powershell version. This wouldn't have created issues within a normal PowerShell session, but would have prevented the module from loading in VS Code (as Jared reported) or the ISE.

May 6
May 6 AzurePublicIPAddresses v1.0 has been released

Kieran Jacobsen

Azure, PowerShell

I'm pleased to announce Version 1.0 of AzurePublicIPAddresses. This version includes support 6 new Azure regions:

Australia Central
Australia Central 2
UK North
UK South 2
North Europe 2 (name TBC)
East Europe (name TBC)

This release also represents a major milestone since the modules creation back in March 2016. The module has proven to be very stable, and hence I'm now giving it the stable 1.0 moniker. I'm confident that the existing design should support any new regions or source XML files that Microsoft may release without the need for breaking changes.

Feb 20
Feb 20 PowerShell Syntax Highlighting with SquareSpace

Kieran Jacobsen

PowerShell

SquareSpace has been my blogging platform of choice since 2011. My biggest complaint with the platform has always been syntax highlighting. SquareSpace comes with some simple highlighting, but it only supports a few languages, certainly not PowerShell. Over the years I've tried everything from simply using bold and italic text, to using custom HTML and even embedded Pastebin and GitHub Gists. No matter what I tried, I was never happy with the result.

Feb 14
Feb 14 AzurePublicIPAddresses module now supports the France and Germany Azure Regions

Kieran Jacobsen

Azure, PowerShell

I'm pleased to announce that my PowerShell for working with Azure’s public IP address listings now supports the new Azure Regions in France and Germany. This release, 0.9, introduces some minor breaking changes, needed to support the Germany regions.

Jan 31
Jan 31 Managing Windows Speculation Control Protections with PowerShell DSC

Kieran Jacobsen

Security, PowerShell

As part of their response to the Speculative Execution vulnerabilities, Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft released updates for all supported systems. Microsoft made the decision to not enable these protections in Windows Server by default. It's up to you as the administrator to enable the protections.

Jan 20
Jan 20 Posh-SYSLOG 3.2.1 has been released

Kieran Jacobsen

PowerShell

In early January, Ben Claussen reported that there was a date formatting issue in Posh-SYSLOG, I've released Posh-SYSLOG 3.2.1 to address these issues.

When I initially developed Posh-SYSLOG, I didn’t correctly follow RFC 3164. The timestamps sent had a leading zero for dates less than 10, but the RFC states this should be a leading space. I don’t know how much this impacted some users, and apologise for any issues.

Jan 12
Jan 12 Posh-SYSLOG 3.2 has been released

Kieran Jacobsen

PowerShell

Over the Christmas break, I had a few hours to spare and tackled a few issues in some of my PowerShell modules. I’ve released Posh-SYSLOG 3.2 as a resolve of this.

This version removes the need to call Get-NetAdapter that's contained in the NetTCPIP module. The reason why I wanted to remove this dependency is to allow Posh-SYSLOG to run on PowerShell 6 (at least on Windows to start with).

Nov 25
Nov 25 Posh-SYSLOG version 3.1.1 has been released

Kieran Jacobsen

PowerShell

Just a quick note to announce that I've released an update for my Posh-SYSLOG module, version 3.1.1

The module fixes issues with PowerShell 4.0 support as reported by Cristiano Guadagnino and Brian Napolitano. As always, a huge round of thanks goes out to the pair for discovering the issue, pointing me in the right direction to fixing the issue and testing the fixes.