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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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In Windows Server 2022, we still have PowerShell version 5.1. But the future of PowerShell lies with the cross-platform PowerShell version. When we open the PowerShell console in Windows Server 2022, we can see a message saying Install the latest PowerShell for new features and improvements! https://aka.ms/PSWindows and this refer to PowerShell 7. Back in 2017, Microsoft released its first cross-platform PowerShell version, which was PowerShell Core 6.0. It is supported to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. It was built on .NET Core 2.x. and it was the first release of PowerShell to be made under an open-source license (MIT).

On November 11, 2020, Microsoft announced the general availability of PowerShell 7. This is built on .NET 5. Most of the modules used in Windows PowerShell 5.1 already work with PowerShell 7, including Azure PowerShell and AD. PowerShell 7 can run side by side with PowerShell 5.1. In this book, I am going to use PowerShell 7...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis