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PowerShell 5.1

• Install Windows PowerShell
• What's new in PowerShell 5.x

PowerShell Core

• Install PowerShell Core on Windows
• Install PowerShell Core on Linux
• Install PowerShell Core on macOS
• What's new in PowerShell 6.2

PowerShell Gallery

• PowerShell Gallery
• What is the PowerShell Gallery
• Best practices
• FAQs

PowerShell DSC

• DSC Overview
• Get started with DSC for Linux
• DSC Community

Developer resources

• PowerShell SDK documentation
• PowerShell Core SDK 6.2.0 API reference
• Visual Studio Code PowerShell Extension
• Using VSCode for remote editing and debugging

Related technologies

• Windows Management Framework
• PowerShell modules to manage Windows
• PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
• Azure PowerShell
• Azure Automation runbooks
• Azure Functions using PowerShell