text: We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014, a new package publicizing new and exciting management technologies, is now available for download on Download Center!
  This version of the preview includes everything in the WMF 5.0 Preview May 2014 and WMF 5.0 Experimental Release July 2014 and some new improvements and scenarios.
  The following is a list of all the new scenarios enabled since May 2014:
  - find more details on all of these scenarios in the Release Notes of WMF 5.0 Preview September 2014, which can be downloaded at the same link as the packages themselves.
  This new package installs exclusively on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. If WMF 5.0 Experimental Release July 2014 is already installed on the machine, WMF 5.0 Experimental Release July 2014 must be uninstalled in order to install WMF 5.0 Preview September 2014.
  For the find-module command help is there going to be a switch for the -online location of where it found the package? For instance:
  PS C:windowssystem32> find-module *web*
  Version Name Repository Description
  ——- —- ———- ———–
  1.3.2.3 xWebAdministration PSGallery Module with DSC Resources for Web Administration
  It would be nice if you could pass a switch and it'd give you the location or popup your browser to where the module is.
  Is there a timeline on final release?
  @Edi
  The focus for the September preview was to enable writing a DSC resource via PowerShell classes. This does not require inheritance, so you are correct, inheritance is not supported in the September preview.
  Classes are still useful for many things without inheritance – for example C is alive and well and it still doesn’t have member functions, let alone inheritance.
  That said, we obviously understand the importance of inheritance. No promises as to when it will be available, but it is something we are working on.
  Jason Shirk
  Great – I've been waiting for support for classes since the first versions of powershell.
  But is it really true, that there is no way to extend existing classes or class inheritance as such, or did I simply miss something? I guess I missed something – what good would classes do without inheritance?
  I believe that because they said that it is exclusively for windows 8.1 and windows server 2012 R2. I don't think there will be any backwards support to windows 7. I think windows 7 stops at 4.0. Not 100% sure on that though.
  Is the final version going to be made compatible with Windows 7?
  Thanks for all of the feedback; we’re glad you are enjoying this Preview.
  To answer some of the questions:
  Damien – OneGet is definitely still getting updated and modified, and we apologize for any hiccups this may have caused. The Chocolatey provider was removed for this preview, but you will likely have the ability to re-add that provider in the future. The Register-PSRepository command is only used to add sources of PowerShell Modules (used for Find-Module, Install-Module, and Publish-Module), so it will not be the mechanism used to re-add the Chocolatey provider. For more info on OneGet, check out github.com/…/oneget.
  June – Here’s some information about preview KB numbers:
  • The KB# will change between now and the final release
  • The May Preview KB# is 2894868
  o You do not need to uninstall the May Preview in order to install the September Preview
  • The July Experimental Release KB# is the same as September Preview at 2969050
  o You are expected to uninstall the July Experimental Release before installing the September Preview.
  Class support, awesome! Is it selfish of me to want inheritance too? Did I just miss the syntax?
  Does remote scripting host now supports Transcription?
  I know there is a post a few months back about authoring dsc resources in c# but with the advent of this drop it seems like that is going to change. So armed with nothing more than a huunch I tried this…
  using System;
  using System.Diagnostics;
  using System.Management.Automation;
  namespace SpotLabs.Genesis.PowerShell.Dsc.Azure
  {
  [DscResource]
  public class Subscription
  {
  [DscResourceKey]
  public String SubscriptionName { get; set; }
  [DscResourceMandatory]
  public String PublishSettingsFile { get; set; }
  public String StorageAccountName { get; set; }
  public Boolean IsCurrent { get; set; }
  public Boolean IsDefault { get; set; }
  public Subscription Get()
  {
  return default(Subscription);
  }
  public Boolean Test()
  {
  return false;
  }
  public void Set()
  {
  }
  }
  }
  just to see what might happen. it's close. what am i doing wrong?
  Can we please have the KB numbers for the May and July previews? We need these numbers to uninstall the previews. All of the links to the May/July previews are redirected to the September preview.
  Is the final version going to be made compatible with Windows 7?
  When can we expect a non english-only version of the preview?
  ConvertFrom-String is unexpected and really cool.
  This release should be at the top of the People magazines "sexy" list.
  Looks like OneGet was overhauled in this version. Modules installed via PowerShellGet in earlier WMF 5.0 previews throw all sorts of errors if you run update-module.
  Had to nuke them and re-install.
  Also looks like the chocolatey provider is no longer included/enabled so any such packages installed previously are now orphaned.
  Can chocolatey be added with Register-PSRepository or is that still WIP?
  Awesome!
  Your link is to the may preview. I found the september preview here:…/details.aspx