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Provides custom resources for installing legacy Windows Management Framework releases and configuring DSC prerequisites.

Policyfile

Berkshelf

Knife

cookbook 'powershell', '~> 7.0.0', :supermarket

cookbook 'powershell', '~> 7.0.0'

knife supermarket install powershell

knife supermarket download powershell

Powershell Cookbook

This cookbook provides custom resources for managing legacy Windows Management Framework
(WMF) installers and the supporting WinRM / DSC configuration required by older Windows
platforms.

Maintainers

This cookbook is maintained by the Sous Chefs. The Sous Chefs are a community of Chef
cookbook maintainers working together to maintain important cookbooks. If you would like to
know more, visit sous-chefs.org.

Requirements

Chef Infra Client >= 15.3
Windows
ms_dotnet >= 3.2.1

Resources

powershell_wmf
powershell_winrm
powershell_dsc
powershell_lcm

See [LIMITATIONS.md](LIMITATIONS.md) for the supported Microsoft download matrix and
lifecycle notes.

Usage

Install WMF 5.1 when the target platform needs it:

powershell_wmf '5.1'

Prepare WinRM for DSC with an HTTPS listener:

powershell_dsc 'default' do
  enable_https_transport true
  hostname 'node.example.com'
  thumbprint 'ABCDEF1234567890'
end

Enable or disable the Local Configuration Manager:

powershell_lcm 'default'

powershell_lcm 'default' do
  action :disable
end

Testing

Local Vagrant runs use kitchen.yml. CI uses the exec driver with kitchen.exec.yml.

berks install
cookstyle
chef exec rspec --format documentation
kitchen test default-windows-2019 --destroy=always

Dependent cookbooks

ms_dotnet >= 3.2.1

Contingent cookbooks

powershell Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the powershell cookbook.

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management
Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Unreleased

Migrate the cookbook to custom resources and modernize Windows CI/test coverage

7.0.0 (2026-04-20)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

migrate to custom resources (#196)

Features

migrate to custom resources (#196) (5332a96)

6.4.21 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#188) (f9c0dad)

6.4.20 (2025-10-15)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#188) (f9c0dad)

6.4.18 - 2024-11-18

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.17 - 2024-07-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.10 - 2023-04-07

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.7 - 2023-04-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.6 - 2023-03-20

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.5 - 2023-03-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.4 - 2023-02-23

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.3 - 2023-02-16

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.4.0 - 2023-02-15

Remove Delivery
Update GitHub Actions

6.3.1 - 2023-02-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.3.0 - 2023-01-07

Add filter to remove deprecation warning when depends on windows cookbook (EOL cookbook)

6.3.0 - 2023-01-07

Add filter to remove deprecation warning when depends on windows cookbook (EOL cookbook)
Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.2.5 - 2022-02-10

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.2.4 - 2022-02-08

Remove delivery folder

6.2.3 - 2021-08-30

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.2.2 - 2021-06-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.2.1 - 2021-03-01

update powershell5 recipe to log warning that 5.1 is preinstalled on windows server 2016+

6.2.0 - 2021-02-08

Sous Chefs Adoption
Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management
Add GitHub Actions testing

6.1.3 (2018-09-20)

Fix installation on Windows 7 x32
Remove the non-functional powershell_module resource
Change version to 5.1 in comments in powershell5 recipe

6.1.2 (2018-02-07)

Added guard to not unzip WMF if already installed

6.1.1 (2017-09-28)

Fixed reboot not found in 2008R2 bug
Fix specs that weren't running

6.1.0 (2017-06-13)

Replaces PowerShell 5 installs with PowerShell 5.1

6.0.0 (2017-03-20)

Add returns property to windows_package resource to ensure compatibility with chef's built-in windows_package resource
Require windows 3.0 cookbook

5.2.0 (2017-03-08)

Test with Local Delivery instead of Rake
Add integration testing in Appveyer on a Windows 2012R2 node and remove the Travis testing
Require chef-client 12.6 or later since we're using windows_package

5.1.0 (2016-09-02)

Remove the windows_reboot resource which has been removed from the Windows cookbook.

5.0.0 (2016-09-02)

Require Chef 12.1 or later
Dynamically install rubyzip in the provider. This eliminates the need for the default recipe, which only installed the rubyzip gem. It now just works as expected
Test Powershell 2-5 and the custom resource in test kitchen on multiple Windows releases
Remove test deps that are in ChefDK from the Gemfile
Update the documentation for the powershell recipes to clarify what happens if the platform is not supported

4.0.0 (2016-09-02)

Remove support for Windows XP, 2003, 2003 R2, and 2008
Remove the powershell provider that was only needed for Chef 10
Require a modern windows cookbook release
Consistently check platform_family in recipes
Use node.normal instead of node.set in specs
Switch ruby linting to cookstyle and the new rakefile
Rename the minimal recipe to test
Avoid deprecation warnings during specs and use doc output
Fix a long failing spec so we can get the tests green

v3.3.2 (2016-06-09)

Merged pull requests:

remove deprecation warning #89 (mhorbul)

v3.3.1 (2016-05-27)

Merged pull requests:

added success code 2359302 #88 (jdgoins)

v3.3.0 (2016-05-17)

Merged pull requests:

Update WMF 5 binaries to the latest release #86 (carljohnston1)
MSU exit code 2359302 #83 (andreamaruccia)
Fix new rubocop errors #81 (smurawski)
Semantic Version Helper #77 (smurawski)
Get the build green! #76 (smurawski)
initial appveyor.yml #75 (smurawski)
Add ps5 timeout #72 (trevorghess)

v3.2.3 (2015-12-24)

Merged pull requests:

Revert to WMF 5 Production Preview #71 (smurawski)

v3.2.2 (2015-12-18)

Merged pull requests:

WMF 5 RTM Now Supports Client Builds #67 (smurawski)

v3.2.1 (2015-12-17)

Merged pull requests:

WMF 5 RTM #66 (smurawski)
The WMF 5.0 - info about compatibility with OS'es in the README.md file #65 (it-praktyk)

v3.2.0 (2015-12-14)

Merged pull requests:

Smurawski/powershell v5 #64 (smurawski)
Merging PRs - #57, #60, #61 #63 (smurawski)
Use all-in-one ms_dotnet cookbook #61 (Annih)
added version attribute to allow for newer ps builds #49 (burnzy)
Update poweshell5 recipe to check for latest revision #46 (dpiessens)
Bump version #44 (jaym)
Added a kitchen.yml #43 (jaym)
Powershell 5 Feb preview #42 (jaym)
Added missing success codes in powershell 2 recipe #41 (NimishaS)
Nim/powershell reboot #38 (NimishaS)
Powershell reboot fixes #37 (tjnicholas)
replace powershell by powershell_script resource #35 (NimishaS)
Don't reboot windows if powershell 4 is already installed #31 (NimishaS)
Fix deprecated chefspec runner config #30 (webframp)
Fix slightly dangerous rm fr. #29 (webframp)
DSC cookbook should enable winrm with https transport #27 (NimishaS)
Rspec for powershell module resource and provider #26 (prabhu-das)
Updated to PowerShell 5 September 2014 preview. #24 (juliandunn)
Missed '?' on query for Windows 8.1 #23 (juliandunn)
Pd/chefspec #22 (prabhu-das)
Initial draft for ps module resource #16 (muktaa)
Bugfix: Using attributes for bits_4 for windows_server_2008 #13 (jmauro)

v3.0.7 (2014-07-16)

v3.0.6 (2014-07-15)

v3.0.5 (2014-07-12)

v3.0.4 (2014-05-10)

v3.0.2 (2014-04-24)

v3.0.0 (2014-02-05)

v2.0.0 (2014-01-03)

Merged pull requests:

[COOK-3330] Only adds the helper on windows (fixes crashes on *nix) #5 (skoczen)

v1.1.2 (2013-08-28)

Merged pull requests:

COOK-3000 #4 (stensonb)

1.1.0 (2013-06-15)

Merged pull requests:

fixing foodcritic alerts #3 (ranjib)
Add powershell_out mixin for use in LWRPs at compile #2 (moserke)

1.0.8 (2012-11-26)

Merged pull requests:

Added updated_by_last_action to :run action #1 (paulmooring)
This Change Log was automatically generated by github_changelog_generator*

Collaborator Number Metric

7.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 116
Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 131
Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 144
Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 151
Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 159
Chef/Deprecations/PowershellCookbookHelpers: Use node['powershell']['version'] or the new powershell_version helper available in Chef Infra Client 15.8+ instead of the deprecated PowerShell cookbook helpers. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_powershellcookbookhelpers): powershell/resources/powershell_wmf.rb: 170

Run with Cookstyle Version 7.32.1 with cops Chef/Deprecations,Chef/Correctness,Chef/Sharing,Chef/RedundantCode,Chef/Modernize,Chef/Security,InSpec/Deprecations

No Binaries Metric

7.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number