Carbon 1.6 is out and is backwards compatible with 1.0 through 1.5.1. It supports PowerShell 2. It contains a few bug fixes and many enhancements.

Get the bits at BitBucket.

Bug Fixes

File System

• Remove-Junction doesn’t delete a junction when given a relative path to the junction.

Services

• Install-Service doesn’t properly resolve a service’s path.

Shares

• Fixed Install-SmbShare example to use correct syntax. #111.

Enhancements

Hosts File

• Created Remove-HostsEntry function for removing hostnames from a hosts file.

IIS

• Created Join-IisVirtualPath for joining paths used by the IIS APIs.
• Renamed all IIS Path parameters which represented virtual paths to VirtualPath (with backwards-compatible aliases):
  • Disable-IisSecurityAuthentication
  • Enable-IisDirectoryBrowsing
  • Enable-IisSecurityAuthentication
  • Enable-IisSsl
  • Get-IisApplication
  • Get-IisConfigurationSection
  • Get-IisHttpHeader
  • Get-IisHttpRedirect
  • Get-IisMimeMap
  • Get-IisSecurityAuthentication
  • Set-IisHttpHeader
  • Set-IisHttpRedirect
  • Set-IisWindowsAuthentication
  • Test-IisConfigurationSection
  • Test-IisSecurityAuthentication
• Renamed Get-IisWebsite’s SiteName parameter to Name (with a backwards-compatible alias).
• Renamed all IIS Name parameters which represented virtual paths to VirtualPath (with backwards-compatible aliases):
  • Install-IisApplication
  • Install-IisVirtualDirectory
• Renamed all IIS Path parameters which represented physical paths to PhysicalPath (with backwards-compatible aliases):
  • Install-IisApplication
  • Install-IisVirtualDirectory
  • Install-IisWebsite

.NET

• Created Test-DotNet for testing if v2 or v4 of the .NET framework is installed.

Path

• Created Get-PathProvider function for getting a path’s PowerShell provider.

PowerShell

• Updated Invoke-PowerShell to test if the appropriate .NET framework is installed if the user chooses an explicit runtime to use.

Security

• Created Test-Permission function for checking if a user/group has a set of permissions and, optionally, a set of inheritance and propagation flags on a file, directory, or registry key.
• Test-Permission now automatically includes the Synchronize permission when checking for exact permissions, since this permission is always on and can never be removed from a file/directory.

Services

• Install-Service no longer requires a password, in order to support managed service accounts and virtual accounts. We have no idea if this works, since we can’t test locally. Please let us know if this fix works for you. #114

Users and Groups

• Updated Install-User to support passwords longer than 14 characters. Thanks to James Crowley for the fix.

Windows Features

• Marked Assert-WindowsFeatureFunctionsSupported as an internal function. Please don’t use. It will be removed from future versions of PowerShell.
• Updated Test-WindowsFeature to work on Windows 8/2012.
• Created new Carbon.Identity class for representing identities. It also contains a static FindByName method which uses The Windows LookupAccountName function to find full account names, domains, and sids.
• Updated Test-Identity to use [Carbon.Identity]::FindByName to find identities so it no longer throws exceptions when an identity can’t be found.
• Updated Resolve-IdentityName to use [Carbon.Identity]::FindByName to find identities so it no longer throws exceptions when an identity can’t be found.