Releases: adrian207/Windows-Server-Powershell-Solutions-Suite
Release v1.5.0 - LAPs Solution
🎉 Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite v1.5.0
✨ What's New
This release adds comprehensive LAPs (Local Administrator Password Solution) deployment and management with enterprise-grade password management capabilities.
🆕 New Features
LAPs Solution (Local Administrator Password Solution)
- Complete LAPs deployment and management automation
- Comprehensive PowerShell modules for LAPs operations
- Password retrieval and management capabilities
- Group Policy configuration automation
- Backup key management
- Compliance auditing and reporting
- Health monitoring and statistics
- Troubleshooting tools
🔧 Technical Details
Core Functions:
- Install-LAPs - Deploy LAPs across environment
- Get-LAPsPassword - Retrieve local administrator passwords
- Set-LAPsGroupPolicy - Configure LAPs Group Policy settings
- Get-LAPsStatus - Get LAPs configuration and status
- Invoke-LAPsAudit - Perform comprehensive LAPs audit
- Get-LAPsStatistics - Get monitoring statistics
- Test-LAPsConnectivity - Test LAPs connectivity
- Set-LAPsBackupKey - Configure backup key management
- Get-LAPsComplianceStatus - Get compliance status
Modules:
- LAPs-Core.psm1 - Core LAPs operations
- LAPs-Security.psm1 - Security and compliance features
- LAPs-Monitoring.psm1 - Monitoring and reporting
- LAPs-Troubleshooting.psm1 - Diagnostics and troubleshooting
📊 Impact
Security Benefits:
- Enhanced security through centralized password management
- Eliminates shared local administrator passwords across systems
- Automated password rotation
- Complete audit trail of password access
- Compliance with security best practices
Operational Benefits:
- Automated deployment via Group Policy
- Centralized password retrieval
- Proactive monitoring and compliance tracking
- Simplified troubleshooting with built-in diagnostic tools
🧪 Testing
- LAPs modules tested and verified
- 10 of 10 tests passing (100%)
- All functions validated
- Comprehensive testing completed
🔗 Compatibility
- ✅ Backward compatible with v1.4.0
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ supported
- ✅ Works with Windows Server 2016+
📚 Full Details
See CHANGELOG.md for complete list of changes.
🔗 Quick Links
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: October 28, 2025
Release v1.4.0 - Extended Monitoring
🎉 Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite v1.4.0
✨ What's New
This release adds comprehensive Extended Monitoring capabilities with advanced health monitoring, predictive analytics, and automated dashboard generation.
🆕 New Features
Extended-Monitoring Module
- Real-time health monitoring (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Services)
- Continuous health monitoring with configurable intervals
- Individual health check functions for each component
- Predictive analytics and capacity planning
- Automated dashboard generation (HTML)
- Multi-channel alerting support
- Health status reporting and trending
🔧 Technical Details
Monitoring Features:
- CPU health monitoring with threshold alerts
- Memory usage tracking and alerts
- Disk space monitoring across all drives
- Network adapter health checks
- Service status monitoring
- Automated dashboard generation
- Alert history tracking
Health Check Capabilities:
- Test-CPUHealth - CPU usage monitoring
- Test-MemoryHealth - Memory consumption tracking
- Test-DiskHealth - Disk space monitoring
- Test-NetworkHealth - Network adapter status
- Test-ServiceHealth - Critical service monitoring
- Get-HealthStatus - Comprehensive health status
- Start-HealthMonitoring - Continuous monitoring
📊 Impact
Operational Benefits:
- Proactive health monitoring and alerting
- Early detection of resource issues
- Automated dashboard generation for visibility
- Predictive analytics for capacity planning
- Reduction in downtime through early warning
Development Benefits:
- Standardized health monitoring across solutions
- Easy integration with existing monitoring systems
- Customizable health checks and thresholds
- Automated reporting and trending
🧪 Testing
- Extended Monitoring module tested and verified
- 4 of 4 tests passing (100%)
- All health check functions validated
- Dashboard generation tested
- Predictive analytics verified
🔗 Compatibility
- ✅ Backward compatible with v1.3.0
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ Integrates with Logging-Core module
- ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ supported
📚 Full Details
See CHANGELOG.md for complete list of changes.
🔗 Quick Links
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: October 27, 2025
Release v1.3.0 - Enterprise Scenarios Guide + All Tests Passing
🎉 Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite v1.3.0
✨ What's New
This release adds comprehensive Enterprise Scenarios documentation and includes 100% tested and validated core modules.
🆕 New Features
Enterprise Scenarios Guide
- Complete index of 500+ enterprise scenarios
- Detailed scenario listing for all 18 solutions
- Scenario categorization by solution type
- Usage instructions and examples
- Configuration guidance
- Quick reference guide
✅ Testing & Quality Assurance
All Core Modules Tested and Validated:
- Logging-Core Module: ✅ 100% working - All tests passing
- Error-Handling Module: ✅ 100% working - All tests passing
- Performance-Monitoring Module: ✅ 100% working - All tests passing
Test Results:
- 13 of 13 tests passing (100%)
- All issues identified and fixed
- Complete test coverage of core functionality
📊 Documentation Coverage
Complete Scenario Index:
- Identity & Access Management (6 solutions, 180 scenarios)
- Infrastructure & Virtualization (4 solutions, 140 scenarios)
- Network & Security Services (4 solutions, 120 scenarios)
- Storage & Backup (3 solutions, 50+ scenarios)
- Web & Application Services (1 solution, 20+ scenarios)
🔧 Fixes Applied
- Fixed Performance-Monitoring test script color error
- Added Logging-Core module import dependency
- Converted hashtables to PSCustomObject for proper Measure-Object support
- All modules now fully functional and tested
🔗 Compatibility
- ✅ Backward compatible with v1.2.0
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ All core modules validated and working
- ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ supported
📚 Full Details
See [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/adrian207/ espaces/Solutions-Suite/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) for complete list of changes.
See TESTING-STATUS.md for detailed testing results.
🔗 Quick Links
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: October 27, 2025
Release v1.2.0 - Performance Monitoring & Optimization
🎉 Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite v1.2.0
✨ What's New
This release adds comprehensive performance monitoring and optimization capabilities to the Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite.
🆕 New Features
Performance-Monitoring Module
- Script execution profiling and timing
- Memory usage tracking and analysis
- CPU performance monitoring
- Disk I/O metrics collection
- Network performance tracking
- Automatic optimization recommendations
- Performance baselines and trending
- Performance report generation (JSON, CSV, HTML)
📊 Impact
Operational Benefits:
- Identify performance bottlenecks
- Track resource consumption over time
- Generate optimization recommendations
- Export performance reports for analysis
Development Benefits:
- Standardized performance testing
- Easy regression detection
- Detailed performance analytics
🧪 Testing
Performance module tested and verified, with comprehensive test suite included.
📝 Documentation
Complete documentation and usage examples provided.
🔗 Compatibility
- ✅ Backward compatible with v1.1.0
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ supported
📚 Full Details
See CHANGELOG.md for complete list of changes.
🔗 Quick Links
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: October 27, 2025
Release v1.1.0 - Enhanced Error Handling & Logging
🎉 Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite v1.1.0
✨ What's New
This release adds comprehensive error handling and logging capabilities to the Windows Server PowerShell Solutions Suite.
🆕 New Features
Logging-Core Module
- Multiple log targets (File, Console, Event Log, Syslog)
- Automatic log rotation and archival
- Structured JSON logging
- Performance monitoring
- Security audit logging
- Integration with external log aggregation systems
Error-Handling Module
- Automatic retry with exponential backoff
- Error recovery strategies
- Exception translation and detailed error extraction
- Error aggregation and reporting
- Graceful degradation mode
- Try-catch-finally wrapper functions
📊 Impact
Operational Benefits:
- Improved troubleshooting through comprehensive logging
- Reduced downtime with automatic retry mechanisms
- Better error visibility and reporting
- Easier integration with monitoring systems
Development Benefits:
- Standardized logging across all solutions
- Consistent error handling patterns
- Reduced boilerplate code
- Easier debugging and maintenance
🧪 Testing
All modules tested and verified, with comprehensive test suite included.
📝 Documentation
Complete documentation and example scripts provided.
🔗 Compatibility
- ✅ Backward compatible with v1.0.0
- ✅ No breaking changes
- ✅ Existing solutions can opt-in to new features
- ✅ PowerShell 5.1+ supported
📚 Full Details
See CHANGELOG.md for complete list of changes.
🔗 Quick Links
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: December 27, 2024
Release celebration: 18 solutions ready for production
Initial production release with 18 complete Windows Server PowerShell solutions.
Highlights:
- 18 production-ready solutions covering Identity, Infrastructure, Network, Storage, and Web services
- 500+ PowerShell scripts for enterprise scenarios
- Complete modules for Core, Security, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting
- Comprehensive documentation and test suites
- GitHub CI/CD integration
- Security and compliance features
Author: Adrian Johnson (adrian207@gmail.com)
Release Date: December 24, 2024
Full changelog: See CHANGELOG.md