PSScriptAnalyzer

1.2.0

PSScriptAnalyzer provides script analysis and checks for potential code defects in the scripts by applying a group of built-in or customized rules on the scripts being analyzed.

Installation Options

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Install-Module -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -RequiredVersion 1.2.0

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Install-PSResource -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -Version 1.2.0

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Owners

Copyright

(c) Microsoft Corporation 2015. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Microsoft Corporation

Cmdlets

Get-ScriptAnalyzerRule Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

Released v1.2.0 (Dec.17, 2015)

Features:
- Support for consuming PowerShell content as streams (-ScriptDefinition)
- ScriptAnalyzer accepts configuration (settings) in the form of a hashtable (-Settings), added sample Settings
- Ability to run default ruleset along with custom ones in the same invocation (-IncludeDefaultRules)
- Recurse Custom Rule Paths (-RecurseCustomRulePath)
- Consistent Engine error handling when working with Settings, Default and Custom Rules

Rules:
- Rule to detect the presence of default value for Mandatory parameters (AvoidDefaultValueForMandatoryParameter)

Fixes:
Engine:
- Engine update to prevent script based injection attacks
- CustomizedRulePath is now called CustomRulePath – Fixes to handle folder paths
- Fixes for RecurseCustomRulePath functionality
- Fix to binplace cmdlet help file as part of build process
- ScriptAnalyzer Profile is now called Settings
- Fix to emit filename in the diagnosticrecord when using Script based custom rules
- Fix to prevent Engine from calling Update-Help for script based custom rules
- Added additional pester tests to take care of test holes in Custom Rule feature
- Post-build error handling improvements, fixed typos in the project

Rules:
- Fixed bug in Positional parameter rule to trigger only when used with > 3 positional  - parameters
- Updated keywords that trigger PSAvoidUsingPlainTextForPassword rule
- Updated ProvideDefaultParameterValue rule to AvoidDefaultValueForMandatoryParameter rule
- Deprecate Internal Url rule based on community feedback, identified additional rules to handle hardcoded paths etc
- Added localhost exceptions for HardCodedComputerName Rule
- Update to Credential based rules to validate the presence of CredentialAttribute and PSCredential type

Documentation:
- Rule & Cmdlet documentation updates – Cmdlet help file addition

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
1.23.0 243,428 10/9/2024
1.22.0 930,005 2/27/2024
1.21.0 1,416,211 9/29/2022
1.20.0 893,640 8/24/2021
1.19.1 695,476 7/28/2020
1.19.0 186,681 5/4/2020
1.18.3 505,303 9/16/2019
1.18.2 26,337 9/3/2019
1.18.1 112,780 6/13/2019
1.18.0 155,831 3/21/2019
1.17.1 234,132 6/5/2018
1.16.1 110,093 9/5/2017
1.16.0 5,651 8/16/2017
1.15.0 22,069 6/21/2017
1.14.1 2,650 6/12/2017
1.14.0 897 6/9/2017
1.13.0 6,482 5/18/2017
1.12.0 2,272 5/9/2017
1.11.1 7,092 4/4/2017
1.11.0 8,476 3/1/2017
1.10.0 6,203 1/19/2017
1.9.0 5,482 12/6/2016
1.8.1 7,180 10/14/2016
1.8.0 1,259 10/8/2016
1.7.0 5,206 8/18/2016
1.6.0 28,801 6/7/2016
1.5.0 5,039 3/30/2016
1.4.0 3,087 2/17/2016
1.3.0 1,204 1/19/2016
1.2.0 (current version) 12,611 12/16/2015
1.1.1 873 11/4/2015
1.1.0 863 9/1/2015
1.0.2 592 6/24/2015
1.0.1 484 5/8/2015
1.0 447 4/24/2015
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