PSScriptAnalyzer

1.1.0

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

Installation Options

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet More Info

Install-Module -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -RequiredVersion 1.1.0

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Install-PSResource -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -Version 1.1.0

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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 v1.1.0 (Sep.1, 2015)

Features:
- Support for using ScriptAnalyzer as a .net library - ScriptAnalyzer APIs
- Support for ScriptAnalyzer Profiles
- Documentation for using Inline Rule Suppression
- Added about help topic file as part of the module

Rules:
- Rule to checks for UTF8 encoding in help file
- Deprecate Uninitialized Variable rule as per community feedback

Fixes:
- Fix false positive for UsingInternalURL
- WriteVerbose only when analyzing valid powershell files
- DSCClass rules not being applied when exclude rule is used
- Add host to list of initialized variable
- Exclude external non-powershell applications (Console/GUI) from Positional Parameter rule application
- Additional heuristics for detecting psavoidusingplaintextforpassword rule violation

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
1.24.0 3,074,460 3/18/2025
1.23.0 1,136,000 10/9/2024
1.22.0 996,174 2/27/2024
1.21.0 1,512,107 9/29/2022
1.20.0 1,042,130 8/24/2021
1.19.1 719,036 7/28/2020
1.19.0 196,352 5/4/2020
1.18.3 519,919 9/16/2019
1.18.2 29,277 9/3/2019
1.18.1 116,104 6/13/2019
1.18.0 157,135 3/21/2019
1.17.1 234,768 6/5/2018
1.16.1 110,573 9/5/2017
1.16.0 5,692 8/16/2017
1.15.0 22,108 6/21/2017
1.14.1 2,688 6/12/2017
1.14.0 934 6/9/2017
1.13.0 6,522 5/18/2017
1.12.0 2,316 5/9/2017
1.11.1 7,133 4/4/2017
1.11.0 8,566 3/1/2017
1.10.0 6,246 1/19/2017
1.9.0 5,861 12/6/2016
1.8.1 7,238 10/14/2016
1.8.0 1,311 10/8/2016
1.7.0 5,252 8/18/2016
1.6.0 28,866 6/7/2016
1.5.0 5,115 3/30/2016
1.4.0 3,142 2/17/2016
1.3.0 1,248 1/19/2016
1.2.0 12,670 12/16/2015
1.1.1 918 11/4/2015
1.1.0 (current version) 908 9/1/2015
1.0.2 639 6/24/2015
1.0.1 528 5/8/2015
1.0 529 4/24/2015
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