With Dell’s acquisition of Quest and all the IT reorganization that followed, it is actually not that easy to find these two popular free PowerShell tools any longer. So here are the links that work today (January 30, 2015):
PowerGUI
The download is freely available from Dell’s PowerGUI community.
The community itself also got moved from http://powergui.org to http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui.
Dell Software is still maintaining the product – as I am writing this the latest version is 3.8 released in April 2014.
UPDATE: Looks like Dell took the community site down but direct download link http://community-downloads.quest.com/powergui/Release/3.8/PowerGUI.3.8.0.129.msi still works.
Quest / QAD cmdlets
This one is a little more tricky to find: https://software.dell.com/register/71110
If this link for some reason changes, all Dell’s freeware and trial links can be found in this catalog: http://software.dell.com/trials/
UPDATE: Looks like this got hidden even further. Not sure where it can be found now. This site seems to have copied and made them available for download though: http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/Quest_ActiveRoles_Management_Shell_Download
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Thanks, I couldn’t find the Quest download today.
Good timing for the blog post then. 😉
I love PowerGUI, I think that it is better than any alternative that I have tried. I am just very concerned that nothing has changed since Dell has purchased them. Worse, all of the addons that were available are no longer, nobody from Dell/Quest are on the forums. I hope that the development has not ceased, if they decide to call it a day, I hope that they open-source it.
Mark,
RE: “all of the addons that were available are no longer”
Are these the ones you were looking for: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui/m/powerpacks ?
I did have “Dell-Sergey T” confirm a bug in December. It wasn’t particularly timely (I’d posted in October), but it did happen, and I’m appreciative.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui/f/4833/t/19603445
Somewhat painfully, however, the reply on the bug changed from, “Hi. Thanks for your feedback. It looks like a bug of the autocomplete. It’ll be fixed in next release,” to, “Hi. Thanks for your feedback. It looks like a bug of the autocomplete. I’ve confirmed it,” which both was and wasn’t horribly encouraging, if you get my meaning.
PowerGUI remains my go to IDE of choice when I need to do step-by-step debugging, mainly because PowerShell ISE doesn’t realize when a file’s been edited elsewhere and PowerGUI does. But man, an update would be nice! Hope Dell helps make that happen soon.
I guess this one bit the dust. No new development since April 2014.
A quote from Thom Brainard, Product Marketing Manager, Dell Software: “At this time, development of PowerGUI is on hold.” (http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui/f/4833/t/19628186).
It’s from April 2015, and nothing seems to have happened in the meantime.
any new link for QAD cmdlets
Looks like the previous link to QAD cmdlets stopped working so I am not sure if there is such a page anymore. Will all that’s have been happening with Quest and Dell Software recently – maintaining community projects can be a challenge. 😦
All the downloads and community posts are gone it seems.
Looks like they are 😦
This site seems to still have QAD cmdlets available for download: http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/Quest_ActiveRoles_Management_Shell_Download
Softpedia still hosts the software for anyone who is looking… http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/File-Editors/Quest-PowerGUI.shtml
Does anyone have a copy of the QAD cmdlets reference guide?
There seems to be some of it here: http://ss64.com/ps/quest.html
http://community-downloads.quest.com/powergui/Release/3.8/PowerGUI.3.8.0.129.msi
Thank you so much. I don’t trust in Softpedia XD.
quest was sold by dell
I am trying a few places that suppose to have PowerGui download but all ended in https://www.quest.com/pagenotfound. Any idea when it can be downloaded from?
Dmitriy, quest link to PowerGUI is not available any more. If you want it to upload, I can provide you a 3.8.0.129 MSI.
I sent a question to Quest. Let’s see what they come back with. If you have it available somewhere now – feel free to share the link here.
Hi Dmitriy, i use this link :
https://www.onlinepc.ch/downloads/powergui-3.8.0.129-595484.html?step=countdown
Grossi
Thanks Grossi, exactly what I needed 🙂
-Ido
I still use PowerGUI, I find it so much more intuitive than VSCode.
Having said that, “something happened”. I used to be able to type, for example, new-object Microsoft.SQLServer. After each dot, the next list of possible namespace items appeared in a drop down. No longer.
Any thoughts on how to re-enable that functionality? It was the Most.Useful.Thing.Ever!
Thanks!
Agreed, still a useful product.