CIM with support for lower operating systems and registry reads

Nested error record and exception identification, and stack dumping

Dispose of objects like the C# using keyword

Improves SQL Server SMO and querying/updating with PowerShell

Provides a simple method of building parallel capability into PowerShell functions and wrapping results in a unit testing format.

Build one or two Windows 2012/2016 SQL 2012/2017 multi-subnet five node AG labs with one command using Hyper-V and DSC

Quick functions to start/stop timers for tracking time spent in sections of code

Simple SQL script parsing into batches and statements

New-CimSession with support for lower operating systems

Gain access to SQL Server with only Windows Administrator permissions

Retrieve all SMO/WMI properties for a server and store in auto-created temporal tables