Category: PowerShell

List all installed modules: PS C:>Get-Module -ListAvailable ModuleType Name                      ExportedCommands                                                           ———- —-                      —————-                                                           Manifest   ActiveDirectory           {}                                                                         Manifest   AppLocker                 {}                                                                         Manifest   BitsTransfer              {}                                                                         Manifest   FailoverClusters          {}                                                                         Manifest   GroupPolicy               {}                                                                         Manifest   NetworkLoadBalancingCl… {}                                                                         Manifest   PSDiagnostics             {Enable-PSTrace, Enable-WSManTrace, Start-Trace, Disable-PSWSManCombined… Manifest   TroubleshootingPack       {}                                                                         PS C:> List all snap-ins loaded: PS C:> get-pssnapin | ft -Auto Name                             PSVersion Description                                                                                                         —-                             ——— ———–                                                                                                         Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics 2.0       This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains Windows Eventing and Performance Counter cmdlets.                          Microsoft.WSMan.Management       2.0       This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains cmdlets (such as Get-WSManInstance and Set-WSManInstance) that are used … Microsoft.PowerShell.Core        2.0       This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains cmdlets used to manage components of Windows PowerShell.                   Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility     2.0       This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains utility […]

You need to install new PS snapins as admin user using PoweShell.exe: PS C:> powershell “C:DownloadsSoftwarePowerShellWASPWASPInstall.ps1” -Force You’re running PowerShell 2.0, so you don’t need to Install this as a PSSnapin, you can use Import-Module (or Add-Module in CTP2) to load it.  If you still want to install it as a PSSnapin, re-run this script with -Force Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 2.0.50727.4927 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. Running a transacted installation. Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the C:DownloadsSoftwarePowerShellWASPWASPWASP.dll assembly’s progress. The file is located at […]

The first step that every PS scripter should do is to set ExecutionPolicy appropriately.  If you work at the developer level, where you have to run various scripts/code from other sources and can validated the script actions only then setup it to Unrestricted. Otherwise RemoteSigned is the recommended value.   Setting up PS ExecutionPolicy to to Unrestricted: You need to run this cmdlet as admin user: PS C:> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted PS C:> Get-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted PS C:> Otherwise PS will err at you as shown below: PS C:> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted   Execution Policy Change The execution policy helps protect you from […]