Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

re: Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

Stu — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:25:50 GMT

We're running behind a corporate firewall (with password authentication) and I am unable to get updates for help. Is there any way to update help in these circumstances?

re: Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

June Blender [MSFT] — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:26:38 GMT

Hi, Jon Harvey,

Are you running Update-Help elevated? To get help for modules in $pshome, start Windows PowerShell with the "Run as administrator" option. Then, type: Update-Help.

Thanks,

June

re: Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

June Blender [MSFT] — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:23:56 GMT

Hi, Klaus,

There are no German help topics yet published for the commands in Windows modules. For Windows PowerShell 3.0, help topics are translated based on user demand. To register a request for localized help topics, please vote for one of the language-request bugs on Connect. Here is the German language request bug: connect.microsoft.com/.../please-add-documentation-in-german-language-for-powershell-3-0

Also, Windows PowerShell 3.0 was shipped with a bug that prevents English-language help topics from being displayed on localized versions of Windows, even when the fallback language is English. A fix will be available soon from Windows Update for all supported versions of Windows. To get that fix on demand for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, go to support.microsoft.com/.../2758246.

Hope this helps,

June

re: Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

Yevrah Noj — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:24:26 GMT

I am getting the same error, but in english.

update-help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'ISE, Microsoft.PowerShell.Management,

Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility, CimCmdlets, Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics, Microsoft.PowerShell.Host,

Microsoft.PowerShell.Security, Microsoft.WSMan.Management, PSScheduledJob, PSWorkflow, PSWorkflowUtility,

Microsoft.PowerShell.Core' with UI culture(s) {en-US} : Unable to retrieve the HelpInfo XML file for UI

culture en-US. Make sure the HelpInfoUri property in the module manifest is valid or check your network

connection and then try the command again.

At line:1 char:1

+ update-help -Verbose -force

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Update-Help], Exception

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnableToRetrieveHelpInfoXml,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.UpdateHelpCommand

When I run the command where she gets 52, I get 0.

When I run the command where she gets 82, I get 11.

I am behind a proxy, but it is set up in IE.

re: Where is PowerShell Updatable Help for Windows Modules?

K_Schulte — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:32:58 GMT

Hi June,

updateable help is surely a very interesting and important feature!

It's great to have it and your article does explain some of the gotchas!

Running Update-Help on my company workstation ( on a german WIN7 enterprise OS with

PS 3.0 release version installed ) I receive some other error messages:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Update-Help

Update-Help : Fehler beim Aktualisieren von Hilfe für die Module "ISE, Microsoft.PowerShell.Management, Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility, CimCmdlets,

Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics, Microsoft.PowerShell.Host, Microsoft.PowerShell.Security, Microsoft.WSMan.Management, PSScheduledJob,

Microsoft.PowerShell.Core" mit den Benutzeroberflächenkulturen {de-DE}: Die XML-Datei "HelpInfo" für die Benutzeroberflächenkultur de-DE kann nicht

abgerufen werden. Stellen Sie sicher, dass die HelpInfoUri-Eigenschaft im Modulmanifest gültig ist, oder überprüfen Sie die Netzwerkverbindung, und

führen Sie den Befehl dann erneut aus.

In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1

+ Update-Help

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Update-Help], Exception

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnableToRetrieveHelpInfoXml,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.UpdateHelpCommand

Even if it is german, you could probably tell me the error cause, ... I hope ...

Might there be no german help topics available?

(If not, where could I have looked that up? Is there a certain URL for localized help topics available?)

Or maybe this is an issue just related to our company's security settings ( like GPOs, firewall and so on)

What could we do in this case? Is there a Powershell Help Update Server available like the local WSUS servers that we are running ... :-)

I can't tell one possible cause of failure from the other, I'm afraid ...

Klaus.