Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Knuckle-Dragger — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:37:02 GMT

Not a problem Ed, it was worth a shot. Keep up the good works.

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

K_Schulte — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:05:24 GMT

Hi Ed,

AH! Right!!

I read about this feature but didn't notice it up to now!

Having set my Executionpolicy to unrestricted shows the effect of this automatic search in PS 3.0

You see the warning message box while PS 3.0 is still searching for a module containing the desired command.

It does so until it has found the command ..... or not :-)

Klaus.

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Srikanth Kammadanam — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:59:50 GMT

Good Article.

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Ed Wilson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:52:15 GMT

@Santosh Bhandarkar thank you, I am glad you found it helpful.

@Knuckle-Dragger it will not happen. I do not have the time to do those sort of things. I prefer to spend my time focusing on writing great content for the Hey Scripting Guy blog, speaking at user groups and conferences and working with the community.

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Ed Wilson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:50:13 GMT

@K_Schulte sounds like you are running Windows PowerShell 3.0. Windows PowerShell 3.0 automatically searches the module path to find cmdlets. It does this so you do not have to load a module prior to using the cmdlet. It is a great time saver to be able to run a cmdlet without having to first load the module. When PowerShell finds the cmdlet, it loads the module for you, then runs the command.

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Knuckle-Dragger — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:18:41 GMT

Hi Ed, when are the scripting guys going to publish a DISM GUI Front End, I'm sure you can slap together something more polished the this.

www.msfn.org/.../138804-mr-jinje-dism-tool

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

Santosh Bhandarkar — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:13:04 GMT

Great article ! Helpful. Thanks

re: Use the PowerShell DISM Cmdlets to Manage Windows 8

K_Schulte — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:48:56 GMT

Hi Ed,

this looks very neat ... at least, if you are running WIN8 ...

As I'm not (win7 x64 Enterprise), I can't try it out, but what I did anyway, is: I tried to run the command: "Get-WindowsEdition -Online" and, having set the ExecutionPolicy to unrestricted (I know that this is not recommended) ... I'm getting a lot of popups: "Security warning: Do you really want to run I:\windosPowerShell\Modules\....\...psm1" ?"

This continues until it finds "Get-WindowsEdition" in "PowerShellPack" which is of course not the same command.

I'm just wondering why PowerShell scans the "PSModulePath" and tries to find "Get-WindowsEdition" at all ... ?!

Klaus.