Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need... It's already there!

[KITSKMS-607] Convert domains.conf data file to CSV files for ingestion into ADS via Windows PowerShell

JIRA: KITS KMS — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:17:57 GMT

Correction - in my quest to download PowerShell, I found it is already available on Windows 7.

See these two resources:

blogs.technet.com/.../download-for-powershell-v2-for-windows-7-no-need-it-s-already-there.aspx

re: Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need... It's already there!

Aleksandar Nikolić — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:30:22 GMT

Actually, it's better to check PSVersion property of automatic variable $PSVersionTable:

PS> $PSVersionTable

Name Value

---- -----

CLRVersion 2.0.50727.4927

BuildVersion 6.1.7600.16385

PSVersion 2.0

WSManStackVersion 2.0

PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0}

SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.1

If the $PSVersionTable variable doesn't exist, then you are running V1. If it does exist, then the version will be available as $PSVersionTable.PSVersion.

Get-PSVersion - http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/2617.aspx

-aleksandar

re: Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need... It's already there!

techvet2 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:14:37 GMT

Thank you and thank you for this posting! Here's why:

Count me faked out on two accounts after upgrading from 2.0 CTP3 to 2.0 RTM on my Windows XP laptop:

1. When invoking PowerShell from a 3rd-party add-on, the title bar

said "C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0" and that's where it is on my XP machine, not just Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 as you noted above. I remember thinking, "What went wrong with the 2.0 installation?"

2. The 2.0 RTM installation places the Windows PowerShell icon inside a program group that is located in Accessories, whereas the beta installs simply placed a PowerShell icon right off the Programs menu. Thus I couldn't find the PowerShell icon (but was always too busy to do a full-blown search)/.

Thanks again for clearing up a mystery for me.