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Run Command powershell version

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simont

When I "run a command" from PDQ Inventory and set to use powershell on windows 2012R2 it seems to default to powershell version 4, is there anyway to set the version it uses ? As powershell 7 is installed.

 

Can Powershell 4 even be removed from windows 2012R2 ?

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    Colby Bouma

    PowerShell Core (currently version 7) is a different executable, pwsh.exe vs powershell.exe. Deploy and Inventory do not have native integration with PowerShell Core. You would have to call pwsh.exe in your script.

    PowerShell 4 cannot be removed, but it can be updated to 5.1.

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    simont

    Thanks for the feedback and hints 

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    Stanicki, Eric

    Is PDQ going to adopt PS7 at some point? Can we change the default %systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\V1.0\PowerShell.exe -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass command line when on a powershell step with out clicking custom and modifying every package?

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    Aaron de Bruyn

    Yeah...that's super annoying.

    Changing it to "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

    Causes this in the log files...

    [31;1mGet-Service: [0mC:\Windows\AdminArsenal\PDQDeployRunner\service-1\exec\user.ps1:1[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1mLine |[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m   1 | [0m [36;1mget-service "*screenconnect*"[0m | remove-service[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[0m[36;1m     | [31;1m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[31;1m[31;1m[36;1m     | [31;1mService 'MyServiceNameRedacted[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[31;1m[31;1m[36;1m[31;1m[36;1m     | [31;1m(d125c445-7374-479b-92dc-d5be24fdfb80))' cannot be queried due to the following error:[0m
    [31;1mException: [0mC:\Windows\AdminArsenal\PDQDeployRunner\service-1\exec\Error Handling Wrapper.ps1:58[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1mLine |[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m  58 | [0m     [36;1mThrow $_.Exception.ErrorRecord[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[0m[36;1m     | [31;1m     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[0m
    [31;1m[0m[36;1m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[0m[36;1m[31;1m[31;1m[36;1m     | [31;1mScriptHalted[0m

    Unfortunately Remove-Service isn't available until PowerShell 6....which also doesn't appear to be natively supported.

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