Comments on: walk-thru: installing modules from the powershell gallery

By: Dan Thompson

Dan Thompson — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:03:49 +0000

Thanks Patrick – this helped me greatly when installing behind a proxy!! 🙂

By: Marian

Marian — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:53:13 +0000

Not working that ways. It’s a bit deeper than that:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54563398

By: Vikram

Vikram — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:45:06 +0000

How to add the server inventory $servers ?

By: Chrissy LeMaire

Chrissy LeMaire — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:34:16 +0000

That’d be a good blog post, i’ll put it on my list then add an addendum to this post. What you’ll likely want to do is `Get-Process *powershel* | Stop-Process` then try updating after reopening.

By: Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:08:18 +0000

How about updating instructions? I know its, Open Powershell as an Admin and enter:
Update-Module -name dbatools

But for those of us that get the dreaded message:
PS C:\Windows\system32> update-module -name dbatools
WARNING: The version ‘0.9.411’ of module ‘dbatools’ is currently in use. Retry the operation after closing the applications.

And you have no application open and have closed and restarted PS to no success.

By: Phil Smith

Phil Smith — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:29:49 +0000

When I attempt to trust the repository, it isn’t found.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -installationPolicy Trusted
Set-PSRepository : No repository with the name ‘PSGallery’ was found.
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -installationPolicy Trusted
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (PSGallery:String) [Set-PSRepository], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RepositoryNotFound,Set-PSRepository

Please can you give us some troubleshooting advice ? Very New to using Powershell !

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By: Chrissy LeMaire

Chrissy LeMaire — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:26:37 +0000

Awesome tips, thanks so much, Patrick!

By: Patrick Flynn

Patrick Flynn — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:24:10 +0000

One scenario that is not commonly covered is requirement to install Powershell Modules when behind a corporate firewall. This will cause the Install-Module and other such commands from the Gallery to fail.
After some searching I found the adding the following code to a script before calling the Install-Module was able to resolve this issue

# Update Modules from Behind a Proxy
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy = new-object system.net.webproxy(‘http://[YourProxyDNS]:[yourProxyPort]’)
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.BypassProxyOnLocal = $true

You may also need to initially run the following to get Install-Module Working

# May need to be run initially to install necessary packages for Install-Module

Install-PackageProvider Nuget –force –verbose
Install-Module –Name PowerShellGet –Force –Verbose