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Installs/Configures PowerShell on the Windows platform

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Powershell Cookbook

Installs and configures PowerShell 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0.

Requirements

Platforms

Not every version of Windows supports every version of Powershell. The following table illustrates Powershell support across the Windows family. Included means that the base installation of the operating system includes the indicated version of Powershell.

Windows Version	PowerShell 2.0	PowerShell 3.0	PowerShell 4.0	PowerShell 5.0
Windows Server 2008 R2	Included	Supported	Supported	Supported
Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8	Included	Included	Supported	Supported
Windows Server 2012R2 / Windows 8.1	Included	Not Available	Included	Supported

Chef

Chef 11+

Cookbooks

windows

PowerShell also requires the appropriate version of the Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed, if the operating system does not ship with that version. The following community cookbooks are used to install the correct version of the .NET Framework:

ms_dotnet

Resources

`powershell_module`

Installs or uninstalls a Powershell module. You either need to install rubyzip with chef_gem or include the default recipe before using this resource.

Actions

:install: install the powershell module
:uninstall: uninstall the powershell module

Attribute Parameters

name: name attribute. Name of the module to install or uninstall.
source: quoted string of Local directory path(Not zipfile) or URL for the zipped module folder.
package_name: quoted string of name of the module to install or uninstall.
destination: location where module should be installed

Examples

include_recipe 'powershell::default'

# Install module from local directory path
# change the package_name and source
powershell_module "PsUrl" do
  package_name "PsUrl"
  source "C:\\PsUrl"
end

# Install from URL of zipped module folder
powershell_module "posh-git" do
  package_name "posh-git"
  source "https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/zipball/master"
end

# change the package_name
powershell_module "Uninstall PsUrl" do
  package_name "PsUrl"
  action :uninstall
end

# Install without using 'source' attribute
powershell_module "https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/zipball/master" do
  package_name "posh-git"  
end

Usage

Note: The installation may require a restart of the node being configured before PowerShell can be used.

default

The default recipe is needs to be included before using the powershell_module resource.

powershell2

Include the powershell2 recipe in a run list, to ensure PowerShell 2.0 is installed.

On the following versions of Windows, PowerShell 2.0 is present and must just be enabled:

Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core

powershell3

Include the powershell3 recipe in a run list, to install PowerShell 3.0 is installed on applicable platforms. If a platform is not supported or if it already includes PowerShell 3.0, an exception will be raised.

powershell4

Include the powershell4 recipe in a run list, to install PowerShell 4.0 is installed on applicable platforms. If a platform is not supported or if it already includes PowerShell 4.0, an exception will be raised.

powershell5

Include the powershell5 recipe in a run list, to install PowerShell 5.0 is installed on applicable platforms. If a platform is not supported or if it already includes PowerShell 5.0, an exception will be raised.

References

Installing Windows Management Framework 2.0
Installing Windows Management Framework 3.0
Installing Windows Management Framework 4.0
Installing Windows Management Framework 5.0

License & Authors

Author:: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@chef.io)
Author:: Julian Dunn (jdunn@chef.io)

Copyright:: 2011-2016, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Dependent cookbooks

windows >= 1.44

ms_dotnet >= 2.6

chef_handler >= 0.0.0

Contingent cookbooks

powershell Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the powershell cookbook.

4.0.0 (2016-09-02)

Remove support for Windows XP, 2003, 2003 R2, and 2008
Remove the powershell provider that was only needed for Chef 10
Require a modern windows cookbook release
Consistently check platform_family in recipes
Use node.normal instead of node.set in specs
Switch ruby linting to cookstyle and the new rakefile
Rename the minimal recipe to test
Avoid deprecation warnings during specs and use doc output
Fix a long failing spec so we can get the tests green

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Resources

powershell_module

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default

powershell2

powershell3

powershell4

powershell5

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Dependent cookbooks

Contingent cookbooks

powershell Cookbook CHANGELOG

4.0.0 (2016-09-02)

v3.3.2 (2016-06-09)

v3.3.1 (2016-05-27)

v3.3.0 (2016-05-17)

v3.2.3 (2015-12-24)

v3.2.2 (2015-12-18)

v3.2.1 (2015-12-17)

v3.2.0 (2015-12-14)

v3.0.7 (2014-07-16)

v3.0.6 (2014-07-15)

v3.0.5 (2014-07-12)

v3.0.4 (2014-05-10)

v3.0.2 (2014-04-24)

v3.0.0 (2014-02-05)

v2.0.0 (2014-01-03)

v1.1.2 (2013-08-28)

1.1.0 (2013-06-15)

1.0.8 (2012-11-26)

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