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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Exploring the module deny list

During the development of PowerShell 7, it became clear that a few Windows PowerShell modules did not work with PowerShell 7 despite the compatibility solution. Worse, if you attempted to use them, the error messages that resulted were cryptic and non-actionable. One suggested solution was to create a list of modules that were known to not be usable within PowerShell 7. When Import-Module attempts to load any module on this list, the failure is more graceful with a cleaner message.

One possible issue that such a deny list might cause would be if the module owners were to release an updated module previously on the deny list that now works. To simplify this situation, PowerShell 7 stores the deny list in a configuration file in the $PSHOME folder.

In PowerShell 7.1, there are three modules that are in the deny list:

  • PSScheduledJob: Windows PowerShell commands to manage the Windows Task Manager service. This module is installed in Windows...
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