Exploring PowerShell 7 installation artifacts

In PowerShell 7, certain objects added by the PowerShell 7 installer (and PowerShell 7) differ from those used by Windows PowerShell.

Getting ready

This recipe uses SRV1 after you have installed PowerShell 7. In this recipe, you use the PowerShell 7 console to run the steps.

How to do it...

1. Checking the version table for the PowerShell 7 console

   $PSVersionTable
   

2. Examining the PowerShell 7 installation folder

   Get-Childitem -Path $env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell\7 -Recurse |
     Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum
   

3. Viewing the PowerShell 7 configuration JSON file

   Get-ChildItem -Path $env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell\7\powershell*.json | 
     Get-Content
   

4. Checking the initial Execution Policy for PowerShell 7

   Get-ExecutionPolicy  
   

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