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Installing modules and packages from a repository

Installing modules and packages from a repository - PowerShell Tutorial

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Installing modules and packages from a repository

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- PowerShell version five has an additional feature wrapped around modules. Right now if you're working with modules, like if I do Get-Module -ListAvailable, these modules either came with your operating system or they got installed when the product got installed or additional tools got installed. Like if you install the Exchange Management Tools, or the SharePoint management tools. These modules will dynamically import when you try to use the commandlets or you look at Help. And so everything works pretty smooth. But you know you can write your own modules. And other people can write modules. And Microsoft could write additional modules that aren't on your system or that don't actually come with a particular product. So with version five here's what Microsoft has done, they've created their own sponsored repository. Now it's a repository that they monitor and they watch over that other people can put modules in. And the modules have a basic quality level of how they're written and…

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