From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
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Upgrading Windows PowerShell
From the course: Learning PowerShell for Windows Server Administration
Upgrading Windows PowerShell
- [Instructor] Now Windows PowerShell has been with us since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003. But new versions and builds are being released from time to time, so it's good to stay current. Here I have a Windows 2016 Datacenter Server, so a reasonably current version of Windows Server, and it's accepted all recent updates. So I may already have the most current version. Before we take a look at downloading and installing updates, let's check and see where we are. Here in PowerShell, I can find out what version of Windows PowerShell I'm running by looking at the contents of a variable. Specifically, if I look at the dollar sign PS, for PowerShell, VersionTable, I can find information about the currently installed version of PowerShell. It looks like I'm running version 5.1, which is the current version as of this recording. So it looks like this machine is current, but maybe I have other versions of Windows Server running in my network that haven't been updated to the latest…
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