1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,670 So let me jump into Windows and show you how easy it 2 00:00:04,670 --> 00:00:07,840 really is to install PowerShell 7. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:08,140 All right, 4 00:00:08,140 --> 00:00:11,260 so I'm on my Windows 10 desktop and I've opened up a 5 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:15,140 Windows PowerShell 5.1 session, 6 00:00:15,140 --> 00:00:19,180 and we can verify that by looking at the $PSversiontable variable. 7 00:00:19,180 --> 00:00:22,240 So, yes, I am running Windows PowerShell. 8 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,990 Now before we get to installing PowerShell 7, 9 00:00:24,990 --> 00:00:31,110 let's go to the GitHub repo, and I'll do this here from PowerShell because I 10 00:00:31,110 --> 00:00:35,040 want to show you what you want to look at when you go here. 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:40,140 So you're going to scroll down and go and look at the README file here. 12 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:43,540 This section here, this Get PowerShell section, this is the important part. 13 00:00:43,540 --> 00:00:47,240 This shows you all the platforms where you can install it. 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,120 You can also download the particular packages, 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,380 such as an MSI file or a ZIP file, and there are instructions that you 16 00:00:55,380 --> 00:01:00,010 can follow for the different platforms. So you can install PowerShell 17 00:01:00,010 --> 00:01:03,330 7 right manually from the GitHub repo, 18 00:01:03,330 --> 00:01:08,640 or I'm going to show you a way that I do it using a PowerShell command. 19 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,440 So let's close this and go back here to PowerShell. 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,450 Now, there's a module on the PowerShell Gallery called PSRelease Tools. 21 00:01:17,450 --> 00:01:20,730 This is something I wrote a couple years ago when PowerShell Core first came 22 00:01:20,730 --> 00:01:24,130 out, and we're going to check to see here what is available. 23 00:01:24,130 --> 00:01:28,050 You may see a different version. So, that is the version, I 24 00:01:28,050 --> 00:01:33,240 know it's not installed on my machine, so I'm going to go ahead and install it. 25 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,540 We'll do Install‑Module PSReleaseTools. 26 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:39,600 You may get prompted to install a new version of NuGet, 27 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,000 or you may see a prompt like this because the PowerShell Gallery is not trusted. 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,540 I will get this prompt and I will go ahead and trust it, 29 00:01:49,540 --> 00:01:53,240 so it will now go and download and install that module. 30 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,460 You can see it goes pretty quickly. 31 00:01:55,460 --> 00:02:00,940 In that module, there is a command called Get‑PSReleaseCurrent, 32 00:02:00,940 --> 00:02:05,380 and this will show me the current release, the current stable 33 00:02:05,380 --> 00:02:08,340 release, that is, from the GitHub repo. 34 00:02:08,340 --> 00:02:12,940 And as you can see, that is version 7 of PowerShell 7. 35 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:14,150 Within the module, 36 00:02:14,150 --> 00:02:18,220 I have a command called Get‑PSReleaseAsset, and you can look at help 37 00:02:18,220 --> 00:02:23,900 if you know some Windows PowerShell to retrieve the download files 38 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:29,500 directly from PowerShell. So I can run Get‑PSReleaseAsset, and 39 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,710 there's a parameter for the Windows Family, and say all I care about 40 00:02:32,710 --> 00:02:35,540 are the 64‑bit packages. 41 00:02:35,540 --> 00:02:41,670 So there is a package for an MSI and also for the ZIP. 42 00:02:41,670 --> 00:02:46,640 So, what I can do is if I wanted to I could download that MSI file and 43 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,500 then manually install it, and I might do it like this. 44 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:54,440 I might make a directory for the PS7 files, 45 00:02:54,440 --> 00:03:00,240 and then I can do my Get‑PSReleaseAsset for the Windows Family, the 64 46 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,370 bit, in this case also limit the format to just MSI, and then pipe that 47 00:03:05,370 --> 00:03:08,790 to Save‑PSReleaseAsset and then the path. 48 00:03:08,790 --> 00:03:11,240 Now I'm including ‑WhatIf because I don't really want 49 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,170 to download and install it this way. 50 00:03:14,170 --> 00:03:15,000 Instead, 51 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,410 the easy way is to use Install‑PowerShell. This will install the 52 00:03:21,410 --> 00:03:28,420 latest PowerShell 7 version on Windows. So really quickly, it's as 53 00:03:28,420 --> 00:03:32,880 simple as typing Install‑PowerShell, I want to enable PowerShell 54 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,080 remoting and I want to enable the context menu so that I get that in 55 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:45,080 Explorer, and press Enter. This now is going to download and install 56 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,160 PowerShell. Well, in my particular case, 57 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,040 there is a Mode parameter. 58 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,900 You can specify whether you want the full MSI package installation, 59 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:58,150 which is what I'm going to get because I didn't specify either 60 00:03:58,150 --> 00:04:02,190 quiet or passive. You can use this command. 61 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:07,720 What I like about it is I can install PowerShell 7 with all my 62 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,600 parameters quietly, basically in the background. 63 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,490 So, I have other laptops that I use and I just kick off 64 00:04:14,490 --> 00:04:18,360 this task and install PowerShell 7 completely unattended, 65 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,140 not to have to deal with it. 66 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:24,010 If you have your own MSI or own software deployment tools or 67 00:04:24,010 --> 00:04:27,840 mechanisms, certainly go ahead and use those. 68 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:30,230 So, we're going to let this finish downloading, 69 00:04:30,230 --> 00:04:35,820 and we'll be back in a few minutes when it completes, and when it completes, 70 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:39,080 it will start the PowerShell 7 installation. 71 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,240 So I'll be back in just a moment. 72 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:43,810 All right, 73 00:04:43,810 --> 00:04:49,210 so the download finished and the GUI part of the installation has kicked off, 74 00:04:49,210 --> 00:04:53,120 so I want you to see what this looks like. So we'll go ahead and click Next. 75 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,840 Really not that more difficult than any other application you've ever installed. 76 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:03,840 We'll go ahead and accept the defaults. There's really no reason to change that. 77 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,450 And I want to enable all of these things. 78 00:05:06,450 --> 00:05:08,220 I want PowerShell remoting enabled. 79 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:12,000 Now, I've got some of these clicked because I included that in my parameters. 80 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,640 But if not, I would check that here. And let's go ahead and click Next, 81 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:24,200 Install. This takes but just a moment. And it's done. Now, 82 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,000 I sped things up a little bit so you didn't have to watch the 83 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,280 progress bar creep along, but it does not take that long, and 84 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,800 now PowerShell 7 is set up. 85 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,010 I'm not going to install it right from here, I'm going to 86 00:05:35,010 --> 00:05:37,930 leave that Launch PowerShell unchecked, 87 00:05:37,930 --> 00:05:43,370 but we'll go ahead and click Finish. And now we'll go ahead and 88 00:05:43,370 --> 00:05:46,380 just clear the host here. And to show you that I can get into 89 00:05:46,380 --> 00:05:49,150 PowerShell 7, I can run it right from here. 90 00:05:49,150 --> 00:05:55,660 I can type pwsh, press Enter, and actually, as you can see, that did not work. 91 00:05:55,660 --> 00:05:58,610 And I've shown that because you may think, oh, I'll 92 00:05:58,610 --> 00:06:00,960 just type pwsh and it will work. 93 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,180 Well, 94 00:06:01,180 --> 00:06:04,120 what's happened is we wanted to do the install that modified the 95 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,370 environment path so that PowerShell 7 can be detected This instance of 96 00:06:09,370 --> 00:06:14,200 Windows PowerShell doesn't know about that new change, so it can't find 97 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,810 pwsh in the path. So I'll have to start a new PowerShell session in order 98 00:06:19,810 --> 00:06:24,790 for this to work. To show you what I'm talking about, now that I've 99 00:06:24,790 --> 00:06:29,140 restarted PowerShell, now I can run pwsh and you can see that I have 100 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:31,900 started PowerShell 7. 101 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:34,430 We'll get into more about running and working with 102 00:06:34,430 --> 00:06:36,640 PowerShell 7 in another module. 103 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,040 But, I do want to show you this little link here. 104 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,990 Don't just ignore it, go ahead and look at it. 105 00:06:44,990 --> 00:06:51,100 So let's do start and I just copy and paste that there because this is a very 106 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,980 important page a lot of people don't go and look at. This has everything you 107 00:06:54,980 --> 00:06:59,060 need to know about PowerShell. There's documentation, there's tools, there 108 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:05,070 are editors, gallery, related information, community resources, so I want to 109 00:07:05,070 --> 00:07:08,430 make sure you know that this exists and you take some time to look through 110 00:07:08,430 --> 00:07:09,760 this. Bookmark this. 111 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,590 This is a great resource that you should be using. A lot of people 112 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:17,470 aren't aware of it. Microsoft tells you about it right here when 113 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:20,900 you start PowerShell, but a lot people just are in a hurry to get 114 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:22,090 going and they miss that. 115 00:07:22,090 --> 00:07:24,660 So I think you'll find that very useful. 116 00:07:24,660 --> 00:07:31,640 When you're done, we'll just do exit, and exit to go back to Windows. 117 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:36,260 All right, so that is how easy it is to install PowerShell 7. 118 00:07:36,260 --> 00:07:41,090 Coming up, we'll look at more about how you can get around in PowerShell 7 119 00:07:41,090 --> 00:07:43,890 and start discovering what you can do in PowerShell 7. 120 00:07:43,890 --> 00:07:48,000 But that's it for this demo, so let's go back to the slides and wrap up this module.