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po
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6 years ago

powershell for inventory of workspaces/reports

Hi,   Looking to get and inventory of workspaces and the reprts within them and had been looking at powersheel for this.   However, when try install powershell on my desktop get message below  d...
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lbendlin
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6 years ago

what worked for me is to allow PSGallery, and to specify -Scope CurrentUser  for the cmdlet installation

 

Install-Module -Name MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt -Scope CurrentUser

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po
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6 years ago

Thanks for suggestion - still same error message when tried.

 

Interstingly tried on another computer what had doen originally and was o.k. with powershell 5.

 

could questions - according to document should work with powershell 4 and is there any impact on anything lese if upgrade from powershell 4 to 5?

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    lbendlin
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    6 years ago

    Powershell 4 ?!? What is this, 2005?  😉 The new modules require Powershell 6, and v7 just came out. Upgrade to at least v6 if you can.

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      po
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      6 years ago

      Thanks for update.

       

      Is there any danger to any other processses with upgrading powershell?

       

      New to powershell.

       

      don't want to indavertently affect windows or some other functionality negatively.