Install PowerCLI 5.1 in Windows 8 @ Jonathan Medd's Blog

Install PowerCLI 5.1 in Windows 8

Posted on November 13th, 2012 Jonathan Medd 1 comment

I don’t believe that PowerCLI 5.1 is yet officially supported on Windows 8, however that’s where I wanted to run it. While carrying out the installation I hit this issue, i.e. .NET Framework 2.0 was not installed as a pre-requisite. This is because PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 uses .NET 4 and no longer has .NET 2.0 as a requirement.

To install .NET Framework 2.0 in Windows 8 you need to turn on .NET Framework 3.5 as an optional feature, this will include .NET Framework 2.0. You can view the current status of this feature with PowerShell (note: the Online parameter means ‘take the action on the OS currently running on the local computer’):
```
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName netfx3 -Online
```
To enable .NET Framework 3.5, 3.0 and 2.0 run:
```
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName netfx3 -source D:\sources\sxs -Online
```
where source is the location of the Windows 8 media.

The state of this optional feature has been updated:
```
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName netfx3 -Online
```
You can now complete the PowerCLI install.

It is now possible to take advantage of some the cool features in PowerShell 3.0, such as intellisense in the ISE console which includes the installed PowerCLI cmdlets:

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1 responses to “Install PowerCLI 5.1 in Windows 8”
- Chris Monahan November 15th, 2012 at 02:04
  
  Unfortunately it’s not Windows 8 specifically that’s the restriction, it’s PowerShell v3 that itsn’t supported by PowerCLI yet.
  
  http://communities.vmware.com/message/2146840#2146840
  
  That’s the only problem I’ve come across in a 2-3 weeks of using PowerCLI 5.1 with PowerShell v3, so I just use a PowerShell v2 computer for my Move-VM loops.
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