powershell7
This module has been developed to manage the installation of PowerShell 7.
Table of Contents
- Description
- Setup - The basics of getting started with powershell7
- Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
- Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
- Development - Guide for contributing to the module
Description
PowerShell 7 is the latest major update which builds on PowerShell 6 core. This version of PowerShell brings many new features, cmdlets and includes a number of bugfixes.
Setup
Beginning with powershell7
include powershell7
is enough to get started and have PowerShell 7 installed on
your windows server.
Usage
All parameters for this module are contained in the powershell7 class. If you would like to alter installation settings such as context menu options please see below.
Install and Enable PowerShell 7
include powershell7
Disable Context Menu Options
class { 'powershell7':
'add_explorer_context_menu_openpowershell' => 0,
'add_file_context_menu_runpowershell' => 0,
}
Disable PS Remoting
class { 'powershell7':
'enable_psremoting' => 0,
}
Change Update Notification Settings
PowerShell 7 added a new feature to alert users when a newer version of the PowerShell
application is available. This can be configured to Off
, Default
or LTS
.
The notification doesn't provide any capabilities to update PowerShell but just to notify only.
class { 'powershell7':
'powershell_updatecheck' => 'LTS',
}
Configuring PowerShell Window Settings
Default PowerShell 7 window behaviour can now be customized which includes changing the size of the window along with also changing the buffer size and even the background/foreground color. With PowerShell, the buffer width must be equal to the same size as the window width so there is no option available to change this setting and will always be set to the same size.
class { 'powershell7':
'config_window_width' => 400,
'config_window_height' => 60,
'config_buffer_height' => 7000,
'config_background_color => 'Blue',
'config_foreground_color => 'White',
}
PowerShell Window Colors
PowerShell 7 only allows certain colors for the background and the foreground. This is the list of acceptable colors.
- Black
- DarkBlue
- DarkGreen
- DarkCyan
- DarkRed
- DarkMagenta
- DarkYellow
- Gray
- Blue
- Green
- Cyan
- Red
- Magenta
- Yellow
- White
Limitations
Currently this has only been designed and tested for Windows. PowerShell 7 on Linux is not yet supported in this module.
Due to using the Stdlib::Absolutepath and the way that the code is structured. You cannot have download_dir
set to C:\
.
This would cause the path to end up something like C:\\file.msi
which wouldn't be a valid windows path.
Development
If you would like to contribute to this module. Fork me on github, make your
desired changes and create a Pull request back to n3snah/powershell7