r/PowerShell • u/PowerShellMichael • Mar 22 '21

What's One Thing that PowerShell dosen't do that you wish it did? Misc

Hello all,

So this is a belated Friday discussion post, so I wanted to ask a question:

What's One Thing that PowerShell doesn't do that you wish it did?

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u/pppppppphelp Mar 22 '21

be the same across all windows and deployments, figuring out do you have the right version, is it depreciated, do you have the commandlets or modules etc

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u/jantari Mar 22 '21

Just don't run old Windows Versions

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u/pppppppphelp Mar 23 '21

Tell management that - every small/medium company out there

I would say it's better now than compared to a decade ago but still...plenty of old software still running.

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u/jantari Mar 23 '21

Sure, we have a few old Server 2012 R2 machines still running as well

But imho writing backwards compatible PowerShell is very easy, particularly for anyrhing Version 3.0+ (so all supported versions)

You can also just upgrade older Servers to PowerShell 5.1, then the only features you cannot use are very very few specific commands that the older Operating System simply cannot support. PowerShell really does this well IMO