Once you start working with Powershell soon or later you will have to get a grip of module version management. Basic Microsoft.Powershell.Core module cmdlets to manage modules are
Get-Module - List the modules imported in the current session or use -ListAvailable to show ones that can be imported from the PSModulePath.
Import-Module - Adds modules to the current session.
Remove-Module - Removes modules from the current session.
The full list of Microsoft.Powershell.Core modules are listed here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/?view=powershell-7.4
You can get a feel for what these module commands do by following this exercise. The below screen shot was taken on on a vanilla Windows Server 2019.
Start a fresh Powershell ISE window
Get-Module to display the current modules loaded in the session.
Get-Adapter to display the network adapter info.
Get-Module to display the current modules loaded in the session. Notice that now NetAdapter and NetAdapter.Format.Helper appear in the list.
Remove-Module -Name NetAdapter
Get-Module this now displays the list of loaded modules but NetAdapter has been removed.
Let see what PowerShellGet version we have with our freshly installed Windows Server 2019:
Windows PowerShell 5.1 comes with PowerShellGet version 1.0.0.1, which doesn't include the NuGet provider. This provider is required by PowerShellGet when working with the PowerShell Gallery. As it is, PowerShellGet version 1.0.0.1 can't really do much. It can't even update itself with help from something else. That something else is the NuGet provider.
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Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force
Now that's installed upgrade the PowerShellGet
Install-Module PowerShellGet -AllowClobber -Force
Close and reopen the powershell interface.
It is recommended to set the Powershell Gallery as a trusted repository using
Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted
To List available module versions in the PSGallery
Find-Module -name <ModuleName>
