Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Installing a PowerShell IDE on Windows Server 2008 R2
Posted by on April 21, 2012
I’m sitting Thomas Lee’s PowerCamp espresso-powered PowerShell course this weekend – highly recommended, see my previous post.
I didn’t know this, being a POSH newbue, but there is a free, built-in PowerShell IDE, editor that ships with Windows Server 2008 R2, so for my labs I tend to install PowerGUI to bodge together some scripts.
Two lines of POSH and you can install the editor from PowerShell 
rather than struggling with notepad.
import-module servermanager
Add-WindowsFeature PowerShell-ISE
It’s quite functional, and does the job and it’s free/built-in.
There are other commercial editors if you need to do this on a more regular basis from your own workstation.
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