Microsoft.WinGet.Client- Get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell in Systemcontext

[langermi]

Brief description of your issue

After installing the current version (1.9.2411) of the Microsoft.WinGet.Client package from PSGallery many of the commands throw following errors:
Get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
Find-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
Install-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.

Psversion in System context:
`$PSVersionTable

Name Value

---

PSVersion 5.1.22621.4111
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.22621.4111
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1`

Steps to reproduce

Open PS in System Context

Install-Module Microsoft.WinGet.Client -Repository PSGallery -Scope AllUsers -Force
Import-Module Microsoft.WinGet.Client

Find-WinGetPackage HeidiSQL.HeidiSQL

Expected behavior

`Find-WinGetPackage HeidiSQL.HeidiSQL

Name Id Version Source

---

HeidiSQL HeidiSQL.HeidiSQL 12.8 winget`

Actual behavior

Get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
Find-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.
Install-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.

Environment

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.4169
Systemarchitektur: X64
Paket: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0

PSVersion 5.1.22621.4111

Microsoft.WinGet.Client 1.9.2411 from PSGallery

Windows 11 22631.4169

[stephengillie]

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this might work on PowerShell, which despite the similar naming, has some differences from Windows Powershell. Would it be possible to install that CLI to test?

[langermi]

Hi,

In Powershell 7 everything works as expected. But as i understand, this module should be compatible with powershell 5.1 as stated in PSgallery.
Since we want to use some of this Modules functionality in Intune/ConfigMgr, Powershell 7 is sadly out of the picture.

Thanks

[jonygomes06]

Hey, im actually having similar problem.
Using terminal and this path for powershell: C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe. Totaly works.

But if i run it using rust programming language and using the same path it gives this error: Get-WinGetPackage : This cmdlet is not supported in Windows PowerShell.