Powershell for Vista Business Edition

I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and would like to put
PowerShell on it, but the only download available is for Vista RC1.

Anyone hear of when a version of PowerShell will be available to Business
Edition.

Or is their a way to hack the registery and allow the RC1 to work with BE?

Thanks in Advance

Rod Hills

From everything I've heard on the interwebs it's not going to be release
until the retail version of Vista in Jan '07. It really sucks that in XP I
can run the final build, but in Vista I have to run RC1. There is a hack to
get PS RTM running under Vista RTM found here:
http://stimpy77.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FE05918FD4D775C5!296.entry#comment

I couldn't get this to work as I couldn't find all the assemblies that were
needed.

-Chris

"Rod Hills" wrote:

> I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and would like to put
> PowerShell on it, but the only download available is for Vista RC1.
>
> Anyone hear of when a version of PowerShell will be available to Business
> Edition.
>
> Or is their a way to hack the registery and allow the RC1 to work with BE?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Rod Hills

Chris,

Run the Powershell installer on a machine without Powershell already
installed and when you get the first wizard prompt, look in C:\ for an oddly
named string of random numbers/letters (guid-like). Use Folder Options to
unhide hidden and system files if you don't see it. You'll find every file
that Powershell needs to be installed including the assemblies. You can just
copy them from there and continue with the hack you posted a link to.

You can also see one of my other posts titled "homebrew powershell installer
for vista" that shows how I installed Powershell on Vista. It's a bit
different from the other hacks, but it does require downloading "Inno Setup"
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php - free download) in order to turn the
script into an executable... but it's not terribly difficult.

gaurhoth

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E053B07C-E740-4472-890C-7B75A946D5DB@microsoft.com...
> From everything I've heard on the interwebs it's not going to be release
> until the retail version of Vista in Jan '07. It really sucks that in XP I
> can run the final build, but in Vista I have to run RC1. There is a hack
> to
> get PS RTM running under Vista RTM found here:
> http://stimpy77.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FE05918FD4D775C5!296.entry#comment
>
> I couldn't get this to work as I couldn't find all the assemblies that
> were
> needed.
>
> -Chris
>
> "Rod Hills" wrote:
>
>> I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and would like to put
>> PowerShell on it, but the only download available is for Vista RC1.
>>
>> Anyone hear of when a version of PowerShell will be available to Business
>> Edition.
>>
>> Or is their a way to hack the registery and allow the RC1 to work with
>> BE?
>>
>> Thanks in Advance
>>
>> Rod Hills

> Run the Powershell installer on a machine without Powershell already
> installed and when you get the first wizard prompt, look in C:\ for an
> oddly named string of random numbers/letters (guid-like). Use Folder
> Options to unhide hidden and system files if you don't see it.

Actually, a lot of installers, including the PoweShell installer, have some
way to extract the files contained in the package. If you run the installer
with /? you'll see all the options including one called /extract which will
let you extract all the contents to any directory you want.

--
Marcel Ortiz [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Gaurhoth" <gaurhoth@live.com> wrote in message
news:uqYzU0VHHHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Chris,
>
> Run the Powershell installer on a machine without Powershell already
> installed and when you get the first wizard prompt, look in C:\ for an
> oddly named string of random numbers/letters (guid-like). Use Folder
> Options to unhide hidden and system files if you don't see it. You'll find
> every file that Powershell needs to be installed including the assemblies.
> You can just copy them from there and continue with the hack you posted a
> link to.
>
> You can also see one of my other posts titled "homebrew powershell
> installer for vista" that shows how I installed Powershell on Vista. It's
> a bit different from the other hacks, but it does require downloading
> "Inno Setup" (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php - free download) in
> order to turn the script into an executable... but it's not terribly
> difficult.
>
> gaurhoth
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E053B07C-E740-4472-890C-7B75A946D5DB@microsoft.com...
>> From everything I've heard on the interwebs it's not going to be release
>> until the retail version of Vista in Jan '07. It really sucks that in XP
>> I
>> can run the final build, but in Vista I have to run RC1. There is a hack
>> to
>> get PS RTM running under Vista RTM found here:
>> http://stimpy77.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FE05918FD4D775C5!296.entry#comment
>>
>> I couldn't get this to work as I couldn't find all the assemblies that
>> were
>> needed.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>> "Rod Hills" wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and would like to put
>>> PowerShell on it, but the only download available is for Vista RC1.
>>>
>>> Anyone hear of when a version of PowerShell will be available to
>>> Business
>>> Edition.
>>>
>>> Or is their a way to hack the registery and allow the RC1 to work with
>>> BE?
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>
>>> Rod Hills
>

Duh! Of course you are right... I have no clue why that didn't occur to me.
Based on this, I've updated the installer to use the actual windows 2003
installer instead of requiring the manual extraction. I've posted the new
instructions (as well as a link to the compiled installer for those not
wishing to mess with Inno Setup) at
http://gaurhothw.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!52B0837064D0B275!106.entry.

Thanks for the heads up.

Gaurhoth


"Marcel J. Ortiz [MSFT]" <mosoto@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23YvTo2iHHHA.1280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Run the Powershell installer on a machine without Powershell already
>> installed and when you get the first wizard prompt, look in C:\ for an
>> oddly named string of random numbers/letters (guid-like). Use Folder
>> Options to unhide hidden and system files if you don't see it.
>
> Actually, a lot of installers, including the PoweShell installer, have
> some way to extract the files contained in the package. If you run the
> installer with /? you'll see all the options including one called /extract
> which will let you extract all the contents to any directory you want.
>
> --
> Marcel Ortiz [MSFT]
> Windows PowerShell
> Microsoft Corporation
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Gaurhoth" <gaurhoth@live.com> wrote in message
> news:uqYzU0VHHHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Chris,
>>
>> Run the Powershell installer on a machine without Powershell already
>> installed and when you get the first wizard prompt, look in C:\ for an
>> oddly named string of random numbers/letters (guid-like). Use Folder
>> Options to unhide hidden and system files if you don't see it. You'll
>> find every file that Powershell needs to be installed including the
>> assemblies. You can just copy them from there and continue with the hack
>> you posted a link to.
>>
>> You can also see one of my other posts titled "homebrew powershell
>> installer for vista" that shows how I installed Powershell on Vista. It's
>> a bit different from the other hacks, but it does require downloading
>> "Inno Setup" (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php - free download) in
>> order to turn the script into an executable... but it's not terribly
>> difficult.
>>
>> gaurhoth
>>
>> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E053B07C-E740-4472-890C-7B75A946D5DB@microsoft.com...
>>> From everything I've heard on the interwebs it's not going to be release
>>> until the retail version of Vista in Jan '07. It really sucks that in XP
>>> I
>>> can run the final build, but in Vista I have to run RC1. There is a hack
>>> to
>>> get PS RTM running under Vista RTM found here:
>>> http://stimpy77.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FE05918FD4D775C5!296.entry#comment
>>>
>>> I couldn't get this to work as I couldn't find all the assemblies that
>>> were
>>> needed.
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>> "Rod Hills" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just installed Windows Vista Business Edition and would like to put
>>>> PowerShell on it, but the only download available is for Vista RC1.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone hear of when a version of PowerShell will be available to
>>>> Business
>>>> Edition.
>>>>
>>>> Or is their a way to hack the registery and allow the RC1 to work with
>>>> BE?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>>
>>>> Rod Hills
>>
>
>