How do I get PowerShell 4 cmdlets such as Test-NetConnection to work on Windows 7?

Question

The situation. On a Windows 7 SP1 machine, I have updated with Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu. Furthermore, in PowerShell $PSVersionTable now reports ‘PSVersion 4.0’.

Answer 1

Adding to Anton Krouglov's answer. PowerShell modules are cross-platform compatible. So a module copied from Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 can be imported to Windows 7 x86, and even if you are running as standard user without rights to copy them to C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules you can copy it to any local folder, and run.

Assuming you copied the NetTCPIP, DnsClient, and NetSecurity modules from a Windows Server 2012 or higher machine, and save them to a folder you can import them using

Get-ChildItem -Directory .\psmodules | foreach { Import-Module -Name $_.FullName -Verbose}
Test-NetConnection -InformationLevel "Detailed"