How can I determine what version of PowerShell is installed on a computer, and indeed if it is installed at all?
Use:
$psVersion = $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
If ($psVersion)
{
#PowerShell Version Mapping
$psVersionMappings = @()
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.1.14393.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5.1 Preview';ApplicableOS='Windows 10 Anniversary Update'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.1.14300.1000';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5.1 Preview';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10586.494';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows 10 1511 + KB3172985 1607'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10586.122';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows 10 1511 + KB3140743 1603'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10586.117';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 RTM 1602';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10586.63';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows 10 1511 + KB3135173 1602'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10586.51';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 RTM 1512';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10514.6';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 Production Preview 1508';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.10018.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 Preview 1502';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='5.0.9883.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 5 Preview November 2014';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='4.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 4 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='3.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 3 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows 7 SP1'}
$psVersionMappings += New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name='2.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 2 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7'}
foreach ($psVersionMapping in $psVersionMappings)
{
If ($psVersion -ge $psVersionMapping.Name) {
@{CurrentVersion=$psVersion;FriendlyName=$psVersionMapping.FriendlyName;ApplicableOS=$psVersionMapping.ApplicableOS}
Break
}
}
}
Else{
@{CurrentVersion='1.0';FriendlyName='Windows PowerShell 1 RTM';ApplicableOS='Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP'}
}
You can download the detailed script from How to determine installed PowerShell version.
You can look at the built in variable, $psversiontable
. If it doesn't exist, you have V1. If it does exist, it will give you all the info you need.
1 > $psversiontable
Name Value
---- -----
CLRVersion 2.0.50727.4927
BuildVersion 6.1.7600.16385
PSVersion 2.0
WSManStackVersion 2.0
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0}
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.1
You can also call the "host" command from the PowerShell commandline. It should give you the value of the $host
variable.
I would use either Get-Host or $PSVersionTable. As Andy Schneider points out, $PSVersionTable
doesn't work in version 1; it was introduced in version 2.
get-host
Name : ConsoleHost
Version : 2.0
InstanceId : d730016e-2875-4b57-9cd6-d32c8b71e18a
UI : System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostUserInterface
CurrentCulture : en-GB
CurrentUICulture : en-US
PrivateData : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost+ConsoleColorProxy
IsRunspacePushed : False
Runspace : System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalRunspace
$PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
CLRVersion 2.0.50727.4200
BuildVersion 6.0.6002.18111
PSVersion 2.0
WSManStackVersion 2.0
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0}
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.1
To check if PowerShell is installed use:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell\1 Install ( = 1 )
To check if RC2 or RTM is installed use:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell\1 PID (=89393-100-0001260-00301) -- For RC2
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell\1 PID (=89393-100-0001260-04309) -- For RTM
Source: this website.
Since the most helpful answer didn't address the if exists portion, I thought I'd give one take on it via a quick-and-dirty solution. It relies on PowerShell being in the path environment variable which is likely what you want. (Hat tip to the top answer as I didn't know that.) Paste this into a text file and name it
Test Powershell Version.cmd
or similar.
@echo off
echo Checking powershell version...
del "%temp%\PSVers.txt" 2>nul
powershell -command "[string]$PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major +'.'+ [string]$PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Minor | Out-File ([string](cat env:\temp) + '\PSVers.txt')" 2>nul
if errorlevel 1 (
echo Powershell is not installed. Please install it from download.Microsoft.com; thanks.
) else (
echo You have installed Powershell version:
type "%temp%\PSVers.txt"
del "%temp%\PSVers.txt" 2>nul
)
timeout 15