ErrorActionPreference and ErrorAction SilentlyContinue for Get-PSSessionConfiguration

Question

My case:

$ErrorActionPreference = \"Stop\";
\"1 - $ErrorActionPreference;\"
Get-ChildItem NoSuchFile.txt -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
\"2 - $ErrorActionPre         


        

Answer 1

A solution for me:

$old_ErrorActionPreference = $ErrorActionPreference
$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
if((Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
   WriteTraceForTrans "The session configuration MyShellUri is already unregistered."
}
else {        
   #Unregister-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -Force -ErrorAction Ignore
}
$ErrorActionPreference = $old_ErrorActionPreference 

Or use try-catch

try { 

(Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

} 
catch {

}

Answer 2

It looks like that's an "unhandled exception", meaning the cmdlet itself hasn't been coded to recognize and handle that exception. It blew up without ever getting to run it's internal error handling, so the -ErrorAction setting on the cmdlet never came into play.

Answer 3

Tip #2

Can't you use the classical 2> redirection operator.

(Get-PSSessionConfiguration -Name "MyShellUri" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) 2> $NULL
if(!$?){
   'foo'
}

I don't like errors so I avoid them at all costs.