Powershell – Enable-PSRemoting not found

powershellwindows-server-2008

One of our test users is reporting that on their test 2k8 system that when they run an elevated Powershell prompt Enable-PSRemoting is returning a 'is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again'
message.

They are in the admins group and as I said the prompt is elevated, and the shell is on to the local computer.

Would anyone know of other things to search for please?

Best Answer

It doesnt matter if the calling user has admin privileges, the cmdlet should be visible. You're probably not running PowerShell 2.0. You can download it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929

Do you get any results when you run th following (no result means you're not running v2.0 or previous CTP versions:

$PSVersionTable

A typical result (on Windows 7 ) looks like:

PS > $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
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