PowerShell – Install-WindowsFeature (and family) missing on Windows 10

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We have some Powershell scripts used to set up various dev/test/prod environments and one of them installs and configures IIS. Unfortunately these scripts don't appear to be working under Windows 10 at this time because the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet is missing.

Where these removed intentionally, or is there some hoop I need to jump through to install them that wasn't previously necessary?

Best Answer

While Ryan's answer is correct, I would recommend to stay away from the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlets if you want to run your scripts on workstations as well. You will always be dependent on RSAT even though you don't need it otherwise.

Just use Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature which works on servers and workstations. You would need to change your scripts, the feature names are different too.

I wrote a bit about: Different ways for installing Windows features on the command line

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