Windows – “no snap ins have been registered for powershell 4”

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I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard enabled with ADFS. I can open and use ADFS Management console. I am not sure which version of ADFS is installed on the server. As per Microsoft blogs Windows Server 2012 R2 comes with ADFS 2.0. I donot know how to confirm this.

Now I need to skew the ADFS clock by 2 minutes using the powershell ADFS snapin.
But when I try giving "get-pssnapin -registered" It doesnot list ADFS server.

Can anyone help me on how to execute the below commands on powershell:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Adfs.PowerShell
Get-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust –identifier “urn:party:sso” | Set –NotBeforeSkew 2

Below is the error that I am getting:

PS C:\Users\manasa.pandiri> add-pssnapin microsoft.adfs.powershell
add-pssnapin : No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 4.
At line:1 char:1
+ add-pssnapin microsoft.adfs.powershell
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (microsoft.adfs.powershell:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

Best Answer

We also encountered this issue. Did a get-module -listavaiable and found that ADFS v1 was present. Next did a get-command -noun "ADFS" and it returned all the ADFS cmdlets. From there we issues the Set-ADFSRelyingPartTrust and was able to get the notBeforeShew set.

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Powershell – No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 2

If you do:

Get-PSSnapin -Registered

you'll get a list of ready-to-use snap-ins for PowerShell (here just those for SQL) :

Name        : SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
PSVersion   : 2.0
Description : This is a PowerShell snap-in that includes various SQL Server cmdlets.

Name        : SqlServerProviderSnapin100
PSVersion   : 2.0
Description : SQL Server Provider

if you can't see these snap-ins in the list, try the solution posted here.

PowerShell (2.0, 32-bit) can’t load TFS 2010 snap-in… except when it can

My question turns out to have been almost a duplicate of Is there no TFS Snapin for PowerShell on x64?, TFS Power Tools 2008 Powershell Snapin won't run in on 64-bit in Windows 2008 R2, and probably others.

I don't understand why different snap-ins were listed as "registered" the 32-bit PowerShell console vs running 32-bit powershell.exe (the WOW64 one is 32-bit) in cmd.exe, but whatever.

The answer appears to be here: The installer doesn't properly add the TFS snap-in to the Registry. The link shows you how to set it up to be usable from 64-bit PowerShell, but it appears that you need to do the same, at a different key, to make it usable from 32-bit PowerShell outside of the PowerShell console. So you paste the following into tfskludge.reg, double click it, and it should make the snap-in available in both PowerShells:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell]
"PowerShellVersion"="2.0"
"Vendor"="Microsoft Corporation"
"Description"="This is a PowerShell snap-in that includes the Team Foundation Server cmdlets."
"VendorIndirect"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,Microsoft"
"DescriptionIndirect"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,This is a PowerShell snap-in that includes the Team Foundation Server cmdlets."
"Version"="10.0.0.0"
"ApplicationBase"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools"
"AssemblyName"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
"ModuleName"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools\\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.dll"
"CustomPSSnapInType"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.TFPSSnapIn"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell]
"PowerShellVersion"="2.0"
"Vendor"="Microsoft Corporation"
"Description"="This is a PowerShell snap-in that includes the Team Foundation Server cmdlets."
"VendorIndirect"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,Microsoft"
"DescriptionIndirect"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,This is a PowerShell snap-in that includes the Team Foundation Server cmdlets."
"Version"="10.0.0.0"
"ApplicationBase"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools"
"AssemblyName"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
"ModuleName"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools\\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.dll"
"CustomPSSnapInType"="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.TFPSSnapIn"

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