Most of the time we have been used to cmdlets and it’s various features but do not know about the version and hence this post might help some of you to understand in find ing different versions of PowerShell and how to switch between versions (provided multiple versions are installed on your Machine). I’m using Where clause syntax to explain version switching. Code to find version- PS:\ Get-Host | Select-Object Version Version ——- 2.0 PS:\ $Host.Version Major Minor Build Revision —– —– —– ——– 2 0 -1 -1 PS:\ $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision —– —– —– ——– 3 0 -1 -1 Switch between versions - Goto Cmd Prompt and type the below command C:\ Powershell -version 2 PS C:\ Get-Host | select Version #v2 syntax PS C:\ Get-Service | Where {$_.name -like “*SQL*”} Status Name DisplayName —— —- ———– Stopped MSSQL$MICROSOFT… Windows Internal Database (MICROSOF… Running SQLWriter SQL Server VSS Writer PS C:\ Get-Service | where name -like “*SQL*” Error Message - where : Cannot bind parameter ‘FilterScript’. Cannot convert the “name” value of type “System.String” to type “System.Management.Automation.ScriptBlock”. C:\ powershell -version 3 PS C:\ Get-Host | Select Version PS C:\ Get-Service | where {$_.name -like “*SQL*”} Status Name DisplayName —— —- ———– Stopped MSSQL$MICROSOFT… Windows Internal Database (MICROSOF… Running SQLWriter SQL Server VSS Writer #v3 syntax PS C:\ Get-Service | Where name -like “*SQL*” Status Name DisplayName —— —- ———– Stopped MSSQL$MICROSOFT… Windows Internal Database (MICROSOF… Running SQLWriter SQL Server VSS Writer Syntax for Where-Object V2 Syntax : Where-Object { $_. property name } V3 Syntax : Where-Object property name #Supports V2 syntax
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