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sailingbikeruk
sailingbikeruk

Reputation: 326

VS Code - Powershell Modules - Command not recognised

I am a little perplexed by this, i've been using VS Code for Writing PowerShell for over a year and had no issues until recently when it has started to reject fairly standard cmdlets as unknown.

Today I was trying to use Get-Eventlog

Get-EventLog -logname security -instanceid 4624

but I keep getting this error:

Get-EventLog: The term 'Get-EventLog' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again

According to MS Docs Get-EventLog is part of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module so I checked to see if it is loaded

get-module


ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Management     {Add-Content, Clear-Content, Clear-Item, Clear-It…
Manifest   3.1.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Management     {Add-Content, Clear-Content, Clear-Item, Clear-It…
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Security       {ConvertFrom-SecureString, ConvertTo-SecureString…
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility        {Add-Member, Add-Type, Clear-Variable, Compare-Ob…
Script     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.Commands   {Clear-Host, ConvertFrom-ScriptExtent, ConvertTo-…
Binary     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.VSCode     {Close-VSCodeHtmlContentView, New-VSCodeHtmlConte…
Script     2.1.0                 PSReadLine                          {Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadLineOption, …

It appears to be in the V3.1.0.0 version

get-command get-* | where source -eq Microsoft.PowerShell.Management


CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Cmdlet          Get-ChildItem                                      7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Clipboard                                      7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-ComputerInfo                                   7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-ComputerRestorePoint                           3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Content                                        7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-ControlPanelItem                               3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-EventLog                                       3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-HotFix                                         7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Item                                           7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-ItemProperty                                   7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-ItemPropertyValue                              7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Location                                       7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Process                                        7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-PSDrive                                        7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-PSProvider                                     7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Service                                        7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-TimeZone                                       7.0.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-Transaction                                    3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
Cmdlet          Get-WmiObject                                      3.1.0.0    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management

but is absolutely not recognised in the (same) VSCode terminal window

get-command get-eventlog

Get-Command: The term 'get-eventlog' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I removed the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module

remove-module Microsoft.PowerShell.Management

confirmed that it had gone

get-module


ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Security       {ConvertFrom-SecureString, ConvertTo-SecureString…
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility        {Add-Member, Add-Type, Clear-Variable, Compare-Ob…
Script     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.Commands   {Clear-Host, ConvertFrom-ScriptExtent, ConvertTo-…
Binary     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.VSCode     {Close-VSCodeHtmlContentView, New-VSCodeHtmlConte…
Script     2.1.0                 PSReadLine                          {Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadLineOption, …

and then tried again

get-eventlog

get-eventlog: The term 'get-eventlog' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

The module was reloaded but the cmdlet isn't seen...

get-module


ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Manifest   3.1.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Management     {Add-Content, Clear-Content, Clear-Item, Clear-It…
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Security       {ConvertFrom-SecureString, ConvertTo-SecureString…
Manifest   7.0.0.0               Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility        {Add-Member, Add-Type, Clear-Variable, Compare-Ob…
Script     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.Commands   {Clear-Host, ConvertFrom-ScriptExtent, ConvertTo-…
Binary     0.2.0                 PowerShellEditorServices.VSCode     {Close-VSCodeHtmlContentView, New-VSCodeHtmlConte…
Script     2.1.0                 PSReadLine                          {Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadLineOption, …

$env:PSModulePath contains the following paths

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\PowerShell\Modules;
C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules;
c:\program files\powershell\7\Modules;
C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules;
C:\Program Files\SharePoint Online Management Shell\;
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Skype for Business Online\Modules\;
c:\Users\<username>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.powershell-2021.6.2\modules

I am very confused - any suggestions anybody?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8875

Answers (1)

sailingbikeruk
sailingbikeruk

Reputation: 326

As indicated by @lee_Dailey and @mklement0 VSCode had configured itself to use V7.1.3 (pwsh) rather than 5.1 (Powershell.exe) I am assuming now that this occurred either during an upgrade of VSCode or an upgrade of pwsh as it happened on two machines that both have V7 installed and received both updates at a similar time.

To Correct Use the command palette (CTRL-SHIFT_P) search for "session" choose "PowerShell:Show Session Menu" and select "Session:Windows Powershell" using the correct one for your architecture.

Upvotes: 3

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