{"id":3680,"date":"2013-05-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/06\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-status-of-optional-features-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-status-of-optional-features-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-status-of-optional-features-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Status of Optional Features in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows.<\/span>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-WindowsOptionalFeature<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet from the DISM module and&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 12px\">s<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">ort by<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;S<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">tate<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Make sure you use the&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Online<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;switch to evaluate your current version of Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | sort state<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Run this command with elevated permissions.\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsOptionalFeature&nbsp;cmdlet from the DISM module and&nbsp;sort by&nbsp;State.&nbsp;Make sure you use the&nbsp;Online&nbsp;switch to evaluate your current version of Windows. Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 in Windows&nbsp;8 to identify the status of optional features in Windows? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsOptionalFeature&nbsp;cmdlet from the DISM module and&nbsp;sort by&nbsp;State.&nbsp;Make sure you use the&nbsp;Online&nbsp;switch to evaluate your current version of Windows. Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}