{"id":4171,"date":"2013-02-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/12\/powertip-start-your-powershell-3-0-script-in-powershell-2-0\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-start-your-powershell-3-0-script-in-powershell-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-start-your-powershell-3-0-script-in-powershell-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Start Your PowerShell 3.0 Script in PowerShell 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Learn how to start your Windows PowerShell 3.0 script in Windows PowerShell 2.0 mode.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, I have a Windows PowerShell script I wrote several years ago. The script runs fine on a computer running Windows 7 with Windows PowerShell 2.0, but it does not work on my Windows 8 computer. I want to see if I can make the script work. What is the easiest thing to do?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Start Windows PowerShell in version 2.0 mode. To do this, use the Run<\/strong> command and launch powershell -version 2<\/strong>. You can use the $psversionTable<\/strong> automatic variable to confirm you are now running in Windows PowerShell 2.0 (PowerShell will also be running in MTA apartment mode), as shown here.<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $PSVersionTable<\/p>\n

Name                           Value<\/p>\n

—-                           —–<\/p>\n

CLRVersion                     2.0.50727.6400<\/p>\n

BuildVersion                   6.1.7600.16385<\/p>\n

PSVersion                      2.0<\/p>\n

WSManStackVersion              2.0<\/p>\n

PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0}<\/p>\n

SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1<\/p>\n

PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.1<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Summary: Learn how to start your Windows PowerShell 3.0 script in Windows PowerShell 2.0 mode.  I have a Windows PowerShell script I wrote several years ago. The script runs fine on a computer running Windows 7 with Windows PowerShell 2.0, but it does not work on my Windows 8 computer. I want to see if I can make the script work. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/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=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}