{"id":4819,"date":"2012-10-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/15\/powertip-suppress-powershell-module-import-warning-messages\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-suppress-powershell-module-import-warning-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-suppress-powershell-module-import-warning-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Suppress PowerShell Module Import Warning Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use the warning redirection operator to suppress Windows PowerShell warning messages when importing a module.<\/p>\n<p><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 you hide the warning message from a Windows PowerShell module when you import it if the module contains an unapproved verb?<\/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 warning stream redirection operator when importing the module, and redirect the warning message to $null:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Import-Module *sql* 3&gt;$null<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the warning redirection operator to suppress Windows PowerShell warning messages when importing a module. &nbsp;How can you hide the warning message from a Windows PowerShell module when you import it if the module contains an unapproved verb? &nbsp;Use the warning stream redirection operator when importing the module, and redirect the [&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":[362,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the warning redirection operator to suppress Windows PowerShell warning messages when importing a module. &nbsp;How can you hide the warning message from a Windows PowerShell module when you import it if the module contains an unapproved verb? &nbsp;Use the warning stream redirection operator when importing the module, and redirect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/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=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}