{"id":71772,"date":"2015-08-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/02\/powertip-install-powershell-help-on-powershell-5-0\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:45","slug":"powertip-install-powershell-help-on-powershell-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-install-powershell-help-on-powershell-5-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Install PowerShell Help on PowerShell 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Update Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0.<\/span><\/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;I installed Windows 10 and opened Windows PowerShell, but how can I update the Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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;Open Windows PowerShell as an Administrator, type&nbsp;<b>Update-Help<\/b>, select all of the modules, and use the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Force&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/b>parameter if you run the command more than once a day:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Update-Help &ndash;module * -Force<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Update Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;I installed Windows 10 and opened Windows PowerShell, but how can I update the Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell as an Administrator, type&nbsp;Update-Help, select all of the modules, and use the&nbsp;&ndash;Force&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;parameter if you run the command more than once a [&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-71772","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: Update Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;I installed Windows 10 and opened Windows PowerShell, but how can I update the Help for Windows PowerShell 5.0? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell as an Administrator, type&nbsp;Update-Help, select all of the modules, and use the&nbsp;&ndash;Force&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;parameter if you run the command more than once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71772","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=71772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71772\/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=71772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}