April 2007
Intermediate to advanced
551 pages
12h 9m
English
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1.1. Installing Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell depends on the presence of the .NET Framework 2.0. Before you install PowerShell, you need to be sure that you have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed.
1.1.1. Installing .NET Framework 2.0
At the time of writing, the 32-bit version of the .NET Framework 2.0 runtime is available for downloading from www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en.
If you are using 64-bit Itanium processors, download the .NET Framework 2.0 runtime from www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=53C2548B-BEC7-4AB4-8CBE-33E07CFC83A7&displaylang=en. Windows PowerShell is only available on Windows Server 2003 for Itanium processors.
If you are using AMD 64-bit processors, download the runtime from www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=47&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=F4DD601B-1B88-47A3-BDC1-79AFA79F6FB0&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dB44A0000-ACF8-4FA1-AFFB-40E78D788B00%26displaylang%3den.
NOTE
If you are unsure whether or not you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed, navigate to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework (if necessary substitute another drive letter if your system drive is not drive C:). In that folder you will find folders that contain the versions of the .NET Framework that are installed on your machine. If you see a folder named v2.0.50727, then you have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. The .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, which you can download separately, is useful ...
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