PowerShell – Resolving Issue – PnP.PowerShell module not getting installed / updated – small learning

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today, one more issue and solution.

Background

• I need to create new client application (appid / clientid) in Microsoft Entra.
• I am executing PowerShell CMDLET – Register-PnPEntraIDAppForInteractiveLogin

Register-PnPEntraIDAppForInteractiveLogin -ApplicationName "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" -SharePointDelegatePermissions "AllSites.FullControl" -Tenant knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com -Interactive

• Since I was trying this CMDLET on my local computer, I need to install the PnP PowerShell module.
• To just make sure, no PnP PowerShell module is installed, I am executing CMDLET – Get-Module.
• but I am not getting any result.

Get-Module PnP.PowerShell

• Get-Module CMDLET not returning any result.
• Next, I am executing Install-Module CMDLET to install the PnP PowerShell module

Install-Module PnP.PowerShell

• But nothing was happening.
• Install-Module CMDLET also not returning any result as shown in image below.

• I was wondering why PnP.PowerShell module is not getting installed.
• There is no warning, no error.
• So finally started googling and in one of the article found that try to import module explicitly using CMDLET – Import-Module
• Executed the CMDLET – Import-Module

Import-Module PnP.PowerShell

• We got an error while importing PnP.PowerShell module as shown in image above.
• From error, it seems that we have old version Windows PowerShell.
• To use PnP.PowerShell we require minimum version 7.2 of Windows PowerShell.
• We have upgraded to Windows PowerShell 7.2 and PnP.PowerShell started working like charm 🙂

REFERENCES

• PowerShell – Exploring Module CMDLETs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/12/__trashed-2/

Thanks for reading !

HAPPY LEARNING AHEAD 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂