Enable-PSRemoting not found

Question

One of our test users is reporting that on their test 2k8 system that when they run an elevated Powershell prompt Enable-PSRemoting is returning a 'is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again' message.

They are in the admins group and as I said the prompt is elevated, and the shell is on to the local computer.

Would anyone know of other things to search for please?

Answer 1

It doesnt matter if the calling user has admin privileges, the cmdlet should be visible. You're probably not running PowerShell 2.0. You can download it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929

Do you get any results when you run th following (no result means you're not running v2.0 or previous CTP versions:

$PSVersionTable

A typical result (on Windows 7 ) looks like:

PS > $PSVersionTable Name Value ---- ----- CLRVersion 2.0.50727.4927 BuildVersion 6.1.7600.16385 PSVersion 2.0 WSManStackVersion 2.0 PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0} SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1 PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.1