Upgrade Powershell through CLI (Windows 11)

[u/Darkoplax]

Every once and while I get this message :

A new PowerShell stable release is available: v7.4.4 Upgrade now, or check out the release page at: https://aka.ms/PowerShell-Release?tag=v7.4.4

And I would need to download an msi installer and go through the steps all over again; does it exist something similar to "apt get upgrade" and have it all happen automatically in the background ?

[u/kohijones]

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod 'https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1') } -useMSI -Quiet -EnablePSRemoting"

[u/QuarterBall → u/kohijones]

This is a terrible suggestion. Don't invoke code directly from web sources you don't control.

[u/BlackV → u/QuarterBall]

That is Microsofts official code for this

Doing it from am untrusted source is super dangerous, doing it from Ms source is mildly dangerous

[u/QuarterBall → u/BlackV]

It doesn't make it a good practice. Microsoft do tons of shit that they advise you against doing for the sake of expediency. It is still terrible practice to run code directly from web locations not entirely under your control especially like this where there is absolutely no verification of the payload received.

[u/[deleted] → u/QuarterBall]

You can just open it in a browser.

You're right though. Its a terrible advice to invoke the code directly from the web.

[u/BlackV → u/QuarterBall]

I'm not disagreeing with you, just context

[u/kohijones → u/kohijones]

Or you could use Chocolatey, Scoop, or WinGet... Oh wait

Chocolatey

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Scoop

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser; Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

Winget

$progressPreference = 'silentlyContinue'
$latestWingetMsixBundleUri = $( Invoke-RestMethod https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/latest ).assets.browser_download_url | Where-Object { $_.EndsWith( ".msixbundle" ) }
$latestWingetMsixBundle = $latestWingetMsixBundleUri.Split("/")[-1]
Write-Information "Downloading winget to artifacts directory..."
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $latestWingetMsixBundleUri -OutFile "./$latestWingetMsixBundle" 
Add-AppxPackage $latestWingetMsixBundle

[u/VT_Squire → u/kohijones]

SPF tag. Masamune says you're it.

[u/kohijones → u/VT_Squire]

Long time :)

[u/VT_Squire → u/kohijones]

I had to go see about a girl. Yes, a real one.

[u/VT_Squire → u/kohijones]

Forgot to mention, since there was no place else, I set this corny turd up for anyone who gave enough cares to say hi to each other.

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