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Has anyone tried installing powershell on a Windows 2000 server? I realize its not supposed to be installed on windows 2000 server and therefore not supported; however the vbscript that runs on it takes 3.5 days to complete which powershell could probably finish in lesser time. Nevertheless, I noticed it just requires .NET 2.0 to run.

thanks in advance.

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This blog describes a method to do it, but I can't vouch for it.

Turnkey
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If you have administrator access to the Windows 2000 server in question, you could run PowerShell on a supported machine in the same domain and use set-location to change your working directory to the remote server

cd \\remoteserver\<drive>$\path\to\folder\you\want\to\start\in

You could then run whatever PowerShell script you want on the remote directory. If the folder you are starting in is shared, it is even simpler (you won't need to access the admin share). Or you could map a drive on your machine with PowerShell that links to the target directory.

This might be a smoother option than forcing an install on a non-supported machine.

Steven Murawski
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ick! Windows 2000? Time to upgrade! Hasn't your support contract expired yet?

Cheeso
the server is required to run 2000 by the printer support company. They come in and re-image the entire disk with the necessary updates so everytime they do that, I would have to reinstall powershell and .net
phill
Euh - well it sounds like that vendor needs to get some active management from their customers. What year is it again?
Cheeso