Downloading and installing the Meadowcroft.SRM module
In this section, you will learn how to download and install the PowerShell module created by Ben Meadowcroft to manage SRM via PowerCLI. You can download this module from
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/projects/srm-cmdlets-for-powercli/
. After opening the web page, you have to click on SRM-Cmdlets.zip to download the module.
After downloading the SRM-Cmdlets.zip file, unblock the file with the PowerShell Unblock-File cmdlet, using the following command:
PowerCLI C:\> Unblock-File -Path SRM-Cmdlets.zip
The preceding command does not return any output.
To import a module in your PowerSell session, you have to install the module in a folder in your PowerShell module path. The environment variable PSModulePath contains a list of folders where PowerShell will look for modules. You can inspect the value of the PSModulePath environment variable using the following PowerShell command:
PowerCLI C:\> $env:PSModulePath
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