Running Hooks Under PowerShell Version 7 (KBA9892)

Applicable Delphix Versions

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Major Release	All Sub Releases
7.0 and higher	7.0 and higher
6.0	6.0.3.0, 6.0.3.1, 6.0.4.0, 6.0.4.1, 6.0.4.2, 6.0.5.0, 6.0.6.0, 6.0.6.1, 6.0.7.0, 6.0.8.0, 6.0.8.1, 6.0.9.0, 6.0.10.0, 6.0.10.1, 6.0.11.0, 6.0.12.0, 6.0.12.1, 6.0.13.0, 6.0.13.1, 6.0.14.0, 6.0.15.0, 6.0.16.0, 6.0.17.0, 6.0.17.1, 6.0.17.2

How to Run Hooks Under PowerShell Version 7

Delphix 6.0.3.0 and higher allows the use of PowerShell versions from 2.0 to 5.1 (prior versions were restricted to PowerShell 2.0). Under the newer releases, Delphix allows the following selections when running PowerShell hooks:

1. Run PowerShell Command (with default version)
2. Run PowerShell Command (with version 2)

When selecting the first option, Delphix will use the default available PowerShell version on each host up to PowerShell 5.x.

With the release of PowerShell 7, PowerShell 5 and 7 run side by side and so the "default" is still 5 when you run the "powershell.exe" command as Delphix does when it runs the hooks. PowerShell 7 now uses "pwsh.exe". In summary:

• PowerShell 5.1 uses Powershell.exe
• PowerShell 7.3 uses pwsh.exe

Prerequisites

Windows host with PowerShell 7.x installed.