PowerShell - Determine installed PowerShell version

Jun 23, 2019 PowerShell - Determine installed PowerShell version

PowerShell June 23, 2019

Determining the installed PowerShell version on your machine is pretty straightforward. Though there is a few gotcha's so let's go over how to get your currently installed PowerShell version.

Solution:

Use $PSVersionTable.PSVersion to determine the engine version. If the variable does not exist, you can assume the installed version of PowerShell is version 1.0.

PS C:\> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
4      0      -1     -1

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