Showing posts with label powercli cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label powercli cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. Show all posts

Tuesday 5 July 2016

vSphere CLI error “PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system”.

Issue Description: I have just inatlled vSphere POwerCLI on a newly formated Windows10 machine. When I opened the POwerCLI for the first use, I noticed this error.

Error message in detail:
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. : File C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1
cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see
about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.
At line:1 char:3
+ . "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scri ...
+   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess

PS C:\Windows\system32>
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Error Screenshot:














Solution (Steps):
1. Open vSphere PowerCLI as Administrator























2. Run below command and Choose “Y
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set-executionpolicy unrestricted
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3. Now close the POwerCLI windows and run it again, the issue should go away.