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Application requires powershell 3.0 or above

FerdiG — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:09:41 GMT

Hi,

While trying to install NetApp_PowerShell_Toolkit_4.2.0 on a new install Windows 10 . keep on getting "the application requires powershell 3.0 or above, Windows 10 will not install a lower version of powershel, haven't been able to go past this. Any advice?

Re: Application requires powershell 3.0 or above

mbeattie — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:38:30 GMT

Hi,

I've not tried it on Windows 10 yet however you could try installing it on another system and simply copying the "DataONTAP" module folder (EG "C:\Program Files (x86)\NetApp\Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit\DataONTAP") to the "Modules" folder within your system's powershell modules directory. EG "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\DataONTAP"

In "theory" you should then be able to do an "Import-Module -Name DataONTAP" within your powershell session.

/Matt

Re: Application requires powershell 3.0 or above

Aparajita — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:31:48 GMT

Hi FerdiG,

Would it be possible to run the installer from an administrator account/with admin privileges?

Open an Administrative Command Prompt -> Navigate to the msi folder -> run the command NetAppPowerShellToolkit.msi [where NetAppPowerShellToolkit.msi is the full name of your downloaded installer] - this should resolve the PowerShell version issue. The installer tries reading a registry value to determine is PowerShell 3.0+ is installed and reading registry is not allowed without admin priviledges. I suspect that is the problem ...

Hope this helps,

Aparajita