Installing PowerShellGet

One of the classic problems: To use Install-Module you first need to either bootstrap the preinstalled version or update to the latest version of PowerShellGet. However, the bootstrap requires internet (problematic on an offline server) and the module update required PowerShellGet to already work - the classic Chicken-Egg problem.

So lets fix this:

# Bootstrap Binaries for old Versions
Install-PSFPowerShellGet -Type V2Binaries -ComputerName server1, server2, server3

# Install Latest V2
Install-PSFPowerShellGet -Type V2Latest -ComputerName $sessions

# Install Latest V3
Install-PSFPowerShellGet -Type V3Latest -ComputerName $sessions

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None of these require internet access, so long as PSFramework.NuGet is available.

On that note, it is equally possible to distribute PSFramework.NuGet at scale, but that requires a PowerShell repository to be available.

# Install PSFramework.NuGet on all machines
Install-PSFModule -Name PSFramework.NuGet -ComputerName $sessions