Update PowerShell version in Visual Studio 2017

Question:

I ran the following in the Visual Studio 2017 Package Manager Console –

When I run the same command from a PowerShell window I get –

This is causing me a problem because I want to run something in the package manager that requires PowerShell 3 or above.

Answer:

I finally got it working. I updated Visual Studio 2017 to 15.3.3 (there was no update available when I posted the question), and I also installed a few Windows updates.

Here the two windows updates –

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3134760/windows-management-framework-5-0-rtm-on-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-serv

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40855

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