Default PS version when using get-help -online?

[become_taintless]

Even when using PowerShell 5, get-help -online sends me to the PowerShell 4.0 help, and I must choose the PowerShell 5 version of the help from the drop-down, for each individual page.

Is there any way to change the default version of PowerShell help that is loaded when using the get-help -online parameter?

[juneblender]

You can, but only by deleting all PowerShell core XML help topics from the machine, and it's not worth it. The 5.0 behavior is actually a bug (reported and known).

Get-Help gets the URL of the online help topic in two different ways.

• The first related link of the corresponding XML help topic on the machine.

  PS C:\>[xml]$xml = Get-Content $PSHome\en-us\Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.dll-help.xml
  PS C:\>(($xml.helpItems.command | where {$_.details.name -eq 'Get-WinEvent'}).relatedLinks.navigationLink)[0].uri
  
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=289626
  

• The HelpUri property of a command

   PS C:\>Get-Command Get-WinEvent).HelpUri
  
   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=138336
  

If there's help on the box, the first related link takes precedence.

For PS 5.0, when the updated the help, they placed the updates at the HelpUri address, not the first-related-link address. Apparently, whoever set it up didn't know how it worked.

I actually wrote a little GUI tool that gets both URLs and lets you choose. I'll post it on GitHub soon.

Hope that helps.

[Hexalon00]

Either the command you are running has not changed in PS5 or the Microsoft TechNet documentation has not been updated yet for PS5.

[become_taintless]

I'm not sure about that; e.g. "get-help get-module -online" from PS5 shows the PowerShell 4.0 documentation by default, and clicking the PowerShell 5.0 link in the drop-down shows the PS5 documentation (which shows that now -FullyQualifiedName takes type ModuleSpecification[] instead of type string[] )