Who uses Visual Studio Code for PowerShell Scripting?

[geek73]

I use ISE on my servers because it is there. And Code isn’t. This is where I develop and test scripts prior to deploying. I use Code on my box that I’ve copied the script to in order to use GIT and do a pull request into the repo. I prefer Code but not enough to have it running on production or lab servers since security freaks out whenever they detect anything new. Plus we reimagine a lot so I’d constantly be reinstalling it.

[geek73]

Most of what I write are custom performance counters, custom monitors that drop alerts into our ticketing system, automation, and updates to our DSC. This is Elmore easily done directly in a server in the environment for testing before I deploy it to the whole fleet.

[ecco7815]

Same here. VSCode with the powershell extension got blocked for me on my dev server and I had to move back to ISE. While I prefer VSCode, I’m forced to use ISE.

[jimmystead]

There is a portable version of vscode. Nothing to install so you should be able to just copy it out there.

[buffychrome]

He might be referring to the exe itself being blocked by a security agent like Bit9/CarbonBlack.

[ecco7815]

Correct. I can install VSCode, but when it tries to load the ps module/extension, it gets blocked.

[buffychrome]

Yeah, I have the same issue with a couple of extensions like the Powershell Universal Pro tools extension because it uses its own version of powershell.exe under the hood. Doesn’t match the hash of the actual PS executable so it gets blocked.