PowerShell Setup

My workflow for configuring my PowerShell environment.

Application Installs

1. Windows Terminal (admin & user accounts)
2. WinGet

$progressPreference = 'silentlyContinue'
Write-Information "Downloading WinGet and its dependencies..."
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/getwinget -OutFile Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx -OutFile Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/releases/download/v2.8.6/Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx -OutFile Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx
Add-AppxPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

3. PowerShell 7 (admin & user accounts)
4. Oh-My-Posh (admin & user accounts)

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; Invoke-Expression ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://ohmyposh.dev/install.ps1'))

6. SysInternals
7. VS Code
8. PowerToys
9. RSAT

Configurations

1. Create C:\HOME directory
2. Download and install FieraNerdFont
3. Configure PowerShell Profile 3.1 notepad $profile; if not present New-Item -Path $profile -Type File -Force

$env:Path += ";C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\bin;C:\HOME\sysinternals"
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "C:\Users\$($env:username)\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\themes\catppuccin_macchiato.omp.json" | Invoke-Expression
Set-Location c:\home

function home {cls && pushd "c:\home"}
function profile {notepad $PROFILE && $PROFILE}

4. Copy SysInternals to C:\HOME
5. Add HOME as C:\HOME in System Environment Variables
6. Configure PowerShell Terminal to use FieraNerdFont
7. Download syntax files for Nano
8. Copy syntax files to C:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\nano
9. Create Symbolix links to useful folders under C:\home

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path c:\pwsh
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target c:\pwsh -Path c:\home\pwsh
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path c:\pwsh
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target c:\git -Path c:\home\git

10. Install RSAT

Get-WindowsCapability -Name RSAT* -Online | Add-WindowsCapability -Online

11. Configure Termianl as default console & automatically launch PowerShell 7

PowerShell Modules

1. PSReadLine
2. PSWriteHTML
3. GPOZaurr