With Dell’s acquisition of Quest and all the IT reorganization that followed, it is actually not that easy to find these two popular free PowerShell tools any longer. These instructions are included for the rare situationsin which you need to start the engine manually. Such cases are expected to be rare.Many programs that require the Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine start itautomatically.

The WindowsPowerShell 2.0 Engine is intended to be used only when an existingscript or host program cannot run because it is incompatible withWindows PowerShell 4.0, Windows PowerShell 3.0, or Microsoft.NETFramework 4.

Cmdlets, providers,snap-ins, modules, and scripts written for Windows PowerShell 2.0 rununchanged in Windows PowerShell 4.0 and Windows PowerShell 3.0.However, due to a change in the runtime activation policy in Microsoft.NET Framework 4, Windows PowerShell host programs that were writtenfor Windows PowerShell 2.0 and compiled with Common Language Runtime(CLR) 2.0 cannot run without modification in Windows PowerShell 3.0 orWindows PowerShell 4.0, which are compiled with CLR 4.0. I have no clue why is this happening & due to this I'm unable to use any quest cmdlets within the PowerGUI editor which make debugging my scripts an impossible task!Screenshot from PowerGUI:I get below error when i try to load ActiveRolesManagementShell from PowerGUI:UPDATE: tried running Powershell (x86) but still the result is same, can anyone please let me know where in the world is PowerGUI picking up version 2? I think the issue might be due to a change in ARS 1.7.0 that is forcing the PS2 engine to be required, per this:Windows PowerShell 4.0 and Windows PowerShell 3.0 are designed to bebackwards compatible with Windows PowerShell 2.0.

I have ARS Shell 1.7.0 installed as part of ARS 6.9 & my MS (windows) powershell version is 4 (obtained by $PSVersionTable.PSVersion, screenshot below)however when I do the same within the PowerGUI I get version as 2? This has started after i upgraded by shell version to 1.7 from 1.6.9 (PowerGUI worked fine with 1.6.9).

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