The file is not digitally signed. You can not run this script on this system.

Question

Dear experts,

I am using a Windows 11 pc. i have installed the software Visual Studio Code. Where i can give commands in PowerShell. I try to give the command: 'yo @microsoft/sharepoint". And i get the error message:

"File can not be loaded. The file is not digitallly signed. You can not run this script on the current system".

How can i solve this?

Gr. P

Answer 1

Got it :)

On Windows 11 computers you can change the execution policy from Windows settings also.

Open Settings → Privacy & Security → For developers

Scroll down to the section PowerShell and click Apply. This will change the execution policy for the scope "CurrentUser" to "RemoteSigned". This change will allow local PowerShell scripts to run without signing.

Gr. P

Answer 2

Is "yo" a PowerShell script? Did you create the script "yo" on your machine? Is "yo" located on the local machine or on some other machine?

Check the Execution policy on this machine (and for your user account by running this: Get-ExecutionPolicy.

Also, see this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_execution_policies?view=powershell-5.1

The default execution policy on a Windows client machine is "Restricted". That prevents the running of any scripts.

Changing the execution policy to "RemoteSigned" is usually a good choice (use the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet to do that).