Why cant I use installed PowerShell module on windows-latest but can on ubuntu-latest VM image?

Question

Im running a pipeline in devops and when using 'windows-latest' as the vm image it has the module Az.Accounts version 2.17.0 as default so I used the line :

Install-Module -Name Az.Accounts -RequiredVersion 2.19.0 -Repository PSGallery -Force

However it still uses the 2.17.0 and it causes the pipeline to fail because it needs 2.19.0. However if I just switch the vm image to 'ubuntu-latest' it uses the 2.19.0 version, why is this?

Answer 1

Hi Robert Moorcroft,

Thanks for your post.

It's not unusual for different images to have different versions of packages. You can specify the version of the module to be imported.

Import-Module -Name Az.Accounts -RequiredVersion 2.19.0

Or you can uninstall the older version of the package.

Uninstall-Module -Name Az.Accounts -RequiredVersion 2.17.0

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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