Moving Powershell modules to local drive

Question

Hello

I have my Azure Az PowerShell (PS) modules installed on a network share for some reason and this means that every time
I run anything it takes minutes whilst they are loaded.

I was therefore wondering if I could copy them to a local path and then setup a profile to use these.

$PROFILE | Get-Member -Type NoteProperty

Though this seems not enough as either PS ISE or VS Code will continue to "look" in the network shares first.

So basically, what is the best way to have the Az.* modules locally and have PS always look to a local path?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Dave Gray ,

could you please check the module path: $env:PSModulePath
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_psmodulepath?view=powershell-7.1

Depending of the output a modification of the Module Path might help:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_psmodulepath?view=powershell-7.1#modifying-psmodulepath

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi,

Please see if this works

$env:PSModulePath = $env:PSModulePath.replace('\\domain.com\fileshare\Redirection$\david.gray\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;','')  

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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