PowerShell installation and servicing on Windows

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Fixes #12973 - Document $Profile limitations for MSIX (#12978)

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22 description: How to install PowerShell on Windows

3 −ms.date: 04/22/2026

3 +ms.date: 05/01/2026

44 title: Install PowerShell 7 on Windows

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66 # Install PowerShell 7 on Windows

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206206 #### Limitations of a MSIX-based installation

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208208 Store-based installations are installed for a single user. There is no option to install it for all

209 −users. By default, Microsoft Store packages run in an application sandbox that virtualizes access to

210 −some filesystem and registry locations. Changes to virtualized file and registry locations don't

211 −persist outside of the application sandbox.

209 +users. Microsoft Store packages run in an application sandbox that virtualizes access to some

210 +filesystem and registry locations. Changes to virtualized file and registry locations don't persist

211 +outside of the application sandbox.

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213213 Store-based installations don't support PowerShell remoting. The application sandbox blocks all

214214 changes to the application's root folder. Any system-level configuration settings stored in

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224224 - `Enable-ExperimentalFeature -Scope AllUsers`

225225 - `Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope LocalMachine`

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227 −For more information, see [Understanding how packaged desktop apps run on Windows][06].

227 +For MSIX-based installations, you can't create or modify the all-users profile scripts

228 +`$PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts` and `$PROFILE.AllUsersCurrentHost` because those profiles must be

229 +stored in `$PSHOME`. Current-user profiles are still supported.

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229 −Beginning in PowerShell 7.2, the PowerShell package is now exempt from file and registry

230 −virtualization. Changes to virtualized file and registry locations now persist outside of the

231 −application sandbox. However, changes to the application's root folder are still blocked.

231 +The PowerShell package is exempt from file and registry virtualization. Changes to virtualized file

232 +and registry locations now persist outside of the application sandbox. However, changes to the

233 +application's root folder are still blocked.

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235 +For more information, see [Understanding how packaged desktop apps run on Windows][06].

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233237 > [!IMPORTANT]

234238 > You must be running on Windows build 1903 or higher for this exemption to work.

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