So what is special about Powershell PSC1 files?

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Steven T. Cramer picture Steven T. Cramer · Sep 21, 2011 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

On my PowerShell shortcut I have the following:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -psc "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -noe -c ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1\""

Yet, I would prefer to add the registration of snapins and to run the init of the PowerCLI environment to my profile.

So in my profile I add the following:

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
& "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1"

Yet, the Get-VICommand is no longer available using this method. Why?

Answer

Andy Schneider picture Andy Schneider · Sep 21, 2011

PSC1 files are "PowerShell Console files." They are XML configuration files that tell PowerShell which snapins to load automatically. The other way to do that would be to call Import-Module or Add-PSSnapin in your Profile.ps1 script.

You can create your own psc1 files using Export-Console.

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