PowerShell Troubleshooting: Module does not autoload

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Symptoms

  • Powershell v 3.0 or later does not autoload modules
  •  $PSModuleAutoLoadingPreference has not been tampered with
  •  manual import of module works
  • Get-Module -ListAvailable | Import-module works

Possible Cause:

custom module has been imported (ex: in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules) during OSD deployment or after and has an error in it

Troubleshooting:

  • Starting PowerShell will display no error
  • setting $PSModuleAutoLoadingPreference to "ALL" changes nothing
  • insert into C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1:
    • Get-Module -ListAvailable | Import-module
  • Starting PowerShell will display error and module source for error
  • Fix or delete proble Module