At work I’m behind a proxy which caused me havock when trying to install modules into PowerShell.
That was until I found this amazing script to tell PowerShell to use a proxy.
First open your PowerShell profile by either doing this in PowerShell:
notepad $PROFILE
Or open “Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1” and “Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1” in Explorer with notepad:
C:\Users\%Username%\My Documents\WindowsPowerShell
Once open, paste in the following, editing the proxy address and port.
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy = new-object system.net.webproxy('http://ProxyName:ProxyPort')
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.BypassProxyOnLocal = $true
This will use your current credentials you’re logged in with to pass the commands to the proxy server.
Test with a
update-help
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