During a runbook creation this morning, I needed to utilise the VirtualMachineManager PowerShell module. When trying to import the module I receive the following error:
Import-Module : Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\bin\Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.dll’ or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
After some investigation, I found it was down to a PowerShell configuration setting that needed to allow the use of DotNet 4 assemblies. To get this working, I needed to create a new configuration file into my PowerShell root directory called Powershell.exe.config:
< ?xml version="1.0"? >
< configuration >
< startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true" >
< supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319"/ >
< supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/ >
< /startup >
< /configuration >
**The above script is basically in XML, make sure you remove the spaces after the < and before the >.**
Once added, I was able to import the module within my own session. However, whenever my Runbook was called, it failed with the same error message. It turns out you need to add a couple of registry keys to change the global behaviour for your DotNet Configuration:
reg add hklm\software\microsoft\.netframework /v OnlyUseLatestCLR /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add hklm\software\wow6432node\microsoft\.netframework /v OnlyUseLatestCLR /t REG_DWORD /d 1
As soon as I added the keys, I was able to call the VirtualMachineManager module and access the cmdlets.
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Thanks so much.
this was quite helpful