Missing PowerShell System Modules

This is a very short article in hopes, that it gets picked up by search engine and helps someone else or my future self.

After the holidays I was making sure everything was up-to-date before start any work, but of course, things are never that easy and I ran into the following error, while updating my IIS configurations in PowerShell:

The specified module ‘WebAdministration’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.

Things I’ve tried that didn’t help or weren’t relevant:

  • Remove & re-add IIS via the Windows features settings
  • Using the often mentioned Add-PSSnapin doesn’t even work on Windows 10 and is always mentioned for older Windows Server versions
  • Enabling IIS 6 scripting Windows features

But after search for some more time, I finally found some more recent posts mentioning stuff about PowerShell module paths, which lead me to the correct solution.

  • Open the System Properties > Advanced tab
  • Click on “Environment Variables”
    • Alternatively, just Windows search for “Environment Variables”
  • In the “System variables” section find the PSModulePath variable
  • Make sure the system PowerShell module path is included in the list C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules
  • Check the variable in a new PowerShell window with $env:PSModulePath

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