MaintainModule

This module let you update all of your installed modules and also uninstall the old versions to keep things clean.
You can also specify module or modules that you want to update. It's also possible to install the module if it's missing and import the modules in the end of the script.
Works on all OS versions.

This module can do the following

• Checks so TLS 1.2 are used by PowerShell
• Making sure that PSGallery are set as trusted
• Update all modules that are installed on the system
• Update specified modules
• Uninstall old versions of the modules
• If specified module are missing you can choose to install it
• Ignore SkipPublisherCheck
• Update / install Pre-release

Dependencies

• Module also require that you have my service module installed, rsServiceModule

Links

• My PowerShell Collection
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• PowerShell Gallery

Notes

The parameter -Scope don't effect the uninstall-module function this is because of limitation from Microsoft.
-Scope effect Install/update module function.

Install

Install for current user

Install-Module -Name MaintainModule -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Install for all users

Install-Module -Name MaintainModule -Scope AllUsers -Force

Update-RSModule

Update all modules that are installed on the system

You can do that if you run the command.

Update-RSModule

You can also use the -Scope parameter if you want to change from CurrentUser to AllUsers, for example -Scope "AllUser"
If -Scope parameter are empty it will set it as CurrentUser as default.

Update specific module

If you want you can update specific modules, you can do that with the following command.

Update-RSModule -Module "VMWare.PowerCLI"

The parameter Module has support for multiple inputs, separate them with , for example -Module "ImportExcel", "VMWare.PowerCLI"
You can also use the -Scope parameter if you want to change from CurrentUser to AllUsers, for example -Scope "AllUser"
If -Scope parameter are empty it will set it as CurrentUser as default.

Uninstall old versions of all modules

If you want to uninstall all of the old versions for all of your modules that you have installed

Update-RSModule -UninstallOldVersion

You can also use the -Scope parameter if you want to change from CurrentUser to AllUsers, for example -Scope "AllUser"
If -Scope parameter are empty it will set it as CurrentUser as default.

Uninstall old versions of a specific module only

If you want to uninstall old versions of only a specific module you can run

Update-RSModule -Module "ImportExcel" -UninstallOldVersion

The parameter Module has support for multiple inputs, separate them with , for example -Module "ImportExcel", "VMWare.PowerCLI" You can also use the -Scope parameter if you want to change from CurrentUser to AllUsers, for example -Scope "AllUser"
If -Scope parameter are empty it will set it as CurrentUser as default.

Install missing module or modules

It's possible to install modules if they are not installed on the system, this only works if you have specified module or modules in the Module parameter.
If the module are installed already this will not have any effect and the module will only get updated.

Update-RSModule -Module "VMWare.PowerCLI" -InstallMissing

The parameter Module has support for multiple inputs, separate them with , for example -Module "ImportExcel", "VMWare.PowerCLI" You can also use the -Scope parameter if you want to change from CurrentUser to AllUsers, for example -Scope "AllUser"
If -Scope parameter are empty it will set it as CurrentUser as default.

Allow pre-release (only exists in beta)

If you want to allow pre-releases simply add ```-AllowPrerelease $true````

SkipPublisherCheck (only exists in beta)

If you for some reason want to skip publisher check add -SkipPublisherCheck $true this is needed for Pester and PowerCLI for an example