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Non admins (e.g.students) should be able to download/use the latest help files #2190
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Seems like you should just put the help in C:/ProgramData (that is to say, in an "all users" writable location), because the idea of having lots of copies of the help is annoying, and frankly, the idea of the help cmdlets having to search in an additional location, and pick the most up to date help just reminded me of how slow help search is already...
Reacted by Flavien MICHALECZEK, Ji Luo, Troy Campbell, Nicholas M. Getchell, Ilya, Bill Stewart and Jordan PetersonJoel Bennett (@Jaykul) You need reminding? ;-)
Reacted by Joel Bennett- added this to the milestone
on Apr 11, 2017 - modified the milestones: ,
on May 15, 2017 - modified the milestones: ,
on May 25, 2017 I'd say this is important no matter what, but it's especially important as long as
sudo Update-Helpdoesn't work.- modified the milestones: ,
on Aug 15, 2017 We need to relnote that on Unix systems, you have to
sudo powershellto runUpdate-HelpReacted by Keith Hill, Anatoly Kamchatnov and Mr Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart
Currently HELP files are a system-wide resource which requires ADMIN privs to update.
Student laptops are not allowed admin access so they are unable to download & use the latest help files.
We should fix that.
One mechanism would be to support -SCOPE CurrentUser for the help cmdlets.