** UPDATE 25/12/2015** Due to WMF5 Install issues the InstallWMF5.ps1 Script has been removed from GitHub until the PowerShell Product Team re-release the WMF5 installers. Once re-released I will re-release the InstallWMF5.ps1 script **

 

**UPDATE 24/02/2016** WMF5 was re-released today and the below scripts should still work**

 

This is a very very quick post about installing WMF5 on Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 / Server 2012 R2 via this function script I created

And what better way than a simple 1 liner to grab and run the script

Invoke-Expression (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘http://bit.ly/InstallWMF5’)

And if you want to look at the Script then direct link is http://bit.ly/InstallWMF5

Hope this is useful for you

PS credit (again) goes to @lee_holmes for the idea from following tweet https://twitter.com/lee_holmes/status/318799702869041153

PPS – There is an issue with running this on Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 machines due to the need for WMF4 to be installed.

I am working on this but this is low priority for me as really we shouldn’t be deploying Server 2008 or Windows 7 Systems any more

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p class=”ExternalClass9895ED4FC6204BF3B8661CE60051AB0C”>PPPS – you will see a theme here – I am intending to build functions like this and release them as a full module in the PowerShell Gallery to help Automate these tasks – so look out for some more like this in future