Question

I’ve installed TFS Power Tools 2008 along with its PowerShell integration features on my Windows 2008 R2 developer machine.

When I try to run the following command to enable the snapin:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell

in the 32-bit version of PowerShell.exe, under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe it works fine. But when I try to do the same in the 64-bit version here: C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe I get the following error:

Add-PSSnapin : The Windows PowerShell snap-in 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell' is not installed on this machine.
At line:1 char:13
+ Add-PSSnapin <<<<  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSArgument
   Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

Any idea how to make it work in the 64-bit version? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Cathy Kong of Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with a workaround for this issue. The full details can be found here in the MSDN TFS PowerTools forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfspowertools/thread/a116799a-0476-4c42-aa3e-45d8ba23739e/?prof=required

The fix is as follows and worked well for me:

Please save the following content and
save it as *.reg file and import to
Registry(just double click the *.reg
file, click OK double)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell]
“PowerShellVersion”=”2.0”
“Vendor”=”Microsoft Corporation”
“Description”=”This is a PowerShell
snap-in that includes the Team
Foundation Server cmdlets.”
“VendorIndirect”=”Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,Microsoft”
“DescriptionIndirect”=”Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell,This
is a PowerShell snap-in that includes
the Team Foundation Server cmdlets.”
“Version”=”10.0.0.0”
“ApplicationBase”=”C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation
Server 2010 Power Tools”
“AssemblyName”=”Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell,
Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”
“ModuleName”=”C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation
Server 2010 Power
Tools\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.dll”
“CustomPSSnapInType”=”Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.PowerShell.TFPSSnapIn”