There are many cases, when we get an error “ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system” while executing any script in Windows Powershell. It is well understood that the execution policy helps to protect you from scripts that you do not trust. Changing the execution policy might expose you to the security risks. But we still want to change it since, we want to run our scripts or commands in powershell at least for current logged in permissible user.
One point to be noted here is an assumption that you are an administrator of your machine. Trust me, it doesn’t matter of being an administrator, powershell is still not allowing you to execute your commands.
Let’s take example of creating SharePoint Framework (SPFx) component, we want few commands to be executed on powershell like:
yo @microsoft/sharepoint
OR
gulp trust-dev-cert
OR
gulp serve
Everytime we provide these commands (e.g. nodejs or npm packages) to Powershell, it throws as below:
How to resolve this problem?
To fix this problem, let’s first check existing execution policy in the machine. Run below command in powershell.
Get-ExecutionPolicy –List
Now we’ll change execution policy for CurrentUser who is administrator of system as well. Run the following command in powershell.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser
You can the changes by running below command.
Get-ExecutionPolicy –List
Lets continue to your work now, create a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) project
Because you are unrestricted now, you can continue to your work as usual. Let’s check if powershell is executing our provided commands or scripts.
yo @microsoft/sharepoint
Yes, it is working now.
Enjoy Coding!
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