I love PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT), and i do love autocomplete/Intellisense  in PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). But this won’t work by default on the PSADT functions and arguments.

So in this article i will teach you how to make it work!

Download PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit

First of all, you will need to grab a copy of PSADT

  1. Go to https://github.com/PSAppDeployToolkit/PSAppDeployToolkit/releases
  2. Download the latest version, or the version that you do use.
  3. Unzip it using your favorite unzipping tool! (i use 7-Zip)

Prepare PSADT for module integration

  1. Edit “\Toolkit\AppDeployToolkit\AppDeployToolkitMain.ps1” in PowerShell ISE
  2. Go to “File“, and hit “Save As“
  3. In “Save as type” select the “PowerShell Script Modules (*.psm1)“, make sure the file extentionis .psm1 and not ps1.
  4. Save it in the “\Toolkit\AppDeployToolkit\” folder.
  5. Edit “\Toolkit\AppDeployToolkit\AppDeployToolkitConfig.xml” in your favorite XML editor.
  6. Change the following line from (line 12 for PSADT 3.6.8) 
    <Toolkit_RequireAdmin>True</Toolkit_RequireAdmin>

    to

    <Toolkit_RequireAdmin>False</Toolkit_RequireAdmin>
  7.  Then save the “\Toolkit\AppDeployToolkit\AppDeployToolkitConfig.xml” again.
  8. Go to “$env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell” (C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell)
  9. Create a folder named “Modules”, if it doesn’t already exists.
  10. Copy the folder AppDeployToolkit from the Toolkit folder, into “$env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules”
    Full path to the .psm1 file should now be:
    “C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\AppDeployToolkit\AppDeployToolkitMain.psm1“

Create a PowerShell ISE Profile

  1. Launch PowerShell ISE
  2. Write Test-Path $Profile
    If the result is $True , you can skip to step 4. If the result is $False , follow in step 3.
  3. Write New-Item -Type File -Force $Profile
  4. In PowerShell ISE, write ISE $Profile and execute it.
    This will open your PowerShell ISE Profile, in the PowerShell ISE.
    Path to your profile is: “C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1“
  5. Add the following line to your profile: 
    Import-Module $env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\AppDeployToolkit\AppDeployToolkitMain.psm1
  6. Save your profile file, restart PowerShell ISE, and you are done! Congratulations!

 

You should now be able to use Intellisense/autocomplete all functions in, the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit.

This include the possibility to use the Get-Help cmdlet, on PSADT functions too, eg Get-Help Copy-File
Get-Help Copy-File