SharePoint 2010 – Troubleshooting Cmdlets not recognized Issue

March 12, 2011 admin SharePoint, 3

While automating a lot of my SharePoint builds I came across this issue across while provisioning a few service applications within SharePoint 2010. Usually the culprits were:-

Access Service Application

Word Automation Service Application

Excel Service Application

Visio Service Application.

This morning, the usual suspects were back except Word Automation Service. After a few VM resets and restart of scripts, I found the culprit to be PowerShell loading up its cmdlets properly so that those executions happen properly.

The cmdlets that will usually fail are

Get-SPExcelServiceApplication

Get-SPVisioServiceApplication

New-SPVisioServiceApplication

New-SPExcelServiceApplication

New-SPAccessServiceApplication

The error message will display as shown below

Resolution:

Add these two lines to the beginning of your script ,

So if you’ve previously loaded your cmdlets the following code should be sufficient (add this to your own function or whatever):

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