Allow PowerShell Execution

By default PowerShell’s execution policy is very restrictive which is a good thing for security. If you are editing or running scripts on your machine you may want to relax it slightly. As I often forget to do this on new machines I’m making a note of the command in this post:

Open PowerShell prompt as Administrator, and then run:

set-executionpolicy remotesigned

Remotesigned means local scripts can be run but downloaded ones must be signed. You can remove all restriction via:

set-executionpolicy   Unrestricted

To view the current setting on your machine use get* instead of set*:

get-executionpolicy

For more information see technet here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176961.aspx