Powershell: Out-GridView cmdlet dependency on PowerShell ISE

While I certainly dig Outgrid-View, it does require that you have Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 and the Windows PowerShell ISE installed, which isn’t the installed by default on server operating systems.

Piping to Out-GridView on a Server 2008 R2 (PowerShell ISE is not installed by default) confirmed that Out-GridView cmdlet requires PowerShell ISE:

get-process | select name,id | out-gridview
 Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment feature
 from Server Manager. (Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.PowerShell.GraphicalHost, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neu
 tral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.)
 At line:1 char:27
 + get-process | select name,id | out-gridview <<<<
  + CategoryInfo         : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.Power...1bf3856ad364e35:AssemblyName) [Out-GridView], NotSupp
 ortedException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ErrorLoadingAssembly,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.OutGridViewCommand

After some troubleshooting I discovered that this can be resolved easily by installing PowerShell ISE, which is an optional feature and requires .Net 3.5 SP1. To install this on Windows Server 2008 R2, use the Add Features Wizard or run the following Powershell command:

Import-Module ServerManager; Add-WindowsFeature PowerShell-ISE