The PSPrivateGallery project is not under active development

The repository remains available for reference and pull requests will be considered, but no active work is being done on this project.

If you need a private repository of PowerShell modules, we recommend deploying a Nuget repository and using PowerShellGet to retrieve and publish modules and scripts to it. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/hosting-packages/overview contains an overview of options for hosting a Nuget repository.

Oustanding GitHub issues have been closed to clearly indicate that they are not being worked on.

Deploy and Manage a Private PowerShell Gallery

Prerequisites:

• Windows 10 / Windows OS containing WMF 5.1 [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/wmf/5.1/install-configure]

Steps

• Clone this project locally OR Use the files from Releases section.

• Deploy Gallery DSC Resources $env:PSModulePath

  • Copy .\Modules folder contents to $env:ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

• Generate Credential files - .\Configuration\GalleryAdminCredFile.clixml, .\Configuration\GalleryUserCredFile.clixml IMPORTANT: These passwords must meet your password complexity requirements (domain and local machine)

  • Get-Credential –Credential GalleryUser | Export-Clixml .\GalleryUserCredFile.clixml
  • Get-Credential –Credential GalleryAdmin | Export-Clixml .\GalleryAdminCredFile.clixml

• Update Configuration Data for your needs (optional)

  • .\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryEnvironment.psd1
  • .\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryPublishEnvironment.psd1

• Deploy the Gallery

  • pushd .\Configuration; .\PSPrivateGallery.ps1; popd

• Populate the local instance of the Gallery with specified PowerShell modules

  • .\Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryPublish.ps1

• Initialize the Private PSGallery Repository

  • pushd ".\PSPrivateGallery\Configuration"; .\PSPrivateGalleryPublish.ps1; popd

• Add inbound firewall rule permitting access to the gallery

  • New-NetFirewallRule -Name PSGallery -DisplayName "PSGallery" -Description "Allow access to the PSGallery" -Protocol TCP -RemoteAddress Any -LocalPort 8080 -Action Allow -enabled True

• Register the Private PSGallery as an internal PowerShell repository, using Register-PSRepository.

  • Register-PSRepository –Name PSPrivateGallery –SourceLocation "http://localhost:8080/api/v2" –InstallationPolicy Trusted –PackageManagementProvider NuGet

• Check that the Repository Status

  • Get-PSRepository | ft * -Autosize

• Discovery, Installation and Inventory of module using the internal/private PowerShell repository

  • Find-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
  • Install-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
  • Get-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer