# Update-help error message

**URL:** <https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169>\
**Category:** PowerShell Help\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169 "2019-09-19T10:06:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rtan2010](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.powershell.org/rtan2010/32/1173_2.png) [@rtan2010](https://forums.powershell.org/u/rtan2010)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169/1 "2019-09-19T10:06:15Z")

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I ran update-help in PS 6.1 (pwsh.exe) within VSCode. I got the error message:

update-help: Failed to update Help for the module(s) ‘Defender, Whea, WindowsDeveloperLicense’ with UI cultures {en-us}: A Help URI cannot contain more than 10 redirections. Specify a valid Help URI. At line 1 char 1.

\<more lines followed, but omitted\>

I had encountered this some months (years?) ago, and saw a post about the proper params to set with the Update-help cmdlet. I searched the PS forum but just couldn’t find it.

Would be grateful for any advice and/or guidance.

Many thanks.

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**Author:** ![ta11ow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.powershell.org/ta11ow/32/131_2.png) [@ta11ow](https://forums.powershell.org/u/ta11ow)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169/2 "2019-09-19T10:36:24Z")

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Yeah, some of the modules from the Windows team don’t follow the proper guidelines for updatable help and have broken or unusable links in their files.

You can skip the warnings and such with `Update-Help -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue`

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**Author:** ![rtan2010](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.powershell.org/rtan2010/32/1173_2.png) [@rtan2010](https://forums.powershell.org/u/rtan2010)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169/3 "2019-09-19T11:17:53Z")

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Thank you Joel. I tried it and it worked perfectly, much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![dotnVo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/update-help-error-message/13169/4 "2024-05-16T20:31:23Z")

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