Update-Help Fails for module 'WindowsUpdateProvider

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Hi!

I’m still relatively new to the joys of PowerShell, so forgive me if this is something obvious. Lately, updating help repeatedly fails but only for one module - WindowsUpdateProvider. This is the exact error message I get:

[pre]Update-Help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) ‘WindowsUpdateProvider’ with UI culture(s)
{en-US} : Unable to retrieve the HelpInfo XML file for UI culture en-US. Make sure the HelpInfoUri
property in the module manifest is valid or check your network connection and then try the command
again.
At line:1 char:1

  • Update-Help
  • CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:slight_smile: [Update-Help], Exception
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnableToRetrieveHelpInfoXml,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.UpdateHelpComm
    and[/pre]

I found this one article online that references it may just be that it’s not being developed?

I’m sure I can safely ignore, just curious if anyone was aware of a work-around or knew something more about it than me…

2

you can refer to below post, it’s about the same.

https://powershell.org/forums/topic/update-help-failure/

3

I just got the exact same message as I tried to run PS ISE 5.1 on a brand-new laptop (Win1o).

Mr KVprasoon’s referenced solution works. As stated in the answer, I typed

update-help -force -Ea 0 -Ev ErrMsgDetail

and it worked without any error messages. For what it’s worth, I ran “Update-help” in Powershell Core 6.1 and did not get any such error message.