PowerShell component requirements
Published 20 August 2019
Supported operating systems
- Windows 7 SP1 or later
- Windows Server 2008 R2 or later
Supported SQL Server versions
- SQL Server 2008
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2012
- SQL Server 2014
- SQL Server 2016
- SQL Server 2017
- SQL Server 2019
- Azure SQL Database
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server
All editions of SQL Server are supported.
Supported .NET versions
- .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later
Microsoft components
- Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server (download)
- Microsoft Command Line Utilities 14.0 for SQL Server (download)
Supported PowerShell versions
- PowerShell 3 or above
- This can be downloaded for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 / Windows 7 SP1 and is included on all more recent versions of Windows
- Note that installing the SQL Change Automation cmdlets from PowerShell gallery is slightly simpler with PowerShell 5
- PowerShell 6 and PowerShell 7 are not yet supported