RefreshEnv broken on Windows 11 24H2 - missing wmic.exe

[mwallner]

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What You Are Seeing?

On the latest LTSC release of Windows 11, the "wmic" utility has been removed.

What is Expected?

RefreshEnv should work whether wmic is available or not

How Did You Get This To Happen?

Using choco on the latest Win11 24h2 family releases.

System Details

• Operating System: Win11 24H2 LTSC
• Windows PowerShell version: 5.1
• Chocolatey CLI Version: 2.2.2
• Chocolatey Licensed Extension version: -
• Chocolatey License type:
• Terminal/Emulator: powershell / conhost

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Additional Context

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[mwallner]

Whoever stumbles upon this, note that usage of Update-SessionEnvironment still works - so if it's possible consider using PowerShell instead of .bat.
(directly using refreshenv from a PowerShell script shouldn't be necessary anyway)

[corbob]

I've updated the title as this is actually just in 24H2 Windows 11: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/wmi-command-line-wmic-utility-deprecation-next-steps/4039242.

The script isn't entirely broken without wmic installed, more it emits an error and then refreshes the environment for cmd.exe. This is different from when it's run inside of powershell.exe where it reports that you should import the module and then run it again. Perhaps the update should be to always warn that it doesn't work for PowerShell and then still do the refresh for cmd 🤷‍♂