The copies of the PowerCLI_settings.xml file on your system contain User and AllUsers settings for PowerCLI.

Configuring PowerCLI by running Set-PowerCLIConfiguration creates a copy of PowerCLI_settings.xml on your system. The location of the PowerCLI_settings.xml file depends on the value of the Scope parameter.

Note

You must have administrator privileges to change the settings for AllUsers.

Location of PowerCLI_settings.xml

Windows OS Version

Scope

Location

Description

Windows 7 and later

User

%APPDATA%\Roaming\VMWare\PowerCLI

Contains settings for the current Windows user only.

AllUsers

%SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\VMware\PowerCLI

Contains settings for all users.

Users with advanced knowledge and understanding of Windows PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI can manually modify the contents of PowerCLI_settings.xml to change PowerCLI settings. Modifying PowerCLI_settings.xml might require administrator privileges.

Note

If you modify the contents of PowerCLI_settings.xml manually while PowerCLI is running, you must restart PowerCLI for the changes to take effect.