Set-item failing to work - but without an error

Question

A co-worker is working with a vendor. He and the vendor have been setting up the Powershell environment, remote signing, etc. The vendor recommended that the following command be executed:
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Plugin\Microsoft.PowerShell\Quotas\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 1024
The user executed this, and the command returned without any output. When he checked, however, the value of MaxMemoryPerShellMB using winrm get winrm/config , MaxMemoryPerShellMB had the original value of 300, rather than 1024.
Is there a setting that might have turned off error reporting? Or is there something else going on here?

Answer 1

Hi Lwvirden,
Agree with tommymaynard, To set MaxMemoryPerShellMB to 1024 MB, please follow the script below:
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 1024
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Plugin\Microsoft.PowerShell\Quotas\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 1024
get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Plugin\Microsoft.PowerShell\Quotas\MaxMemoryPerShellMB
Restart-Service winrm
winrm get winrm/config
For more detailed information, please go through this article:
Learn How to Configure PowerShell Memory
If there is anything else regarding this issue, please feel free to post back.
Best Regards,
Anna Wang