Conflicting DISM Wildcard Behavior and Documentation

[tablackburn]

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Links

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/get-windowscapability

Summary

The Get-WindowsCapability documentation states that the -Name parameter does not accept wildcards, but the cmdlet does accept wildcards for the -Name parameter.

Expected

PS C:\> Get-WindowsCapability -Online -Name '*rsat*' | Format-Table -AutoSize

No results, or an error/warning

Actual

PS C:\> Get-WindowsCapability -Online -Name '*rsat*' | Format-Table -AutoSize

Name                                                          State DisplayName
----                                                          ----- -----------
Rsat.ActiveDirectory.DS-LDS.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0             NotPresent RSAT: Active Directory Domain Services and Lightwe…
Rsat.AzureStack.HCI.Management.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0          NotPresent RSAT: PowerShell module for Azure Stack HCI

I suspect this is also true of other DISM cmdlets, although I haven't done a thorough investigation.

Details

No response

Suggested Fix

I believe the documentation is automatically generated, so the source code probably just needs to be updated to signify that the parameter accepts wildcards.

[sdwheeler]

This repository is for PowerShell core documentation. Source for that article is located at https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs/blob/main/docset/winserver2025-ps/Dism/Get-WindowsCapability.md.

[sdwheeler]

I transferred this issue to the proper repository.