Importing module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive fails because of culture not available when connecting from non en-US client to an en-US client via PSSession

[mlawindi]

Repro Steps:

• Using a en-GB client (with thread culture and uiculture set to en-GB), - CurrentUICulture : en-GB - CurrentCulture : en-GB
• Connect to an en-US remote machine using Enter-PSSession.
• Run import-module Microsoft.Powershell.Archive -force will fail with: Import-LocalizedData : Cannot find the Windows PowerShell data file 'ArchiveResources.psd1' in directory 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.Powershell.Archive\en-GB', or in any parent culture directories. At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.Powershell.Archive\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:27 char:1

• Import-LocalizedData LocalizedData -filename ArchiveResources

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Windows\syst...eResources.psd1:String) [Import-LocalizedData], PSInvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ImportLocalizedData,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportLocalizedData
  
  
  

Is this expected? Shouldn't it use en-US since no en-GB on the remote machine?

[MarkusAmshove]

I do have the same problem on a fresh installation of Windows 10 with Powershell 6.0, German locale:

Import-LocalizedData : Cannot find the PowerShell data file 'ArchiveResources.psd1' in directory 'C:\program files\powershell\6.0.2\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\1.1.0.0\de-DE', or in any parent culture directories.
At C:\program files\powershell\6.0.2\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\1.1.0.0\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:28 char:1
+ Import-LocalizedData  LocalizedData -filename ArchiveResources
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\program file...eResources.psd1:String) [Import-LocalizedData], PSInvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ImportLocalizedData,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportLocalizedData

[bondarenkod]

Try the workaround from my issue: https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive/issues/59 Probably, you need to copy&paste the original one from en-us to correspond folder e.g. 1.1.0.0\de-DE or en-GB @MarkusAmshove @mlawindi

[fommo]

I'm surprised this has yet not been solved. I just ran into this issue today creating a BC container in docker. The workaround from @bondarenkod works, but still it's strange that this bug is still not solved.