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@SteveL-MSFT Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT) commented Jan 8, 2018 •
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SC is a default alias for Set-Content, however on Windows there is a sc.exe command for managing NT Services.
If a user executes sc start service1 in a PowerShell script, what happens is that a file called start is created containing service1 as the content with no error so the user/script may think the service got started.
In addition, there is also a sc command on Linux, although it's not installed by default.
If the customer feedback is that we should not have removed this, it'll be easier to add it back in 6.1.0 than to ever try to remove it after 6.0.0.

Fix is to remove sc alias from InitialSessionState and corresponding test case.
This was discussed with some members of @PowerShell/powershell-committee whom agreed to the removal.

Doc change MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs#2021

Fix #3980

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@SteveL-MSFT Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT) added the Breaking-Change breaking change that may affect users label Jan 8, 2018
@SteveL-MSFT Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT) added this to the 6.0.0-GA milestone Jan 8, 2018
@SteveL-MSFT Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT) assigned Dongbo Wang (daxian-dbw) Jan 8, 2018
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Windows PowerShell only aliases are also included here so this table is a complete source of alias changes. So maybe this entry should be kept and only change the 4th column to be $($FullCLR ) like scb.

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Yes, I'll make that change until we completely remove the Windows PowerShell code :)

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remove sc alias from PSCore6 as it conflicts with sc.exe and Linux …
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Steve Lee (SteveL-MSFT) force-pushed the remove-sc branch from 75f9005 to 700ff27 Compare January 9, 2018 00:40
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add sc back for FullPS
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remove alias sc to match PSCore6 MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs#2021
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Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (PowerShell#5827)
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Merge 6.0.0-ga PRs #5828
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Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (#5827)
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Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (PowerShell#5827)
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Remove sc alias which conflicts with sc.exe (PowerShell#5827)
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