ErrorActionPreference and ErrorAction SilentlyContinue for Get-PSSessionConfiguration

Question

My case:

$ErrorActionPreference = \"Stop\";
\"1 - $ErrorActionPreference;\"
Get-ChildItem NoSuchFile.txt -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
\"2 - $ErrorActionPre         


        

Answer 1

It looks like that's an "unhandled exception", meaning the cmdlet itself hasn't been coded to recognize and handle that exception. It blew up without ever getting to run it's internal error handling, so the -ErrorAction setting on the cmdlet never came into play.