Check Powershell Console Type

I have been working with some Microsoft Hybrid technologies. My specific example here is around Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere aspects. When running the scripts provided here there is a key aspect.

Do NOT run this in the PowerShell ISE.

Even with this strong recommendation, it is often accidentally used as it is really easy to perform this action with a right click option and this got me to thinking about how can I check this via code?

So I did some thinking and found a way to check which console type you are running. Below is sample code but will exit the script if the Console Type is ISE.

How do we check this and prevent this?

$consoleType = get-host
if ($consoleType.Name -match 'ise')
{
    $message = "You should NOT use the ISE window, please reload in PowerShell window"
    Write-Output $message
    $message = "This process will terminate shortly"
    Write-Output $message
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
    break
} else {
    $message = "good to go"
    Write-Output $message
}

Very simple fix but can save hours of troubleshooting.

You may even notice the change to write-output from write-host as part of Cross platform support