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I'm currently writing a powershell script which upgrades a set of solutions then a set of features from those solutions.

After the solution upgrades everything looks great until I Call QueryFeatures which proceeds to return an empty result set.

 # This is just sample code
 $site.QueryFeatures((Get-SPFeature | Where { $_.DisplayName -match "$FeatureName" } | Select -First 1).Id, $true)

I've tried disposing the site before use then creating a new site with new-object, and even Clearing the Object Model Cache. The only thing that works is to open a new powershell window and issuing the same command.

However this is part of a long running script so this obviously isn't the best solution. Has anyone run into this issue before?

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It's a common issue when writing deployment scripts for SharePoint in PowerShell that often you need to spawn a new PowerShell in order to:

  • Get rid of cahcing
  • Get a clean AppDomain without old version of dlls loaded

The version of the dlls is going to be your next problem as I assume you're going to call Upgrade on the returned features, which might want to call into a FeatureReceiver which needs to be the new version.

So it's common to write the main script as a series of:

powershell -noexit -command &'Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;substep.ps1' -sta

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  • Yeah this is the solution I ended up with Commented Apr 11, 2012 at 7:11
  • The issue was the farm and feature definitions were already loaded and there is no way to refresh them. Commented Apr 11, 2012 at 7:13
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Could be a timing issue. Stick a 60 second wait in your script just before this point and see if that helps

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  • No it's not a timing issue Commented Apr 11, 2012 at 7:11
  • You should also poll, not just wait 60s, as a async action could take more or less than 60s especially over a large farm. Commented Apr 11, 2012 at 7:28

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