Set-ConsoleTitle fails in ISE

[fullenw1]

PSVersion Table

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PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

What is the syntax or expression you are using?

Set-ConsoleTitle -Title 'WinUpdate'

What happens?

Set-ConsoleTitle : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Title'. The "$_.length -le ($host.UI.RawUI.MaxWindowSize.Width * 2)" validation script for the argument with value "WinUpdate" did not return a result of True. Determine why the validation script failed, and then try the command again.
At line:1 char:25

The thing is that $host.UI.RawUI.MaxWindowSize.Width returns nothing in an ISE console.

What do you think should happen?

It should set the title of the console.

[jdhitsolutions]

Are you running this in the console or PowerShell ISE? I might need to add some error handling to make sure you aren't in the ISE.

[fullenw1]

Yes, I am running the cmdlet in an ISE Console.

[jdhitsolutions]

The error is to be expected then. The command is failing on parameter validation so you aren't seeing the warning. I might have to fix that. The help says this won't work in the PowerShell ISE. Closing this issue because it can't be fixed.

[fullenw1]

Ok no worries if you don't want to handle ISE.
I will make it as usual:

$Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = 'MyTitle'

But Set-Cons + TAB + TAB would have been a little shorter to write...
I will still use other cmdlets from your module :)

By the way, I understand that people don't want to maintain code related to ISE, but I am a SysAdmin and I have to multitask (running different pieces of code simultaneously on different computers). When I get a request related to a computer, I open remote session on that computer and execute the code from the linked pane above. Meanwhile, I receive a second request and open a new remote session in the same ISE console and also execute the code from the linked pane above. An so on...

With VS Code all script panes are linked to the same terminal (this is the blocking point). Thus, when I want to work simultaneously on several computers, I have to open as many VS Code consoles as remote sessions for which I want to execute the code from the console pane. That's why I am still chained to ISE for SysAdmin tasks...
Of course, when I write modules and scripts I jump to immediately to VS Code :)

Have a nice day Jeff, and please keep going on with your excellent posts and contributions of any kind!