Create Windows Environment Variables with PowerShell
How to create environment variables and assign values to them with PowerShell.
How to Setup a Environmental Variables
Create a persistent/permanent environmental variable for the current user only.
Open PowerShell as an administrator. (See How to Run PowerShell Scripts)
Enter the following command:
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Your_Environment_Variable_Here", "your_value_here", "User")Replace '
Your_Environment_Variable_Here' with the appropriate variable name
e.g.; CONNECTED_ACU_API_PASSWORD, CONNECTED_ACU_API_VENDOR_KEY, CONNECTED_ACU_API_USER_KEY)Replace '
your_value_here'with the respective values for the variable.
How to Display / Echo the Value of Environmental Variables
You can check if the environment variable was created with the echo command.
echo $env:Your_Environment_Variable_Here
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable Syntax
Scope of Environment Variable
User Scope: Applies to the current user only.
Machine Scope: Applies to all users on the machine.
Process Scope: Applies only to the current PowerShell process
Examples
# Setting a user-level persistent environment variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'User')
# Setting a machine-level persistent environment variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'Machine')