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Start-Process fails with EnvironmentBlockTooLong error #14110

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Start-Process fails with EnvironmentBlockTooLong error#14110
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Issue-Enhancementthe issue is more of a feature request than a bugthe issue is more of a feature request than a bugResolution-FixedThe issue is fixed.The issue is fixed.WG-Cmdlets-Managementcmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management modulecmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module
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opened on Nov 17, 2020
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It seems that Start-Process has a hardcoded limit for the environment block, which I am hitting when running in Azure Pipelines (which sets lots of environment variables)

According to the documentation this limit only existed for Windows XP, is there any reason for it to remain?

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Start-Process -FilePath "myprocess.exe"

Expected behavior

Process is executed

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2020-11-17T14:21:34.1311704Z Start-Process : EnvironmentBlockTooLong
2020-11-17T14:21:34.1313656Z At C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\PSDeployTools\1.1.55\Functions\Invoke-Process.ps1:44 char:16
2020-11-17T14:21:34.1315142Z +     $process = Start-Process @processParams
2020-11-17T14:21:34.1316243Z +                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2020-11-17T14:21:34.1317681Z + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
2020-11-17T14:21:34.1319184Z + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand
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