Unable to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 2025 with Plesk: Feature name MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellV2 is unknown

Symptoms

• Unable to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 2025:

  CONFIG_TEXT: Package action: Execute, package: powershell2, exec time: 2 sec. desc: "program='dism'," "command-line='/Online" /Quiet /NoRestart /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellV2 "/All'," "working-dir=''," "context='x64'," "arch=''", output='
  Error: 0x800f080c
  Feature name MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellV2 is unknown.
  A Windows feature name was not recognized.
  Use the /Get-Features option to find the name of the feature in the image and try the command again.
  dism /Online /Quiet /NoRestart /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellV2 /All failed with error -2146498548(0x800f080c). Output:
  Error: 0x800f080c
  Feature name MicrosoftWindowsPowerShellV2 is unknown.
  A Windows feature name was not recognized.
  Use the /Get-Features option to find the name of the feature in the image and try the command again.
  Sub-action 'Execute' failed with error code: -2146498548(0x800f080c)
  Bootstrapper has finished action (exec time: 0 sec.): parent_name='PANEL_18_0_72_WIN', sequence='pkgs', stage='rollback', sequence_order='1', operation='install', exec_cmd='md "[PLESK_DATADIR]\var\upgrade" 2>nul & type NUL > "[PLESK_DATADIR]\var\upgrade\plesk-upgrade-failure.flag"'', m_arch='', exit code: 0, output: ~empty
  Error: The installation of the package 'powershell2' failed with code -2146498548. (install: Enabling Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine...)
  Not all packages were installed.
  Visit https://support.plesk.com/ to search for a solution.

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