diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index e40f430baa6..067f608106b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -295,6 +295,11 @@ class ActionBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
         If the become_user is unprivileged and different from the
         remote_user then we need to make the files we've uploaded readable by them.
         """
+        if self._connection._shell.SHELL_FAMILY == 'powershell':
+            # This won't work on Powershell as-is, so we'll just completely skip until
+            # we have a need for it, at which point we'll have to do something different.
+            return remote_path
+
         if remote_path is None:
             # Sometimes code calls us naively -- it has a var which could
             # contain a path to a tmp dir but doesn't know if it needs to
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
index d72361e4317..aa77cb5d365 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
@@ -67,7 +67,13 @@ class ShellModule(object):
         return path.endswith('/') or path.endswith('\\')
 
     def chmod(self, mode, path, recursive=True):
-        return ''
+        raise NotImplementedError('chmod is not implemented for Powershell')
+
+    def chown(self, path, user, group=None, recursive=True):
+        raise NotImplementedError('chown is not implemented for Powershell')
+
+    def set_user_facl(self, path, user, mode, recursive=True):
+        raise NotImplementedError('set_user_facl is not implemented for Powershell')
 
     def remove(self, path, recurse=False):
         path = self._escape(self._unquote(path))