April 29, 2019

How to run a PowerShell script

Often, administrators face situations where they run scripts written by someone else. After all, that is what a community is all about. When the admin is new to PowerShell, and when he does not understand how to run a PowerShell script, he feels a little lost. And this is normal. I often meet administrators who are unsure how to run a script. How to run the function within the script Calling functions outside of the script Other methods of loading functions Calling a function without loading it into the session Loading the function into the session Summary Now, sometimes, the approach I used to take was to write the script in such a way that the moment someone calls it either from the console or using one of the integrated environments, the script would run and complete its task.

December 9, 2018

Basics of Cmdlets

Cmdlets are at the core of PowerShell. As already noted in The object-oriented model, a cmdlet is a specialised .NET object, with output formatting that makes sense to an administrator. In this article, we discuss the following: Getting help information for a cmdlet Parameter sets Positional parameters Help on specific parameters Assigning values to a parameter Getting help information for a cmdlet Let us pick a common cmdlet: Get-ChildItem, a simple, useful cmdlet.