I just decided to restart Outlook to see if that made some weirdness I was experiencing go away. As you may or may not know, the Outlook process often is running for quite a bit after the Outlook window goes away. As such, you really don\u2019t want to start another instance of Outlook until the first version is done. <\/p>\n
In V2, we now have the WAIT-PROCESS command so what I wanted to do was:<\/p>\n
\nPS> Wait-Process Outlook; Outlook<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The problem with that is that Outlook is not in the Path so it doesn\u2019t work. I could go figure out how to do this but I didn\u2019t want to spend the time right now so instead I did the following:<\/p>\n
\nPS> Wait-Process Outlook; \u201c`a\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What that does is wait for the process to end and then emit an \u201cAlert\u201d (same as BEEP). I waited for the alert and then knew it was safe to restart Outlook. Anyway \u2013 I don\u2019t know how many people know about Alert so I thought I would blog it. <\/p>\n
If you read the help on About_Quoting_Rules, you see a list of the following special characters are recognized by Windows PowerShell: <\/p>\n
`0 Null
`a Alert
`b Backspace
`f Form feed
`n New line
`r Carriage return
`t Horizontal tab
`v Vertical tab <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Experiment! Enjoy! Engage! <\/p>\n
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Distinguished Engineer
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
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