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Summary: Learn how to interactively update the Windows PowerShell prompt and title. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to have a little bit of fun with the Windows PowerShell console. Why not? It’s a Sunday, it’s the last day of my time off, and I feel like playing. There have been many posts online about the fun you ca...

Summary: Access the $ENV object in Windows PowerShell to alter personal environment settings.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to change a system environment variable such as the user %TEMP%?  You can read any personal environment settings by using $ENV:VariableName, then assigning a value.           &n...

Summary: Learn how to parse a here-string with Windows PowerShell.Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here to show you a neat little trick.Anyone who has ever scheduled a PowerShell task knows that if you want to launch a cmdlet directly in PowerShell, you would launch it like this:PowerShell.exe –ExecutionPolicy Bypass –command &l...

Summary: Learn how to target content to save with the Save-Help cmdlet.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to save the Help content for a single module?  Use the –module parameter with the Save-Help cmdlet, for example: Save-Help –module Dism –destination C:\Foo\

Summary: Guest blogger, Don Jones, discusses how you can share with the worldwide community.Today, special guest blogger, Don Jones offers ideas about how we all can increase the power of the PowerShell community…How’s your 2015 been? Hopefully, you’ve been taking advantage of some of the wonderful, free resources that are availa...