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Summary: Use the More function to display Windows PowerShell information one page at a time.
(image) How can you cause Windows PowerShell to easily display information one console screen at a time?
(image) Use the More function:
Get-...
Summary: Windows PowerShell 3.0 introduces the PSDefaultParameterValues automatic variable, which permits creating custom default values.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Life is returning to normal—at least for this week. Next week, the Scripting Wife and I head north where I will be speaking at the Central Ohio ...
Summary: Use Show-Command to display interactive Windows PowerShell parameter Help.
(image) How do you display the parameters and parameter sets of Windows PowerShell cmdlets in an interactive fashion?
(image) Use the Show-Command cmdlet from the Windows PowerShell console or the Windows PowerShell ISE:
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Summary: Learn how to create a Windows PowerShell scheduled job.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well, the Scripting Wife and I are about to straighten up the scripting house after the Windows PowerShell Saturday luau we had on Friday and the scripting slumber party we had over the weekend. Frankly, it is an awful lot of work to ...
Summary: Learn how to identify automatic variables.
(image) How many types of automatic variables exist by default? And how would you discover such a thing?
(image) There are five types of automatic variables that exist by default.
To discover them, use the variable provider and the Get-Member cmdlet:
PS C:\> dir ...