{"id":2249,"date":"2014-01-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/01\/11\/powertip-predefine-cmdlet-parameters-in-variable\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-predefine-cmdlet-parameters-in-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-predefine-cmdlet-parameters-in-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Predefine Cmdlet Parameters in Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Pass a cluster of parameter values by using an array.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Is there an easy way to write Windows PowerShell commands to handle two separate domains <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (for example, production and development) and their credentials?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Define them in an array that contains the parameter names and their values. For example, to pass <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the IP address of a domain controller and credentials as a single variable to the&nbsp;<b>Get-ADUser<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$DC=&rdquo;192.168.1.5&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$Cred=(GET-CREDENTIAL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$CommonParameters=@{&lsquo;Server&rsquo;=$DC;&rsquo;Credential&rsquo;=$Cred)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">GET-ADUSER &ndash;filter * @CommonParameters<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;If you ask a Windows PowerShell person, the popular term for this is &ldquo;splatting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Pass a cluster of parameter values by using an array. &nbsp;Is there an easy way to write Windows PowerShell commands to handle two separate domains &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (for example, production and development) and their credentials? &nbsp;Define them in an array that contains the parameter names and their values. For example, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Pass a cluster of parameter values by using an array. &nbsp;Is there an easy way to write Windows PowerShell commands to handle two separate domains &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (for example, production and development) and their credentials? &nbsp;Define them in an array that contains the parameter names and their values. For example, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}