{"id":2617,"date":"2013-11-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/11\/05\/powertip-find-help-about-powershell-objects\/"},"modified":"2013-11-05T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-help-about-powershell-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-help-about-powershell-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Help about PowerShell Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to find Help about Windows PowerShell objects.<\/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;How can I find Help about Windows PowerShell objects?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 or Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, open the Windows PowerShell console <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with Admin rights, and run&nbsp;<strong>Update-Help<\/strong>. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(For more information, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/heyscriptingguy\/archive\/2012\/08\/31\/understanding-and-using-updatable-powershell-help.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding and Using Updatable PowerShell Help<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Then use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Help<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-Help about_Objects<\/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: Learn how to find Help about Windows PowerShell objects. &nbsp;How can I find Help about Windows PowerShell objects? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 or Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, open the Windows PowerShell console &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with Admin rights, and run&nbsp;Update-Help. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(For more information, see&nbsp;Understanding and Using Updatable PowerShell Help.) Then [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find Help about Windows PowerShell objects. &nbsp;How can I find Help about Windows PowerShell objects? &nbsp;In Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 or Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, open the Windows PowerShell console &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; with Admin rights, and run&nbsp;Update-Help. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(For more information, see&nbsp;Understanding and Using Updatable PowerShell Help.) Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/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=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}