{"id":2747,"date":"2013-10-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/09\/powertip-find-what-various-windows-features-do\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-what-various-windows-features-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-what-various-windows-features-do\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find What Various Windows Features Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to discover what features do in Windows&nbsp;8.<\/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;I found five different Hyper-V features on my Windows&nbsp;8-based computer, and I want to know how I can use Windows PowerShell to discover what they do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-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;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-WindowsOptionalFeature<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and select the feature name and the description of the feature <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (this is a single-line command broken for readability at the pipeline character):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName &#8216;*hyper-v*&#8217; |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">select featurename, description | Format-Table -AutoSize -Wrap<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell to discover what features do in Windows&nbsp;8. &nbsp;I found five different Hyper-V features on my Windows&nbsp;8-based computer, and I want to know how I can use Windows PowerShell to discover what they do. &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsOptionalFeature&nbsp;cmdlet and select the feature name and the description of the feature &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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-2747","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: Use Windows PowerShell to discover what features do in Windows&nbsp;8. &nbsp;I found five different Hyper-V features on my Windows&nbsp;8-based computer, and I want to know how I can use Windows PowerShell to discover what they do. &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WindowsOptionalFeature&nbsp;cmdlet and select the feature name and the description of the feature &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/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=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}