{"id":2877,"date":"2013-09-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/09\/12\/powertip-copy-your-script-to-notepad-before-editing-in-orchestrator\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-copy-your-script-to-notepad-before-editing-in-orchestrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-copy-your-script-to-notepad-before-editing-in-orchestrator\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Copy Your Script to Notepad Before Editing in Orchestrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Easily create a backup before editing in Orchestrator.<\/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;Ctrl-Z does not work in the Orchestrator editor window, so how can I protect myself if I make a typing error?<\/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;Press Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C to copy the content of your script, open Notepad, and paste a backup copy there. Also within Orchestrator, you can (and should) export your runbook before any editing.<\/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: Easily create a backup before editing in Orchestrator. &nbsp;Ctrl-Z does not work in the Orchestrator editor window, so how can I protect myself if I make a typing error? &nbsp;Press Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C to copy the content of your script, open Notepad, and paste a backup copy there. Also within Orchestrator, you can (and [&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-2877","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: Easily create a backup before editing in Orchestrator. &nbsp;Ctrl-Z does not work in the Orchestrator editor window, so how can I protect myself if I make a typing error? &nbsp;Press Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C to copy the content of your script, open Notepad, and paste a backup copy there. Also within Orchestrator, you can (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/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=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}