{"id":4137,"date":"2013-02-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/19\/powertip-change-powershell-to-display-more-info-by-default\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-change-powershell-to-display-more-info-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-change-powershell-to-display-more-info-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Change PowerShell to Display More Info by Default"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Change Windows PowerShell so that it will display more information by default.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, I pipe information and select certain properties, but the information in my table is truncated. Using Autosize or Wrap does not help. How can I change Windows PowerShell so that it displays the information contained in the property?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, You are running into $FormatEnumerationLimit<\/strong>. By default, it is set to 4, but by changing it to a higher number, you can force Windows PowerShell to display additional information. The default behavior is shown here:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Get-Service -Name winmgmt | ft name, DependentServices -AutoSize<\/p>\n

Name    DependentServices<\/p>\n

—-    —————–<\/p>\n

winmgmt {wscsvc, vmms, SUService, SharedAccess…}<\/p>\n

 PS C:\\> $FormatEnumerationLimit<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

By assigning a new value to $FormatEnumerationLimit<\/strong>, the remaining DependentServices<\/strong> is displayed. This technique is shown here:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $FormatEnumerationLimit = 8<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Get-Service -Name winmgmt | ft name, DependentServices -AutoSize -Wrap<\/p>\n

 Name    DependentServices<\/p>\n

—-    —————–<\/p>\n

winmgmt {wscsvc, vmms, SUService, SharedAccess, LocationTaskManager, NcaSvc,<\/p>\n

        iphlpsvc, IAStorDataMgrSvc}<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>  The value of $FormatEnumerationLimit<\/strong> exists only during the current session. To make the change persist through opening and closing the Windows PowerShell session, or even to survive a reboot, add the new value assignment to your Windows PowerShell profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Summary: Change Windows PowerShell so that it will display more information by default.  I pipe information and select certain properties, but the information in my table is truncated. Using Autosize or Wrap does not help. How can I change Windows PowerShell so that it displays the information contained in the property?  You are running into $FormatEnumerationLimit. By […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","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=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/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=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}