{"id":5331,"date":"2015-06-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/06\/25\/powertip-provide-alternate-name-to-nouns-in-module\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:18","slug":"powertip-provide-alternate-name-to-nouns-in-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-provide-alternate-name-to-nouns-in-module\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Provide Alternate Name to Nouns in Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to provide alternate names to nouns in modules to avoid conflicts.<\/span><\/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 use Windows PowerShell to avoid the problem of having conflicting cmdlet names in different modules?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<b>Prefix<\/b>&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;<b>Import-Module<\/b>.&nbsp;<b>Prefix<\/b>&nbsp;will take whatever letter segment you provide and <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;add that before the noun in all the cmdlets for a module you load. For example, if I want to make sure all the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;cmdlets in the UEV module have HSG before the noun, I would type:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Import-Module UEV &ndash;prefix HSG<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to provide alternate names to nouns in modules to avoid conflicts. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to avoid the problem of having conflicting cmdlet names in different modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Prefix&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;Import-Module.&nbsp;Prefix&nbsp;will take whatever letter segment you provide and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;add that before the noun in all [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to provide alternate names to nouns in modules to avoid conflicts. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to avoid the problem of having conflicting cmdlet names in different modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Prefix&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;Import-Module.&nbsp;Prefix&nbsp;will take whatever letter segment you provide and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;add that before the noun in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","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=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/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=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}