{"id":73311,"date":"2015-09-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/16\/powertip-check-what-powershell-does-when-error-occurs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:13","slug":"powertip-check-what-powershell-does-when-error-occurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-check-what-powershell-does-when-error-occurs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Check What PowerShell Does When Error Occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: See what Windows PowerShell will do when an error occurs.<\/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 check the setting so I will know what Windows PowerShell will do if an error occurs?<\/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;Look for the value of the&nbsp;<b>$ErrorActionPreference<\/b>. By default, it is set to&nbsp;<b>Continue<\/b>, which means it will <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;attempt to execute the next command. Other values are&nbsp;<b>Stop<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>Inquire<\/b>, and&nbsp;<b>Ignore<\/b>. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Here is an example of the command:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:150px\">PS C:\\&gt; $ErrorActionPreference<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Continue<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: See what Windows PowerShell will do when an error occurs. &nbsp;How can I check the setting so I will know what Windows PowerShell will do if an error occurs? &nbsp;Look for the value of the&nbsp;$ErrorActionPreference. By default, it is set to&nbsp;Continue, which means it will &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;attempt to execute the [&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-73311","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: See what Windows PowerShell will do when an error occurs. &nbsp;How can I check the setting so I will know what Windows PowerShell will do if an error occurs? &nbsp;Look for the value of the&nbsp;$ErrorActionPreference. By default, it is set to&nbsp;Continue, which means it will &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;attempt to execute the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73311","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=73311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73311\/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=73311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}